Wilkie Collins is a master of mystery, and The Woman in White is his first excursion into the genre. When the hero, Walter Hartright, on a moonlit night in north London, encounters a solitary, terr...
A sensational assembly of salacious stories selected from the secret shelves of the libraries of libertines, long-gone gentlemen, rakes and roues. These pages are patinated with the pulsating passi...
Jane Austen is without question, one of England's most enduring and skilled novelists. With her wit, social precision, and unerring ability to create some of literature's most charismatic and belie...
Doctor Watson, Mr Sherlock Holmes - The most famous introduction in the history of crime fiction takes place in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's A Study in Scarlet, bringing together Sherlock Holmes, the m...
The United States has just unveiled the most powerful weapon in history - a missile-launching satellite that can strike anywhere around the world in seconds. Russia and China, rocked by this develo...
Introducing a new crime series based in Newcastle, with protagonist DCI Kate Daniels. Haunted by her failure to solve a brutal double murder in a sleepy Northumbrian village, Daniels is given anoth...
Zredagowana przez prof. Lilianę Sikorską Antologia literatury irlandzkiej to publikacja w Polsce pionierska i bardzo potrzebna. Na tę ważną książkę zbierającą najciekawsze teksty anglojęzycznej lit...
It is more than a century since the ascetic, gaunt and enigmatic detective, Sherlock Holmes, made his first appearance in A Study in Scarlet. From 1891, beginning with The Adventures of Sherlock Ho...
Jacob, a Jewish slave held in a mountain village after escaping a massacre by Cossacks, will be killed if he tries to escape. The one saving grace is his love for his master's daughter, Wanda. They...
A Room with a View is a romance and a social critique of Edwardian society. A young woman is chaperoned to Italy by her bitter aunt. There she meets an intriguing, but eccentric young man. Back in ...
This collection brings together perhaps the finest of Dickens' shorter novels, filled with event, character, and the unsurpassed brilliance of his story-telling.Oliver Twist enhanced an...
Jack Kerouac's classic novel about friendship, the search for meaning, and the allure of natureA witty, moving philosophical novel, Jack Kerouac's The Dharma Bums is a journey of self-d...
The Shadows of Sherlock Holmes is a fascinating collection of stories featuring detectives, criminal agents and debonair crooks from the golden age of crime fiction: a time when Sherlock Holmes was...
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...
CERN Institute, Switzerland: a world-renowned scientist is found brutally murdered with a mysterious symbol seared onto his chest.The Vatican, Rome: the College of Cardinals assembles t...
Tom and Huck - Thomas Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn - are the heroes in Mark Twain's picture of life in a small town on the bank of the great Mississippi river about 150 years ago. Tom lives with his...
In the only novel Conrad set in London, The Secret Agent communicates a profoundly ironic view of human affairs. The story is woven around an attack on the Greenwich Observatory in 1894 masterminde...
Dwujęzyczna adaptacja powieści „The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. Przygody Sherlocka Holmesa” to atrakcyjna pomoc dla uczących się języka angielskiego. Śledząc losy bohaterów, m...