ISBN: 9781841597898 Oprawa: twarda Ilość stron: 256 Rok wydania: 2011
The same inimitable voice and dazzling insights that make Emily Dickinson's poems immortal can be found in the whimsical, humorous, and often deeply moving letters she wrote to her family and...
ISBN: 9781857152715 Oprawa: twarda Ilość stron: 160 Rok wydania: 2004
Pevear and Volokhonsky's translation is the only translation that counts. They are the only translators who succeed in making Dostoevsky accessible to a 21st century audience, thanks to their...
ISBN: 9781841597829 Oprawa: twarda Ilość stron: 288 Rok wydania: 2009
These some three hundred poems from the Tang Dynasty (618-907) - an age in which poetry and the arts flourished - were gathered in the eighteenth century into what became one of the best-known...
ISBN: 9781857152036 Oprawa: twarda Ilość stron: 360 Rok wydania: 1995
Kipling's masterpiece is perhaps the most remarkable literary product of British India. The story of a half-caste boy, part Indian part Irish who journeys throughout the subcontinent with an...
ISBN: 9781857150018 Oprawa: twarda Ilość stron: 408 Rok wydania: 1991
Probably the popular favourite among Jane Austen's novels, Pride and Prejudice was the first to be written (1796-7), when the author was just twenty-one. Revised for publication thirteen years...
ISBN: 9781857157116 Oprawa: twarda Ilość stron: 256 Rok wydania: 1995
A leader of the twentieth-century Irish nationalist movement, who eventually became one of the Free States's senators, William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) is also the greatest poet that nation has...
ISBN: 9781841597591 Oprawa: twarda Ilość stron: 256 Rok wydania: 2004
This collection includes, of course, such celebrated poems as "The Lady of Shalott" and "The Charge of the Light Brigade." There are extracts from all the major...
ISBN: 9781857151503 Oprawa: twarda Autor: Orwell George Wydawnictwo: Everyman Library Ilość stron: 168 Rok wydania: 1993
A biting satire on dictatorship written during the Second World War and published in 1945, ANIMAL FARM is perhaps the most celebrated twentieth-century English satire after the same writer's...
ISBN: 9781841593555 Oprawa: twarda Ilość stron: 568 Rok wydania: 2013
When mild-mannered and unremarkable academic Roland Mitchell stumbles upon a letter written aby Victorian poet Randolph Ash to a mysterious woman with whom he seems to be infatuated, he is...
ISBN: 9781857151374 Oprawa: twarda Ilość stron: 786 Rok wydania: 1993
THE SECOND SEX is a hymn to human freedom and a classic of the existentialist movement. It also has claims to be the most important s ingle book in the history of feminism. In the forty years since...
ISBN: 9781841597690 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 256 Rok wydania: 2006
It is often said that Rumi (aka Jalal al-Din, 1207-73) is now the most popular poet in the United States. This conquest of the new world żeby a middle-eastern medieval writer who died before...
ISBN: 9781857159400 Oprawa: twarda Ilość stron: 400 Rok wydania: 1995
Written as a sequel to Little Women, and as a tribute to the teaching theories of Alcott''s father, the s tory is set in a school in Plumfield, run żeby Jo and her Germ an husband. The...
ISBN: 9781857151619 Oprawa: twarda Ilość stron: 460 Rok wydania: 1993
This novel renews the Victorian family saga in a modern setting, tracing the history of the Brangwens through several generations. The book was banned when it first appeared in 1915 for its...
ISBN: 9781857152784 Oprawa: twarda Ilość stron: 704 Rok wydania: 2004
Once overshadowed aby Sartre, Camus has proved the more durable of the two most celebrated French writer-philosophers of the last century. This collection of his work makes the reasons for his...
ISBN: 9781857152623 Oprawa: twarda Ilość stron: 904 Rok wydania: 2000
Traditional Chinese edition of The Talented Mr. Ripley. This thriller chronicles the sociopathic scheme of Tom Ripley to enter into a life of wealth and class by stealing another person's...
ISBN: 9781857157581 Oprawa: twarda Ilość stron: 1008 Rok wydania: 2001
Written over a period of more than half a century, Tolstoy's enchanting short stories and novellas reflect every aspect of his developing art and outlook. This book reveals how these spiritual...
ISBN: 9781857151695 Oprawa: twarda Ilość stron: 1344 Rok wydania: 1994
Generally regarded both in Japan and in the West as his most successful novel, THE TEMPLE OF THE GOLDEN PAVILION brings together all Mishima's preoccupations with violence, desire, religious...
ISBN: 9781857151824 Oprawa: twarda Ilość stron: 784 Rok wydania: 2000
Set in mid 19th-century Russia, DEMONS examines the effect of a charismatic but unscrupulous self-styled revolutionary leader on a group of credulous followers.
ISBN: 9781841591148 Oprawa: twarda Ilość stron: 272 Rok wydania: 2002
A collection of stories in which familiar characters and places are reintroduced in unfamiliar circumstances, reminding us - if we need reminding - of their author's limitless powers of comic...
ISBN: 9781857152364 Oprawa: twarda Ilość stron: 480 Rok wydania: 2015
Samuel Beckett is the greatest Irish novelist of the later twentieth century, and this trilogy of novels is his masterpiece -which makes it perhaps the outstanding literary work of our time. This...