The Republic of Gilead offers Offred only one function: to breed . If she deviates, she will, like dissenters, be hanged at the wall or sent out to die slowly of radiation sickness. But even a repr...
Written during World War II, The Little Prince tells of the friendship between the narrator, an aviator stranded in the Sahara desert, and a mysterious boy whom he encounters there. Ruler of a tiny...
T. S. Eliot called The Moonstone ‘the first, the longest and the best of detective novels’. Combining a teasing plot with a vivid portrait of Victorian England, Collins makes his charac...
That Machiavelli’s name has become synonymous with cold-eyed political calculation only heightens the intrinsic fascination of The Prince – the world’s pre-eminent how-to manual o...
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 ...
A major book in the history of feminism, which, when it was first published in the 1950s, was considered a radical thesis. But its claim that the subordination of women is not a fact of nature but ...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
James Joyce's masterpiece, Ulysses, tells of the diverse events which befall Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus in Dublin on one day in June 1904. It is considered to be one of the most important wo...
GR.1285Katherine Garbera – Uwiodę cię i rzucę (Billionaire Makeover)Miliarder Dante Russo, szef dużej wytwórni piwa, wygląda jak elegancki drwal. Ma na głowie burzę w...
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...
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 ...
Clare Roberts tuż przed śmiercią ojca dostała od niego dużo pieniędzy. Szybko się jednak okazało, że były to pieniądze pożyczone od mafii, i Clare, zamiast rozwijać firmę, musi uciekać przed gangst...
Wszyscy w okolicy wiedzą, że Holt Hollister jest najlepszym hodowcą koni i niepoprawnym kobieciarzem. Są zdumieni, że traktuje chłodno nową sąsiadkę, piękną Isabelle. Jego zdaniem ta elegancka kobi...
GR. 1292ACynthia St. Aubin – W stronę zachodzącego słońca (Blue Blood Meets Blue Collar)Ze swoich podbojów miłosnych z czasów młodości Cosima zapamiętała tylko...
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...
Jessie przyjeżdża do sennego miasteczka w Sierra Nevadzie, by podjąć pracę w lecznicy weterynaryjnej. Ma nadzieję w miejscowych górach znaleźć ukojenie po traumatycznym okresie w życiu. Jej ...
The title of the novel comes from the Yorkshire manor on the moors of the story. The narrative centres on the all-encompassing, passionate, but ultimately doomed love between Catherine Earnshaw and...