Nagrody: Commonwealth' Prize; Dobbie Award Writers
Dziesięcioletnia Jennifer Day mieszka w małym górniczym miasteczku pełnym tajemnic. W otaczającym ją świecie dorosłych poszukuje przyczyn śmierci swojej nastoletniej siostry Beth. Próbują
Like George Orwell, Franz Kafka has given his name to a world of nightmare, but in Kafka’s world, it is never completely clear just what the nightmare is. The Trial, where the rules are hidden from even the highest officials, and if there i
The Shirley of the title is a woman of independent means; her friend Caroline is not. Both struggle with what a woman's role is and can be. Their male counterparts - Louis, the powerless tutor, and Robert, his cloth-manufacturing brother -
Kim is Rudyard Kipling’s finest work. Now controversial, this novel is a memorably vivid evocation of the life and landscapes of India in the late nineteenth century. Kim himself is a resourceful lad who befriends a lama, an ageing priest;
Wespazjan Cudny – dla przyjaciół Wally – wraca ze szkoły w dniu 18. urodzin. W domu, zamiast przyjęcia niespodzianki, czekają na niego ciała brutalnie zamordowanych rodziców oraz zabójcy, którzy próbują zgładzić także jego. Chłopak jednego
Zodiacus vitae, obszerny łaciński poemat, którego autorem był dość tajemniczy Marcellus Palingenius Stellatus, ukazał się po raz pierwszy drukiem w Wenecji, najprawdopodobniej w roku 1536. Zdobył sobie błyskawicznie wielki rozgłos w środow
A year after the publication of The Three Musketeers, Alexandre Dumas produced a sequel worthy in every respect of the original. In Twenty Years After the much beloved D'Artaganan, Athos, Porthos and Aramis reunite to fight the forces of ev
Richard Hannay finds a corpse in his flat, and becomes involved in a plot by spies to precipitate war and subvert British naval power. The resourceful victim of a manhunt, he is pursued by both the police and the ruthless conspirators.
The
The Professor is Charlotte Brontës first novel, in which she audaciously inhabits the voice and consciousness of a man, William Crimsworth. Like Jane Eyre he is parentless; like Lucy Snowe in Villette he leaves the certainties of England to
Richard II is one of Shakespeare’s finest works: lucid, eloquent, and boldly structured. It can be seen as a tragedy, or a historical play, or a political drama, or as one part of a vast dramatic cycle which helped to generate England’s nat
Traditional rhymes and stories have been collected under the wing of Mother Goose for centuries and this collection of favourite nursery rhymes has been put together by the famous illustrator Arthur Rackham.
It is a wonderful collection of
Lorna Doone, a Romance of Exmoor is an historical novel of high adventure set in the South West of England during the turbulent time of Monmouth's rebellion (1685).
It is also a moving love story told through the life of the young farmer J
In Henry IV, Part 1, the King is in a doubly ironic position. His rebellion against Richard II was successful, but now he himself is beset by rebels, led by the charismatic Harry Hotspur. The King’s son, Prince Hal, seems to be more concern
Voltaire is held to be one of the three greatest French writers of the eighteenth century. He fought against religious persecution, bigotry and injustice throughout his life, and has often been seen as one of the thinkers who prepared the w
Obszerny tom opowiadań i miniatur arcymistrza wieloznaczności i głębi zawiera takie perły, jak Kolonia karna, Wyrok, Przemiana, Jama czy Budowa chińskiego muru, ale też mniej znane utwory na czele z Troską ojca rodziny, Prometeuszem, Milcze
TO SPOD PIÓRA TEJ WIKTORIAŃSKIEJ PISARKI WYSZŁY OPOWIEŚCI: „CRANFORD”, „PÓŁNOC I POŁUDNIE”, „RUTH”, „ŻONY I CÓRKI”...
Po śmierci wikarego w miasteczku Combehurst wdowa po nim, pani Browne, sama wychowuje dwoje dzieci w domu na wrzosowisku.
The Diary of a Nobody is so unassuming a work that even its author, George Grossmith, seemed unaware that he had produced a masterpiece. For more than a century this wonderfully comic portrayal of suburban life and values has remained in pr
These three wonderful comic novels drolly record the battle between Lucia and Elisabeth Mapp for social and cultural supremacy in the village of Tilling (based on Rye). Their constant skirmishes ensure that every game of bridge, tea or dinn
Saki (H.H. Munro) stands alongside Anton Chekhov and O Henry as a master of the short story. His extraordinary stories are a mixture of humorous satire, irony and the macabre, in which the stupidities and hypocrisy of conventional society a
This collection brings together Jane Austen’s earliest experiments in the art of fiction and novels that she left incomplete at the time of her premature death in 1817. Her fragmentary juvenilia show Austen developing her own sense of narra
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