In 1915, Lawrence's frank representation of sexuality in The Rainbow caused a furore and the novel was seized by the police and banned almost as soon as it was published. Today it is recognised as ...więcej »
Then the vision of an enormous town presented itself, of a monstrous town...a cruel devourer of the world's light. There was room enough there to place any story, depth enough for any passion, vari...więcej »
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is a powerful and sometimes violent novel of expectation, love, oppression, sin, religion and betrayal. It portrays the disintegration of the marriage of Helen Huntingdo...więcej »
In these 'scientific romances' H. G. Wells sees the present reflected in the future and the future in the present. His aim is to provoke rather than predict. The Sleeper falls into a trance, waking...więcej »
'I am writing to a rhythm and not to a plot', Virginia Woolf stated of her eighth novel, The Waves. Widely regarded as one of her greatest and most original works, it conveys the rhythms of life in...więcej »
The tough-mindedness of the social satire in and its air of palpable integrity give this novel a special place in Anthony Trollope's Literary career. Trollope paints a picture as panoramic as his t...więcej »
This volume brings together Virginia Woolf's last two novels, The Years (1937) which traces the lives of members of a dispersed middle-class family between 1880 and 1937, and Between the Acts (1941...więcej »
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 »
With a new Introduction by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex.Laurence Sterne's The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman is a huge...więcej »
The Turn of the Screw is the classic ghost story for which James is most remembered. Set in a country house, it is a chilling tale of the supernatural told by a master of the genre.The ...więcej »
Complete and unabridged, this title comes with a new Introduction by Cedric Watts, Research Professor of English, University of Sussex. James Joyce's astonishing masterpiece, "Ulysses", t...więcej »
This edition includes the short story collection Portrait of the Artist as a Young DogWith an Introduction and Notes by Sally MinogueUnder Milk Wood is Dylan Thomas’s ...więcej »
Washington Square marks the culmination of James's apprentice period as a novelist. With sharply focused attention upon just four principal characters, James provides an acute analysis of middle-cl...więcej »
Gaskell’s last novel, widely considered her masterpiece, follows the fortunes of two families in nineteenth century rural England. At its core are family relationships – father, daught...więcej »
Wuthering Heights is a wild, passionate story of the intense and almost demonic love between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, a foundling adopted by Catherine's father. After Mr Earnshaw's death,...więcej »
Jurij Wynnyczuk – jeden z najczęściej nagradzanych pisarzy ukraińskich, autor m.in.nominowanego do Literackiej Nagrody Europy Środkowej Angelus “Tanga śmierci” – po ki...więcej »
Bohaterką najnowszej powieści Petra Jacenki jest dwudziestoparoletnia Gadżet – kobieta-magnes potrafiąca odczytywać historie ludzi i wydarzeń ukrytych w metalowych przedmiotach. Metal pocisk&...więcej »
Urodzona w angielskiej rodzinie szlacheckiej Anna, jako nastolatka zostaje wysłana z na dwór Małgorzaty, księżnej Sabaudii i namiestniczki Niderlandów. Decyzję o t...więcej »
W kwietniu 1970 roku, w latach chwały programu Apollo, NASA wysłała kapitana marynarki Jima Lovella, Johna Swigerta i Freda Haise w piątą misję księżycową. Po zaledwie pięćdzie-sięciu pięciu godzin...więcej »
Piękna płomiennoruda Elżbieta jest najstarszą córką króla Anglii Edwarda IV, uwielbianą przez bliskich. Jej szczęśliwe życie kończy się jednak po nagłej śmierci ukochanego ojca i prze...więcej »
