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The tales told be Shahrazad over a thousand and one nights to delay her execution by the vengeful King Shahriyar have become among the most popular in both Eastern and Western literature. From the epic adventures of `Aladdin and the Enchanted Lamp`...

Nietzsche was one of the most revolutionary and subversive thinkers in Western philosophy, and Thus Spoke Zarathustra remains his most famous and influential work. It describes how the ancient Persian prophet Zarathustra descends from his solitude...

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The townspeople of Oran are in the grip of a deadly plague, which condemns its victims to a swift and horrifying death. Fear, isolation and claustrophobia follow as they are forced into quarantine, each responding in their own way to the...

It`s 1979 and Rabbit is no longer running. He`s walking, and beginning to get out of breath. That`s OK, though - it gives him the chance to enjoy the wealth that comes with middle age. It`s all in place: he`s Chief Sales Representative and co-owner...

A colourful, multi-facted chronicle of New York in the early 1920s, Manhattan Transfer ranks with Joyce`s Ulysses as a powerful and often lyrical meditation on the modern city. Using experimental montage and collage techniques borrowed from the...

Enthralled by his own exquisite portrait, Dorian Gray exchanges his soul for eternal youth and beauty. Influenced by his friend Lord Henry Wotton, he is drawn into a corrupt double life indulging his desires in secret while remaining a gentleman in...

The murder of brutal landowner Fyodor Karamazov changes the lives of his sons irrevocably: Mitya, the sensualist, whose bitter rivalry with his father immediately places him under suspicion for parricide Ivan, the intellectual, whose mental...

Fading charmer Tommy Wilhelm has reached his day of reckoning and is scared. In his forties, he still retains a boyish impetuousness that has brought him to the brink of chaos: he is separated from his wife and children, at odds with his...

A hero must save the woman he...

In Mulk Raj Anand`s finest and most controversial novel he conveys precisely, with urgency and barely disguised fury, what it might feel like to be one of India`s Untouchables. Bakha is a young man, a proud and even an attractive young man, but none...

When the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima in August 1945, killing 100,000 men, women and children, a new era in human history opened. Written only a year after the disaster, John Hersey brought the event vividly alive with this...

It`s 1989, and Harry `Rabbit` Angstrom is far from restful. Fifty-six and overweight, he has a struggling business on his hands and a heart that is starting to fail. His family, too, are giving him cause for concern. His son Nelson is a wreck of a...

Romantic, heroic, comic and tragic, unconventional schoolmistress Jean Brodie has become an iconic figure in post-war fiction. Her glamour, freethinking ideas and manipulative charm hold dangerous sway over her girls at the Marcia Blaine Academy -...

The Koran is universally accepted by Muslims to be the infallible Word of God as first revealed to the Prophet Muhammad by the Angel Gabriel nearly fourteen hundred years ago. Its 114 chapters, or surahs, recount the narratives central to Muslim...

In Paradise Lost Milton produced poem of epic scale, conjuring up a vast, awe-inspiring cosmos and ranging across huge tracts of space and time. And yet, in putting a charismatic Satan and naked Adam and Eve at the centre of this story, he also...

Forster`s social comedy is a witty observation of the English middle classes as they holiday abroad in Florence. One of these tourists is Lucy Honeychurch, a young girl whose heart is awakened by her experiences in...

Podróż rodzeństwa z Europy do Nowego Świata jest dla nich wielkim przeżyciem i życiową...

Dlaczego by nie wydrukować i nie uwiecznić pamiętnika pana Pootera Może dlatego że nie był...

Wspaniały obraz Anglii w czasie Wojny Róż. Opowieść przygodowa i wyborna historia...