Martin Chuzzlewit is Charles Dickens' comic masterpiece about which his biographer, Forster, noted that it marked a crucial phase in the author's development as he began to delve deeper into the 's...
Czy znasz pierwszą zasadę dynamiki ludzkiego życia? Nie? To koniecznie przeczytaj tę książkę i zapewniam, że nie wyprodukowano jej w Chinach i nie ma też ona absolutnie nic wspólnego z lekcj...
With this intensely moving short novel, Edith Wharton set out ‘to draw life as it really was’ in the lonely villages and desolate farms of the harsh New England mountains. Through the e...
Considered by many to be Dickens' finest novel, Great Expectations traces the growth of the book's narrator, Philip Pirrip (Pip), from a boy of shallow dreams to a man with depth of character. From...
Virginia Woolf's Orlando 'The longest and most charming love letter in literature', playfully constructs the figure of Orlando as the fictional embodiment of Woolf's close friend and lover, Vita Sa...
Dickens had already achieved renown with The Pickwick Papers. With Oliver Twist his reputation was enhanced and strengthened. The novel contains many classic Dickensian themes - grinding poverty, d...
Adultery is not a typical Jane Austen theme, but when it disturbs the relatively peaceful household at Mansfield Park, it has quite unexpected results.The diffident and much put-upon he...
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,...
Książka „Krwawy Romeo” jest kontynuacją powieści „Pożyczony Czas”. Verz Revenge udaje się przeżyć spotkanie z kanałową bestią za sprawą hrabiego von Gorz, z którym po...
Co byś zrobił, gdybyś podejrzewał, że Twój trzydziestodziewięcioletni przyjaciel zaczął spotykać się z Twoją córką, która niedługo bierze ślub? Wiem, czego byś nie zrobił: z pe...
The Diary of a Nobody is so unassuming a work that even its author, George Grossmith, seemed unaware that he had produced a masterpiece. For more than a century this wonderfully comic portrayal of ...
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...
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,...
ROMANTYCZNOŚĆ NA MIARĘ XXI WIEKU!Urszula to trzydziestoletnia singielka z zasadami. W swoim życiu boryka się z problemami – trudną sytuacją rodzinną i niezadowalającą pracą, lecz ...
The Thought Police, Doublethink, Newspeak, Big Brother - 1984 itself: these terms and concepts have moved from the world of fiction into our everyday lives. They are central to our thinking about f...
In 1943, there was an urgent need for Animal Farm. The Soviet Union had become Britain's ally in the war against Nazi Germany, and criticism of Stalin's brutal regime was either censored or discour...
Nie musisz umrzeć, by żyć po swojemuNina wkracza w dorosłość, kończy studia, powinna układać sobie życie. Powinna… Tymczasem za jej najważniejsze życiowe wybory odpowiada choroba...
Poruszająca powieść o miłości, odwiecznej ucieczce przed samotnością i poszukiwaniu swojego miejsca na ziemiLeszek traktuje Marię jak delikatnego motyla, którego stale musi chron...