literatura w jęz. ang.
Sara wychowuje się jako służąca w szkole dla dziewcząt, gdzie jest samotna i poniżana. Tam odnajduje ją krewny i obdarza bogactwem. Od tej pory Sara staje się najbardziej cenioną pensjonariuszką szkoły, ale wciąż zachowuje swoje zasady i swoją dobroć.
Four different people find themselves on the same roof on New Year's Eve, but they have one thing in common?they're all there to jump to their deaths. A scandal-plagued talk-show host, a single mom of a disabled young man, a troubled teen, and an aging American musician soon unite in a common cause, to find out why Jess (the teen) can't get her ex-boyfriend to return her calls. Down the stairs they go, and thoughts of suicide gradually subside. It all sounds so high concept, but each strand of the plot draws readers into Hornby's...
Najbardziej magiczne z dzieł Szekspira, jest pochwałą miłości i radości, którą ona niesie.
A groundbreaking book that sheds new light on ideas of order - and shows how disorder and mess make our world a better place!
Autobiograficzna powieść o dorastaniu i szukaniu własnego stylu.
A Question of Honor is the gripping, little-known, and brilliantly told story of the scores of Polish fighter pilots who helped save England during the Battle of Britain and of their stunning betrayal by the United States and England at the end of World War II.
Centering on five pilots of the renowned Kosciuszko Squadron, the authors show how the fliers, driven by their passionate desire to liberate their homeland, came to be counted among the most heroic and successful fighter pilots of World War II. Drawing on the Kosciuszko...
"An astonishing achievement! Olson and Cloud give us fascinating account of the extremely well documented heroic and daring struggle of a group of Polish military pilots, and through it they present us a glimpse of the harroving history of Poland and Europe during the Second World War"
- Ryszard Kapuściński
A Room of One's Own, based on a lecture given at Girton College Cambridge, is one of the great feminist polemics, ranging in its themes from Jane Austen and Charlotte Bronte to the silent fate of Shakespeare's gifted (imaginary) sister and the effects of poverty and sexual constraint on female creativity. Three Guineas was published almost a decade later and breaks new ground in its discussion of men, militarism and wome's attitudes towards war. These two pieces reveal Virginia Woolf's fiery spirit and sophisticated wit and confirm...
Forster's social comedy is a witty observation of the English middle classes as they holiday abroad in Florence. One of these tourists is Lucy Honeychurch, a young girl whose heart is awakened by her experiences in Italy.
This book is a thoroughly revised and enlarged version of An Outline History of English Literature, the second edition of which appeared in 2002. It provides a survey of English literature from Old English to the present day. The material covers major literary epochs, and each chapter is provided with a general introduction to the most important literary movements of the period followed by a more detailed examination of given authors and their works. At the end of each chapter the reader finds suggestions for further reading
As the title suggests, bestselling author Bryson (In a Sunburned Country) sets out to put his irrepressible stamp on all things under the sun. As he states at the outset, this is a book about life, the universe and everything, from the Big Bang to the ascendancy of Homo sapiens. "This is a book about how it happened," the author writes. "In particular how we went from there being nothing at all to there being something, and then how a little of that something turned into us, and also what happened in between and since." What...
George Hall is an unobtrusive man. A little distant, perhaps, a little cautious, not at quite at ease with the emotional demands of fatherhood, or manly bonhomie. He does not understand the modern obsession with talking about everything. "The secret of contentment, George felt, lay in ignoring many things completely." Some things in life, however, cannot be ignored.
At 61, George is settling down to a comfortable retirement, building a shed in his garden, reading historical novels and listening to a bit of light jazz. Then his...