Richard III is one of the finest of Shakespeare’s historical dramas. Although it has a huge cast, Richard himself, gleefully wicked, charismatically Machiavellian, always dominates the play: ...
‘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...
The House of the Dead is a stark account of Dostoyevsky's own experience of penal servitude in Siberia. In graphic detail he describes the suffering of the convicts - their squalor and degradation,...
When Elizabeth Bennet meets Mr Darcy she is repelled by his overbearing pride, and prejudice towards her family. But the Bennet girls are in need of financial security in the shape of husbands, so ...
Elizabeth Gaskell’s first novel depicts nothing less than the great clashes between capital and labour, which arose from rapid industrialisation and problems of trade in the mid-nineteenth ce...
'Things are not simple but complex. If he bit Mr. Browning he bit her too. Hatred is not hatred; hatred is also love.'Virginia Woolf's delightful biography of the poet Elizabeth Barrett...
Ucz się języka dzięki opowiadaniom w językach obcych w formie drukowanej książeczki oraz audiobooka. 20 ciekawych historii pozwala nie tylko na poszerzenie umiejętności czytania i słuchania w język...
The Jungle Book introduces Mowgli, the human foundling adopted by a family of wolves. It tells of the enmity between him and the tiger Shere Khan, who killed Mowgli's parents, and of the friendship...
The Wordsworth Classics' Shakespeare Series, with Henry V as its inaugral volume, presents a newly-edited sequence of William Shakespeare's works. The textual editing endeavours to take account of ...
One of the great classics of western literature, Les Misérables is a magisterial work which is rich in both character portrayal and meticulous historical description.Characters s...
'There he lay looking as if youth had been half-renewed, for the white hair and moustache were changed to dark iron-grey, the cheeks were fuller, and the white skin seemed ruby-red underneath; the ...
Short Stories from the Nineteenth Century is a wonderful collection of classic stories specially selected and introduced by David Stuart Davies. These are tales from the golden age of the great sto...
Kim is Rudyard Kipling’s finest work. Now controversial, this novel is a memorably vivid evocation of the life and landscapes of India in the late nineteenth century. Kim himself is a resourc...
Transplanted to Europe from her native America, Isabel Archer has candour, beauty, intelligence, an independent spirit and a marked enthusiasm for life. An unexpected inheritance apparently gives h...
Przed ośmioma laty, kiedy „Pogranicze" w Sejnach nadało mi tytuł „Człowieka pogranicza", zadbano także o to, bym mógł spędzić lato na Sejneńszczyźnie, tuż przy litewski...
Wuthering Heights is a wild, passionate story of the intense and almost demonic love between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, a foundling adopted by Catherine's father. After Mr Earnshaw's death,...
W dniu ślubu szejka Zufara al Kalia, jego narzeczona ucieka z innym mężczyzną. By uniknąć skandalu wobec gości z całego świata, Zufar postanawia, że ślub mimo wszystko się odbędzie. Zbiegłą księżni...
Sycylijski milioner, właściciel winnicy Jaco Valentino i Szkotka Leah McDonald zakochali się w sobie od pierwszego wejrzenia. Ich romans zakończył się nagle, ponieważ Leah zaczęła podejrzewać Jaca ...
Po śmierci despotycznego ojca Violet wreszcie zamierza żyć po swojemu. Niestety w testamencie umieszczono klauzulę ograniczającą jej wolność. Jeśli nie wyjdzie za mąż za Arthura Ambertona, zostanie...
Chociaż John i Sunny są sobą zafascynowani, oboje zgadzają się pozostać jedynie przyjaciółmi. Coraz trudniej im wytrwać w tym postanowieniu, a jednak z uporem powtarzają, że nie mogą zaangaż...