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Letter from Birmingham Jail
[Oprawa Miękka]
'Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.'
This landmark missive from one of the greatest activists in history calls for direct, non-violent resistance in the fight against racism, an
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Investigations of a Dog
[Oprawa Miękka]
'If I think about it, and I have the time and inclination and capacity to do so, we dogs are an odd lot.'
How does a dog see the world? How do any of us? In this playful and enigmatic story of a c
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The Breakthrough
[Oprawa Miękka]
'If he only knew what it was, he would fix it; he would kill this mean thing that made Mama feel so bad.'
Belonging and estrangement intertwine in these four lyrical short stories from the the aut
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The Black Ball
[Oprawa Miękka]
'If he only knew what it was, he would fix it; he would kill this mean thing that made Mama feel so bad.'
Belonging and estrangement intertwine in these four lyrical short stories from the the aut
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Food
[Oprawa Miękka]
Sadder than salad.
From apples to artichokes, these glittering, fragmented, painterly portraits of food by the avant-garde pioneer Gertrude Stein are redolent of sex, laughter and the joy of every
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The Great Hunger
[Oprawa Miękka]
'I have lived in important places, times
When great events were decided . . .'
By turns comical, grouchy and exalted, and including his tragic masterpiece 'The Great Hunger', some of the key poem
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Why Do You Wear a Cheap Watch?
[Oprawa Miękka]
'It was what we call in the trade a potato...'
Tales of low-lifes and grifters trying to make ends meet in pre-War Germany.
Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of
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The Haunted Boy
[Oprawa Miękka]
His hand sought the adjacent flesh and sorrow paralleled desire in the immense complexity of love.
These moving stories by one of the great masters of Southern gothic portray love, sorrow and our
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The Problem that Has No Name
[Oprawa Miękka]
'What if she isn't happy - does she think men are happy in this world? Doesn't she know how lucky she is to be a woman?'
The pioneering Betty Friedan here identifies the strange problem plaguing A
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The Legend of the Sleepers
[Oprawa Miękka]
'For once there had been false idols and asses' heads drawn on the walls...'
Sleepers awake in a remote cave and the ancient mystic Simon Magus attempts a miracle, in these two magical, otherworld
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The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master..
[Oprawa Miękka]
From the self-described 'black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet', these soaring, urgent essays on the power of women, poetry and anger are filled with darkness and light.
Penguin Modern: fifty new
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The Gigolo
[Oprawa Miękka]
'The sap had dried up; the sap, the incentive, the fever, the desire to do, to act, to act the fool, make love, create'
A middle-aged woman breaks with her handsome young lover; a placid husband i
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Leaving the Yellow House
[Oprawa Miękka]
She had lived by delays; she had meant to stop drinking; she had put off the time, and now she had smashed her car.
At once harsh and tender, expansive and acutely funny, this is the story of an e
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Television Was a Baby Crawling Toward That Deathch..
[Oprawa Miękka]
'Wives in the avocados, babies in the tomatoes!-and you, Garcia Lorca, what were you doing by the watermelons?'
Profane and prophetic verses about sex, death, revolution and America by the great i
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The Finger
[Oprawa Miękka]
'He felt a sudden deep pity for the finger joint that lay there on the dresser, a few drops of blood gathering around the white bone.'
A deliberately severed finger, a junky's Christmas miracle an
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Notes on Camp
[Oprawa Miękka]
'The ultimate Camp statement: it's good because it's awful.'
These two classic essays were the first works of criticism to break down the boundaries between 'high' and 'low' culture, and made Susa
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Notes on Nationalism
[Oprawa Miękka]
'The general uncertainty as to what is really happening makes it easier to cling to lunatic beliefs'
Biting and timeless reflections on patriotism, prejudice and power, from the man who wrote abou
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Till September Petronella
[Oprawa Miękka]
'I knew he was imagining a really lovely girl - all curves, curls, heart and hidden claws'
In stories that span the course of a lifetime - from childhood in the Caribbean to adolescent modelling i
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Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer
[Oprawa Miękka]
'Do I wish to keep up with the times? No. My wish simply is to live my life as fully as I can'
The great American poet, novelist and environmental activist argues for a life lived slowly.
Pengu
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The End
[Oprawa Miękka]
'They didn't seem to take much interest in my private parts which to tell the truth were nothing to write home about, I didn't take much interest in them myself.'
From the master of the absurd, th
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Three Japanese Short Stories
[Oprawa Miękka]
'Oh the cruelty of time, that destroys all things!'
Beguiling, strange and hair-raising tales from early 20th century Japan: Nagai's Behind the Prison, Uno's Closet LLB and Akutagawa's deeply maca
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The Cracked Looking-Glass
[Oprawa Miękka]
'She only wished to prove to herself she was once more on a train going somewhere'
A passionate, unfulfilled woman considers her life and her marriage in this moving novella by one of America's fi
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Letter to My Mother
[Oprawa Miękka]
'As you are well aware, we never loved each other in your lifetime. Both of us pretended.'
Simenon explores the complexity of parent child relationships and the bitterness of things left unsaid in
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The Vigilante
[Oprawa Miękka]
'Everything was dead, everything unreal; the dark mob was made up of stiff lay-figures'
One of America's greatest writers explores mob violence, voyeurism and betrayal in these unforgettable tales
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The Survivor
[Oprawa Miękka]
'Back, away from here, drowned people, go. I haven't stolen anyone's place'
A selection of poetry from the author of If this is a Man and The Periodic Table.
Penguin Modern: fifty new books cel
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Confessions of a Mask
[Oprawa Miękka]
'There is in this world a kind of desire like stinging pain'
A Japanese teenager is overcome with longing for his male classmate. He imagines his body punctured with arrows, like the body of St Se
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The Red Tenda of Bologna
[Oprawa Miękka]
'It's an improbable city, Bologna - like one you might walk through after you have died.'
A dreamlike meditation on memory, food, paintings, a fond uncle and the improbable beauty of Bologna, from
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Piers of the Homeless Night
[Oprawa Miękka]
'See my hand up-tipped, learn the secret of my human heart...'
Soaring, freewheeling snapshots of life on the road across America, from the Beat writer who inspired a generation.
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Madame du Deffand and the Idiots
[Oprawa Miękka]
'She was bored and fought against her boredom, which only bored her still more.'
Five sparkling, irreverent brief portraits of famous literary figures (including libertines, eccentrics and rogues)
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The Dialogue of Two Snails
[Oprawa Miękka]
My heart
brims with billows
and minnows
of shadows and silver
Beautiful, brutal, strange and lovely: this is Lorca reborn, in a selection of previously unpublished pieces and masterful new tran
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CI by Agnieszka Antowska