Niniejszy album zawiera informacje biograficzne i ciekawostki dotyczące najwybitniejszych pisarzy – dawnych i współczesnych, krajowych i zagranicznych – autorów literatury...
Jeśli myślicie, że w Nowym Jorku poczujecie się jak w domu, to czeka was zawód. Jeśli przybywacie do miasta, aby oddawać się swoim marzeniom, to się tu nie odnajdziecie. Znaleźć się tutaj &n...
Azja i Europa – tę parę wymyślili Grecy. Po tej i tamtej stronie Morza Egejskiego. Sami zaś osiedli na obu lądach, nie troszcząc się zbytnio o dzielące je różnice, w każdym razie dop&o...
Tajwańskie przedsiębiorstwo Foxconn tylko w samych Chinach zatrudnia ponad milion pracowników. To największy na świecie podwykonawca w branży elektronicznej wytwarzający dla Apple'a, a także...
Rozmowy z pisarzami, muzykami i plastykami zebrane z niedostępnych już dawnych wydań "Lampy i iskry bożej" oraz "Lamp" z lat 1993-2007. Wśród rozmówców m. i...
Charles Dickens describes in Night Walks his time as an insomniac, when he decided to cure himself by walking through London in the small hours, and discovered homelessness, drunkenness and vice on...
Beginning with a dilemma about whether he spends more money on reading or smoking, George Orwell's entertaining and uncompromising essays go on to explore everything from the perils of second-hand ...
Originally published anonymously, Nature was the first modern essay to recommend the appreciation of the outdoors as an all-encompassing positive force. Emerson’s writings were recognized as ...
Beautifully written yet highly controversial, An Image of Africa asserts Achebe's belief in Joseph Conrad as a 'bloody racist' and his conviction that Conrad's novel Heart of Darkness only serves t...
An irresistible invitation to reject the work ethic and enjoy life's simple pleasures (such as laughing, drinking and lying in the open air), Robert Louis Stevenson's witty and seminal essay on the...
Tagore was a fierce opponent of British rule in India. In this work he discusses the resurgence of the East and the challenge it poses to Western supremacy, calling for a future beyond nationalism,...
Inspired by the myth of a man condemned to ceaselessly push a rock up a mountain and watch it roll back to the valley below, The Myth of Sisyphus transformed twentieth-century philosophy with its 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...
Vladimir Lenin created this hugely significant Marxist text to explain fully the inevitable flaws and destructive power of Capitalism: that it would lead unavoidably to imperialism, monopolies and ...
In these inspiring essays about why we read, Proust explores all the pleasures and trials that we take from books, as well as explaining the beauty of Ruskin and his work, and the joys of losing yo...
With its wry portrayal of a shallow, materialistic 'leisure class' obsessed by clothes, cars, consumer goods and climbing the social ladder, this withering satire on modern capitalism is as pertine...
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...
The book that created the modern United States, Paine's incendiary call for Americans to revolt against British rule converted millions to the cause of independence and set out a vision of a just s...