Wybór opowieści o duchach, szaleństwie i rodzinnych tajemnicach pióra jednego z najwybitniejszych pisarzy przełomu XIX i XX wieku. Henry James tworzył na st...
Portret damy to jedna z najbardziej znanych i poczytnych powieści Henry'ego Jamesa. Akcja książki toczy się w XIX wieku. Młoda Amerykanka, Isabel Archer, po śmierci rodziców postanawia udać ...
Wybór opowieści o duchach, szaleństwie i rodzinnych tajemnicach pióra jednego z najwybitniejszych pisarzy przełomu XIX i XX wieku. Henry James tworzył na styku dwóch kultur &n...
Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reader series for learners of English as a foreign language. With carefully adapted text, new illustrations and language learning exercises, the print edition also ...
„Godziny włoskie” to godziny błogosławione, spędzone na odkrywaniu Włoch, ich klimatu, krajobrazów, scen rodzajowych. Tytuł książki kojarzy się również z „godzinka...
Amerykański biznesmen Christopher Newman odbywa podróż po Europie. We Francji poznaje młodą wdowę Claire de Bellegarde, zakochuje się w niej i zamierza ją poślubić. Jest pewny swego, w...
„Godziny włoskie” to godziny błogosławione, spędzone na odkrywaniu Włoch, ich klimatu, krajobrazów, scen rodzajowych. Tytuł książki kojarzy się również z „godzinkami...
SIEDEM PEREŁ GROZY MISTRZA PROZY PSYCHOLOGICZNEJJako pisarz z kręgu grozy Henry James (1843-1916) zasłynął opowieścią „Obrót śruby” - w wyśmienitym przekładzie Barbary Kope...
A young governess is sent to a great country house to care for two orphaned children. To begin with Flora and Miles seem to be model pupils but gradually the governess starts to suspect that someth...
Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reader series for learners of English as a foreign language. With carefully adapted text, new illustrations and language learning exercises, the print edition also ...
The Finer Grain – a collection of small stories. The „A Round of Visits” is a thoughtful tragedy that triggered the opening of „Watch and Trusteeship”. The Bench of De...
In this story, a mother allows her only child, a seven-year-old boy, to die of diphtheria only so that he will never be subjected to the corrupting influence of the books written by his father, whi...
The main character, an aspiring artist, hires a faded noble couple, Monarchs, as models after they have lost most of their money and need to find some kind of work. They are „real” in t...
The young heroine matures through her perception of family problems. The aristocratic family fell apart: the parents decided to live separately, but Macy does not agree with this. The girl is looki...
Isabel, the main character of the story, knows the charm of marriage with a worthless person. Her fate – the confluence of fatal circumstances. Being a dowry and finding herself in Europe, sh...
The Aawkward age nonetheless analyzes the English character with great subtlety. The Awkward Age, which is highly praised for its natural dialogue and the subtlety of the sensation that it conveys,...
This is the biography of Henry Morgan, the pirate admiral. In his youth, he spent several years in slavery, later became famous as a skilled warlord and vice-governor of Jamaica. The central theme ...
The story of a glorious American who, through hard work, made a fortune and went to learn how to relax and laze in the open spaces of the Old World. In particular, he came to Paris, and this city, ...
The action revolves around three characters: a young and beautiful maiden who travels around America with fiery speeches about the importance of women; her mentor, a lonely and cold lady who despis...
The novel is complicated, it’s true. Long, ornate sentences, philosophical speculations of the characters, complex in their structure and further awareness of the phrase.. but.. this and not ...