'It's lovely to live on a raft. We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them'Huck Finn spits, swears, smokes a pipe and never go...
When Ishmael sets sail on the whaling ship Pequod one cold Christmas Day, he has no idea of the horrors awaiting him out on the vast and merciless ocean. The ship's strange captain, Ahab, is in the...
Against the backdrop of nineteenth century Dublin, a boy becomes a man: his mind testing its powers, obsessions taking hold and loosening again, the bonds of family, tradition, nation and religion ...
'Rich or poor, we will keep together and be happy in one another'Christmas won't be the same this year for Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy, as their father is away fighting in the Civil War, and ...
In this powerfully influential series of short stories, James Joyce captures uneasy souls, shabby lives and innocent minds in the dark streets and homes of his native city. In doing so, he conjures...
Lucie Manette has been separated from her father for eighteen years while he languished in Paris's most feared prison, the Bastille. Finally reunited, the Manettes' fortunes become inextricably int...
It is the French Riviera in the 1920s. Nicole and Dick Diver are a wealthy, elegant, magnetic couple. A coterie of admirers are drawn to them, none more so than the blooming young starlet Rosemary ...
A young governess is sent to a great country house to care for two orphaned children. To begin with Flora and Miles seem to be model pupils but gradually the governess starts to suspect that someth...
Kim is an orphan who earns his living begging on the streets of Lahore. One day he befriends an aged Tibetan Lama who, although content to live simply in India, is a rich and powerful abbot in his ...
No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's; that as men busied themselves about ...
The Republic of Gilead offers Offred only one function: to breed. If she deviates, she will, like dissenters, be hanged at the wall or sent out to die slowly of radiation sickness. But even a repre...
„I góry odpowiedziały echem” jest historią o rodzeństwie – Pari i Abdullah, którzy zostają rozdzieleni i muszą przeżyć życie osobno. Skutki ich rozdzielenia odbijają...
Co jeżeli musisz zdecydować, które z twoich dzieci ma żyć, a które umrzeć? Jak to jest, gdy ktoś przystawia ci do skroni pistolet i każe wybierać? Czy skazać na śmierć buntowniczą i n...
Zola, Mark i Todd zgodnie dochodzą do wniosku, że opinia o nieograniczonych możliwościach kariery prawniczej to mit. Czeka ich spłacanie kredytów studenckich, dyplom ich uczelni ma niewielką...
Zola, Mark i Todd zgodnie dochodzą do wniosku, że opinia o nieograniczonych możliwościach kariery prawniczej to mit. Czeka ich spłacanie kredytów studenckich, dyplom ich uczelni ma niewielką...
Kobieta z wyprutymi wnętrznościami, rozszarpani na strzępy i poćwiartowani ludzie to pierwsze ofiary tajemniczej zjawy, która niespodziewanie pojawia się w Ameryce, niosąc śmierć i zniszczen...
Marek Cycero musi uciekać z Rzymu, a jego dom zostaje podpalony przez motłoch. Na mocy dekretu wydanego przez bezwzględnego trybuna Klodiusza każdy, kto udzieli mu pomocy, odpowie za to gardłem. Za...
‘Short and spare and direct, an intelligent thriller with psychological and social overtones’ Sunday TimesWithdrawn, uneducated and unloved, Frederick collects butterflies a...
Irvine Welsh, 'poet laureate of the chemical generation', exposes the seamy underbelly of rave's utopian dream. Lloyd, our permanently pilled-up protagonist, pushes his weekends to breaking point a...
Po nieudanej operacji Trójząb detektyw nadkomisarz Katie Maguire ma pełne ręce roboty. Mimo policyjnych działań Cork zalewa fala narkotyków i dopalaczy, grupa złodziei psów wła...