In Death in the Afternoon, Hemingway shares the sights, the sounds, the excitement, and above all, the knowledge which fuelled his passion for Spain and the bullfight.This remarkable book contains ...
Brimming with gluttony, booze and lust, Roger Micheldene is loose in America. Supposedly visiting Budweiser University to make deals for his publishing firm in England, Roger instead sets out to of...
High in the pine forests of the Spanish Sierra, a guerrilla band prepares to blow up a vital bridge. Robert Jordan, a young American volunteer, has been sent to handle the dynamiting. There, in the...
It has been said of Ernest Hemingway that half the writers of the twentieth century have tried to imitate him and the other half have tried not to. A towering figure in the pantheon of American let...
19 września do księgarni trafi wznowienie klasycznego już, dwujęzycznego wydania Sonetów Williama Shakespeare'a w kongenialnym przekładzie Stanisława Barańczaka. Tłumacz opatrzył książkę wni...
19 września do księgarni trafi wznowienie klasycznego już, dwujęzycznego wydania Sonetów Williama Shakespeare'a w kongenialnym przekładzie Stanisława Barańczaka. Tłumacz opatrzył książkę wni...
Set in the days of the Empire, with the British ruling in Burma, Burmese Days describes both indigenous corruption and Imperial bigotry, when 'after all, natives were natives – interesting, n...
What shall we do?' said Twoflower.'Panic?' said Rincewind hopefully. He always held that panic was the best means of survival.As it moves towards a seemingly inevitable collision ...
To Don Raymonde Aprile's children he was a loyal family member, their father's adopted "nephew." To the FBI he was a man who would rather ride his horses than do Mob business. No one knew...
A crime story. A love story. A worldwide phenomenon. More than 2 million copies soldAugust 30, 1975. The day of the disappearance. The day Somerset, New Hampshire, lost its innocence.
50 Great Short Stories is a comprehensive selection from the world’s finest short fiction. The authorsrepresented range from Hawthorne, Maupassant, and Poe, through Henry James, Conrad,...
W literaturze wspomnieniowej dotyczącej dziejów Gdańska odczuwalny jest brak wspomnień przedstawicieli tamtejszych elit. Lukę tę w dużym stopniu wypełnia praca Vor dem Vergessen bewahren. P...
The No. 1 bestselling author’s first classic collection of short stories which showcases the depths of his brilliant imagination – now with a stunning new cover look.A colle...
Two lovers must face tyrants, war, riots, plague and famine as they struggle to be together, in this teeming panorama of seventeenth-century Italian life - the original historical novel.
This investigation of religion by greatest psychoanalyst of the twentieth - century explores the role faith can take in the life of man, what it can mean to us and why as a species we are inclined ...
Days before his release from prison, Shadow's wife, Laura, dies in a mysterious car crash. Numbly, he makes his way back home. On the plane, he encounters the enigmatic Mr Wednesday, who claims to ...
Bilbo Baggins enjoys a quiet and contented life, with no desire to travel far from the comforts of home; then one day the wizard Gandalf and a band of dwarves arrive unexpectedly and enlist his ser...