Variations on a musical theme by a striking range of authors, among them Flaubert, Turgenev, Proust, Nabokov, Katherine Mansfield, Kazuo Ishiguro, Ian McEwan, Amit Chaudhuri, Bernard MacLaverty and...więcej »
German Romantic poetry is both fluid and formed, and it is full of song: the poems themselves are often intrinsically lyrical, and many of them inspired some of the best-known musical compositions ...więcej »
Georges Simenon nie dostał za życia żadnej ważnej nagrody literackiej – ani we Francji, ani w ojczystej Belgii, ani w żadnym innym kraju. A jednak to właśnie w jego powieściach znaleźć można ...więcej »
Now a classic feminist text, Jane Eyre was the first of Charlotte Brontë’s novels to be published, in 1847. Like her sister Emily’s Wuthering Heights, which it matches in power, Ch...więcej »
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...więcej »
London has the greatest literary tradition of any city in the world. Its roll-call of story-tellers includes cultural giants who changed the way the world thought about writing, like Shakespeare, D...więcej »
The unforgettable canines gathered here include Kipling's heroically faithful 'Garm', Bret Harte's irrepressible scoundrel of a 'yaller dog' and the aggressively affectionate three-legged pit bull ...więcej »
In Lord Byron's lifetime, details of his travels were widely known through poems set in different countries, ranging from his homes in Scotland and England, through Europe and the Middle East, to t...więcej »
A friend and contemporary of Richard Wright and James Baldwin - and every bit their equal - Chester Himes was the acclaimed author of literary novels, stories and essays, as well as the classic cri...więcej »
Ta epizodyczna powieść to awanturnicza historia próby odzyskania unikatowej monety, którą pewnemu kolekcjonerowi skradł tajemniczy młodzieniec w okularach.Troje wysłannikó...więcej »
BLACKWOOD DLA... „POCZĄTKUJĄCYCH”. NAJLEPSZE Z NAJLEPSZYCH. „Wierzby” i „Wendigo” w ocenie krytyków i badaczy gatunku to dwa najsłynniejsze opowiadania Al...więcej »
Maigret prowadzi śledztwa wśród przeciętnych ludzi, których okoliczności zmuszają do "przekroczenia samych siebie"...Jacek Szczerba, Gazeta Wyborczawięcej »
DZIESIĘĆ UPIORNYCH OPOWIEŚCI GROZY JEDNEGO Z ULUBIONYCH AUTORÓW H.P. LOVECRAFTA Matthew Phipps Shiel (1865-1947) na poczesne miejsce w literaturze niesamowitej zasłużył opowieścią tytułową n...więcej »
Czy pamiętasz, jak z tobą tańczyłem walca, / Panno, madonno, legendo tych lat? / Czy pamiętasz, jak ruszył świat do tańca, / Świat, co w ramiona mi wpadł? Wybór wierszy jednego z najwy...więcej »
Ile razem dróg przebytych? / Ile ścieżek przedeptanych? / Ile deszczów, ile śniegów / wiszących nad latarniami? / Twe oczy jak piękne świece, / a w sercu źródło pr...więcej »
Love Stories brings together a captivating assortment of short stories inspired by romantic entanglement in its many forms: first love, infatuation, obsession, unrequited love, marriage, adultery, ...więcej »
A biting satire on dictatorship written during the Second World War and published in 1945, ANIMAL FARM is perhaps the most celebrated twentieth-century English satire after the same writer's NINETE...więcej »
Primo Levi's account of life as a concentration camp prisoner falls into two parts. IF THIS IS A MAN describes his deportation to Poland and the twenty months he spend working in Auschwitz. THE TRU...więcej »
Saki's dazzling tales manage the remarkable feat of being anarchic and urbane at the same time. Studded with Wildean epigrams and featuring well-contrived plots and surprise endings, his stories gl...więcej »
Writers have always been uniquely inspired by New York City, and the classic stories collected here provide a kaleidoscopic vision of the metropolis in all its grittiness and glamour. Acclaimed wr...więcej »