W "Ostatnich wakacjach" poznajemy na pozór zwyczajną rodzinę, żyjącą skromnie w symbiozie z przyrodą, we wnętrzu dzikiego lasu. Co zespoi tę rodzinę z losami młodych studentów biologii ze...
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...
"Czarne i złote" to siedem pozornie niezwiązanych ze sobą opowiadań opisujących losy zróżnicowanych osób, których życie nie należy do najłatwiejszych. W trakcie lektury zauważamy...
Trzymająca w napięciu opowieść o odwiecznej walce dobra ze złem, osadzona w miasteczku na zachodzie Polski. W 1946 roku większość Niemców wyjechała już na Zachód. Władzę sprawuje polska...
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" początkuje się od wyjazdu całej rodziny do Korei Południowej. W Seulu mąż bohaterki dostaje pracę jako nauczyciel angielskiego na miejscowym uniwersytecie. Bohaterka...
'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 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...
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 żeby...
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 by 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...
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 aby 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?...
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...
This book comes with an introduction and notes aby 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 aby 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...
Following the success of Pickwick Papers and Oliver Twist, Nicholas Nickleby was hailed as a comic triumph and firmly established Dickens as a 'literary gentleman'. It has a full supporting...
With an Introduction and Notes aby Sara Haslam, Department of English, The Open University. The Good Soldier is a masterpiece of twentieth-century fiction, an inspiration for many later,...