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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...

Heidi is the heart-warming tale of a small girl's power for good, and it has remained a firm favourite since it was published over 100 years ago. It has been filmed and televised several times. It tells of the orphan Heidi and her idyllic existence with her gruff grandfather in the mountains. When she is sent to live in a city, comic chaos ensues, and eventually it is arranged that Heidi should return to the mountains. Together she and her friend Peter, the goat-herd, achieve...

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...

„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...

Introduction and Notes by Dr T.C.B. Cook Illustrations by Hablot K. Browne (Phiz). Following the success of Pickwick Papers and Oliver Twist, Nicholas Nickleby was hailed as a comic triumph and firmly established Dickens as a 'literary gentleman'. It has a full supporting cast of delectable characters that range from the iniquitous Wackford Squeers and his family, to the delightful Mrs Nickleby, taking in the eccentric Crummles and his travelling players, the Mantalinis, the ...

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...

One king caged my body.Another has caged my mind.War has broken out between Annwyn and Orea, though that’s not the only battle being waged.There’s a fight inside me, and it’s one I’m determined to win, no matter how much they try to strip me down and hollow me out.Yet they’ve forgotten one thing. The ancient magic of the pair bond. One can never truly be lost when two souls are already bound.Because Slade and I? We are connected by more than just fated magic, and we will alwa...

I have burned down the court of King Midas and from those flames, I will rise and wield my own power.The problem is, the world won't let me.Because when you turn against a King - everyone turns against you.But with Slade by my side we will fight the monarchs that come for us.And if we need to become the villains, then so be it.Because as long as I live in this world, I won't be used again.I must be strong. I must be undefeatable. I will shine like the sun - and blind my enemi...

I've left the grips of one king to fall into the hands of another.Rip's name is whispered in taverns and street corners throughout the kingdoms.But as I get to know him, I realise he is not what he seems...He is Fae.Part of the powerful and magical people who abandoned this world hundreds of years ago.But here one stands before me. And when he turns his onyx eyes upon me, I fall captive.For an entirely different reason.As his army marches towards a battle with the king I once...

With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Andrew Frayn, Lecturer in Twentieth-Century Literature and Culture at Edinburgh Napier University. In these two compelling novels H.G. Wells imagines terrifying futures in which civilisation itself is threatened. The narrator of The War of the Worlds is quick to discover that what appeared to be a falling star was, in fact, a metallic cylinder landing from Mars. Six million people begin to flee London in panic as tentacled invaders eme...

Wzruszająca, pełna magii opowieść o córce wyruszającej na ratunek ojcu, który samotny i zagubiony utknął na odległej wyspie.Dziewczynka ma dar widzenia więcej i głębiej, dostrzega swojego ojca daleko, hen za górami, siedzącego samotnie na skale pośrodku morza. Wyrusza w podróż, aby go odnaleźć i pocieszyć. Zabiera to, co jej najdroższe – skrzypce. Po drodze napotyka wiele wyzwań, a skrzypce okazują się nieodzownym towarzyszem podróży.Książka wydana w projekcie Witamina Czy.**...

Gorące, duszne popołudnie. Enero i El Negro łowią ryby. Opiekują się Tilo – nastoletnim synem ich przyjaciela, który utonął kiedyś w tej samej rzece. Wędkują, rozmawiają i piją wino, próbując odegnać duchy przeszłości. Otacza ich przyroda rządząca się swoimi prawami, niepokojąca. Lokalni mieszkańcy obserwują ich z podejrzliwością. Po godzinach zmagań z płaszczką Enero nie wytrzymuje. Wyciąga rewolwer, celuje w wodę i pociąga za spust. Po przybyciu do obozowiska mężczyźni prze...

Wiesław Galas - Absolwent Wyższej Szkoły Morskiej w Szczecinie, obecnie Politechnika Morska. Od ponad czterdziestu lat pływa na różnych statkach, w tym ostatnie szesnaście na statkach pasażerskich. Autor powieści "Erotyczne zabarwienie okrutnego oceanu" oraz reportaży: "Okrutny ocean", "»Moja dobra« kolega", "Zwykły rejs", "Port mgieł i wichrów", "Port w buszu", "Dwa miasta w Dakarze", "Miasto bez chodników", "W pogoni za rybą" oraz innych. Drukował w tygodnikach i ...

Odżyw ciało, uzdrów mózgProgram wyjścia z anoreksji i innych zaburzeń odżywiania dla zdeterminowanych dorosłychMasz prawo do pełnego wyzdrowienia. Twoje zdrowienie zależy od ciebie.„Odżyw ciało, uzdrów mózg” to książka dla dorosłych, którzy chcą wyrwać się z pułapki zaburzeń odżywiania. Autorka, Tabitha Farrar, nie proponuje psychologicznej analizy ani skomplikowanych teorii – stawia na pragmatyczne podejście oparte na dwóch kluczowych filarach: rehabilitacji żywieniowej i re...

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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...

When Pollyanna Whittier goes to live with her sourtempered aunt after her father’s death, things seem bad enough, but then a dreadful accident ensues. However, Pollyanna’s sunny nature and good humour prove to have an astonishing effect on all around her, and this wonderful tale of how cheerfulness can conquer adversity has remained one of the world’s most popular children’s books since its first publication in 1913. In Pollyanna Grows Up, the only sequel written by Porter he...

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...