As a literary subject, Christmas has inspired everything from intimate domestic dramas, to fanciful flights of the imagination, and the full range of its expression is represented in this wonderful...więcej »
Scott Fitzgerald was called the laureate of the Jazz Age. The Great Gatsby (1926) is a cynical celebration of the post-Great War Long Island/ New York world of get-rich-quick. The narrator, Nick Ca...więcej »
In the summer of 1956, Stevens, the ageing butler of Darlington Hall, embarks on a leisurely holiday that will take him deep into the English countryside and into his past . . . A haunting tale of ...więcej »
The sublime city of Venice has long offered inspiration to the world's storytellers. This anthology gathers a dazzling variety of stories with Venetian settings, including Daphne du Maurier's haunt...więcej »
Included here are famous tales like 'Sound of Thunder', in which the carelessness of a group of time-travellers leads to disastrous consequences, and 'The Veldt', in which two seemingly innocent yo...więcej »
Lucy zarabia na życie, ucząc muzyki. Poznany w niezwykłych okolicznościach lord Max Burnham składa jej korzystną ofertę. Chce, by Lucy dyskretnie ustaliła, z kim potajemnie flirtuje jego przyrodnia...więcej »
Lucy zarabia na życie, ucząc muzyki. Poznany w niezwykłych okolicznościach lord Max Burnham składa jej korzystną ofertę. Chce, by Lucy dyskretnie ustaliła, z kim potajemnie flirtuje jego przyrodnia...więcej »
AModelka Mia Forde bierze udział w pokazie biżuterii najbardziej znanego salonu jubilerskiego w Paryżu należącego do Daniela Devilliersa. Uznała, że to najlepszy sposób, by dotrzeć do ...więcej »
This most romantic of fairy tales is found in many versions, and the story of the beautiful girl who falls into a long sleep, to be awakened by a lover, has been interpreted by some as an allegory ...więcej »
Arthur Rackham (1867-1939) was one of the leading illustrators from the golden age of British book illustration. Fairy-tale and fantasy were his forte and in later life he responded to the dark sti...więcej »
In this beautifully packaged anthology A. S. Byatt, Alice Munro, Elizabeth Bowen, Sherwood Anderson, Edith Wharton, Anita Desai, Colm Tóibín, Lorrie Moore and many others reflect upon...więcej »
Woven through all these tales are the unique histories and mythologies of the regions of Southern Italy, encompassing Sicily, Calabria, Cantania, Basilicata, Apulia and Campania. Theocritus, Virgil...więcej »
The stories collected here--including such gems as Stephen Crane's "The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky," O. Henry's "The Marry Month of May," F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Bridal P...więcej »
Here are libraries modest, mobile, mystical (Borges of course) and magical (Helen Oyeyemi's enchanting 'Books and Roses'); public and private, provincial and prestigious. Little that happen in Eliz...więcej »
The five original fairy tales included in this volume were first published by Davis Nutt in 1888. Although it is said that Wilde wrote them for his two young sons, the author himself claimed they w...więcej »
This story of two spoilt and lonely children, whose happiness is regained as they bring to life a neglected garden, has become the best-loved of all Mrs. Burnett's books, but it did not acquire uni...więcej »
Baron Munchausen’s absurd adventures have entertained adults and children alike for more than two centuries. First published in England in 1785, his traveller’s tales soon became as wel...więcej »
Scottish Stories is a treasury of great writing from a richly literary land, where the short story has flourished for over two centuries. Here are chilling supernatural stories from Robert Louis St...więcej »
Porzucona przez ukochanego, Cretego Asgara, Timoney George zgadza się na zaaranżowane przez wuja małżeństwo ze znacznie starszym mężczyzną. Dzień przed planowanym ślubem, w wigilię Bożego Narodzeni...więcej »
Abigail to uzdolniona matematyczka. Kocha książki, a zamiast haftować, obserwuje gwiazdy. Ojciec, wpływowy senator, zabiera ją na wszystkie bale, licząc, że córka pozna mężczyznę, któ...więcej »
