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...
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....
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...
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;...
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...
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...
"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...
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...
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,...
Wilkie Collins is a master of mystery, and "The Woman in White" is his first excursion into the genre. When the hero, Walter Hartright, on a moonlit night in north London, encounters a...
Russia in the 1840s. There is a stranger in town, and he is behaving oddly. The unctuous Pavel Chichikov goes around the local estates buying up 'dead souls'. These are the papers relating...
On the Road swings to the rhythms of 1950s underground America, jazz, sex, generosity, chill dawns and drugs, with Sal Paradise and his hero Dean Moriarty, traveller and mystic, the living epitome...
With a new Introduction by Professor Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D. This selection of a hundred of O. Henry's succinct tales displays the range, humour and humanity of a perennially popular...
Piotr, Marek i Emil, młodzi modelarze z Pałacu Młodzieży, szykują model samolotu na zawody. W trakcie prób w pobliżu zalewu Zegrzyńskiego model wlatuje w chmurę i gubi się. Szukając samolotu Emil...
Marek Lewandowski, zamiast na wymarzone wakacje nad morzem, jedzie do ciotki mieszkającej w niewielkim miasteczku. Jest przekonany, iż pobyt będzie wyjątkowo nudny, ale zmieni zdanie kiedy pozna...
Frank Fenton, syn Julianny Steenfort, zostaje warunkowo zwolniony z więzienia. Spędził w nim osiem lat, oskarżony i skazany za morderstwo, którego, jak twierdzi, nie popełnił. W tym czasie stracił...
Antologia niedługich komiksów Szarloty Pawel - autorki wyjątkowo popularnych linii komiksowych:,,Jonka, Jonek i Kleks", a także,,Kubuś Piekielny". Oprócz nich Szarlota Pawel narysowała...
Czwarty tom historii rodu z Lipowej i polskich rycerzy. Jakub z Lipowej coraz bardziej minimalistycznie traktuje swojego syna Ostasza. Nieraz dochodzi pomiędzy nimi do kłótni. Obaj uparci, obaj...
Pierwszy tom sagi o wielopokoleniowym rodzie polskich rycerzy. Wszystko ma swój początek zimą. W wiosce panuje szeroki głód. Gdy kowal Jura wraz z żoną Miłką ratują starca, ratują w dodatku siebie,...
Kolejny tom sagi o wielopokoleniowym rodzie polskich rycerzy. Jeno, chłopak o niezwykłych, dwukolorowych oczach, ma serce i duszę kowala. Zna się na wielu rzeczach, pomógł w życiu wielu ludziom....
Kolejny tom sagi o wielopokoleniowym rodzie polskich rycerzy. Siła każdego rodu tkwi w jego spadkobiercy... Wydaje się, iż na ród Lipowej spadło obszerne błogosławieństwo. Na świat przychodzi syn...