Aleksander Szumański, roczki 1931. Urodzony we Lwowie. Ojciec docent medycyny zamordowany przez hitlerowców w akcji Nachtigall we Lwowie, matka filolog polski. Debiut wierszem w 1941 roku w ...
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Jej autor nie należy jednak do postaci znanych szerszej publiczności. Urodził się w 1886 roku i należał do pokolenia, które odegrało kluczową rolę w zmaganiach o niepodległość podczas I wojn...
Søren Kierkegaard, one of the most passionate and challenging of modern philosophers, is now celebrated as the father of existentialism - yet his contemporaries described him as a philosophe...
A SUNDAY TIMES, NEW STATESMAN AND FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR'Immensely powerful . . . her investigation of this terrible illness is sensitive and compelling' Sunday Times
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We need this message more than ever' Malala YousafzaiThe right to:Spend your own money. Go to school. Earn an income. Access contraceptives. Work outside the home. Walk outside th...
Longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction 2019'If you have even the slightest interest in Orwell or in the development of our culture, you should not miss this engrossing...
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In the summer of 1885, three Frenchmen arrived in London for a few days’ shopping. One was a Prince, one was a Count, and the third was a commoner with an Italian name, who four years earlier...
A fully illustrated, beautifully produced edition of Junichiro Tanizaki's wise and evocative essay on Japanese culture.‘We find beauty not in the thing itself but in the patterns ...
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The last major collection of Nabokov's published material, Think, Write, Speak brings together a treasure trove of previously uncollected texts from across the author's extraordinary career.<...