This collection of short stories contains seven humorous stories about the life and culture of the soviet people. The action takes place in a country house near the sea, in city strrets and during ...
The Shadows of Sherlock Holmes is a fascinating collection of stories featuring detectives, criminal agents and debonair crooks from the golden age of crime fiction: a time when Sherlock Holmes was...
Martin Chuzzlewit is Charles Dickens' comic masterpiece about which his biographer, Forster, noted that it marked a crucial phase in the author's development as he began to delve deeper into the 's...
CERN Institute, Switzerland: a world-renowned scientist is found brutally murdered with a mysterious symbol seared onto his chest.The Vatican, Rome: the College of Cardinals assembles t...
Tom and Huck - Thomas Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn - are the heroes in Mark Twain's picture of life in a small town on the bank of the great Mississippi river about 150 years ago. Tom lives with his...
In the only novel Conrad set in London, The Secret Agent communicates a profoundly ironic view of human affairs. The story is woven around an attack on the Greenwich Observatory in 1894 masterminde...
Dwujęzyczna adaptacja powieści „The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. Przygody Sherlocka Holmesa” to atrakcyjna pomoc dla uczących się języka angielskiego. Śledząc losy bohaterów, m...
In this seductive, wistful masterpiece, Truman Capote created a woman whose name has entered the American idiom and whose style is a part of the literary landscape. Holly Golightly knows that nothi...
„Czytamy w oryginale” to seria wydawnicza zawierająca adaptacje największych dzieł literatury anglojęzycznej.Dwujęzyczna adaptacja powieści „Wyspa Skarbów. Trea...
Considered by many to be Dickens' finest novel, Great Expectations traces the growth of the book's narrator, Philip Pirrip (Pip), from a boy of shallow dreams to a man with depth of character. From...
The Man in the Iron Mask is the final episode in the cycle of novels featuring Dumas' celebrated foursome of D'Artagnan, Athos, Porthos and Aramis, who first appeared in The Three Musketeers. Some ...
The Wordsworth Classics' Shakespeare Series presents a newly-edited sequence of William Shakespeare's works. The textual editing takes account of recent scholarship while giving the material a care...
Adultery is not a typical Jane Austen theme, but when it disturbs the relatively peaceful household at Mansfield Park, it has quite unexpected results.The diffident and much put-upon he...
Svetlov is a busy man. He spends months on far away expeditions in the thick and gloomy taiga and lives for the moment that he will see his dear love Sonya. After coming home from the expedition he...
Dickens had already achieved renown with The Pickwick Papers. With Oliver Twist his reputation was enhanced and strengthened. The novel contains many classic Dickensian themes - grinding poverty, d...
The Last Man is Mary Shelley's apocalyptic fantasy of the end of human civilisation. Set in the late twenty-first century, the novel unfolds a sombre and pessimistic vision of mankind confronting i...
Although Tennyson (1809-1892) has often seemed to personify the Victorian Age, he was a poet before it began and his poems endure to speak clearly to this modern one. His mastery of a great variety...
‘I was conscious of a most horrible smell of mould, and of a cold kind of face pressed against my own, and moving slowly over it, and of several - I don't know how many - legs and arms or ten...