Trwa wojna secesyjna, śmierć codziennie zbiera swe tragiczne żniwo. Pewnego zimowego dnia zabierze też chłopca imieniem Willie, ukochanego synka prezydenta Lincolna. Żałoba rodziców przybier...więcej »
Mowgli, the man-cub who is brought up by wolves in the jungles of Central India, is one of the greatest literary myths ever created. As he embarks on a series of thrilling escapades, Mowgli encount...więcej »
'It's lovely to live on a raft. We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them'Huck Finn spits, swears, smokes a pipe and never go...więcej »
When Ishmael sets sail on the whaling ship Pequod one cold Christmas Day, he has no idea of the horrors awaiting him out on the vast and merciless ocean. The ship's strange captain, Ahab, is in the...więcej »
Against the backdrop of nineteenth century Dublin, a boy becomes a man: his mind testing its powers, obsessions taking hold and loosening again, the bonds of family, tradition, nation and religion ...więcej »
'Rich or poor, we will keep together and be happy in one another'Christmas won't be the same this year for Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy, as their father is away fighting in the Civil War, and ...więcej »
In this powerfully influential series of short stories, James Joyce captures uneasy souls, shabby lives and innocent minds in the dark streets and homes of his native city. In doing so, he conjures...więcej »
Lucie Manette has been separated from her father for eighteen years while he languished in Paris's most feared prison, the Bastille. Finally reunited, the Manettes' fortunes become inextricably int...więcej »
It is the French Riviera in the 1920s. Nicole and Dick Diver are a wealthy, elegant, magnetic couple. A coterie of admirers are drawn to them, none more so than the blooming young starlet Rosemary ...więcej »
A young governess is sent to a great country house to care for two orphaned children. To begin with Flora and Miles seem to be model pupils but gradually the governess starts to suspect that someth...więcej »
Kim is an orphan who earns his living begging on the streets of Lahore. One day he befriends an aged Tibetan Lama who, although content to live simply in India, is a rich and powerful abbot in his ...więcej »
No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's; that as men busied themselves about ...więcej »
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 repre...więcej »
Maryla Szymiczkowa, Jacek Dehnel, Piotr TarczyńskiSeans w Domu EgipskimProfesorowa Szczupaczyńska na tropie nowej zbrodniDekadencja, wirujący stolik i zbrodniarz z zaś...więcej »
‘Short and spare and direct, an intelligent thriller with psychological and social overtones’ Sunday TimesWithdrawn, uneducated and unloved, Frederick collects butterflies a...więcej »
Irvine Welsh, 'poet laureate of the chemical generation', exposes the seamy underbelly of rave's utopian dream. Lloyd, our permanently pilled-up protagonist, pushes his weekends to breaking point a...więcej »
Buzująca emocjami opowieść o miłości, tajemnicach i sile dobraNa początku jest grom z jasnego nieba. Jedno spojrzenie, jeden dotyk, jedno słowo. Od tej chwili życie dwojga ludzi zmieni się be...więcej »
„Na pocątku wsędy byli górole, a dopiero pote porobiyli się Turcy i Zydzi. Górole byli tyz piyrsymi »filozofami«. »Filozof« to jest pedziane po grecku. Z...więcej »
Jak kot, który żyje siedem razy, Agata po raz kolejny zaczyna na nowo. Po dotkliwej stracie Agata dochodzi do siebie pod troskliwą opieką najbliższych. Kiedyś podzieliła się z nimi swo...więcej »
Pierwszy grzech Jezusa Chłopiec stoi nad pustym grobem ptaka, którego pochował dzień wcześniej. Czy wtedy utracił niewinność? Może stało się to, kiedy bez wahania opuścił zrozpaczonych...więcej »
