Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged, frustrated college professor. In love with his landlady's twelve-year-old daughter Lolita, he'll do anything to possess her. Unable and unwilling to stop himself, ...
In these dark, dreamlike love stories with a twist, Ludmilla Petrushevskaya tells of strange encounters in claustrophobic communal apartments, ill-fated holiday romances, office trysts, schoolgirl ...
Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged, frustrated college professor. In love with his landlady's twelve-year-old daughter Lolita, he'll do anything to possess her. Unable and unwilling to stop himself, ...
Dwujęzyczna wersja "Wierszy zabranych/Collected Poems" Ryszarda Kapuścińskiego jest zarazem pierwszym pełnym zbiorem wszystkich wierszy pisarza, jakie ukazały się w Polsce w publikacjach ...
This story is a rare and utterly engaging experience. It tells the extraordinary story of a geisha -summoning up a quarter century from 1929 to the post-war years of Japan's dramatic history, and o...
Morze i zwierciadło oraz Tym czasom uznaje się za najwybitniejsze utwory angielskiego poety. Pierwszy z nich, pisany w czasie osobistego kryzysu, to poetycki komentarz do Burzy Szekspira, a zarazem...
Like his legendary, Pulitzer Prize winning novel THE HOURS, Cunningham's masterly new novel is a heart-breaking look at the way we live now. Full of shocks and aftershocks, BY NIGHTFALL makes us th...
The company of the Ring is torn asunder. Frodo and Sam continue their journey alone down the great River Anduin - alone, that is, save for the mysterious creeping figure that follows wherever they go.
Daniel, senior rodu MacGregorów, trafia do szpitala. Trwa ciężka operacja. Anna, żona Daniela od niemal czterdziestu lat, z lękiem oczekując na jej wynik, wraca myślami do przeszłości.
A pair of lovers - a young female journalist and an older man who owns an isolated farm in the Brazilian outback - spend the night together. The next day they proceed to destroy each other. Amid vi...
Subtitled 'A Romantic Novel in Honour of the Passing of a Great Race', The Torrents of Spring - Hemingway's second published work - wonderfully parodies the themes and styles of the 'great race' of...
916: the Western Front. Private Percy Blakeney wakes up. He is lying on fresh spring grass. He can hear birdsong, and the wind in the leaves in the trees. Where has the mud, blood and blasted lands...
The company of the Ring is torn asunder. Frodo and Sam continue their journey alone down the great River Anduin - alone, that is, save for the mysterious creeping figure that follows wherever they go.
Rok 1922. Nowy Jork – stolica jazzu, mody i prohibicji. To tutaj spełnia się amerykański sen. To tutaj, na Manhattanie, młodziutka i zdolna Nell dostaje wymarzoną pracę w salonie projektanta ...
The Queen of Mystery has come to Harper Collins! Agatha Christie, the acknowledged mistress of suspense—creator of indomitable sleuth Miss Marple, meticulous Belgian detective Hercule Poirot,...
HARRY IS OUT OF HIS DEPTH.Detective Harry Hole is meant to keep out of trouble. A young Norwegian girl taking a gap year in Sydney has been murdered, and Harry has been sent to Australia to a...
An aspiring young Berlin actress turns the tables on her lustful middle-aged admirer, in Nabokov's deadpan, deliciously cruel story of hopeless infatuation and horribly inventive revenge.
Award-winning original fiction for learners of English. At seven levels, from Starter to Advanced, this impressive selection of carefully graded readers offers exciting reading for every student's ...
Geiger is a professional torturer whose methods know no bounds. His clients are referred to him by international corporations, government agencies and organised crime. His only rule is that he will...