Hector bidding farewell to his wife and baby son, Odysseus bound to the mast listening to the Sirens, Penelope at the loom, Achilles dragging Hector's body round the walls of Troy - scenes from Hom...
W klinice neurochirurgii dziecięcego szpitala w Londynie ścierają się dwie osobowości. On: doktor Alistair North, Brytyjczyk, uznany specjalista, a jednocześnie ekscentryk i kobieciarz, wyznający z...
Małżeństwo Susannah i Leonidasa było zaaranżowane, mimo to Susannah miała nadzieję na szczęśliwy związek. Jednak Leonidas w noc poślubną zostawił ją i wyjechał w interesach. Zaraz potem dowiedziała...
From its first publication in 1816 Rob Roy has been recognised as containing some of Scott's finest writing and most engaging, fully realised characters. The outlaw Rob Roy MacGregor was already a ...
Abby Hart od ponad dwóch lat prowadzi blog dla kobiet. Ma liczne grono fanek, a opisywanego przez nią narzeczonego wszystkie uznają za ideał. Abby nikomu go jeszcze nie przedstawiła, ale wła...
Przed laty Wolf Arrandale został oskarżony o zamordowanie byłej żony i kradzież jej rodowych klejnotów. Ojciec Wolfa uwierzył w winę syna i zmusił go do wyjazdu z Anglii. Od tamtej pory Wolf...
An immediate best-seller on publication, Ben Hur remains a dazzling achievement by any standards. A thoroughly exhilarating tale of betrayal, revenge and salvation, it is the only novel that ranks ...
Lord Alexander Whitemore, markiz Essex, po rozstaniu z narzeczoną obiecał sobie, że nigdy więcej nie pozwoli zranić się kobiecie. Ograniczył kontakty towarzyskie i przestał odwiedzać Londyn. Przeni...
Księżniczka Amelia chce pomóc swojemu czteroletniemu bratankowi Sebastianowi. Odkąd w wypadku zginęli jego rodzice, paparazzi nie ułatwiają dziecku odzyskania poczucia bezpieczeństwa. Amelia...
Carla Charteris wdała się w romans z hrabią Cesarem di Mondave. Należą do różnych światów lecz coraz większe zaangażowanie Cesarego daje jej nadzieję na wspólną przyszłość. Jed...
A Room of One's Own (1929) has become a classic feminist essay and perhaps Virginia Woolf's best known work; The Voyage Out (1915) is highly significant as her first novel. Both focus on the place ...
The product of more than a decade's continuous work (1598-1611), Chapman's translation of Homer's great poem of war is a magnificent testimony to the power of The Iliad. In muscular, onward-rolling...
'Superb... Weaves winningly between the present and the Second World War, between Tangier and Paris' ObserverAmerican academic Hannah and runaway Moroccan teenager Tariq have little in ...
Fathers and Sons is one of the greatest nineteenth century Russian novels, and has long been acclaimed as Turgenev's finest work. It is a political novel set in a domestic context, with a universal...
After his spectacular early career, in which he became one of the best-loved and most controversial poets of his time, and his radical and productive middle years, John Ashbery continued effortless...
The thing came abruptly and unannounced; a demon, rat-like, scurrying from pits remote and unimaginable, a hellish panting and stifled grunting, and then from that opening beneath the chimney a bur...
From late 1917 until June 1919, Franz Kafka ceased to keep a diary, for which he had used quarto-size notebooks, instead writing in a series of smaller, octavo-size notebooks. When Kafka's literary...
In 1956, toward the end of Reverend John Ames's life, he begins a letter to his young son, a kind of last testament to his remarkable forebears. 'It is a book of such meditative calm, such spiritua...
Discover Joseph Heller's hilarious and tragic satire on military madness, and the tale of one man's efforts to survive it.It’s the closing months of World War II and Yossarian has...
Described by Thom Gunn as ‘an ideal edition’, this first volume of William Carlos Williams’ Collected Poems is a vivid account of his formation as a poet, his time in Europe, and ...