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 »
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 »
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 »
Na pewnej farmie zwierzęta, zmęczone dyktaturą człowieka, postanawiają podążyć za głosem charyzmatycznego knura i wypędzają zarządcę folwarku. Przysięgają sobie równość i wspólne dąże...więcej »
The Thought Police, Doublethink, Newspeak, Big Brother - 1984 itself: these terms and concepts have moved from the world of fiction into our everyday lives. They are central to our thinking about f...więcej »
This endearing edition proudly includes the original telling of the beloved tale, The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams. Together, we travel alongside the Velveteen Rabbit on his magical journey...więcej »
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 ...więcej »
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 ...więcej »
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...więcej »
Lata dwudzieste XX wieku to jeden z najbarwniejszych okresów StanówZjednoczonych Ameryki. Jazz, rozluźnienie moralnych więzów, prohibicja, blichtr życia socjety… W tym ś...więcej »
The Wordsworth Classics' Shakespeare Series presents a newly-edited sequence of William Shakespeare's works. The textual editing takes account of recent scholarship while giving the material a care...więcej »
Translated by Abdullah Yusuf Ali, The Holy Qur'an (also known as The Koran) is the sacred book of Islam. It is the word of God whose truth was revealed to the Prophet Muhammad through the angel Gab...więcej »
'Each time I dip a living creature into the bath of burning pain, I say: this time I will burn out all the animal, this time I will make a rational creature of my own!' declares Doctor Moreau to ha...więcej »
This astonishing series of aphorisms, put into the mouth of the Persian sage Zarathustra, or Zoroaster,contains the kernel of Nietzsche’s thought. ‘God is dead’, he tells us...więcej »
Herodotus (c480-c425) is 'The Father of History' and his Histories are the first piece of Western historical writing. They are also the most entertaining.Why did Pheidippides run the 26...więcej »
Charles Darwin's travels around the world as an independent naturalist on HMS Beagle between 1831 and 1836 impressed upon him a sense of the natural world's beauty and sublimity which language coul...więcej »