'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 ...
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...
The Wordsworth Classics' Shakespeare's Series presents a newly-edited sequence of William Shakespeare's works. The textual editing takes account of recent scholarship while giving the material a ca...
This is an intense drama of love, deception, jealousy and destruction. Desdemona's love for Othello, the Moor, transcends racial prejudice; but the envious Iago conspires to devastate their lives. ...
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...
‘I was conscious of a most horrible smell of mould, and of a cold kind of face pressed against my own, and moving slowly over it, and of several - I don't know how many - legs and arms or ten...
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...
When The Forsyte Saga was shown on television in 1967 it was hugely successful. The nation was gripped by the masterful visual telling of the Forsyte family's troubled story and adapted its activit...
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 ...
"Pride and Prejudice", which opens with one of the most famous sentences in English Literature, is an ironic novel of manners. In it, the garrulous and empty-headed Mrs Bennet has only on...
From its first publication in 1719, Robinson Crusoe has been printed in over 700 editions. It has inspired almost every conceivable kind of imitation and variation, and been the subject of plays, o...
First published in 1900, Lord Jim established Conrad as one of the great storytellers of the twentieth century. Set in the Malay Archipelago, the novel not only provides a gripping account of marit...
The Last Man is Mary Shelley's apocalyptic fantasy of the end of human civilisation. Set in the late twenty-first century, the novel unfolds a sombre and pessimistic vision of mankind confronting i...
De Profundis is Wilde's eloquent and bitter reproach from prison to his lover, Lord Alfred Douglas. He contrasts his behaviour with that of his close friend Robert Ross who became Wilde's literary ...
Prepare to be shocked. This novel, written in 1796, is a Gothic festival of sex, magic and ghastly, ghostly violence rarely seen in literature. The Monk is remarkably modern in style and tells a br...
Ojciec Pio z Pietrelciny (1887-1968) - mistyk z zakonu kapucynów, charyzmatyczny kapłan, niestrudzony kierownik duchowy i spowiednik czytający w ludzkich sercach. Swą ofiarną służbą zyskiwał...
Pusta przestrzeń to kosmiczna opowieść przygodowa. Zaczynamy od następującego snu:Obcy instrument badawczy wielkości brązowego karła wisi pośrodku pustki, ponieważ chciano umieścić go w jedna...
Kicia jest instruktorem harcerskim, zdała właśnie do maturalnej klasy i chce spędzić najbliższe lato na obozie ze sprawdzonymi przyjaciółmi. Wszystko przebiegłoby zgodnie z planem, gdyby zup...
Książka zabiera czytelników w podróż po międzywojennej Polsce, w której ważnym zmianom politycznym i gospodarczym towarzyszyły przeobrażenia w formach życia towarzyskiego i kulturze jedzenia.
Jaka jest różnica między Bogiem a neurochirurgiem? Bóg nie jest neurochirurgiem. Mathias pełni samotny nocny dyżur, kiedy na izbę przyjęć przywożą pacjenta. Niedoświadczone ręce...