Zane Gray had a hut on the Robber, and his affection and passion for this epic river make her the main theme of the book.It is the best writing about the Rogue that has been done before or since and poetically and descriptively traces the river from its birth below Crater Lake to its dispersal into the Pacific and then picks up a school of salmon and takes them all the way back up the river to spawn. Environmental organizations attempting to save Northwest salmon should be ha...
Swann’s Way is one of the preeminent novels of childhood – a sensitive boy’s impressions of his family and neighbors, all brought dazzlingly back to life years later by the famous taste of a madeleine. The first volume of the work that established Proust as one of the finest voices of the modern age – satirical, skeptical, confiding, and endlessly varied in his response to the human condition – Swann’s Way also stands on its own as a perfect rendering of a life in art, of the...
Totem and Taboo is a work by Sigmund Freud in which he develops his theory of the origin of morality and religion. This is one of the most significant works of Sigmund Freud. This work is a large-scale and original, balancing on the verge of psychoanalysis, cultural studies and anthropology study of the characteristics of the psychosexual perception of a primitive man, a study still considered an absolute classic of psychoanalysis...
Do dreams make sense? Do they disguise our desires? What is the function of sleep? Sigmund Freud answers all these and other questions in this classic guide to the psychology of dreams. This book is required not only for psychology students, but also for all people who want to know the meaning of their dreams. After reading this book, you will understand that you look at dreams differently.
An exquisite novel in which times of action are mixed and intertwined, and the summer spent by the wealthy Ramsey family on the Isle of Skye turns out to be a kind of British „chronicle of lost time” – a fragile, almost idyllic time, doomed to be destroyed soon by the First World War. Children will grow up – someone will survive and grow up, someone will lay their heads on the battlefields. Small failures and grievances will be forgotten. The old house will be abandoned, the ...
The story of how women can prevent war when they are deprived of education, professions and the public sphere. The name „Three Guineas” comes from Wolfe’s reflection on whether she should support three different reasons for giving a guinea donation – this creature; a society to end the war, a campaign to support the restoration of the women’s college, and an organization to promote the employment of women in professions.
The action of the novel „Years”, one of the most significant works of W. Woolf, takes place over fifty years – from the 1880s to the mid 30s of the twentieth century. Victorian traditions are breaking down, cars and planes are appearing, the First World War is covering Europe... All this serves as the backdrop for the family saga – the history of the Pargiter family: Colonel Abel Pargiter, his wife, lover, seven children, their wives, husbands, numerous relatives...
The novel is about six friends who have known since childhood: Bernard, Louis, Neville, Susie, Ron and Ginny. After a few key episodes, their life appears from early childhood to the last days. As in most Virginia Woolf books, the plot as such is absent, it is entirely focused on the inner world of its characters, the flow of their thoughts and feelings, the whole story is an uncontrollable, bubbling flow, stream of thoughts, stream of life, stream of time.
From the first essay of volume: The Moment and Other Essays, a multi-layered portrait of a summer evening in the English countryside in the company of friends, we are delighted with Wolfe’s perception and her ability to articulate them clearly. A series of sensory descriptions – the rumble of an airplane, the night darkness of an night, the flight of an owl – give way to a thought no less important, even inconspicuous: „If you are young, the future truly lies like a piece of ...
A fascinating fantastic story about a beautiful young man Orlando, who comes from a noble family, is distinguished by intelligence and beauty, loves life, women, poetry and in general has a very impressive nature and subtle imagination, resists, as far as possible, the influence of light and gravitates to solitude. All the time he seeks the meaning of life and does not find it... One fine day Orlando wakes up... a woman – also beautiful and noble, also delicately sensitive an...
An amazingly soft film adaptation of the novel, it subtly merges the past and present, „here and there”, because it is the world of feeling, and it is feeling, and not dry logic that determines what is important and what is not, turning the moment into eternity, and a trifle in event.. The author describes only one summer day in the life of the prosperous socialite lady Mrs. Dalloway. A meeting with an old acquaintance, Peter Welsh, her first love, opens the door to the world...
A woman looks at the mark on the wall and ponders the whims of thoughts and opinions; a series of couples is captured by nostalgia for their past as they stroll among the vibrant colors of Kew Gardens; the heron flies high above cities and towns, lakes and mountains, and below life continues in all its abundance; and blue and green are given in words.
Flush tells the story of the curious, determined boy Noah Underwood, his tough, persistent sister Abby and their unusual father, who defends everything that he believes is right. Papa Noah is imprisoned for drowning in the shoes of the Coral Queen Dusty Muleman casino. Noah’s father did not do this for any good reason, the true reason is that he thinks that Dusty discharges sewage into the ocean, where children swim and where marine life lives.
The author describes us only one day. One summer day of 1939. England. Between the Acts – plays devoted to the history of England and presented on the stage of the amateur theater, a drama of misunderstanding and alienation in real life of the main characters of the novel is played. Between acts, the ideals and hopes of people standing on the threshold of World War II are crumbling, the whole world is crumbling.
The beauty of „A Room of One’s Own” is that it serves as an example of peace of mind, which, as Wooolf insists, is the defining quality of all great artists. Her transparent and elegant essay is devoted not only to the necessary material conditions of writing, but also to the self-overcoming of the creator. Virginia Woolf, in her essay, talks about a woman’s right to work. The writer considers a centuries-old story during which a woman was only a silent shadow of a man....
„I had turned the corner at Thirty-fifth Street and was halfway down the block in my search for a number I had just taken from the telephone book when my attention was suddenly diverted by the quick movements and peculiar aspect of a man whom I saw plunging from the doorway of a large office-building some fifty feet or so ahead of me”.
The story of a strange, impenetrable, charming woman. Miss Hurd is certainly a very unusual person: „Miss Hurd in the garb of a working woman, and with a working woman’s bundle in her lap, but striking as ever in her appearance – possibly more so, –and as conspicuous among the mass of commonplace people surrounding her as she had ever been when clad in the habiliments of a lady and moving among persons of her own rank in life”.
Każda kultura ma swoje mity i legendy, ale tylko jeden mit jest wspólny i wzbudza lęk we wszystkich. W Epoce Mitów, Epoce Mieczy i Epoce Wojny mistrz literatury fantasy Michael J. Sullivan porwał czytelników swoją opowieścią o nietypowych bohaterach toczących rozpaczliwą walkę o ocalenie ludzkości. Po latach wojny ludzie uzyskali przewagę i odepchnęli Fhrejów do granic ich ojczyzny, ale nie zdołali posunąć się dalej. Nadchodzi kluczowy moment. Persefona pragnie wykorzystać im...
Olśniewająca debiutancka powieść młodej pisarki, bestseller magazynu „New York Times”, polecany przez Klub Książki Oprah Winfrey.Nominacja do Nagrody Bookera 2022 – Mottley jest najmłodszą autorką nominowaną do tej nagrody.Książka roku wg The New Yorker, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle Time, Goodreads.Odważna opowieść o nastolatce, która padła ofiarą przemocy z rąk tych, którzy powinni ją chronić.Skandal obnażający nadużycia seksualne, któryc...
Trauma może dotykać wszystkich aspektów życia – zwłaszcza w dzisiejszych niespokojnych czasach. Na szczęście przy odpowiednim wsparciu jesteśmy w stanie przekształcić trudności w źródło naszej siły. Dzięki tej książce: • dowiesz się, jak zapanować nad swoim układem nerwowym, dbając o oddech i ciało, • poznasz praktyki, które umożliwią okazanie sobie współczucia oraz pomogą rozwinąć rezyliencję, • nauczysz się określać własne granice, aby zadbać o powrót do równowag...
To nie jest książka o miłości.Jeśli liczyliście na to, że w tej książce dwie osoby poznają się i nieprzytomnie w sobie zakochają, a potem będą żyć razem długo i szczęśliwie, przykro mi bardzo, ale nic takiego się nie zdarzy. Oczywiście, możecie się czegoś podobnego doszukiwać, ale ta historia jednak nie jest o tym. To opowieść o pewnym domu i jego mieszkańcach. A także o odkryciach, spotkaniach, rozczarowaniach i pożegnaniach oraz o kundlu z trzema łapami, który wabi s...
Ataki magiczne, niechciane zaklęcia i klątwy mogą dotyczyć każdego. Aby uchronić się przed ich negatywnymi skutkami, potrzeba wiedzy na temat zbliżającego się zagrożenia, a także umiejętności odwracania zaklęć i obrony przed tymi, które już zostały rzucone. Znawca magii i jej wieloletni praktyk Jason Miller w swojej kultowej książce, wydanej w Polsce po raz pierwszy jako Podręcznik magii ochronnej i cofania uroków (2013), uzbraja czytelników w wiedzę i umiejętności niezbędne ...
