The monastery at Mons Casinus (Montecassino in Italian) for centuries was one of the most important religious, academic and cultural centers in Europe, indeed, a sign of Christian Europe. Founded i...więcej »
In a publishing career that spanned less than a decade, Jane Austen revolutionized the literary romance, using it as a stage from which to address issues of gender politics and class consciousness ...więcej »
This part of Antek's adventures will take us to a "monkey grove" in... Scotland, where Antek undergoes a fast-track parachuting course under the watchful eye of Capt. Soursoup so he can t...więcej »
Worlds of enchantment await in this beautiful treasury, which contains the most popular fairy and folk tales from the Brothers Grimm, Hans Christian Andersen, Charles Perrault, and other classic so...więcej »
First published in 1878, Tolstoy's masterpiece tells the story of a woman who seems to have everything: beauty, wealth, popularity and son she adores. Then she meets the impetuous officer Count Vro...więcej »
Often called the greatest nineteenth-century British novelist, George Eliot (the pen name of Mary Ann Evans) created in Middlemarch a vast panorama of life in a provincial Midlands town. At the sto...więcej »
This beautiful collectible edition presents three novels from one of the most beloved American authors: Louisa May Alcott. It includes her most famous and cherished classic, Little Women, about the...więcej »
When Napoleon invades Russia in 1812 it forever changes those engulfed by the violence. Although told on a panoramic scale, War and Peace explores how the chaos of battle, the horror of death and b...więcej »
Antek Srebrny is a soldier in the Second Polish Corps, and a soldier to handle special tasks to boot! These consist in foiling the enemy's evil plans. The stakes are now very high. The Polish units...więcej »
When we first meet him, Antek Srebrny is only 14 years old, a boy scout in Grodno. Ever since the outbreak of World War II, he and his friends have been preparing to fight the Germans. And yet he i...więcej »
Antek Srebrny is a soldier in the Second Polish Corps, and a soldier to handle special tasks to boot! These consist in foiling the enemy's evil plans. The stakes are now very high. The Polish units...więcej »
This part of Antek's adventures will take us to a "monkey grove" in... Scotland, where Antek undergoes a fast-track parachuting course under the watchful eye of Capt. Soursoup so he can t...więcej »
Beauty and the Beast and Other Classic Fairy Tales features 101 stories in which beauties and beasts capture the charm and magic of the classic fairy tale. Chosen from The Blue Fairy Book and other...więcej »
No writer portrayed America's Jazz Age as vividly as F. Scott Fitzgerald. In his effervescent tales of ingenues on the prowl for husbands, Ivy League heirs en route to futures of idle entitlement, ...więcej »