A coiffured con man travels across Russia's rural backwaters, buying the souls of dead serfs from their owners to make his fortune, in Gogol's exuberant, bravura masterwork: the greatest comedy in ...
Kolejne wydanie wyjątkowego tomu Wisławy Szymborskiej, którego premiera stała się prawdziwym świętem dla wielbicieli nie tylko poezji, ale także muzyki: Noblistce towarzyszył wówczas ...
Original stories at seven levels from starter to advanced, written specially for learners of English. With gripping plots and a range of genres to satisfy every taste, Cambridge English Readers off...
'A fascinating, even compulsory addition to the Bolano fan's bookshelf ...the sentences whizz over your head like bullets' Daily Telegraph Antwerp was Roberto Bolano's first novel, though he chose ...
"Moby-Dick" is the story of Captain Ahab's quest to avenge the whale that 'reaped' his leg. The quest is an obsession and the novel is a diabolical study of how a man becomes a fanatic. B...
Tallie Jones has it all. She's professionally at her peak as a famous film director, and with a loving live-in boyfriend and a well-adjusted teen daughter, she couldn't be happier. But Tallie's wor...
More’s Utopia is a complex, innovative and penetrating contribution to political thought, culminating in the famous ’description’ of the Utopians, who live according to the princi...
Castigated for offending against public decency, Madame Bovary has rarely failed to cause a storm. For Flaubert's contemporaries, the fascination came from the novelist's meticulous account of prov...
Podczas leniwych wakacji w ręce detektywa Nowaka wpada powieść sensacyjna, której fabuła niepokojąco przypomina jedną z zamkniętych przez niego spraw. Pozostałe książki tego pisarza ró...
Introduction and Notes by David Blair. University of Kent at Canterbury.It is 1757. Across north-eastern America the armies of Britain and France struggle for ascendancy. Their conflict...
The Road rings together short stories, journalism, essays, and letters by Vasily Grossman, the author of Life and Fate, providing new insight into the life and work of this extraordinary writer. Th...
Rowan Tripp has been fighting the annual forest fires in the Montana mountains since she was eighteen years old. But now she is mourning the death of her good friend and jump partner, Jim - and hau...
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 ...
A masterful, intensely suspenseful novel about a reader whose obsession with a reclusive writer goes far too far - a book about the power of storytelling, starring the same trio of unlikely and win...
Rowan Tripp has been fighting the annual forest fires in the Montana mountains since she was eighteen years old. But now she is mourning the death of her good friend and jump partner, Jim - and hau...
In a sleepy village in the Shire, a young hobbit is entrusted with an immense task. He must make a perilous journey across Middle-earth to the Cracks of Doom, there to destroy the Rulling Ring of P...
When journalist Mark Bretton is asked to write an article on Professor Abigail Marchant, who has been denounced by the American Psychology Association for her belief that rebirth is a genuine pheno...
Germinal (1885) is the thirteenth in Émile Zola's cycle of twenty novels about the Rougon-Macquart dynasty. It tells the story of Étienne Lantier, from the illegitimate Macquart branc...
When The Forsyte Saga was shown on television in 1967 it was hugely successful. The nation was gripped by the masterful visual telling of the Forsyte family's troubled story and adapted its activit...