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Poezja romantyczna z okresu gwałtownych przemian politycznych i kulturalnych w...

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Henry Fleming trafia na wojnę jako żołnierz Unii. Marzy o bohaterstwie a tymczasem z przerażeniem odkrywa swój paraliżujący strach przed śmiercią i niebezpieczeństwem. Z czasem pokonuje go w sobie i wchodzi w świat przwdziwych...

Tom Brown z nieśmiałego ucznia zamienia się w łobuzerskiego studenta.... i bohatera, z którym utożsamiają się tysiące młodych czytelników na całym...

Ojciec w tajemniczych okolicznościach opuszcza dom, zaś matka z trojgiem dzieci wyprowadza się z Londynu na wieś. Zamieszkują w pobliżu linii kolejowej, która staje sie dla dzieci źródłem niewyczerpanych ekscytacji oraz nadziei... na powrót...

Historia psiej miłości i przywiązania do właściciela. Po śmierci ukochanego pana, Bobby trafia pod opiekę pana Browna lecz ucieka, aby odnaleźć grób dawnego opiekuna. Droga pełna jest niebezpieczeństw i przeszkód. Książka dla dzieci i...

This timeless cycle of short stories lays bare the life of a small town in the American Midwest. The central character is George Willard, a young reporter on the Winesburg Eagle to whom, one by one, the town`s inhabitants confide their hopes,...

It`s 1969, and the times are changing. America is about to land a man on the moon, the Vietnamese war is in full swing, and racial tension is on the rise. Things just aren`t as simple as they used to be - at least, not for Rabbit Angstrom. His wife...

Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) was a literary spellbinder whose gripping tales of magic, mystery and murder are shot through with deep philosophical paradoxes. This collection brings together many of his stories, including the celebrated `Library...

Fairy tales, ghost stories, detective fiction and comedies of...

Cast in the form of a walking tour through Germany, Switzerland, France, and Italy, A Tramp Abroad sparkles with the author`s shrewd observations and highly opinionated comments on Old World culture, and showcases his unparalleled ability to...

Despised for his weakness and regarded by his family as little more than a stammering fool, the nobleman Claudius quietly survives the intrigues, bloody purges and mounting cruelty of the imperial Roman dynasties. In I, Claudius he watches from...

Billy Budd, Sailor, a classic confrontation between good and evil, is the story of an innocent young man unable to defend himself from wrongful accusations. Other selections include Bartleby, The Piazza, The Encantadas, The Bell-Tower, Benito...

Oscar Wilde called...

In this wry, funny, bittersweet story, love gets in the way of progress when Raman, a sign painter, meets the thrillingly independent Daisy, who wishes to bring birth control to the city of...

Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic Socialism as I understand it. Thus wrote Orwell following his experiences as a militiaman in the Spanish...

Powerful, passionate and frighteningly relevant, the drama of Arthur Miller deals in the hard currency of `social` realism and tragedy. All My Sons (1947), which brought Miller his first major success, is a merciless exposure of wartime profiteering...

Gibran`s Prophet speaks of many things central to daily life: love, marriage, death, beauty, passion, eating, work and play. The spiritual message he imparts, of finding divinity through love, blends eastern mysticism, religious faith and...

The acclaimed translation of the Inferno that retains all of the style, power, and meaning of the original.This vigorous translation of the Inferno preserves Dante`s simple, natural style, and captures the swift movement of the original Italian...