Treasure Island is the seminal pirates and buried treasure novel, which is so brilliantly concocted that it appeals to readers both young and old. The story is told in the first person by young Jim...więcej »
The Jungle Book introduces Mowgli, the human foundling adopted by a family of wolves. It tells of the enmity between him and the tiger Shere Khan, who killed Mowgli’s parents, and of the frie...więcej »
Mary Lennox was horrid. Selfish and spoilt, she was sent to stay with her uncle in Yorkshire. She hated it. But when she finds the way into a secret garden and begins to tend it, a change comes ove...więcej »
Robin Hood is the best-loved outlaw of all time.In this edition, Henry Gilbert tells of the adventures of the Merry Men of Sherwood Forest – Robin himself, Little John, Friar Tuck, Will Scarl...więcej »
When Father goes away with two strangers one evening, the lives of Roberta, Peter and Phyllis are shattered. They and their mother have to move from their comfortable London home to go and live in ...więcej »
The magical Peter Pan comes to the night nursery of the Darling children, Wendy, John and Michael. He teaches them to fly, then takes them through the sky to Never-Never Land, where they find wolve...więcej »
When fifteen-year-old orphan John Trenchard is banished by his Aunt Jane, he goes to live at the local inn with the mysterious Elzevir Block, whose son has been killed by Customs Officers. Unoffici...więcej »
With an Introduction by Dr Sally Minogue and Notes by David Rampton, Department of English, University of OttowaGeorge Orwell is a difficult author to summarize. He was a would-be revol...więcej »
Black Beauty is a perennial children’s favourite, one which has never been out of print since its publication in 1877. It is a moralistic tale of the life of the horse related in the form of ...więcej »
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 »
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 »
Książę Amadeo ma poślubić księżniczkę z rodu Fernandezów. Elsbeth, choć piękna, nie wzbudza jego zainteresowania. Wydaje mu się uległa i bez charakteru. Nie o takiej żonie marzył, ale dla do...więcej »
Księżna Sophia, młoda wdowa, sumiennie wypełnia postanowienia testamentu. Zgodnie z wolą zmarłego męża przez rok użycza gościny jego wieloletniej kochance i pilnie strzeże pisanych przez niego pami...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 »
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 ...więcej »
Mack MacDiarmid dowiaduje się, że druhną panny młodej na ślubie jego brata będzie modelka Elodie Campbell. Ponieważ często jest ona bohaterką plotkarskich portali, Mack zamierza nie spuszczać jej z...więcej »
W Edynburgu trwają przygotowania do wizyty króla Jerzego IV. Odświętny nastrój drażni Constance, która z goryczą myśli o zbliżających się urodzinach. Utraciła wszystko, co koch...więcej »
Po rozwodzie z przemocowym mężem Jo stworzyła sobie nowe życie na Key West na Florydzie. Uwielbiała pracę w pogotowiu lotniczym, miała grono oddanych przyjaciół, po pracy przyjemnie spędzała...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 »