Against changing seasons in Japan, seven cats weave their way through their owners' lives. - A needy kitten rescued from the recycling bin teaches a new father how to parent his own human baby - An elderly cat hatches a plan to pass into the next world as a spirit so that he and his owner may be together for ever - A colony of wild cats on a holiday island shows a young boy not to stand in...

In the mid-eighteenth century, as new ideas begin to sweep the continent, a young Jew of mysterious origins arrives in a village in Poland. Before long, he has changed not only his name but his persona; visited by what seem to be ecstatic experiences, Jacob Frank casts a charismatic spell that attracts an increasingly fervent following. In the decade to come, Frank will traverse the Hapsburg...

An expedition to Antarctica goes horribly wrong as a group of explorers stumbles upon some mysterious ancient ruins, with devastating consequences. At the Mountains of Madness ranks among Lovecraft's most terrifying novellas, and is a firm favourite among fans of classic horror.

In this “brave and heartbreaking novel that digs its claws into you and doesn’t let go, long after you’ve finished it” (Anna Todd, New York Times bestselling author) from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of All Your Perfects, a workaholic with a too-good-to-be-true romance can’t stop thinking about her first love. Lily hasn’t always had it easy, but that’s never stopped her from...

From Colleen Hoover, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of It Ends With Us ATTRACTION AT FIRST SIGHT CAN BE MESSY... When Tate Collins finds airline pilot Miles Archer passed out in front of her apartment door, it is definitely not love at first sight. They wouldn't even go so far as to consider themselves friends. But what they do have is an undeniable mutual...

It is Ireland in the early 1950s and for Eilis Lacey, as for so many young Irish girls, opportunities are scarce. So when her sister arranges for her to emigrate to New York, Eilis knows she must go, leaving behind her family and her home for the first time.

An unmissable collection of eight unconventional and captivating short stories for young and adult learners. “I love Olly’s work – and you will too!” – Barbara Oakley, PhD, Author of New York Times bestseller A Mind for Numbers Short Stories in German for Beginners has been written especially for students from beginner to intermediate level, designed to give a sense of achievement, and most...

Seria wydawnicza „,czytamy w oryginale“, zawiera adaptacje największych dzieł literatury światowej w wersji dwujęzycznej, przeznaczonej dla uczących się języka angielskiego. Śledząc losy bohaterów, możemy na bieżąco porównywać tekst angielski i polski. Adaptacje powieści Jane Austen Sense and Sensibility. Rozważna i romantyczna oraz Pride and Prejudice. Duma i uprzedzenie...

Midway through his life, an artist begins to paint upside down. In Paris, a woman is attacked by a stranger in the street. A mother dies. A man falls to his death. Couples seek escape in distant lands. The new novel from one of the most distinctive writers of the age, Parade sets loose a carousel of lives. It surges past the limits of identity, character, and plot, to tell a true story-about...

Język angielski - Poziom B2 Lubisz czytać dobre powieści, a jednocześnie chcesz doskonalić swój angielski? Mamy dla Ciebie idealne połączenie! Klasyka literatury światowej w wersji do nauki języka angielskiego. Dorian Gray, młodzieniec o hipnotyzującej urodzie, pozuje do portretu malarzowi...

Treasure Island. Wyspa Skarbów oraz Moby Dick Dwie adaptacje w jednym tomie z ćwiczeniami i kluczem rozwiązań. Powieść Wyspa skarbów autorstwa szkockiego pisarza Roberta Louisa Stevensona opowiada o poszukiwaniu ukrytego skarbu. Główny bohater powieści – rzezimieszek Długi John Silver – stał się ikoniczną postacią pirata. Moby Dick amerykańskiego pisarza Hermana Melville’a to książka...

Podczas gdy widzowie szaleją na punkcie postaci Jack’a Sparrowa i całej serii Piratów z Karaibów, wciąż warto wyruszyć w czytelniczą podróż z kapitanem Nemo. Na książce 20 000 mil podmorskiej żeglugi, napisanej przez Juliusza Verne’a, wychowywało się wiele pokoleń, przeżywając z bohaterami kolejne przygody oraz poznając podwodny świat fauny i flory. Kapitan Nemo oprowadza po nim profesora...

James Joyce to jeden z najwybitniejszych pisarzy XX wieku. ,,Dublińczycy” to 15 opowiadań, w których zaprezentował świat ówczesnej Irlandii, przedstawił obraz Dublina i życie codzienne mieszkańców. Opowieści pełne są emocji i rozważań o dzieciństwie, młodości i dojrzewaniu. W zbiorze znajduje się uważane za arcydzieło gatunku – opowiadanie ,,Zmarli”. Mówi się, że wydanie ,,Dublińczyków” było...

The Eaters of the Dead is a brilliant, stirring tale of historical adventure which deserves a place on readers bookshelves alongside Michael Crichton''s bestselling techno-thrillers. It is AD922 and Ibn Fadlan is sent north from Baghdad as a peaceful ambassador. But before he reaches his destination, he falls in with some Vikings and when they are attacked by mystical...

Alexandre Dumas’s epic tale of suffering and retribution, inspired by a real-life case of wrongful imprisonment—nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read Thrown in prison for a crime he has not committed, Edmond Dantes is confined to the grim fortress of If. There he learns of a great hoard of treasure hidden on the Isle of Monte Cristo,...

Upton Sinclair's dramatic and deeply moving story exposed the brutal conditions in the Chicago stockyards at the turn of the nineteenth century and brought into sharp moral focus the appalling odds against which immigrants and other working people struggled for their share of the American dream. Denounced by the conservative press as an un-American libel on the meatpacking industry, this...

Living in the slums of Rio and eking out a living as a typist, Macabéa loves movies, Coca-Cola and her philandering rat of a boyfriend she would like to be like Marilyn Monroe, but she is ugly and unloved. Yet telling her story is the narrator Rodrigo S.M., who tries to direct Macabéa's fate but comes to realize that, for all her outward misery, she is inwardly free. Slyly subverting ideas...

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Look! You want to see! See! Feast your eyes, glut your soul on my cursed ugliness! Look at Erik's face! Now you know the face of the voice!' Living secretly beneath the Paris Opera House, 'The Phantom of the Opera', Erik has haunted those who work there with his demands and shrouded the opera house in fear...

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Now he found out a new thing - namely, that to promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing.' An idyllic snapshot of a boy's childhood along the banks of the Mississippi River, Twain's The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is the author's work that comes...

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Princess Diaries series comes the very first adult installment, which follows Princess Mia and her prince charming as they plan their fairy-tale wedding—though a few poisoned apples could turn this happily-ever-after into a royal nightmareFor Princess Mia, the past five years since college graduation have been a whirlwind of activity:...