Teksty zawarte w tym zbiorze stanowią wkład w dyskusję na temat pojęcia twarzy, czynności twarzy oraz (nie)uprzejmości. Tom składa się z czterech części, każda omawia pojęcie twarzy i kwestie z nią...więcej »
E. Phillips Oppenheim was a popular 20th century writer best known for penning suspenseful thriller novels like „The Mystery of Mr. Bernard Brown”. Many of his more than 100 novels are ...więcej »
Podobnie jak w przypadku „Skradzionego ciała”, „Niedoświadczony duch” (być może najbardziej znana opowieść o duchach Wellsa po „Czerwonym pokoju” - nie bez powod...więcej »
Piśmiennictwo poświęcone bezpieczeństwu granic Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej jest wyjątkowo bogate. Chodzi tutaj zarówno o czasopiśmiennictwo, jak i o publikacje zwarte pisane z perspektywy r&oa...więcej »
Niezbędnik każdego podróżnika to wyjątkowy kurs do nauki aż 5 najbardziej popularnych języków europejskich: angielskiego, francuskiego, hiszpańskiego, niemieckiego oraz wło...więcej »
W życiu głównego bohatera opowieści, pana Uttersona, pojawiają się coraz liczniejsze zagadki. Mają one jedną wspólną cechę : w tajemniczy sposób wiążą się z osobą jego przyjaci...więcej »
„Nig Nog and Other Humorous Stories” is a collection of short humorous stories that include „Jimmy’s Brother”, „Sentimental Simpson”, „Chubb of the S...więcej »
„Night and Day” by Virginia Woolf is her second novel and was published in 1919. But the novel is very forward-looking in its examination of relationships under the stress of the cultur...więcej »
George Orwell’s novel 1984 is one of the best dystopian novels. Winston Smith, male, 39, works for the Ministry of Truth. Smith’s job is to change the facts. If a person objectionable t...więcej »
The historical novel of the famous and my beloved French writer, a fiery patriot of his homeland, a convinced democrat and great humanist. Hugo, in his novel, imbued with the spirit of freedom and ...więcej »
The story of real men who sacrificed themselves for the sake of their homeland and family. McNeile pays attention to people, their psychological state. Great attention to how things are in the tren...więcej »
Despite his intellectual brilliance, successful career, and sizeable inheritance, Christopher Tietjens is a largely unhappy man. Tortured by his wife’s open infidelity, caught up in his own h...więcej »
A tragic incident leaves a girl from an aristocratic family without the right not only to an inheritance, but even to a family name. But the talented and energetic beauty is not going to surrender ...więcej »
Mr. Mason is here at his best. While working out very deftly an extremely intricate and clever plot, he gives us excellent characterization and a remarkably vivid series of glimpses into different ...więcej »
Two foundlings from the London Educational Home received the same name, which over the years led to disastrous consequences. Two lawyers are looking for the missing heir, in order to correct the in...więcej »
Edgar Wallace’s humorous tales of British Army life, centered around the characters of „Smithy” and „Nobby”. The stories, collected in 1905, are supposed to tell us ab...więcej »
It is strange to find Mr. Phillips Oppenheim choosing as his hero an earnest politician with a love for social reform. „Nobody’s Man” starts out as a standard whodunit murder myst...więcej »
Mr. Richard Gilbert, a New York lawyer, entering five minutes before the start, found only one place unoccupied near the door. The old hard farmer held the upper half and moved grumpily to the wind...więcej »
„North of 36” is another magnificent novel by the author of „The Covered Wagon”. This is just a good old-fashioned western about the first cattle drive from Texas to Abilene...więcej »
The story’s heroine is Catherine Morland, an innocent seventeen-year-old woman from a country parsonage. While spending a few weeks in Bath with a family friend, Catherine meets and falls in ...więcej »