Acaso sea Crónica de una muerte anunciada la obra más «realista» de Gabriel García Márquez, pues se basa en un hecho histórico acontecido en la tierra...
Pantaleón Pantoja, un capitán del Ejército recientemente ascendido, recibe la misión de establecer un servicio de prostitución para las Fuerzas Armadas del Per&ua...
Lawrence's reputation as a novelist has often meant that his achievements in poetry have failed to receive the recognition they deserve. This edition brings together, in a form he himself sanctione...
Njal's Saga is the finest of the Icelandic sagas, and one of the world's greatest prose works. Written c.1280, about events a couple of centuries earlier, it is divided into three parts: the first ...
Jude Fawley is a rural stone mason with intellectual aspirations. Frustrated by poverty and the indifference of the academic institutions at the University of Christminster, his only chance of fulf...
Hardy distrusted the application of nineteenth-century empiricism to history because he felt it marginalized important human elements. In The Trumpet-Major, the tale of a woman courted by three com...
Major General Sir Richard Hannay is the fictional secret agent created by writer and diplomat John Buchan, who was himself an Intelligence officer during the First World War. The strong and silent ...
Tom Jones is widely regarded as one of the first and most influential English novels. It is certainly the funniest. Tom Jones, the hero of the book, is introduced to the reader as the ward of a lib...
Agatha Christie’s most daring crime mystery - an early and particularly brilliant outing of Hercule Poirot, ‘The Murder of Roger Ackroyd’, with its legendary twist, changed the de...
Lektura wraz opracowaniem to znakomita pomoc i inspiracja dla uczniów oraz nauczycieli. Tekst opatrzono wskazówkami interpretacyjnymi i hasłami ułatwiającymi nawigację po książce &nda...
Anna Burns’s Man Booker Prize-winning novel, Milkman, is a powerful fictional tale set in Northern Ireland during the Troubles.The story is told through the voice of a teenage gir...
Our hearts were broken in the same places. That's something like love, but maybe not quite the thing itself'Aza's life is filled with complications.Living with anxiety and O...
Czy tak wielka miłość może istnieć w tak wrogim świecie?Argentyna, 1961 rok. Francesca to młoda dziewczyna, inteligentna, wykształcona i niezwykle piękna. Zawsze ciężko pracowała, żeby zapewn...
Scandinavians of the Viking Age explored the mysteries of life through their sagas. Folklorist Helene Adeline Guerber brings to life the gods and goddesses, giants and dwarves, and warriors and mon...
Here is the classic sci-fi novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, set nearly thirty years before the events of the new Warner Bros. film Blade Runner 2049, starring Harrison Ford, Ryan Gosling...
Doktor Jekyll był pewien, że jego przypuszczenia muszą być prawdziwe: człowiek nie był jeden, ale dwa w jednym ciele i musiał istnieć jakiś sposób oddzielenia tych dwóch element&oacut...
Rachel, trzydziestoletnia mieszkanka Londynu codziennie o godz. 8:04 wsiada do pociągu i każdego dnia pokonuje tę samą trasę. Codziennie przygląda się też z okna stojącemu przy torach domowi numer ...
Rok 1957. Interesy rodzinnej księgarni Sempere i Synowie idą tak marnie jak nigdy dotąd. Daniel Sempere, bohater Cienia wiatru, wiedzie stateczny żywot jako mąż pięknej Bei i ojciec małego Juliana....
'Her bravest work of performance art to date . . . Rawly intimate' ObserverThis memoir spans Marina Abramovic's five decade career, and tells a life story that is almost as exhilarating and extraor...
These lively, varied and thought-provoking science-fiction stories (from the era of Jules Verne and H. G. Wells) are linked by their imposing central character, the pugnaciously adventurous and out...