Perfectly preserving the tone and mood of the novel whilst condensing it into two acts, David Malouf, with the gift for language already evident from his novels and poetry, presents afresh the time...więcej »
The silence of the jungle is broken only by the ominous sound of drumming. Life on the river is brutal and unknown threats lurk in the darkness. Marlow's mission to captain a steamer upriver into t...więcej »
The exploits of Tom Sawyer, a consummate prankster with a quick wit, captivate children of all ages. Yet through the novel's humorous escapades, from the episodes of the whitewashed fence and the o...więcej »
Anna Sewell's Black Beauty was an immediate success on its publication in 1877, and has gone on to sell an estimated 50 million copies. Black Beauty is a horse with a fine black coat, a white foot ...więcej »
Czy cierpienie ma jakąkolwiek wartość? Czy Bóg chce uleczyć każdego? W książce tej autor pokazuje, opierając się na Biblii, jak uzdrowienia niezwykle podnoszą skuteczność ewangelizacji. Niew...więcej »
Prince Myshkin returns to Russia from an asylum in Switzerland. As he becomes embroiled in the frantic amatory and financial intrigues which centre around a cast of brilliantly realised characters ...więcej »
The Tempest is the most lyrical, profound and fascinating of Shakespeare's late comedies. Prospero, long exiled from Italy with his daughter Miranda, seeks to use his magical powers to defeat his f...więcej »
Hans Christian Andersen is the best-loved of all tellers of fairy tales.This collection of over forty of Andersen’s most popular stories includes The Mermaid, The Real Princess, T...więcej »
Little Women is one of the best-loved children's stories of all time, based on the author's own youthful experiences. It describes the family life of the four March sisters living in a small New En...więcej »
The story of Edmund Dantes, self-styled Count of Monte Cristo, is told with consummate skill. The victim of a miscarriage of justice, Dantes is fired by a desire for retribution and empowered by a ...więcej »
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...więcej »
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 ...więcej »
"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...więcej »
Crime and Punishment is one of the greatest and most readable novels ever written. From the beginning we are locked into the frenzied consciousness of Raskolnikov who, against his better instincts,...więcej »
Virginia Woolf's singular technique in Mrs Dalloway heralds a break with the traditional novel form and reflects a genuine humanity and a concern with the experiences that both enrich and stultify ...więcej »
Jane Austen teased readers with the idea of a 'heroine whom no one but myself will much like', but Emma is irresistible. 'Handsome, clever, and rich', Emma is also an 'imaginist', 'on fire with spe...więcej »
Pielęgniarka Sophie Court opiekuje się starszym mężczyzną, Leonardem. Gdy stan zdrowia Leonarda się pogarsza, zatroskana jedzie do jego syna, Alessia Rossiego-White’a z zamiarem nakłonienia g...więcej »
To już siódmy sezon towarzyski lady Violet, a ona nadal jest panną. Jeżeli i tym razem nie znajdzie męża, zostanie odesłana do siostry, by pomóc jej w wychowaniu czwórki dzieci...więcej »
Aerin zbliża się do trzydziestki i nadal jest singielką. Jak dotąd nie spotkała mężczyzny, który miałby wszystkie cechy z listy zalet uważanych przez nią za niezbędne, ale jest zdeterminowan...więcej »
Włoski arystokrata Nysio Bacchetti jest genialnym biznesmenem i graczem giełdowym. Nie znosi podróży, ale gdy się dowiaduje, że ma dwóch przyrodnich braci, leci do Nowego Jorku, by ic...więcej »