Pełna humoru i zwrotów akcji historia życia wybitnej polskiej malarki Zofii Stryjeńskiej. Przedstawia młodym czytelnikom, z jakimi przeszkodami musiała na początku XX wieku zmierzyć się...
Walizka mężczyzny Hanumana to nieprzeciętna historia z kolekcji Czytam sobie. Poziom drugi: Składam zdania. Rafał Witek, znany polski autor książek dla dzieci, demonstruje niezwykłą opowieść, która...
Czy o fermentacji, kwasie mlekowym i kulkach lipidowych można już mówić dzieciom? Można! Pod warunkiem, iż za przewodnika, który wytłumaczy, dlaczego mleko kwaśnieje i czym różni się dobra bakteria...
Na śmietniku wybucha straszna awantura. Butelka nie chce leżeć obok pudełka, a drut nie może znieść towarzystwa innych odpadków Kłótnia przybiera niebezpieczny obrót i mało brakuje do prawdziwej...
dobre stosunki z rodzeństwem to wyzwanie. Czasami brat albo siostra są całkiem w porządku, a czasami się na nich denerwujemy. Czasem nawet chcielibyśmy, by ich nie było… W tej książce dzieci znajdą...
Wiedeń, Austro-Węgry, połowa XIX wieku. Po abdykacji Ferdynanda Habsburga na cesarskim tronie zasiada osiemnastoletni Franciszek Józef. Jest zaręczony z bawarską księżniczką Heleną. Jednak kiedy w...
'My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people don't know'. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes first introduced Arthur Conan Doyle's brilliant detective to...
With an Introduction, Notes and Bibliography by Dr Bruce Woodcock, Senior Lecturer in English, University of Hull.Shelley's short, prolific life produced some of the most memorable and...
Have you ever heard of the fascination of terror?' This is a unique collection of strange stories from the cunning pen of Wilkie Collins, author of The Woman in White and The Moonstone. The...
These lively, varied and thought-provoking science-fiction stories (from the era of Jules Verne and H. G. Wells) are linked aby their imposing central character, the pugnaciously adventurous and...
I mean to show things really as they are, not as they ought to be'. Wrote Byron (1788-1824) in his comic masterpiece Don Juan, which follows the adventures of the hero across the Europe and...
The story of Edmund Dantes, self-styled Count of Monte Cristo, is told with consummate skill. The victim of a miscarriage of justice, Dantes is fired by a desire for retribution and empowered aby a...
Little Women is one of the best-loved children's stories of all time, based on the author's own youthful experiences. It describes the family life of the four March sisters living in a...
Introduction and Notes aby David Blair. University of Kent at Canterbury. It is 1757. Across north-eastern America the armies of Britain and France struggle for ascendancy. Their conflict, however,...
With its four-letter words and its explicit descriptions of sexual intercourse, Lady Chatterley's Lover is the novel with which D.H. Lawrence is most often associated. First published privately...
As Fyodor Karamazov awaits an amorous encounter, he is violently done to death. The three sons of the old debauchee are forced to confront their own guilt or complicity. Who will own to parricide?...
Hans Christian Andersen is the best-loved of all tellers of fairy tales. This collection of over forty of Andersen?s most popular stories includes The Mermaid, The Real Princess, The Red Shoes, The...
Wilde's only novel, first published in 1890, is a brilliantly designed puzzle, intended to tease conventional minds with its exploration of the myriad interrelationships between art, life, and...
With an Introduction aby Professor Stuart Sim. John Bunyan was variously a tinker, soldier, Baptist minister, prisoner and writer of outstanding narrative genius which reached its apotheosis in...
This book comes with an introduction and notes by Dr Tim Middleton, Head of English Studies, University of Ripon and York. In seeking to discover his inner self, the brilliant Dr Jekyll discovers a...
The Brothers Grimm rediscovered a host of fairy tales, telling of princes and princesses in their castles, witches in their towers and forests, of giants and dwarfs, of fabulous animals and dark...
Introduction and Notes by Henry Claridge, Senior Lecturer, School of English, University of Kent at Canterbury. This is a troubling story of crime, sin, guilt, punishment and expiation, set in the...
Following the success of Pickwick Papers and Oliver Twist, Nicholas Nickleby was hailed as a comic triumph and firmly established Dickens as a 'literary gentleman'. It has a full supporting...
With an Introduction and Notes aby Sara Haslam, Department of English, The Open University. The Good Soldier is a masterpiece of twentieth-century fiction, an inspiration for many later,...