A perfect gift of timeless erotic stories ranging from ancient Greek myth to modern stories of longing and lust. This beautifully jacketed Everyman's Library Pocket Classics hardcover anthology has...
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...
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...
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 ...
Arthur Rackham (1867-1939) was one of the leading illustrators from the golden age of British book illustration. Fairy-tale and fantasy were his forte and in later life he responded to the dark sti...
In this beautifully packaged anthology A. S. Byatt, Alice Munro, Elizabeth Bowen, Sherwood Anderson, Edith Wharton, Anita Desai, Colm Tóibín, Lorrie Moore and many others reflect upon...
Woven through all these tales are the unique histories and mythologies of the regions of Southern Italy, encompassing Sicily, Calabria, Cantania, Basilicata, Apulia and Campania. Theocritus, Virgil...
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...
Here are libraries modest, mobile, mystical (Borges of course) and magical (Helen Oyeyemi's enchanting 'Books and Roses'); public and private, provincial and prestigious. Little that happen in Eliz...
The five original fairy tales included in this volume were first published by Davis Nutt in 1888. Although it is said that Wilde wrote them for his two young sons, the author himself claimed they w...
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...
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...
Scottish Stories is a treasury of great writing from a richly literary land, where the short story has flourished for over two centuries. Here are chilling supernatural stories from Robert Louis St...
Przed genialnym detektywem Sherlockiem Holmesem oraz doktorem Watsonem staje zagadka - najbardziej niezwykła w ich karierze. Muszą dowiedzieć się kto – lub co – zabija ludzi na bagnach ...
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland z podręcznym słownikiem angielsko-polskim(Alicja w Krainie Czarów) to klasyczna powieść z pogranicza snu i jawy. Wydana w 1865 roku przez Lewis Carroll jest ...
Morderstwo w Orient Expressie to wciąż jedna z najpopularniejszych powieści detektywistycznych autorstwa Agaty Christie. W czym tkwi jej fenomen? Choć wydano ją w 1934 roku, wciąż uwodzi niezwykłoś...
Lata dwudzieste XX wieku to jeden z najbarwniejszych okresów StanówZjednoczonych Ameryki. Jazz, rozluźnienie moralnych więzów, prohibicja, blichtr życia socjety… W tym ś...
Around the World In Eighty Days z podręcznym słownikiem angielsko-polskim (W 80 dni dookoła świata) to najpopularniejsza powieść francuskiego pisarza Juliusza Verne’a, która swoją prem...
The Secret Garden z podręcznym słownikiem angielsko-polskim (Tajemniczy ogród)jest powieścią obyczajową napisaną przez Frances Hodgson Burnett opublikowaną w roku 1911. Książka zaliczana jes...
Powieść Pollyanna z podręcznym słownikiem angielsko-polskim (Pollyanna) powstała w roku 1913, jej autorką jest Eleanor H. Porter. Akcja książki rozgrywa się w Stanach Zjednoczony na przełomie XIX i...