Kinga M. Tyczyńska - studentka 5. Roku kierunku lekarskiego na Uniwersytecie Medycznym im. Piastów Śląskich we Wrocławiu. Sposobu postrzegania i traktowania poezji nauczyła się od Stanisława...
Zbiór wierszy Jana Pawła Krasnodębskiego jest bogaty w zaskakujące zestawienia faktów, rzeczy, określeń, i w rozpięte szeroko metaforyczne obrazy, nieraz brutalne, zgryźliwe, ale bywa, że niosące...
dobrze jest przeczytać coś, co pozostawia w człowieku ślad. Takie właśnie są wiersze Bożeny Ptak, jednakowo dojmujące wówczas, gdy mówią o rzeczach prywatnych, jak i wtedy, gdy odwołują się do...
W świecie przedstawionym tegoż zbioru jawią się sytuacje znane z życia dorosłych ludzi lub je przypominające, autor prowadzi nas do krainy seksualności i współżyć, roztwierając przed nami jak...
Bernard Łach czerpie pełnymi garściami z tradycji biblijnej, ale łamie ją i druzgocze osobną wersyfikacją i osobnym niedomilczeniem. Coś z tego niedomilczenia nam ukazuje, bo jak tu milczeć w pełni...
Maciej Bieszczad w swej twórczości dotyka spraw dla człowieka fundamentalnych: życia, śmierci, cierpienia, odchodzenia, przemijania. Przeważnie jedna scena z życia, wspomnienie, prosty obraz,...
„Blue" Krzysztofa Rudowskiego – jak kolor niebieski, tak często w książce przywoływany – ma swoją miękkość. Z specyficzną dla tego typu barw wrażliwością autor wraca do Wrocławia czasów...
'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 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 by a desire for retribution and empowered by 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 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...
This book comes with an introduction and notes żeby 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...