George Smiley, who is a troubled man of infinite compassion, is also a single-mindedly ruthless adversary as a spy.The scene which he enters is a Cold War landscape of moles and lamplig...więcej »
As Stephen Rojack, a decorated war hero and former congressman who murders his wife in a fashionable New York City high-rise, runs amok through the city in which he was once a privileged citizen, M...więcej »
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Charlie, a brilliant and beautiful young actress, is lured into 'the theatre of the real' by an Israeli intelligence officer. Forced to play her ultimate role, she is plunged into a deceptive and d...więcej »
Child of Fortune is deceptively gentle and dreamlike, teetering on the edge of tragedy. It covers a year in the life of a single mother with an eleven-year-old daughter, combining a complex interio...więcej »
Sal Paradise, a young innocent, joins his hero, the mystical traveller Dean Moriarty, on a breathless, exuberant ride back and forth across the United States. Their hedonistic search for release or...więcej »
The best English novel since the war' Philip RothMagnus Pym - ranking diplomat, consummate Englishman, loving husband, secret agent - has vanished. Has he defected? Gone to ground? As t...więcej »
'Magnificent... Her famous seriousness pervades throughout... What's striking is the astonishing scope, potential and possibility Sontag saw in short fiction' Financial TimesThe complet...więcej »
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Marco Polo, światowej sławy myśliciel i zdeklarowany ateista, podejmuje się niezwykle trudnego zadania. Postanawia zbadać osobowość Jezusa, wykorzystując wiedzę z zakresu psychologii i socjologii. ...więcej »
An expedition to Antarctica goes horribly wrong as a group of explorers stumbles upon some mysterious ancient ruins, with devastating consequences. At the Mountains of Madness ranks among...więcej »
In Stephen Fry's vivid retelling we gaze in wonder as wise Athena is born from the cracking open of the great head of Zeus and follow doomed Persephone into the dark and lonely realm of the Underwo...więcej »
Wywodzące się z folkloru ludowego baśnie odegrały ogromną rolę w kształtowaniu się świadomości kulturowej Polaków i innych narodów europejskich. W tym pięknie ilustrowanym zbiorze zeb...więcej »
When 'The Awakening' was first published in 1899, charges of sordidness and immorality seemed to consign it into obscurity and irreparably damage its author's reputation. But a century after her de...więcej »
When the downtrodden animals of Manor Farm overthrow their master Mr Jones and take over the farm themselves, they imagine it is the beginning of a life of freedom and equality. But gradually a cun...więcej »
'There were two kinds of landscape characteristic of the inner planets of the Sun: the purposeful and the desolate.'The planet Quinta is pocked with ugly mounds and covered by a spiderw...więcej »
Książę i żebrak jest powieścią dla dzieci wybitnego amerykańskiego pisarza Marka Twaina, autora między innymi Przygód Tomka Sawyera, Przygód Hucka czy Pamiętników Adama i Ewy. ...więcej »
Nowele Marii Konopnickiej Miłosierdzie gminy i Dym należą do kanonu polskiej literatury pozytywistycznej. W Miłosierdziu gminy autorka porusza problem nieprzemyślanej filantropii, czyli świeckiego ...więcej »
Co jeżeli musisz zdecydować, które z twoich dzieci ma żyć, a które umrzeć? Jak to jest, gdy ktoś przystawia ci do skroni pistolet i każe wybierać? Czy skazać na śmierć buntowniczą i n...więcej »
Jutro niedziela i inne opowiadania należy do kanonu polskiej literatury dla dzieci i młodzieży. Wydana po raz pierwszy w 1935 roku, książka była dwukrotnie wpisana do kanonu lektur szkolnych, przed...więcej »
