Morderstwo, magia i szaleństwo podczas Światowej Wystawy. Erik Larson, bazując na rzetelnej dokumentacji, stworzył nad wyraz wciągającą opowieść o fascynujących czasach i ludziach. Prawdziwa...
efektowna historia o rodzinie, miłości i przyjaźni, z reguły zaś o nadziei. „Biblioteca"Od czasu rozwodu życie w Paryżu to dla Justine Trévise ciągła gonitwa. Miasto całkiem się zmieniło....
„Ta elegancko i delikatnie opowiedziana historia prezentuje, że poza ciasną i duszną przestrzenią, którą nazywamy naszym światem, Europą, Zachodem, otwierają się drzwi do tysiąca innych cudownie...
ilość stron: 544 / Okładka: Miękka / Format: 14,5x20,5 cm / Rok wyd: 2018Kiedy Miranda, malarka obracająca się w kręgach artystycznej bohemy, zakochuje się w Finnie, brytyjskim dyplomacie...
W Dublinie roku 1918, w szczycie pandemii hiszpanki, maleńki oddział położniczy staje się mikroświatem, gdzie wre praca, podejmowane jest ryzyko, ale pojawia się także śmierć i nieoczekiwana...
Lata dziewięćdziesiąte to nie tylko okres przemian społecznych i gospodarczych, lecz także wzrostu przestępczości. Wtedy doszło w Warszawie do tragicznego wydarzenia będącego skutkiem wojny gangów....
dopasujeło ich przypadkowe spotkanie, a potem namiętna noc, która nie zakończyła się tak, jak sobie zaplanowali. Rozstali się, mając nadzieję, że nigdy więcej się nie spotkają. Jednak przewrotny...
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 żeby 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 żeby 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 by 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 żeby a desire for retribution and empowered aby...
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,...
"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...
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,...
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...