Wilde, glamorous and notorious, more famous as a playwright or prisoner than as a poet, invites readers of his verse to meet an unknown and intimate figure. The poetry of his formative years includ...więcej »
Unusually for Dickens, Hard Times is set, not in London, but in the imaginary mid-Victorian Northern industrial town of Coketown with its blackened factories, downtrodden workers and polluted envir...więcej »
Agnes Grey is a trenchant expose of the frequently isolated, intellectually stagnant and emotionally starved conditions under which many governesses worked in the mid-nineteenth century. This is a ...więcej »
Initially a vivacious, outgoing person, Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) progressively withdrew into a reclusive existence. An undiscovered genius during her lifetime, only seven out of her total of 1,7...więcej »
Little Dorrit is a classic tale of imprisonment, both literal and metaphorical, while Dickens' working title for the novel, Nobody's Fault, highlights its concern with personal responsibility in pr...więcej »
Transplanted to Europe from her native America, Isabel Archer has candour, beauty, intelligence, an independent spirit and a marked enthusiasm for life. An unexpected inheritance apparently gives h...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 »
In the hope of saving her brother's life, should a woman submit to rape? Should the law be respected when its administrator is corrupt? How powerful in the state should religion become? Although Me...więcej »
Motherless Sara Crewe was sent home from India to school at Miss Minchin's. Her father was immensely rich and she became "show pupil" - a little princess. Then her father dies and his wea...więcej »
The two political classics in this book are the product of a time of intense turmoil in Chinese history. Dating from the Period of the Warring States (403-221BC), they anticipate Machiavelli's The ...więcej »
Koty i psy towarzyszą nam na co dzień. Znamy je ze spacerów po parku, z gonitwy po łące, z wesołych zabaw z kłębkiem wełny. Wiemy, co jedzą, gdzie śpią, czego się boją... A jakie zwyczaje ma...więcej »
- Czy koza lubi deszcz?- Dlaczego kot spada na cztery łapy?- Kiedy pies ma podkulony ogon?- Czy świnie się kąpią?- Dlaczego kura zjada kamyczki?Dziecko znajdzie ...więcej »
To książeczka dla każdego dziecka, które ciekawi świat samochodów i wielkich maszyn. A w niej:- 60 kolorowych naklejek- duże ilustracje do kolorowania- łatwe do zap...więcej »
Ebenezer Scrooge is a miserly old skinflint. He hates everyone, especially children.But at Christmas three ghosts come to visit him, scare him into mending his ways, and he finds, as he...więcej »
96 stron z pasjonującymi ćwiczeniami! Znajdziesz tu mnóstwo kolorowanek, labiryntów oraz zadań rozwijających umiejętności czytania i liczenia, logiczne myślenie i spostrzegawczość.więcej »
This selection of Carroll's works includes Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel, Through the Looking-Glass, both containing the famous illustrations by Sir John Tenniel. No greater books...więcej »
Czy słonie mają sny? Ależ oczywiście? Gdy tylko zapada noc, Pomelo śni... A o czym? Oczywiście o dmuchawcach, ale też o tym, że potrafi latać, że warzywa mówią i że nadeszła wiosna. Śni sny ...więcej »
Set in the mid-19th century, and written from the author's first-hand experience, North and South follows the story of the heroine's movement from the tranquil but moribund ways of southern England...więcej »
Around the World in Eighty Days (1873) relates the hair-raising journey made as a wager by the Victorian gentleman Phileas Fogg, who succeeds - but only just! - in circling the globe within eighty ...więcej »
'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; the ...więcej »
