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...
A plane crashes on a desert island and the only survivors, a group of schoolboys, assemble on the beach and wait to be rescued. By day they inhabit a land of bright fantastic birds and dark blue se...
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...
The story of Edmund Dantes, self-styled Count of Monte Cristo, is told with consummate skill. The victim of a miscarriage of justice, Dantes is fired by a desire for retribution and empowered by a ...
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...
Publikacja w sposób bardzo ciekawy ukazuje fascynację życiem małej Helenki. Ta niezwykła bohaterka z radością poznaje świat i zbiera doświadczenia, jakimi w przyszłości będzie dysponować. Je...
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 ...
Translated by C.E.Detmold. With an Introduction by Lucille Margaret Kekewich.Written in 1513 for the Medici, following their return to power in Florence, The Prince is a handbook on rul...
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,...
‘Fifteen men on the dead man's chest-Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum!’ Treasure Island is a tale of pirates and villains, maps, treasure and shipwreck, and is perhaps the best adventure st...
‘Fifteen men on the dead man's chest-Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum!’ Treasure Island is a tale of pirates and villains, maps, treasure and shipwreck, and is perhaps the best adventure st...