In The Ballad of the Sad Café, a tale of unrequited love, Miss Amelia, a spirited, unconventional woman, runs a small-town store and, except for a marriage that lasted just ten days, has always...
„Zacząłem pisać tę książkę w nastroju dość beztroskim. Pomyślałem, że pojadę gdzieś daleko i napiszę coś w typu dziennika podróży, coś, co może uda mi się sprzedać jakiejś gazecie. Dopiero potem,...
Was ist los mit Artemis? Die Elfe Holly erkennt den legendären Meisterdieb nicht wieder. Der sonst so smarte Artemis leidet an einer seltsamen Krankheit. Er ist plötzlich abergläubisch und...
In what is one of the finest autobiographies to come out of the First World War, the distinguished poet Edmund Blunden records his experiences as an infantry subaltern in France and Flanders....
Z ilustracjami Gosi Herby„Pisarzom z kotami do twarzy. [...] Od razu przyjemnie znaleźć się w prestiżowym towarzystwie: Hemingway, Colette, Bukowski, Burroughs, wszyscy przyznawali się wszak do...
Z ilustracjami Oli Niepsuj„Nikt was nie będzie witał w domu tak jak pies. Uczcie się od nich. Nie ma udoskonalonych nauczycieli". To nieoczywista psia antologia, a w nim opowiadania tak...
Olga to ambitna i odnosząca sukcesy dyrektorka znacznej korporacji. Od dziesięciu lat jest w szczęśliwym związku, ma zaufanych przyjaciół i kochającą rodzinę. Pewnego dnia jeden telefon wywraca jej...
minimalna Anastazja trafia do domu ciotki, która hoduje dzieci na organy. Litewska nastolatka, przemycona do Stanów i zmuszona do prostytucji, wyobraża sobie wilki, które pożrą starych mężczyzn...
That is not dead that can eternal lie And with strange aeons even death may die Millenia ago, the Old Ones ruled our planet. Since that time, they have but slumbered. But when a massive sea tremor...
'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...
This is a book to be read by a blazing fire on a winter's night, with the curtains drawn close and the doors securely locked. The unquiet souls of the dead, both as fictional creations and as...
'There he lay looking as if youth had been half-renewed, for the white hair and moustache were changed to dark iron-grey, the cheeks were fuller, and the white skin seemed ruby-red underneath;...
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...
Latem 1944 roku Nowym Jorkiem wstrząsa informacja o morderstwie – młody Lucien Carr śmiertelnie rani o dziesięć lat starszego Davida Kammerera. Pierwszymi, którzy dowiadują się o zbrodni, są:...
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...
Tom Sawyer, a shrewd and adventurous boy, is as much at home in the respectable world of his Aunt Polly as in the self-reliant and parentless world of his friend Huck Finn. The two enjoy a series...
Set in 1482, Victor Hugo's powerful novel of 'imagination, caprice and fantasy' is a meditation on love, fate, architecture and politics, as well as a compelling recreation of the...
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...
Winston Smith works for the Ministry of Truth in London, chief city of Airstrip One. Big Brother stares out from every poster, the Thought Police uncover every act of betrayal. When Winston finds...
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,...
"I was conscious of a most horrible smell of mould, and of a cold kind of face pressed against my own, and moving slowly over it, and of several - I don't know how many - legs and arms or...