Across seven tales, Haruki Murakami brings his powers of observation to bear on the lives of men who, in their own ways, find themselves alone. Here are vanishing cats and smoky bars, lonely hearts a
A young governess is sent to a great country house to care for two orphaned children. To begin with Flora and Miles seem to be model pupils but gradually the governess starts to suspect that somethin
Set in Hardy's fictional realm of Wessex, these four charming novels have been brought together in a stunning clothbound set, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. From the moving and
A beautiful new Vintage Classics edition to celebrate the 15th anniversary, and 10 million copies sold worldwide, of this wise, blackly funny, radically imaginative novel
‘A superb achievement. He
Czy mężczyzna może lecieć z Moskwy do Paryża jedynie z bagażem w postaci damskich kabaretek i depilatora? W opowiadaniach Wiktora Jerofiejewa – jak najbardziej! Jego najnowsza książka Ciało to zbiór
In this powerfully influential series of short stories, James Joyce captures uneasy souls, shabby lives and innocent minds in the dark streets and homes of his native city. In doing so, he conjures u
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When a thirty-something portrait painter is abandoned by his wife, he holes up in the mountain home of a famous artist. The days drift by, spent painting, listening to music and drinking whiskey in t
Toru Okada's cat has disappeared.
His wife is growing more distant every day.
Then there are the increasingly explicit telephone calls he has recently been receiving.
As this compelling stor
Wydana w 1899 r. powieść Josepha Conrada, zaliczana do kanonu literatury zachodniej.
Conrad podjął w tym krótkim utworze problem kolonializmu na przykładzie Wolnego Konga, należącego do belgijskieg
With funny and relatable illustrations throughout, find out what it's really like to live with ADHD.
When Alice Gendron was diagnosed with ADHD aged 29, she knew she didn't fit the usual ADHD ster
Why have people from different cultures and eras formulated myths and stories with similar structures? What does this similarity tell us about the mind, morality, and structure of the world itself? F
Un homme désemparé par la perte de son fils, un cambrioleur aux méthodes pour le moins surprenantes, une petite fille terrorisée par son pere, un grand-pere un rien cocasse mais tellement conquis par
On the Other Hand is a short story collection by the award-winningSlovak author, Pavol Rankov. As the title implies, there is a duality to the stories in this volume – half of them are set in contemp
Anton Chekhov was one of the world’s most accomplished short-story writers and this collection displays the breadth and variety of his genius.
Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library, a series o
A brand-new book from the Number One bestselling author of The Break and The Woman Who Stole My Life
They're a glamorous family, the Caseys.
Johnny Casey, his two brothers Ed and Liam, their b
The serene and maternal Mrs. Ramsay, the tragic yet absurd Mr. Ramsay, and their children and assorted guests are on holiday on the Isle of Skye. From the seemingly trivial postponement of a visit to
Inspired by D.H. Lawrence, Chekhov and Hemingway, Bukowski's writing is passionate, extreme and has attracted a cult following, while his life was as weird and wild as the tales he wrote. This collec
A new translation of Giorgio Bassani's haunting collection of short stories that evoke 1930s Ferrara, with an introduction by Ali Smith.
Isolated lives and a lost world are evoked in these memorab
When 'The Awakening' was first published in 1899, charges of sordidness and immorality seemed to consign it into obscurity and irreparably damage its author's reputation. But a century after her deat
To the Lighthouse is at once a vivid impressionistic depiction of a family holiday, and a meditation on marriage, on parenthood and childhood, on grief, tyranny and bitterness. For years now the Rams
In 1939, five-year-old Jacques Austerlitz is sent to England on a Kindertransport and placed with foster parents. This childless couple promptly erase from the boy all knowledge of his identity and h
Flush was an English cocker spaniel who belonged to the nineteenth-century poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Virginia Woolf learned of him from the love letters Elizabeth wrote to her future husband,