Mowgli, the man-cub who is brought up by wolves in the jungles of Central India, is one of the greatest literary myths ever created. As he embarks on a series of thrilling escapades, Mowgli encount...
'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...
Eight years ago Anne Elliot bowed to pressure from her family and made the decision not to marry the man she loved, Captain Wentworth. Now circumstances have conspired to bring him back into her so...
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 ...
Zbiór opowiadań o przygodach Sherlocka Holmesa.Tańczące sylwetki – Pan Hilton Cubitt, starszy bogaty jegomość, boi się o swoją żonę Elsie, która zaczyna otrzymywać t...
Zbiór opowiadań o przygodach Sherlocka Holmesa.Berylowy diament - Znacząca osobistość zaciąga pożyczkę pod zastaw korony z berylami. Choć suma pożyczki jest wysoka, stanowi tylko...
Baśń opisuje losy pary dzieci – Gerdy i Kaja, które żyły w przyjaźni aż do jednego z wiosennych dni. Wówczas do oka Kaja dostał się tajemniczy odłamek roztrzaskanego w przestwor...
Tragedia przedstawia bezsilność wobec nieodgadnionych praw losu. Ukazuje historię Edypa, człowieka próbującego oszukać przeznaczenie, chcącego żyć spokojnie, w zgodzie ze światem. Nad Edypem...
Akcja powieści rozpoczyna się w Babilonie (w Zadigu symbolizującym Paryż i Francję), w którym za panowania króla Moabdara żyje bohater powieści – tytułowy Zadig. Młody człowiek ...
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...
Sztuka literacka autorstwa Edmonda Rostanda. Napisana została w roku 1897 w oparciu o życiorys Saviniena de Cyrano de Bergeraca – siedemnastowiecznego poety.Komedia opowiada o życ...
Dr Jakub Mortimer z Grimpen w hrabstwie Devon przybywa na Baker Street przedstawiając Sherlockowi Holmesowi i Watsonowi wstrząsającą legendę o Psie Baskerville’ów zanotowaną w manuskry...