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‘Your world is about to be rocked.’ Elena Armas, author of The Spanish Love Deception ‘Hopelessly, brilliantly, wonderfully romantic. I loved it even more than The Love Hypothesis, and I didn’t think that was possible’ Cressida McLaughlin From the New York Times bestselling author of The Love Hypothesis comes a new STEMinist rom-com in which a scientist is forced to work on a project with her nemesis – with explosive results. Bee Königswasser lives by a simple code: What ...

Jedna z najbardziej wyczekiwanych książek 2021 roku. Pierwsza powieść Kazuo Ishigury opublikowana po tym, jak w 2017 roku otrzymał Nagrodę Nobla. Historia, w której słychać echa jego wcześniejszej książki – Nie opuszczaj mnie. Świat widziany oczami niezwykłej narratorki. Rzeczywistość, którą od naszej dzieli tylko krok… a może nawet mniej. Odwieczne pytania o to, co człowieka jako jednostkę czyni istotą wyjątkową. Czy jest coś takiego jak ludzka dusza? Czy jedną osobę można ...

Powieść jednej z najważniejszych współczesnych pisarek i autorka świetnie przyjętej w Polsce powieści „Normalni ludzie”! Mieszkająca w Dublinie Frances ma dwadzieścia jeden lat i chłodny umysł obserwatorki. Jest studentką i początkującą pisarką; ze swoją najlepszą przyjaciółką i byłą dziewczyną Bobbi występuje na slamach poetyckich. Przypadkowa znajomość z Melissą, popularną dziennikarką, której mąż Nick jest aktorem, otwiera im drzwi do świata pięknych domów, hałaśliwych pr...

Un pobre vagabundo tras el que se oculta un gran tzadik, un odiado avaro que resulta ser un santo, unos taimados comerciantes de carne no kosher que finalmente se convierten, la celebración de una boda a la que pone fin la ira divina... En estas historias, a menudo, las cosas no son lo que parecen y todo tiene un toque como mágico y misterioso. Las diferentes leyendas de nuestro libro han sido acompanadas de comentarios que sitúan las historias en el marco de la tradición ju...

?Por qué una de las torres de la Iglesia de Santa María es más baja? ?Quién nos mete el miedo en el cuerpo en los sótanos del Palacio de los Krzysztofory? ?Qué hay de extraordinario en la Iglesia de El Salvador? ?Qué mangas dieron origen a la llamada Manga del barrio de Podgórze? Este libro responde a estas y a otras muchas preguntas. Llévalo en tus paseos por Cracovia; nuestras leyendas cuentan de forma amena la historia de diferentes lugares y de distintas tradiciones....

A little library slipcase with board books featuring Eric Carle's much loved collage artworks and introducing first concepts: Numbers, Words, Colours and Animal Noises.

10 wybranych krakowskich legend, od najstarszej o wawelskim smoku, przez Boże miłosierdzie, Lajkonika, i pozostałe, aż do najnowszej o czakramie wawelskim. Opowiedziane na nowo - dla odwiedzających miasto turystów - mogą stać się interesującą lekturą nie tylko dla dzieci i młodzieży. Koncepcja książki umożliwia korzystanie z niej jako nietypowego przewodnika po Krakowie ubarwiającego poznanie miasta. Interesująca szata graficzna oraz załączone plany stanowią o dodatkowej wart...

Treasure Island is the seminal pirates and buried treasure novel, which is so brilliantly concocted that it appeals to readers both young and old. The story is told in the first person by young Jim Hawkins, whose mother keeps the Admiral Benbow Inn. An old seadog, a resident at the inn, hires Jim to keep a watch out for other sailors whom he fears but, despite all precautions, the old man is served with the black spot which means death. Among the dead man's belongings Jim dis...

With an Introduction by David Stuart Davies. The Hound of the Baskervilles is the classic detective chiller. It features the world's greatest detective, Sherlock Holmes, in his most challenging case. The Baskerville family is haunted by a phantom beast "with blazing eyes and dripping jaws" which roams the mist-enshrouded moors around the isolated Baskerville Hall on Dartmoor. Now the hound seems to be stalking young Sir Henry, the new master of the Baskerville estate. Is this...

Introduction and Notes by Doreen Roberts, Rutherford College, University of Kent at Canterbury. Middlemarch is a complex tale of idealism, disillusion, profligacy, loyalty and frustrated love. This penetrating analysis of the life of an English provincial town during the time of social unrest prior to the Reform Bill of 1832 is told through the lives of Dorothea Brooke and Dr Tertius Lydgate and includes a host of other paradigm characters who illuminate the condition of Engl...

Translated by A.A. Brill With an Introduction by Stephen Wilson. Sigmund Freud's audacious masterpiece, The Interpretation of Dreams, has never ceased to stimulate controversy since its publication in 1900. Freud is acknowledged as the founder of psychoanalysis, the key to unlocking the human mind, a task which has become essential to man's survival in the twentieth century, as science and technology have rushed ahead of our ability to cope with their consequences. Freud saw ...

'Who could read the programme for the excursion without longing to make one of the party?' So Mark Twain acclaims his voyage from New York City to Europe and the Holy Land in June 1867. His adventures produced The Innocents Abroad, a book so funny and provocative it made him an international star for the rest of his life. He was making his first responses to the Old World - to Paris, Milan, Florence, Venice, Pompeii, Constantinople, Sebastopol, Balaklava, Damascus, Jerusalem,...

With a new Introduction by David Stuart Davies. ‘Surely no man would take up my profession if it were not that danger attracts him.’ In The Casebook, you can read the final twelve stories that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote about his brilliant detective. They are perhaps the most unusual and the darkest that he penned. Treachery, mutilation and the terrible consequences of infidelity are just some of the themes explored in these stories, along with atmospheric touches of ...

With an Introduction and Notes by Doreen Roberts, Rutherford College, University of Kent at Canterbury. From its first publication in 1719, Robinson Crusoe has been printed in over 700 editions. It has inspired almost every conceivable kind of imitation and variation, and been the subject of plays, opera, cartoons, and computer games. The character of Crusoe has entered the consciousness of each succeeding generation as readers add their own interpretation to the adventures s...

With an Introduction by Donald McFarlan.Robert Burns, the most celebrated of all Scottish poets, is remembered with great devotion - his birthday on 25th January provokes fervour and festivity among Scots and many others the world over. Born in 1759 into miserable rustic poverty, by the age of eighteen Burns had acquired a good knowledge of both classical and English literature. In June 1786 his first collection of verse, Poems Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect, which included ...

The Jungle Book introduces Mowgli, the human foundling adopted by a family of wolves. It tells of the enmity between him and the tiger Shere Khan, who killed Mowgli's parents, and of the friendship between the man-cub and Bagheera, the black panther, and Baloo, the sleepy brown bear, who instructs Mowgli in the Laws of the Jungle. The Second Jungle Book contains some of the most thrilling of the Mowgli stories. It includes Red Dog, in which Mowgli forms an unlikely alliance w...

Interest in supernatural phenomena was high during Charles Dickens’ lifetime. He had always loved a good ghost story himself, particularly at Christmas time, and was open-minded, willing to accept, and indeed put to the test, the existence of spirits. His natural inclinations toward drama and the macabre made him a brilliant teller of ghost tales, and in the twenty stories presented here, which include his celebrated A Christmas Carol, the full range of his gothic talents can...

With an Introduction and Notes by Anne Varty, Royal Holloway, University of London. De Profundis is Wilde's eloquent and bitter reproach from prison to his lover, Lord Alfred Douglas. He contrasts his behaviour with that of his close friend Robert Ross who became Wilde's literary executor. The Ballad of Reading Gaol is a deeply moving and characteristically generous poem on the horrors of prison life, which was published anonymously in 1898. This collection also includes the ...

Introduction and Notes by R.T. Jones, Honorary Fellow of the University of York. This novel, based on George Eliot's own experiences of provincial life, is a masterpiece of ambiguity in which moral choice is subjected to the hypocrisy of the Victorian age. As the headstrong Maggie Tulliver grows into womanhood, the deep love which she has for her brother Tom turns into conflict, because she cannot reconcile his bourgeois standards with her own lively intelligence. Maggie is u...

Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. Far from fading with time, Kenneth Grahame's classic tale of fantasy has attracted a growing audience in each generation. Rat, Mole, Badger and the preposterous Mr Toad, have brought delight to many through the years with their odd adventures on and by the river, and at the imposing residence of Toad Hall.