AJosselyn Christie tuż po ślubie dowiaduje się od męża, sycylijskiego arystokraty Cenza Falconego, że jest dla niego jedynie narzędziem, by się odegrać na jej ojcu. Chce od niego uciec, lecz ...
Do biura matrymonialnego Emmaline Woodcroft zgłasza się włoski arystokrata Matteo Vitale. Emmaline jest zdziwiona, że tak przystojny i bogaty mężczyzna, który mógłby mieć każdą kobiet...
Arlette wciąż wspomina Williama, dzięki któremu dotarła bezpiecznie do Londynu. Podczas podróży przez ogarnięty wojną domową kraj połączyła ich silna więź. Spotykają się ponownie dopi...
Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) is celebrated as a novelist and man of action. He is perhaps most famous for WHOM THE BELL TOLLS and A FAREWELL TO ARMS. But he was equally prolific as a writer of shor...
This anthology contains a cross-section covering his career, including such legendary songs as 'Suzanne', 'Sisters of Mercy', 'Bird on the Wire', 'Famous Blue Raincoat' and 'I'm Your Man' and seari...
London has the greatest literary tradition of any city in the world. Its roll-call of story-tellers includes cultural giants who changed the way the world thought about writing, like Shakespeare, D...
The unforgettable canines gathered here include Kipling's heroically faithful 'Garm', Bret Harte's irrepressible scoundrel of a 'yaller dog' and the aggressively affectionate three-legged pit bull ...
In Lord Byron's lifetime, details of his travels were widely known through poems set in different countries, ranging from his homes in Scotland and England, through Europe and the Middle East, to t...
Dostoesky's drama of sin, guilt and redemption transmutes the sordid story of an old woman's murder by a desperate student into the nineteenth century's profoundest and most compelling philosophica...
Ojciec Olivii Thornton-Rose zapisał jej w testamencie cały majątek, który odziedziczy, jeśli przed dwudziestymi piątymi urodzinami wyjdzie za mąż za włoskiego biznesmena Lucę Giovanardiego. ...
Po kolejnych zerwanych zaręczynach księżniczka Ilsa wyjeżdża z kraju, by uciec od paparazzich i medialnych spekulacji. W klubie w Monaco poznaje milionera Noaha Carsona. Jest on pierwszym mężczyzną...
Grecki milioner Nikos Drakis i Angielka Alys Fairford spotykają się w Londynie na przyjęciu. Wzajemna fascynacja kończy się wspólną nocą. Rozstają się bez żadnych planów na przyszłość...
Published in 1916 when Joyce was already at work on Ulysses, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is exactly what its title says and much more. In part a vivid picture of Joyce’s own youth...
Tales about ghosts are as old as human culture itself but the ghost story as a distinguished literary form reached its apogee in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. As traditional re...
It is the story of the Galactic Empire, crumbling after twelve thousand years of rule. And it is the particular story of psycho-historian Hari Seldon, the only man who can see the horrors the futur...
The most popular of all ghost stories was first published on 17 December 1843, and by Christmas Eve 6, 000 copies had been sold at a published price of five shillings. The story of Scrooge, a miser...
Playful kittens and ruthless predators, beloved pets and witches' familiars - cats of all kinds come alive in these stories. Maeve Brennan and Alice Adams movingly explore what cats can mean to the...
Kafka was an obsessive writer who produced a huge volume of stories, novels, diaries and letters in his brief lifetime. The present volume includes all his available shorter fiction in a new collec...
One of Hemingway's finest novels, A FAREWELL TO ARMS was published in 1929 when the author was at the height of his power, It draws on his own experiences serving with the Italins in World War One ...
"My favorite novel -it's just the greatest explosion of imagination, craziness, satire, humor, and heart." Daniel Radcliffe.The devil with his retinue, a poet incarcerated in ...