„Choć nie jestem osobą egzaltowaną, dużo niestety we mnie życiowego realizmu (jestem matką dzieciom, żoną mężowi, gospodynią domową, pracuję zawodowo itd., itp.), to jednak wzruszyłam się i p...więcej »
Pierwsza publikacja autora, którego całe jego życie prowadziło do momentu napisania tej książki. „Mijanie czasu” dzieje się w określonym wymiarze 1950-1965. Czas utrwalony jest j...więcej »
„Blockbuster” to powieść antywojenna, chociaż jej akcja rozgrywa się podczas wojny. Oprócz porywającej akcji rodem z hollywoodzkich filmów sensacyjnych, zawiera także pogł...więcej »
Holden Caulfield, a seventeen-year-old dropout, has just been kicked out of his fourth school. Throughout, Holden dissects the 'phony' aspects of society, and the 'phonies' themselves: the headmast...więcej »
Anton Chekhov is widely regarded as one of the greatest writers of short stories. He constructs stories where action and drama are implied rather than described openly, and which leave much to the ...więcej »
This book is with an introduction and notes by Dr Nicola Bradbury, University of Reading. "To the Lighthouse" is the most autobiographical of Virginia Woolf's novels. It is based on...więcej »
Adultery is not a typical Jane Austen theme, but when it disturbs the relatively peaceful household at Mansfield Park, it has quite unexpected results.The diffident and much put-upon he...więcej »
Complete and unabridged, this title comes with a new Introduction by Cedric Watts, Research Professor of English, University of Sussex. James Joyce's astonishing masterpiece, "Ulysses", t...więcej »
"War and Peace" is a vast epic centred on Napoleon's war with Russia. While it expresses Tolstoy's view that history is an inexorable process which man cannot influence, he peoples his gr...więcej »
What does persuasion mean - a firm belief, or the action of persuading someone to think something else? Anne Elliot is one of Austen's quietest heroines, but also one of the strongest and the most ...więcej »
Crime and Punishment is one of the greatest and most readable novels ever written. From the beginning we are locked into the frenzied consciousness of Raskolnikov who, against his better instincts,...więcej »
Zagubiona wśród swoich tęsknot, [bohaterka książki] obsesyjnie powraca do swojego pierwszego, nieudanego, a jednak mitycznego związku. Chciwie eksploatuje świat erotycznych przeżyć, poszukuj...więcej »
A new translation by David Horrocks.At first sight Harry Haller seems like a respectable, educated man. In reality he is the Steppenwolf: wild, strange, alienated from society and repul...więcej »
Fading charmer Tommy Wilhelm has reached his day of reckoning and is scared. In his forties, he still retains a boyish impetuousness that has brought him to the brink of chaos: he is separated from...więcej »
From the moment Karen Blixen arrived in Kenya in 1914 to manage a coffee plantation, her heart belonged to Africa. Drawn to the intense colours and ravishing landscapes, Karen Blixen spent her happ...więcej »
Controversial and compelling, In Cold Blood reconstructs the murder in 1959 of a Kansas farmer, his wife and both their children. Truman Capote's comprehensive study of the killings and subsequent ...więcej »
In this thoughtful and moving novel, four men find themselves inextricably bound together by their past histories. The aged Judge Clane dreams of resurrecting the confederacy, while his grandson, J...więcej »
Z archiwów Dalkey (1964) jest ostatnią powieścią Flanna O'Briena, lub raczej - jego własnym zdaniem - drwiącym studium, w którym rozmaici pisarze, style, postawy i kulty występują w r...więcej »
Książka Umiałem czytać niebo to wyjątkowy artystyczny dwugłos: powieść Timothy’ego O’Grady’ego splata się w niej z cyklem czarno-białych zdjęć znanego fotografika Steve’a Py...więcej »
Carson McCullers' prodigious first novel was published to instant acclaim when she was just twenty-three. Set in a small town in the middle of the deep South, it is the story of John Singer, a lone...więcej »