"Nieznanym szlakiem" to zbiór opowiadań, do których natchnienie i tematy czerpał autor ze swoich licznych podróży po Europie, Azji i Afryce. Tom ten jest więc jakby wachlarzem rozmaitych...
Tak jak legendarnej Atlantydy, która zapadła się bezpowrotnie w głębie oceanu - dawnego Drohobycza, miasta Schulza i Wierzyńskiego, próżno teraz szukać na mapie czy w terenie. Przechowali go...
Książka Pierwszeństwo błędu przed grzechem, którą oddajemy do rąk Czytelnika, to typowo zbiór opowiadań o miłości. Na rynku wydawniczym istnieje znaczny dobór tego typu literatury, jednak tę...
Kolekcjoner dzieł sztuki z Ameryki Południowej pragnie mieć w swej linii rzadki obraz autorstwa Ribery pokazujący jednego z trzech króli składających dary Dzieciątku. Ma portrety pozostałych dwóch,...
Fabuła książki Złodziej w Watykanie autora Chrisa Browna przenosi nas w okres tuż po śmierci Papieża Jana Pawła II. Istnieje oparte na faktach przypuszczenie, iż Papież Jan Paweł II napisał swoje...
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 aby Dr Bruce Woodcock, Senior Lecturer in English, University of Hull.Shelley's short, prolific life produced some of the most memorable and...
nadzwyczajna proza i fascynująca kreacja postaci, to rys typowy linii 'Synowie Pocieszenia". Historie pięciu panów, znanych z kart Pisma Świętego, którzy z wiarą poszukiwali Boga, żyjąc w...
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 żeby 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 żeby a desire for retribution and empowered aby...
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...
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 żeby 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,...
"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...
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...
Interest in supernatural phenomena was high during Charles Dickens' lifetime. He had always loved a good ghost story himself, particularly at Christmas time, and was open-minded, willing to...
With an Introduction by Professor Stuart Sim. John Bunyan was variously a tinker, soldier, Baptist minister, prisoner and writer of outstanding narrative genius which reached its apotheosis in...
The diverse tales selected for this volume display the astonishing virtuosity of Rudyard Kipling's early writings. A Nobel prize-winner, Kipling was phenomenally productive and imaginative,...
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...