Aged thirteen, Theo Decker, son of a devoted mother and an absent father, miraculously survives a catastrophe that otherwise tears his life apart. Alone and rudderless in New York, he os taken in b...więcej »
La carte et le territoire Si Jed Martin, le personnage principal de ce roman, devait vous en raconter l'histoire, il commencerait par vous parler d'une panne de chauffe-eau. Ou de son pere, archite...więcej »
Je me suis redressée brusquement et une goutte de sueur s'est échappée derriere mon oreille. Elle a suivi un moment la ligne de ma mâchoire, a glissé le long de mo...więcej »
1850. Apres un revers sentimental, Honor fuit les regards compatissants des membres de sa communauté quaker. Elle s’embarque pour les États-Unis avec sa sour, Grace, qui doit re...więcej »
Książka jest kursem języka angielskiego opartym na nieśmiertelnej i cudownej opowieści o chłopcu, który nie chciał nigdy dorosnąć, prowadząc wraz z innymi dziećmi wojnę z Kapitanem Hakiem. <...więcej »
Dans la vie, le Petit Nicolas aime bien s'amuser. Faire un puzzle avec papa, partir en pique-nique avec le voisin M. Blédurt, retrouver ses cousins Roch, Lambert et Éloi au mariage de...więcej »
John Berger broke new ground with his penetrating writings on life, art and how we see the world around us. Here he explores how the ancient relationship between man and nature has been broken in t...więcej »
The hauntingly romantic new weepy from Jojo Moyes, author of bestseller "Me Before You". Set between the First World War and the present, it's the story of two young women, separated by a...więcej »
Edgar Poe was born the son of itinerant actors on January 19th, 1809 in Boston, Massachusetts. Abandoned by his father and the later death of his mother, he was taken into the foster care of John A...więcej »
‘… the shadow turned round; and I saw a terrible death’s-head, which darted a look at me from a pair of scorching eyes. I felt as if I were face to face with Satan…’...więcej »
W. B. Yeats was Romantic and Modernist, mystical dreamer and leader of the Irish Literary Revival, Nobel prize winner, dramatist and, above all, poet. He began writing with the intention of putting...więcej »
Shakespeare's sonnets have an intensity of both feeling and meaning unmatched in English sonnet form. They divide into two parts; the first 126 sonnets are addressed to a fair youth for whom the po...więcej »
A plane crashes on a desert island and the only survivors, a group of schoolboys, assemble on the beach and wait to be rescued. By day they inhabit a land of bright fantastic birds and dark blue se...więcej »
Imagine the world if the Allies had lost the Second World War...Philip K. Dick trips the switches of our minds with his vision of the world as it might have been: the African continent ...więcej »
Describing Tolstoy's crisis of depression and estrangement from the world, A Confession is an autobiographical work of exceptional emotional honesty. It describes his search for 'a practical religi...więcej »
The Meditations of the great Roman Philosopher-Emperor Marcus Aurelius are simple yet profound works of stoic philosophy that continue to offer guidance and consolation to many with their eloquence...więcej »
Offering ancient wisdom on how to use skill, cunning, tactics and discipline to outwit your opponent, this bestselling 2000-year-old military manual is still worshipped by soldiers on the battlefie...więcej »
With an Introduction, Bibliography and Glossary by Dr Paul Wright, Trinity College, Carmarthen.'I mean to show things really as they are, not as they ought to be'. wrote Byron (1788-182...więcej »
In Warsaw, a shy and high-minded polio victim lives a life of seclusion caring for her odd family until a chance encounter plunges her into the intrigues of dirty politics. Zaremba, a wealthy busin...więcej »