Desolation Angels is the wild and soulful story of the legendary road trip that Jack Kerouac took before the publication of On the Road, told through the persona of Jack Duluoz and accompanied by h...
From 1979 to 1989 Soviet troops engaged in a devastating war in Afghanistan that claimed thousands of casualties on both sides. While the Soviet Union talked about a 'peace-keeping' mission, the de...
Meet the forensic pathologist, Dr Richard Shepherd. A detective in his own right, he must solve the mystery of sudden and unexplained deaths.He has performed over 23,000 autopsies, incl...
Proud to be a Mammal (1942-97) is Czeslaw Milosz's moving and diverse collection of essays. Among them, he covers his passion for poetry, his love of the Polish language that was so nearly wiped ou...
Elie Wiesel's harrowing first-hand account of the atrocities committed during the Holocaust, Night is translated by Marion Wiesel with a preface by Elie Wiesel in Penguin Modern Classics.
From Moses to Nelson Mandela, speeches have helped both change the way we see the world and the way the world is shaped. A great orator, however, has to have the right words and the right message t...
Wybór tekstów Konstantego Puzyny, „Keta”, eseisty, jednego z najwybitniejszych polskich krytyków teatralnych, znawcy twórczości Stanisława Ignacego Witkiewic...
Najnowsza książka Pawła Zyzaka Tajemnica Wilczego Jaru przenosi czytelnika w okres sprzed wybuchu społecznego latem 1980 roku. Osią narracji jest sprawa katastrofy autobusowej, która wydarzy...
'His first novel is a revelation ... the writing is vivid, serious and extraordinary ... wonderful' The TimesThe Sea is My Brother is Jack Kerouac's very first novel, begun shortly afte...
Mistrzowsko napisana reporterska opowieść o człowieku, który przez całe życie próbował uciec. Historia prawdziwa, choć dzieje się w dwóch państwach, których dziś nie ma ...
The Father of Existentialism, Kierkegaard transformed philosophy with his conviction that we must all create our own nature; in this great work of religious anxiety, he argues that a true understan...
The book that created the modern United States, Paine's incendiary call for Americans to revolt against British rule converted millions to the cause of independence and set out a vision of a just s...
Najtrudniej jest pisać biografie politycznych realistów, którzy zdają sobie sprawę z tego, że droga ku Polsce wolnej i silnej wcale nie jest prosta, że wiedzie przez liczne kompromisy...
Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened...
John Ruskin's insights into the need for individual artistic freedom, and his disdain for the mass-production art. of the Victorian era, radically altered society's perception of creative design a...
In this collection of eight witty and sharply written essays, Orwell looks at, among others, the joys of spring (even in London), the picture of humanity painted by Gulliver and his travels, and th...
A new edition of Keri Smith's bestseller, with updated materialThink of Wreck This Journal as the anarchist's Artist's Way -- the book for those who've always wanted to draw outside the...
Igor Abramow-Newerly był pisarzem, bibliotekarzem, wychowawcą, stolarzem i kajakarzem. Młodość spędził w ZSRR, skąd uciekł przed zsyłką na Syberię. W przedwojennej Polsce debiutował jako publicysta...
Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened...
Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened...