With an Introduction, Bibliography and Glossary by Michael Irwin, Professor of English Literature University of Kent at Canterbury. Thomas Hardy started composing poetry in the heyday of Tennyson and Browning. He was still writing with unimpaired power sixty years later, when Eliot and Yeats were the leading names in the field. His extraordinary stamina and a consistent individuality of style and vision made him a survivor, immune to literary fashion. At the start of the twen...

Szesnastoletnia Bri ma wielkie pragnienie: chce zostać największą raperką wszech czasów. A póki co, marzy o wygraniu swojej pierwszej raperskiej bitwy na Ringu. Nastolatka jest córką legendy podziemnego hip-hopu – muzyka, który zginął tragicznie, zanim jego kariera zdołała się rozpędzić – i czeka ją niełatwe zadanie.Jak ma się wybić, jak ma doprowadzić do swojego wzlotu, skoro jest wiecznie porównywana ze zmarłym ojcem, w szkole przyklejono jej łatę bandziorki, a w lodówce w ...

Przyczyna, Suterena, Oddech, Chłód, Dziecko – autobiograficzny pięcioksiąg wybitnego austriackiego prozaika i dramatopisarza to drobiazgowa rekonstrukcja lat dojrzewania. Analiza "niszczycielskich machin" – szkoły, rodziny, instytucji, społeczeństwa, ich nieznoszącej sprzeciwu, bezwzględnej opresyjności. To brutalna ocena tępego i zaślepionego w swym konformizmie narodu, nieskończonej ludzkiej obojętności. To nieskrywana manifestacja gniewu i pogardy, hołd złożony samotności ...

Światowy bestseller na podstawie, którego powstał film w gwiazdorskiej obsadzie wytwórni Twentieth Century Fox. Opowiedziana w rytmie rap głośna historia o życiu czarnoskórych w Ameryce. Powieść, która błyskawicznie zyskała status kultowej i która przyniosła debiutującej autorce międzynarodową sławę. W tym świecie nigdy nie jesteś za młody, by mogli cię aresztować albo zabić. Dlatego dzieciakom wpaja się zasady odpowiedniego zachowania przy policji – „Trzymaj ręce tak, żeby...

Now a major motion picture, starring Amandla Stenberg No. 1 New York Times bestseller Winner of the Waterstones Children's Book Prize · Goodreads Choice Awards Best of the Best · National Book Award Longlist · British Book Awards Children's Book of the Year · Teen Vogue Best YA Book of the YearSixteen-year-old Starr lives in two worlds: the poor neighborhood where she was born and raised and her posh high school in the suburbs. The uneasy balance between them is shattered whe...

„The Hate U Give Little Infants F... Everybody” Tupac Amaru Shakur Zwycięzca William C. Morris Award • National Book Award Longlist • Printz Honor Book • Coretta Scott King Honor Book • Bestseller New York Timesa! Najlepszy debiut w kategorii „Autor 2017” na Goodreads, Najlepsza książka w kategorii „Young Adult Fiction 2017” na Goodreads Obsypany nagrodami hit ze szczytów światowych list bestsellerów, którego ekranizacja już wkrótce trafi do kin. Opowiedziana w rytmie rap g...

"Bałem się przed każdym skokiem, ale mimo to skakałem. Kochałem to". Kiedy obudził się w szpitalu, nic nie pamiętał. Czuł tylko przeszywający ból i paraliżujące pieczenie twarzy. Kilka godzin wcześniej w Kulm przeżył dramatyczny upadek, po którym cały narciarski świat na moment wstrzymał oddech. Mimo że do igrzysk w Soczi pozostał niespełna miesiąc, zdecydował, że musi tam wystartować. Rehabilitacja, powrót do formy, ale przede wszystkim walka ze strachem. Z poczuciem, że moż...

Rok z Thomasem Mertonem jest zaproszeniem do duchowej i intelektualnej przygody, codziennych spotkań z jednym z najbardziej wpływowych autorów duchowości w czasach nowożytnych. Krótkie osobiste refleksje na każdy dzień są inspiracją do własnych przemyśleń i medytacji, rzucają nowe światło na ważne problemy współczesnego świata, a równocześnie uczą odnajdywania radości i pokoju w codziennych, prostych zajęciach. Na początku każdego roku zaczynamy myśleć o tym, co zrobić, aby k...

From the Sunday Times bestselling author of the international phenomenon Surrounded by Idiots.Studies suggest two people who have never met before will tell three lies within the first five minutes. Astounding. But why?Why do we choose to lie even when we know it's wrong? To protect the people we love? To paint ourselves in a better light? To win short-lived praise? Or, are there simply far more obscure reasons behind why we lie?In Surrounded by Liars, international bestselli...

Thomas Pynchon to wybitny pisarz amerykański zaliczany do nurtu postmodernistycznego, autor-enigma, od początku kariery literackiej ukrywający swój wizerunek i biografię. Wnikliwie opisuje obyczajowe oraz polityczne realia współczesności, np.. Inwazję przemysłu rozrywkowego, ekspansję nowych technologii, utrwalanie się tendencji reżimowych w ramach pozornie demokratycznych układów. Konsekwentnie wywraca na nice amerykańskie albo – szerzej – zachodnie mity postępu, odsłaniając...

The inspiring bestseller and global phenomenon that helps you to understand and effectively communicate with those around you.NOW FULLY REVISED AND UPDATEDDo you ever think you're the only one making any sense?Have you ever tried to reason with your partner with disastrous results?Does your colleague's manner of communication always get your back up?You are not alone.Communication expert and bestselling author Thomas Erikson has dedicated himself to understanding how people f...

From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Surrounded by Idiots.Some people are exceptionally manipulative. They can convince anyone about anything and lure them with their charm. They enjoy controlling others and will do anything to get what they want. Sound familiar? The bad news is that you can’t really escape them. But here comes the good news: you can beat them at their own game. After going through the highs and lows of different personality types (Red, Blue, Green and...

Do you ever think you're the only one making any sense? Or tried to reason with your partner with disastrous results? Do long, rambling answers drive you crazy? Or does your colleague's abrasive manner get your back up? You are not alone. After a disastrous meeting with a highly successful entrepreneur, who was genuinely convinced he was 'surrounded by idiots', communication expert and bestselling author, Thomas Erikson dedicated himself to understanding how people function a...

From the Sunday Times and international bestselling author of Surrounded by IdiotsDo you often feel exhausted by conversations?Are there people in your life with belittle you through words or actions?Or, do you have colleagues who take up your time and don't actually do much?You could be surrounded by vampires! International bestselling author and behavioural expert Thomas Erikson will help you recognise and deal with the four most common vampires.Be it time, energy, attentio...

From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Surrounded by IdiotsAre you overshadowed by the narcissists in your life? Are you worn out by their constant demands for attention, their absolute belief they are right (even when clearly they are not), their determination to do what they want (regardless of impact), and their baffling need to control everyone and everything around them?In this thought-provoking, sanity-saving book, Thomas Erikson helps you understand what makes nar...

To unlock his full creative potential, Adrian Leverkühn makes a lethal pact with nature and intentionally contracts syphilis.A brilliant young composer, Adrian believes that the disease-induced madness will fuel his genius. But while his music reaches new heights, his mind and morality begin to unravel. Mann's interpretation of the Faustian legend is a story of madness and sanity, genius and corruption, intellectual attainment and Germany's moral fall.'Arguably the great Germ...

Wealthy, esteemed, and deeply rooted in tradition, the Buddenbrook family epitomises nineteenth-century German bourgeois values.But as the tides of modernity and change sweep through Europe, their once-stable world begins to crumble, along with the tenets on which the Buddenbrooks built their success. Spanning four generations, this semi-autobiographical family epic records the transition of genteel Germanic stability to a very modern uncertainty.'Perhaps the first great nove...

How to handle everything (and everyone) around you when all hell breaks loose, from the international bestselling author of Surrounded by Idiots.Not everything goes the way we want it to - the world or people around us sometimes just spin out of control. Just consider the Covid pandemic for starters. Or how about that mad neighbour you have living next-door to you? Or when work seems to be going down the toilet when the competition keep outsmarting you? So how do you handle e...

Escape to the beautiful lavender fields of Provence this summer Del moved to the south of France three years ago and hasn’t looked back. She’s found new friends, new purpose, and new love with gorgeous Fabien. But just as harvest on her little lavender farm is due to begin, Del gets some shocking news. With no time to dwell as she welcomes a new crew of lavender pickers, she unexpectedly waves goodbye to Fabien for the summer. Usually cooking – the thing she loves best – w...

With astonishment Aschenbach noticed that the boy was entirely beautiful.Ageing writer Gustav von Aschenbach is on holiday in Venice when he first notices a fellow guest in the foyer of his hotel: an exceptionally beautiful boy who is staying there with his family. Admiration gives way to obsession as his days begin to revolve around seeing the boy. Meanwhile, ominous signs point to a disease spreading through the magnificent, but decaying, city and, blinded by his fixation, ...

Introduction and Notes by Michael Irwin, Professor of English Literature, University of Kent at Canterbury. Wessex Tales was the first collection of Hardy's short stories, and they reflect the experience of a novelist at the height of his powers. These seven tales, in which characters and scenes are imbued with a haunting realism, show considerable diversity of content, form and style, and range from fantasy to realism and from tragedy to comedy. In insisting on the unusual n...

With an Introduction and Notes by Michael Irwin, Professor of English Literature, University of Kent at Canterbury. None of the great Victorian novels is more vivid and readable than The Mayor of Casterbridge. Set in the heart of Hardy's Wessex, the 'partly real, partly dream country' he founded on his native Dorset, it charts the rise and self-induced downfall of a single 'man of character'. The fast-moving and ingeniously contrived narrative is Shakespearian in its tragic f...

With an Introduction and Notes by Charles P.C. Pettit. Thomas Hardy's only historical novel, The Trumpet Major is set in Wessex during the Napoleonic Wars. Hardy skilfully immerses us in the life of the day, making us feel the impact of historical events on the immemorial local way of life - the glamour of the coming of George III and his soldiery, fears of the press-gang and invasion, and the effect of distant but momentous events like the Battle of Trafalgar. He interweaves...

It's never too late to find where you belong...Thea knew the holiday house her late husband Marco bought in Tuscany wasn't pristine. But when she relocates to Italy for the summer with her children, she's shocked by how much work Casa Luna needs. And she only has six weeks to fix it up ready to sell! Her only option is to ask the tight-knit Italian community for help.In return, Thea and her children become involved in the community kitchen, working alongside handsome chef Gio...