With an Introduction and Notes by David Ellis, University of Kent at Canterbury. With Illustrations by R.Seymour, R.W. Buss and Hablot K. Browne (Phiz).The Pickwick Papers is Dickens' f...
Wilde's only novel, first published in 1890, is a brilliantly designed puzzle, intended to tease conventional minds with its exploration of the myriad interrelationships between art, life, and cons...
Dorian is a good-natured young man until he discovers the power of his own exceptional beauty. As he gradually sinks deep into a frivolous, glamorous world of selfish luxury, he apparently remains ...
With an Introduction by Professor Stuart Sim.John Bunyan was variously a tinker, soldier, Baptist minister, prisoner and writer of outstanding narrative genius which reached its apotheo...
Oscar Wilde took London by storm with his first comedy, Lady Windermere's Fan. The combination of dazzling wit, subtle social criticism, sumptuous settings and the theme of a guilty secret proved a...
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...
The Professor was the first novel by Charlotte Brontë. It was originally written before Jane Eyre. The book is the story of a young man, William Crimsworth, and is a first-person narrative fro...
Monografia poświęcona jest policzalności i niepoliczalności rzeczownika w języku angielskim. Książkę rozpoczyna przegląd literatury poświęconej temu zagadnieniu począwszy od pierwszych gramatyk, w ...
When Father goes away with two strangers one evening, the lives of Roberta, Peter and Phyllis are shattered. They and their mother have to move from their comfortable London home to go and live in ...
In 1915, Lawrence's frank representation of sexuality in The Rainbow caused a furore and the novel was seized by the police and banned almost as soon as it was published. Today it is recognised as ...
W dobie tworzenia organizmów modyfikowanych genetycznie, rozszyfrowania kodu genetycznego, badania polimorfizmu DNA czy ekspresji genów nie udało się do tej pory uzyskać substytutu na...
Retail trade constitutes an important sector of economies in European countries. Retail trade faces numerous changes caused by the processes of concentration and integration of retailers, internati...
Introduction and Notes by Henry Claridge, Senior Lecturer, School of English, University of Kent at Canterbury.This is a troubling story of crime, sin, guilt, punishment and expiation, ...
Then the vision of an enormous town presented itself, of a monstrous town...a cruel devourer of the world's light. There was room enough there to place any story, depth enough for any passion, vari...
Frances Burnett Hodgson's novel The Secret Garden is both intriguing and uplifting. It is regarded as one of the best children’s books written in the twentieth century.Mary Lennox...
The Secret Garden is a children's novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett first published as a book in 1911. Set in England, it is one of Burnett's most popular novels and is considered a classic of Engli...
Modern times are different from those of our parents. Even 10 years ago a few people had the internet at home, and today there is hardly anyone without the Internet, but on the phone. The same is w...
William Blake was an engraver, painter and visionary mystic as well as one of the most revolutionary of the Romantic poets. His writing attracted the astonished admiration of authors as diverse as ...
With an Introduction, Notes and Bibliography by Dr Bruce Woodcock, Senior Lecturer in English, University of Hull.Shelley's short, prolific life produced some of the most memorable and well-k...
Książka przybliża czytelnikowi problematykę czasu jako tkanki utworu dramatycznego na przykładzie wybranych sztuk Williama Szekspira, tych, w których czas pełni szczególnie istotną fu...