Dziecko znanego człowieka ma w pierwszym rzędzie do przerobienia wielki bagaż psychiczny. Jeśli zechce wyjść z cienia, musi najpierw "pokonać" w sobie własnego rodzica, strząsnąć jego pub...
Charles Dickens describes in Night Walks his time as an insomniac, when he decided to cure himself by walking through London in the small hours, and discovered homelessness, drunkenness and vice on...
Boisterous, ribald, and ultimately shattering, Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is the seminal novel of the 1960s that has left an indelible mark on the literature of our time. Here is t...
In one of the most influential philosophical works ever writen, John Stuart Mill explores the risks and responsibilities of liberty. Examining the tyranny that can come both from government and fro...
Kontynuacja powieści Głowa anioła. Nawet największa miłość czasem może się skomplikować...Julia wraz z mężem postanawia wybrać się na wypoczynek do swojej rodzinnej miejscowości. Oboje nie po...
Steinbeck's first major critical and commercial success, Tortilla Flat is also his funniest novel.Danny is a paisano, descended from the original Spanish settlers who arrived in Montere...
Travels with Herodotus records how Kapuscinski set out on his first forays – to India, China and Africa – with the great Greek historian constantly in his pocket. He sees Louis Armstron...
'A virtuoso storyteller ... a Jorge Luis Borges for the Space Age' The New York Times'He was a robot-hypochondriac. On his squeaking cart he carried a complete set of spare parts.'
Holden Caulfield, a seventeen-year-old dropout, has just been kicked out of his fourth school. Throughout, Holden dissects the 'phony' aspects of society, and the 'phonies' themselves: the headmast...
A story of sexual and spiritual awakening, Tropic of Capricorn shocked readers as much as Henry Miller's first novel, Tropic of Cancer. A mixture of fiction and autobiography, it is the story of He...
Gabriel García Márquez has been one of the literary giants of the past century; his body of work is an undisputed cultural landmark and a touchstone for countless readers and writers ...
After The Second World War, Czeslaw Milosz was exiled for many years from his home country of Poland. In Native Realm, he evokes that homeland and his years away from it; how it nurtured him and ho...
Swoim pasjonującym i przystępnym stylem Bożena Fabiani opisuje dwór Wazów w Warszawie, na pierwszym planie przedstawiając kolejnych królów z polskiej odnogi tej dynastii (Zygmunta III, Władysława I...
Książka opowiada o ikonach socjalistycznej nauki, o jej fenomenie, o wciąż niedocenianej roli radzieckich badaczy pomimo spektakularnych i bezprecedensowych osiągnięć potwierdzanych Nagrodami Nobla...
"Witaj na pokładzie!" – tymi słowami dyrektor Marek Karp witał często nowych pracowników w Ośrodku Studiów Wschodnich przy ul. Koszykowej w Warszawie. Dopiero po kilku...
The phenomenal international bestseller that shows us how to stop trying to predict everything - and take advantage of uncertaintyWhat have the invention of the wheel, Pompeii, the Wall...
"Witaj na pokładzie!" – tymi słowami dyrektor Marek Karp witał często nowych pracowników w Ośrodku Studiów Wschodnich przy ul. Koszykowej w Warszawie. Dopiero po kilku latach wielu z nas zaczęło zd...
In 1929 Robert Graves went to live abroad permanently, vowing 'never to make England my home again'. This is his superb account of his life up until that 'bitter leave-taking': from his childhood a...
A new translation by David Horrocks.At first sight Harry Haller seems like a respectable, educated man. In reality he is the Steppenwolf: wild, strange, alienated from society and repul...
Thoreau's account of his solitary and self-sufficient home in the New England woods remains an inspiration to the environmental movement - a call to his fellow men to abandon their striving, materi...