Pride and Prejudice, written on the convention of romance, is one of the first novels of manners. The author depicts the lifestyle of the English upper class at the turn of the XVIII and XIX centur...
The book is devoted to the analysis of the complex phenomenon of listening, with its own specific dynamics. Listening, understood as a way of being in the world, requires an acouological education,...
Zbiór ponad 30 studiów uznanych polskich naukowców (archeologów i historyków), poświęconych pamięci wybitnego archeologa, wieloletniego pracownika Polskiej Akadem...
Zbiór esejów dedykowany pamięci wybitnego szekspirologa, teatrologa, krytyka i eseisty Andrzeja Żurowskiego (1944–2013), który powiadał sam o sobie "niepoprawny szek...
This volume brings together Virginia Woolf's last two novels, The Years (1937) which traces the lives of members of a dispersed middle-class family between 1880 and 1937, and Between the Acts (1941...
In these 'scientific romances' H. G. Wells sees the present reflected in the future and the future in the present. His aim is to provoke rather than predict. The Sleeper falls into a trance, waking...
Washington Square marks the culmination of James's apprentice period as a novelist. With sharply focused attention upon just four principal characters, James provides an acute analysis of middle-cl...
'Examine your words well, and you will find that even when you have no motive to be false, it is a very hard thing to say the exact truth, even about your immediate feelings...'Adam Bed...
George Eliot's final novel, Daniel Deronda (1876), follows the intertwining lives of the beautiful but spoiled and selfish Gwendolene Harleth and the selfless yet alienated Daniel Deronda, as they ...
In this classically simple tale of the disastrous impact of outside life on a secluded community in Dorset, now in a new edition, Hardy narrates the rivalry for the hand of Grace Melbury between a ...
The phrase `life's little ironies' is now proverbial, but it was coined by Hardy as the title for this, his third volume of short stories. While the tales and sketches reflect many of the strengths...
The tough-mindedness of the social satire in and its air of palpable integrity give this novel a special place in Anthony Trollope's Literary career. Trollope paints a picture as panoramic as his t...
He saw her wounded, and bleeding to death; saw her ashy countenance, and her wasting eyes ... turned piteously on himself, as if imploring him to save her from the fate that was dragging her to the...
Lektura wraz opracowaniem to znakomita pomoc i inspiracja dla uczniów oraz nauczycieli. Tekst opatrzono wskazówkami interpretacyjnymi i hasłami ułatwiającymi nawigację po książce &nda...
W dniach 28-29 września w Warszawie odbyła się konferencja poświęcona "Implikacjom członkostwa Polski w UE dla polskiego sportu, która spotkała się z duzym zainteresowaniem wielu środow...
"Katedra Najświętszej Marii Panny w Paryżu – powieść Wiktora Hugo znana w Polsce również pod tytułem „Dzwonnik z Notre-Dame”, osadzona w czasach późnego średnio...
Alexandre Dumas / Aleksander Dumas (ojciec / père / father) Trzej muszkieterowie / Les Trois Mousquetaires / The Three Musketeers / tekst w trzech językach: Polski / Français / Englis...
Edgar Allan Poe: Opowieści niesamowite - Mystery Tales. Książka w dwóch wersjach językowych: polskiej i angielskiej. A dual Polish-English language edition.Edgar Allan Poe (1809-...
Saki (H.H. Munro) stands alongside Anton Chekhov and O Henry as a master of the short story. His extraordinary stories are a mixture of humorous satire, irony and the macabre, in which the stupidit...
Mary Lennox was horrid. Selfish and spoilt, she was sent to stay with her hunchback uncle in Yorkshire. She hated it. But when she finds the way into a secret garden and begins to tend it, a change...