The Council of Lithuanian Jews (Lithuanian Vaad) was the central representative organ of the Jews in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. It operated for nearly one and a half centuries (1623-1764), touching all spheres of the Jewish community's life. It undertook important initiatives for the benefit of its constituency at diets and dietines (legislative assemblies of the nobility), at the courts of the...
Sleeping Beauty has enchanted generations of readers, young and old alike. The king and queen have a fervent wish; to bear a son or daughter. Their wish is answered when a beautiful princess is born.
Unfortunately, at the banquet to celebrate the daughter’s birth, an evil fairy places a curse on the child, when she is fifteen she will be pricked by a spinning wheel and fall into a deep slumber....
Książka w dwóch wersjach językowych: polskiej i angielskiej. A dual Polish-English language edition.
Akcja toczy się w dwóch fikcyjnych państwach Paflagonii i Krymtatarii. W obu tych krająch rządzą uzurpatorzy. W pierwszym Walorozo, który zagarnął tron prawowitego następcy tronu Lulejki, a w drugim Padella, który pokonał króla Kalafiore, rządzi na jego miejscu przekonany o śmierci jego córki - prawowitej...
A cat, smart and cunning, clever and mischievous but very helpful: he is just the sort of friend we’d all like by our sides. The youngest of three orphan brothers is left destitute after his parents’ death. But such an apparently sad situation takes a quite unexpected turn for the better when he inherits what appears at first to be a small, quite ordinary cat. But it turns out to be the...
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We are presenting the series comprising 12 most popular Fairy Tales ever.
Beautiful illustrations; easy, clear and comprehensible narration; clever, always up-to-date stories - these are only few features out of many this version is filled with.
Ebooks we are about to publish are created the way to move a reader to the bygone times where the fiction mingles with wisdom of our forefathers,...
The Victorian Royal Nursery attempts to shed more light on the nursery for the children of Queen Victoria. It examines the creation, organisation, and financing of the nursery, with a consideration of the most important individuals who looked after the Royal children, namely the medical staff, wet nurses, monthly nurses, permanent nurses, governesses and subgovernesses. The study is based mostly on...
Tekst eposu starogreckiego w czterech językach.
Iliada (gr. Ἰλιάς Iliás) - obok Odysei drugi z eposów, których autorstwo tradycja przypisuje Homerowi . Oba utwory datuje się na VIII lub VII wiek p.n.e. - stanowią więc one najstarsze zabytki literatury greckiej i europejskiej w ogóle. Oba poematy są eposami heroicznymi. Powstały prawdopodobnie w Jonii na wybrzeżu Azji Mniejszej...
