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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 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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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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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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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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Thousand Cranes
[Oprawa Miękka]
Kikuji has been invited to a tea ceremony by a mistress of his dead father, only to find that the mistress’ rival and successor is also present. He falls for her, with devastating consequences. By 19
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All God's Chillun Got Pride
[Oprawa Miękka]
Best known for his hardboiled Harlem Detective series, Chester Himes was also a superb literary writer, beginning his creative life by writing short stories in the 1930s while serving jail time for a
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The Lady Bandit
[Oprawa Miękka]
Priests with shotguns, scheming lovers and a necrophiliac gravedigger haunt the fables of Emilia Pardo Bazán, the formidable Spanish aristocrat, intellectual and feminist. These stories paint a rich
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The Broken Nest
[Oprawa Miękka]
Rabindranath Tagore was one of the greatest authors of his generation. In these two short stories – ‘The Broken Nest’ and ‘Dead or Alive’ – he is at his devastating best, charting the slow, then fast
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Hell
[Oprawa Miękka]
Through the gates of Hell, past whirling hurricanes, leering devils and rivers of blood, lies the ultimate evil: Satan himself. Masterfully translated by Dorothy L. Sayers, this first instalment of T
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Stan the Killer
[Oprawa Miękka]
‘Maigret moved slowly, edging his bulky frame through the throng in Rue Saint-Antoine, which burst into life every morning, the sunshine streaming down from a clear sky on to the little barrows piled
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The Seducer’s Diary
[Oprawa Miękka]
'What does love fear? Limitation.'
Johannes stealthily pursues Cordelia through the streets of Copenhagen, and through an intricate, manipulative courtship contrives to possess her. Motivated not
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Night Owls
[Oprawa Miękka]
'I decided that my trip had evidently been in vain, since nothing of interest could possibly occur on this visit. I was mistaken.'
Condemned to sleeplessness by the chatter permeating his guesthou
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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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Secretary
[Oprawa Miękka]
A writer engulfed by a new obsession, an occasional sex-worker, a runaway, a teenager entering the workplace: these four tales of desire and dislocation explore the rough edges of relationships and t
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The House of Hunger
[Oprawa Miękka]
‘No, I don’t hate being black. I’m just tired of saying it’s beautiful. No, I don’t hate myself. I’m just tired of people bruising their knuckles on my jaw.’
A novella with the force of a screamin
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The Stalls of Barchester Cathedral
[Oprawa Miękka]
There are many great English ghost stories, but they appear flimsy and emotionally spectral compared to the works of M.R. James. This selection gives the reader a flavour of his strange gifts. Often,
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A Confirmed Bachelor
[Oprawa Miękka]
Following the death of his sister, middle-aged Dr Graesler leaves his winter home in Lanzarote for a health resort in Germany, where he practised medicine for many years. There he meets the Schleheim
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Paris France
[Oprawa Miękka]
All Frenchmen know you have to become civilised between eighteen and twenty-three and that civilisation comes upon you by contact with an older woman, by revolution, by army discipline, by any escape
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The Dream of a Ridiculous Man
[Oprawa Miękka]
A delusional man whose strange dream changes his life; a self-justifying husband who causes his wife’s suicide; a witness to a young girl’s ruin; a writer who stretches out on a gravestone and listen
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Family Happiness
[Oprawa Miękka]
‘I’m not the sort of husband you dream of when you’re walking alone along the avenue in the evening, am I? And it would be a disaster, wouldn’t it?’
How does love die? This question lies at the he
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Odour of Chrysanthemums
[Oprawa Miękka]
This small group of stories by D. H. Lawrence show him in a number of moods. The hope is that in such a limited number of pages, the reader will come away with a compressed, rich sense of Lawrence’s
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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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Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
[Oprawa Miękka]
Luminous and intensely lyrical, Dylan Thomas’ works have captivated generations of readers, inspiring artists like The Beatles, Bob Dylan, Igor Stravinsky, and Phoebe Bridgers. This selection include
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The Story of an Hour
[Oprawa Miękka]
There was something coming to her and she was waiting for it, fearfully. What was it? She did not know; it was too subtle and elusive to name
Nuns, maidens, adventurers – with electricity, The Sto
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The Wrath of Achilles
[Oprawa Miękka]
On the fields of Troy, war is raging. At its centre is Achilles: godlike, swift-footed, the greatest champion of the Greeks. But when his pride is wounded and he refuses to fight, the thread of fate
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