Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened...
Thoreau's account of his solitary and self-sufficient home in the New England woods remains an inspiration to the environmental movement - a call to his fellow men to abandon their striving, materi...
This collection of speeches from one of the great modern orators includes Churchill's famous words on the declaration of war with Germany, as well as his rousing call to the British in June 1940 af...
Mary Wollstonecraft's passionate declaration of female independence shattered the stereotype of docile, decorative womanhood, anticipated a new era of equality and established her as the founder of...
Visionary English Socialist and pioneer of the Arts and Crafts movement, William Morris argued that all work should be a source of pride and satisfaction, and that everyone should be entitled to be...
One of the most important works of cultural theory ever written, Walter Benjamin's groundbreaking essay explores how the age of mass media means audiences can listen to or see a work of art repeate...
Influencing philosophers such as Sartre and Camus, and still strikingly modern in its psychological insights, Kierkegaard's The Sickness Unto Death explores the concept of 'despair' as a symptom of...
In this collection of wise, witty and fascinating essays, Borges discusses the existence (or non-existence) of Hell, the flaws in English literary detectives, the philosophy of contradictions, and ...
John Ruskin overturned Victorian society's ideas about art and architecture, arguing that ancient buildings must be conserved for their deep, mystical links with the past and that creative design i...
Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened...
Immanuel Kant was one of the most influential philosophers in the whole of Europe, who changed Western thought with his examinations of reason and the nature of reality. In these writings he invest...
Akademia Pana Kleksa Jana Brzechwy to niezwykła opowieść o, wydawałoby się, całkiem zwykłym chłopcu. Adasiowi Niezgódce wszystko wypada z rąk, nic się nie udaje, wciąż są z nim problemy, dla...
Legendy polskie to zbiór fascynujących i mądrych opowieści o dawnych czasach. Można w nich znaleźć groźne smoki i wielkich czarnoksiężników, straszne potwory i demony, ciemne lochy i ...
Jean de la Fontaine to francuski pisarz, który zyskał wieczną sławę wierszowanymi bajkami dla dzieci. Przedstawiamy zbiór jego najpopularniejszych utworów.Bajki de ...
Jean de la Fontaine to francuski pisarz, który zyskał wieczną sławę wierszowanymi bajkami dla dzieci. Przedstawiamy zbiór jego najpopularniejszych utworów.Bajki de ...
Pewna niespodziewana pomyłka na zawsze zmienia życie małej sierotki... Poznajcie Anię Shirley, rudowłosą dziewczynkę o nieskrępowanej wyobraźni, która mieszka na farmie zwanej Zielonym Wzg&o...
Ayn Rand's story of Howard Roark, a brilliant architect who dares to stand alone against the hostility of second-hand souls. First published in 1943, this best-selling novel is a passionate defense...
Andy Warhol kept these diaries faithfully from November 1976 right up to his final week, in February 1987. Written at the height of his fame and success, Warhol records the fun of an Academy Awards...
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...
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...