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...
This book comes with an introduction and notes aby Dr Tim Middleton, Head of English Studies, University of Ripon and York. In seeking to discover his inner self, the brilliant Dr Jekyll discovers...
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 żeby Sara Haslam, Department of English, The Open University. The Good Soldier is a masterpiece of twentieth-century fiction, an inspiration for many later,...
Aesop's celebrated collection of fables has always been popular with both adults and children. These simple tales embody truths so powerful, the titles of the individual fables - the fox and...
With an Introduction and Notes aby Professor Len Platt, Professor of Modern Literatures, Head of Goldsmiths Learning Enhancement Unit, Goldsmiths, University of London,New Cross, London SE14 6NW....
Anna Karenina is one of the most loved and memorable heroines of literature. Her overwhelming charm dominates a novel of unparalleled richness and density. Tolstoy considered this book to be his...
Lawrence's finest, most mature novel initially met with disgust and incomprehension. In the love affairs of two sisters, Ursula with Rupert, and Gudrun with Gerald, critics could only see a...
`Wpadłem na chwilę, wiedząc,posiadają grzałkę. Kamil i Zosia szeptali sobie pod kołdrą. Nad wyraz mnie zaskoczyła ta sytuacja, gdyż stał z anią niemy nakaz, abym i ja nie zasypiał gruszek w...
Living overseas but writing, always, about his native city, Joyce made Dublin unforgettable. The stories in Dubliners show us truants, seducers, gossips, rally-drivers, generous hostesses, corrupt...
"Moby-Dick" is the story of Captain Ahab's quest to avenge the whale that 'reaped' his leg. The quest is an obsession and the novel is a diabolical study of how a man becomes a...
With an Introduction and Bibliography by Stephen Matterson, Trinity College, Dublin.Walt Whitman's verse gave the poetry of America a distinctive national voice. It reflects the unique vitality...
With an Introduction and Notes by Owen Knowles, University of Hull. Thackeray's upper-class Regency world is a noisy and jostling commercial fairground, predominantly driven by acquisitive...
Książka nominowana do Nagrody Literackiej Nike 2021, do Nagrody Literackiej Gdynia 2021 w kategorii proza i do Nagrody Literackiej m.st. Warszawy 2021 w kategorii prozaNowa Huta, lata 50. Tu...
Nieobecność jest nie tylko brakiem – to mocna, atakująca intensywnymi flashbackami siła, która miesza w głowach i życiorysach, a rodzinne historie obraca w stos potłuczonych fragmentów. Przyjemność...
"Drugi pocałunek Gity Danon" Miljenka Jergovicia, laureata m.in. Literackiej Nagrody Europy Środkowej "Angelus", łączy lekki, gawędziarski ton z dotkliwym doświadczeniem życia na...
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