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 »
When Father goes away with two strangers one evening, the lives of Roberta, Peter and Phyllis are shattered. They and their mother have to move from their comfortable London home to go and live in ...więcej »
When fifteen-year-old orphan John Trenchard is banished by his Aunt Jane, he goes to live at the local inn with the mysterious Elzevir Block, whose son has been killed by Customs Officers. Unoffici...więcej »
With an Introduction by Dr Sally Minogue and Notes by David Rampton, Department of English, University of OttowaGeorge Orwell is a difficult author to summarize. He was a would-be revol...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 »
In 1943, there was an urgent need for Animal Farm. The Soviet Union had become Britain's ally in the war against Nazi Germany, and criticism of Stalin's brutal regime was either censored or discour...więcej »
Carrie Barrett umawia się na randkę w ciemno, lecz chłopak nie przychodzi na spotkanie. Do jej stolika dosiada się Massimo Donato-Wells, właściciel hotelu, najprzystojniejszy mężczyzna, jakiego wid...więcej »
ARuby Pennington, organizatorka wesel, wychowała się w zamku Rothwellów, gdzie jej babcia była gospodynią. Liczy, że przez wzgląd na dawną znajomość przekona Lucasa Rothwella, by...więcej »
ASoren Vitale przez wiele lat zbiera dowody przestępstw człowieka, który doprowadził do śmierci jego ojca. Gdy w końcu go odnajduje, jest on ciężko chory, a opiekuje się nim wnuczka An...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 »
This volume brings together Virginia Woolf's last two novels, The Years (1937) which traces the lives of members of a dispersed middle-class family between 1880 and 1937, and Between the Acts (1941...więcej »
'Each time I dip a living creature into the bath of burning pain, I say: this time I will burn out all the animal, this time I will make a rational creature of my own!' declares Doctor Moreau to ha...więcej »
Adam Smith (1723-1790) was one of the brightest stars of the eighteenth-century Scottish Enlightenment. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations was his most important book. F...więcej »
In these 'scientific romances' H. G. Wells sees the present reflected in the future and the future in the present. His aim is to provoke rather than predict. The Sleeper falls into a trance, waking...więcej »
Its eyes were on long horns like a snail's eyes… it had ears like a bat's ears, and its tubby body was shaped like a spider's and covered with thick, soft fur… and it had hands and fe...więcej »
The two American classics here together in one volume, Little Men and Jo's Boys, are worthy sequels to Little Women, one of the best-loved children's stories of all time, and its continuation, Good...więcej »
When Jerry, Jimmy and Cathy discover a tunnel that leads to a castle, they pretend that it is enchanted. But when they discover a Sleeping Princess at the centre of a maze, astonishing ...więcej »