W "Ostatnich wakacjach" poznajemy na pozór zwyczajną rodzinę, żyjącą skromnie w symbiozie z przyrodą, w środku dzikiego lasu. Co połączy tę rodzinę z losami młodych studentów biologii ze...
Lata dziewięćdziesiąte to nie tylko okres przemian społecznych i gospodarczych, ale także wzrostu przestępczości. Wtedy doszło w Warszawie do tragicznego wydarzenia będącego efektem wojny gangów....
Dlaczego wracamy do książek z dzieciństwa? To proste, każda z nich nauczyła nas czegoś, co przełożyliśmy na dorosłe życie. Wartości, wspomnienia, utożsamianie się z jakimś bohaterem – właśnie to...
zespoliło ich przypadkowe spotkanie, a potem namiętna noc, która nie zakończyła się tak, jak sobie zaplanowali. Rozstali się, posiadając nadzieję, że nigdy więcej się nie spotkają. Jednak...
"Czarne i złote" to siedem pozornie niezwiązanych ze sobą opowiadań opisujących losy przeróżnych osób, których życie nie należy do najłatwiejszych. W trakcie lektury zauważamy jednak,części...
Lata 80., Etiopia, baza polskich wojsk prowadzących akcję humanitarną. Dramatyczne wydarzenia połączą kilku żołnierzy, którzy muszą się na nowo odnaleźć po powrocie do komunistycznej Polski. Tylko...
Drugi tom,,Uciekinierki" zaczyna się od wyjazdu całej rodziny do Korei Południowej. W Seulu mąż bohaterki dostaje pracę jako nauczyciel angielskiego na miejscowym uniwersytecie. Bohaterka...
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 aby 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...
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...
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...
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...
With an Introduction żeby Professor Stuart Sim. John Bunyan was variously a tinker, soldier, Baptist minister, prisoner and writer of outstanding narrative genius which reached its apotheosis in...
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?...