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With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Nicola Bradbury, University of Reading. Jane Austen teased readers with the idea of a 'heroine whom no one but myself will much like', but Emma is irresistible. 'Handsome, clever, and rich', Emma is also an 'imaginist', 'on fire with speculation and foresight'. She sees the signs of romance all around her, but thinks she will never be married. Her matchmaking maps out relationships that Jane Austen iro...

Few writers have had a more demonstrable impact on the development of the modern world than has Karl Marx (1818-1883). Born in Trier into a middle-class Jewish family in 1818, by the time of his death in London in 1883, Marx claimed a growing international reputation. Of central importance then and later was his book Das Kapital, or, as it is known to English readers, simply Capital. Volume One of Capital was published in Paris in 1867. This was the only volume published d...

A modern parenting classic by the internationally renowned childcare expert, podcaster, and author of No Bad Kids.In this straightforward and practical book, trusted parenting teacher Janet Lansbury helps you look at the world through the eyes of small children and relate to them as whole people who have natural abilities to learn without being taught. Once we are able to view our children in this light, even the most common daily parenting experiences become stimulating oppo...

Zaskakujący powrót Riada Sattoufa do rodzinnej sagi! Riad Sattouf, autor głośnego „Araba przyszłości”, powraca do historii swojej wielokulturowej rodziny, by tym razem pokazać ją oczami młodszego brata, który został porwany przez ojca, stracił kontakt z matką i rodzeństwem, a resztę dzieciństwa spędził w Syrii. Czym różni się jego opowieść od tego, co zapamiętał Riad? „Ja, Fadi. Porwany brat” to oryginalna kontynuacja autobiograficznego komiksu Riada Sattoufa, w którym opowia...

Którędy Lucyfer wykradł duszę Fausta? W jakiej gospodzie stołował się „ojciec” wojaka Szwejka? W którym praskim klubie 60. urodziny świętował Mick Jagger? Jaką filmową parę przypomina Tańczący Dom? Na te i inne pytania odpowie przewodnik ExpressMap po Pradze.Nie zabraknie w nim także urokliwych zaułków Starówki, niepoprawnych rzeźb Davida Černego czy swojskich gospód, w których kelner przynosi kufel piwa, zanim klient zdąży usiąść. Dla wygłodniałych: knedliki, gęste zupy, her...

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Ekscytująca opowieść o Sycylii, wyspie, na której do dzisiaj widoczne są ślady różnych kultur: od starożytnego dziedzictwa w Syrakuzach, Agrigento i Segeście, przez arabsko-normańskie pałace w Palermo i Monreale, po perły baroku w Noto, Ragusie i Katanii – „mieście z lawy”. Zdobądź Etnę, zanurkuj w wodach Morza Śródziemnego, obejrzyj przedstawienie sycylijskiego teatru marionetek, poczuj atmosferę wielkopostnych misteriów i daj się porwać magii barwnego karnawału, a na deser ...

Pełna wąskich uliczek Alfama, gdzie krążą zabytkowe żółte tramwaje, i okazały Pomnik Odkrywców, malowniczo położony nad brzegiem Tagu. Manueliński klasztor Hieronimitów, nowoczesne Oceanarium i zachwycające Narodowe Muzeum Azulejo, w całości poświęcone słynnym barwnym kafelkom. Baśniowe pałace Sintry, tajemnicze megalityczne kręgi i zachodni kraniec Europy kontynentalnej, czyli Cabo da Roca. Smaki portugalskiej tradycji: dorsz na 365 sposobów, grillowane sardynki i łakocie pa...

„Odkrywcy” to drugi tom serii artbooków Matta Dixona, poświęcony jego charakterystycznym, urokliwym robotom. W kolejnej części cyklu znany brytyjski artysta zabiera nas w podróż do świata małych robotów. Czytelnicy wędrują wraz z nimi przez zakamarki cywilizacji, leśne ostępy, stare pomieszczenia, zbocza gór, świat techniki oraz świat przyrody. Każde z tych miejsc stwarza możliwość spotkania z nieznanym, a nieznane objawia coś najbardziej nam znanego – tajemnicę b...

The Thought Police, Doublethink, Newspeak, Big Brother – 1984 itself: these terms and concepts have moved from the world of fiction into our everyday lives. They are central to our thinking about freedom and its suppression; yet they were newly created by George Orwell in 1949 as he conjured his dystopian vision of a world where totalitarian power is absolute. In this novel, continuously popular since its first publication, readers can explore the dark and extraordinary world...

With an Introduction and Notes by Peter Preston, University of Nottingham. Illustrations by S.L. Fildes and Hablot K. Browne (Phiz). Dickens’s final novel, left unfinished at his death, is a tale of mystery whose fast-paced action takes place in an ancient cathedral city and in some of the darkest places in nineteenth-century London. Drugs, sexual obsession, colonial adventuring and puzzles about identity are among the novel’s themes. At the centre of the plot lie the bafflin...

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 apotheosis in this, his greatest work. It is an allegory of the Christian life of true brilliance and is presented as a dream which describes the pilgrimage of the hero - Christian - from the City of Destruction via the Slough of Despond, the Hill of Difficulty, the Valley of the Shadow of Death and ...

Introduction and Notes by Elaine Jordan, Reader in Literature, University of Essex. What does persuasion mean - a firm belief, or the action of persuading someone to think something else? Anne Elliot is one of Austen's quietest heroines, but also one of the strongest and the most open to change. She lives at the time of the Napoleonic wars, a time of accident, adventure, the making of new fortunes and alliances. A woman of no importance, she manoeuvres in her restricted circu...

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,...

Illustrations by Hablot K. Browne (Phiz) and George Cattermole, with a new Introduction by Cedric Watts, Research Professor of English, University of Sussex. This vivid historical and political novel by Dickens is centred on the infamous 'No Popery' riots, instigated by Lord George Gordon, which terrorised London in 1780. Dickens' targets are prejudice, intolerance, religious bigotry and nationalistic fervour, together with the villains who exploit these for selfish ends. His...

Agnes Grey is a trenchant exposé of the frequently isolated, intellectually stagnant and emotionally starved conditions under which many governesses worked in the mid-nineteenth century. This is a deeply personal novel written from the author’s own experience and as such Agnes Grey has a power and poignancy which mark it out as a landmark work of literature dealing with the social and moral evolution of English society during the last century.

With an Introduction and Notes by Keith Wren, University of Kent at Canterbury. Translation by James Carroll Beckwirth (1899). Set in 1482, Victor Hugo’s powerful novel of ‘imagination, caprice and fantasy’ is a meditation on love, fate, architecture and politics, as well as a compelling recreation of the medieval world at the dawn of the modern age. In a brilliant reworking of the tale of Beauty and the Beast, Hugo creates a host of unforgettable characters – amongst them, Q...

Introduction and Notes by Dr David Rogers, Kingston University. 'There he lay looking as if youth had been half-renewed, for the white hair and moustache were changed to dark iron-grey, the cheeks were fuller, and the white skin seemed ruby-red underneath; the mouth was redder than ever, for on the lips were gouts of fresh blood, which trickled from the corners of the mouth and ran over the chin and neck. Even the deep, burning eyes seemed set amongst the swollen flesh...

With an Introduction and Notes by Karl Ashley Smith, University of St Andrews. Illustrations by Hablot K. Browne (Phiz). Mr Dombey is a man obsessed with his firm. His son is groomed from birth to take his place within it, despite his visionary eccentricity and declining health. But Dombey also has a daughter, whose unfailing love for her father goes unreturned. 'Girls' said Mr Dombey, 'have nothing to do with Dombey and Son'. When Walter Gay, a young clerk in her father's ...

The Little Prince is a modern fable, and for readers far and wide both the title and the work have exerted a pull far in excess of the book's brevity. Written and published first by Antoine de St-Exupéry in 1943, only a year before his plane disappeared on a reconnaissance flight, it is one of the world's most widely translated books, enjoyed by adults and children alike. In the meeting of the narrator who has ditched his plane in the Sahara desert, and the little prince, who...

With an Introduction and Notes by Roger Clark, University of Kent at Canterbury. Translation by Charles E. Wilbour (1862). One of the great classics of western literature, Les Misérables is a magisterial work which is rich in both character portrayal and meticulous historical description. Characters such as the absurdly criminalised Valjean, the street urchin Gavroche, the rascal Thenardier, the implacable detective Javert, and the pitiful figure of the prostitute Fantine and...

Klasyka polskiego komiksu w nowym wydaniu!Maurycy Beniowski już za życia stał się legendą. Ten urodzony w 1746 roku węgiersko-polski szlachcic, mając zaledwie dwadzieścia dwa lata, dołączył do konfederacji barskiej – czyli zbrojnego wystąpienia przeciwko protektoratowi Imperium Rosyjskiego. Uwięziono go za to w Kazaniu, skąd jednak zdołał uciec.Złapany ponownie w trakcie próby dostania się na statek odpływający do Holandii, tym razem został zesłany aż na Kamczatkę. Ucieczka s...