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Rescue
[Oprawa Miękka]
Collecting two of his most celebrated works – Rescue, written in Warsaw in the shadow of Nazi occupation, and A Treatise on Poetry – a momentous history of Poland, told in four cantos – here lie the
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The New Dress
[Oprawa Miękka]
In these exquisite stories from the genius of English modernism, everyday objects acquire profound significance: a lump of buried green glass leads to a lifetime of obsession; a mark on the wall prom
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Strange News from Another Planet
[Oprawa Miękka]
Of course, very few people go through the gate and abandon the beautiful phenomenon of the outside world for the interior reality that they intuit…
A visitor to a zoo discovers he can understand t
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The Umbrella
[Oprawa Miękka]
Longing shimmers from these spare but profoundly moving short stories by one of Denmark’s most fearless and sharp-eyed authors. In these tales of inarticulate desire and repression, Ditlevsen pulls t
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How I Came to Know Fish
[Oprawa Miękka]
Through tender, vivid, and often humorous recollections – from magical fishing trips to the rivers and ponds of Bustehrad to his charismatic father’s eccentric business ventures - this bittersweet me
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Cicada!
[Oprawa Miękka]
Now you slip away in sleep.
Your boat is sea-mist, dreaming, by the shore.
Spain’s most beloved poet, Federico García Lorca brilliantly captures the beauty and brutality of the twentieth century.
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Why I am a Stoic
[Oprawa Miękka]
Plagued by ill-health, violently sick at sea, irritated by renovation costs: Seneca is never less than sympathetically human. In these letters written 2000 years ago, the ancient philosopher speaks t
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The Dreaming Child
[Oprawa Miękka]
As for me I have one ambition only: to invent stories, very beautiful stories’
Gothic, expansive and truly spellbinding, Karen Blixen’s short stories offer incisive psychological portraits and ima
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Lamb to the Slaughter
[Oprawa Miękka]
No author perfected the twist in the tale better than Roald Dahl. His stories – many of which were filmed as Tales of the Unexpected – take us into a world that is shocking, cruelly funny and always
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The Price of Freedom
[Oprawa Miękka]
Saadat Hasan Manto, the most widely read and translated writer in the Urdu language, captured the devastation and absurdity of the partition of India and Pakistan like no other. The Price of Freedom
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Unpacking My Library
[Oprawa Miękka]
‘Every sort of passion verges on chaos, I know, but what the collecting passion verges on is a chaos of memories.’
From intimate musings on his book collection, to a dream-like trip through the bu
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The History of England by a Partial, Prejudiced an..
[Oprawa Miękka]
In Jane Austen’s breezy and entirely biased telling of English history, Mary, Queen of Scots is a scandalously wronged victim, Elizabeth I is a wicked villain and most historical facts and dates are
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Horsie
[Oprawa Miękka]
What can you say, when a man asks you to dance with him? I most certainly will not dance with you. I’ll see you in hell first. Why, thank you, I’d like to awfully, but I’m having labor pains.
Acer
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Tristessa
[Oprawa Miękka]
Tristessa is a strange fever-dream of morphine sickness and belly-deep sadness. Or, in the words of Allen Ginsberg: ‘a narrative meditation studying a hen, a rooster, a dove, a cat, a chihuahua dog,
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The Daemon Lover
[Oprawa Miękka]
It’s terribly important that I get in touch with a gentleman who may have stopped in here to buy flowers this morning. Terribly important.
Sometimes, the person you think you love isn’t who they s
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Closely Watched Trains
[Oprawa Miękka]
Closely Watched Trains tells the story of Miloš Hrma, a young railroad apprentice coming of age in wartime Czechoslovakia. Miloš is overwhelmed with worries – about his virginity, his love for the co
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Sunflower Sutra
[Oprawa Miękka]
'I saw you, Walt Whitman, childless, lonely old grubber, poking among the meats in the refrigerator and eyeing the grocery boys'
Allen Ginsberg's poetry fomented a social and political revolution,
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The Country of the Pointed Firs
[Oprawa Miękka]
A young writer leaves the city to complete her manuscript in a small coastal town, but finds herself writing about the lives of its inhabitants instead – their occupation with memory and tradition, t
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Requiem
[Oprawa Miękka]
My dear friend, he said, life is strange and strange things happen in life'
It is a hot July Sunday in Lisbon and our narrator has an appointment to meet someone by the quayside. But when his gues
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The Burial of the Rats
[Oprawa Miękka]
The bones were still warm; but they were picked clean. They had even eaten their own dead
This spine-chilling collection from Dracula creator Bram Stoker showcases five haunting tales, including t
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Jasmine Tea
[Oprawa Miękka]
‘But how sweet a fruit the ‘suppose’ must be, that people will sup and sup on it! A juicy fruit, like a lychee but without the pit, sparkling and light green: a fruit that hides the tart within the s
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The Shadow out of Time
[Oprawa Miękka]
Assuming that I was sane and awake, my experience on that night was such as has befallen no man before’
After five years of 'strange amnesia', Nathaniel Wingate Peaslee remains haunted by madness
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Can Socialists be Happy?
[Oprawa Miękka]
No thinking person can or does genuinely keep out of politics, in an age like the present one
Unfailingly wise and often startlingly prophetic, George Orwell’s essays are masterpieces of plain Eng
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Hop-Frog
[Oprawa Miękka]
Edgar Allen Poe’s short stories have lost none of their power to horrify. He remains a destabilizingly terse sketcher out of ideas, a writer who allows the reader to fill in the many ghastly blanks i
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The Prose Edda
[Oprawa Miękka]
Composed in Iceland in the 13th Century, The Prose Edda is the most renowned of all works of Scandinavian literature, taking readers on a voyage through an enthralling world of gods, giants, dwarfs a
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The Escape of Arsene Lupin
[Oprawa Miękka]
In this thrilling collection, we meet Arsène Lupin, a brilliant, alluring master of disguise – or, as some would have it, a notorious criminal. We follow him on a series of high-stakes adventures, fr
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Where Everything is Music
[Oprawa Miękka]
Rumi’s verses have been a balm for readers’ souls for over eight centuries. This exquisite selection brings together some of the Persian mystic’s most profound, evocative and transcendent works. Expl
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Under the Jaguar Sun
[Oprawa Miękka]
I went down, I climbed back up into the light of the jaguar sun – into the sea of the green sap of the leaves. The world spun, I plunged down, my throat cut by the knife of the king-priest … The sola
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The Fire Next Time
[Oprawa Miękka]
‘It demands great spiritual resilience not to hate the hater whose foot is on your neck, and an even greater miracle of perception and charity not to teach your child to hate’
Told in the form of
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Coal
[Oprawa Miękka]
‘I am Black because I come from the earth’s inside
now take my word for jewel in the open light.’
Impassioned and profound, the poems in Coal showcase Audre Lorde in all her dazzling elegance and
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