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 »
Originally written in 1952 but not published till 1985, Queer is an enigma - both an unflinching autobiographical self-portrait and a coruscatingly political novel, Burroughs' only realist love sto...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 »
A colourful, multi-facted chronicle of New York in the early 1920s, Manhattan Transfer ranks with Joyce's Ulysses as a powerful and often lyrical meditation on the modern city. Using experimental m...więcej »
Burroughs’ first novel, a largely autobiographical account of the constant cycle of drug dependency, cures and relapses, remains the most unflinching, unsentimental account of addiction ever ...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 »
Big Daddy' Pollitt, the richest cotton planter in the Mississippi Delta, is about to celebrate his sixty-fifth birthday. His two sons have returned home for the occasion: Gooper, his wife and child...więcej »
"Nothing but the darkness, and all around them destruction, and before them nothing but the fire - -a bastard people, far from God, singing and crying in the wilderness!"First...więcej »
Set in the days of the Empire, with the British ruling in Burma, Burmese Days describes both indigenous corruption and Imperial bigotry, when 'after all, natives were natives – interesting, n...więcej »
Holly Golightly, glittering socialite traveller, generally upwards, sometimes sideways and once in a while down. She's up all night drinking cocktails and breaking hearts. She's a shoplifter, a d...więcej »
There is only one book to a man' Steinbeck wrote of East of Eden, his most ambitious novel. Set in the rich farmland of Salinas Valley, California, this powerful, often brutal novel follows the int...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 »
Hans Fallada's Alone in Berlin begins in Berlin, 1940, and the city is filled with fear. At the house on 55 Jablonski Strasse, its various occupants try to live under Nazi rule in their different w...więcej »
Moc Różańca wnosi w nasze życie niezliczone łaski. Nasz umysł oczyszcza z niepokoju, serce uwalnia od wszelkich utrapień, rozwiązuje gnębiące nas problemy...więcej »
Czy wiesz, co może ci grozić, jeśli pozwolisz sobie na znudzenie i zniechęcenie? Uważaj! Kurzos nudelis czai się wszędzie!Jeśli myślisz, że w małych miasteczkach czas się tylko wlecze i...więcej »
Przeł. Paweł LipszycWciągająca opowieść w duchu "Służących" i "Sekretnego życia pszczół" o przyjaźni między Mary, ciemnoskórą służącą, i Jubie, trzynas...więcej »
Kiedyś nie było w Warszawie szklanych wieżowców, ale stał juz Pałac Kultury.Wtedy właśnie miało miejsce to wydarzenie, którego ślad można znaleźć w ówczesnych gazetach...więcej »
Oto opowieść o tym, jak prawy i odważny Valgar z Valty pokochał piękną Astridr, czym ściągnął na siebie gniew jej ojca, okrutnego Thorgerra Argfussona. I tak jak skandynawskie sagi, tak też "S...więcej »
Kobiety coraz śmielej mówią o swoich potrzebach. Coraz więcej widzi swoją przyszłość nie tylko w pieluchach i domowych czterech ścianach, ale pragnie się rozwijać, realizować siebie i swoje ...więcej »
