Treasure Island is the seminal pirates and buried treasure novel, which is so brilliantly concocted that it appeals to readers both young and old. The story is told in the first person by young Jim Hawkins, whose mother keeps the Admiral Benbow Inn. An old seadog, a resident at the inn, hires Jim to keep a watch out for other sailors whom he fears but, despite all precautions, the old man is...

The flaxen-haired beauty of the childlike Lady Audley would suggest that she has no secrets. But M.E. Braddon’s classic novel of sensation uncovers the truth about its heroine in a plot involving bigamy, arson and murder. It challenges assumptions about the nature of femininity and investigates the narrow divide between sanity and insanity, using as its focus one of the most fascinating of...

The butchered bodies of a young woman and her maid are discovered in a train-carriage. The dreadful slashes to their stomachs are rendered even more awful by the bizarre presence of scorpions, writhing inside the wounds.

Wilde's works are suffused with his aestheticism, brilliant craftsmanship, legendary wit and, ultimately, his tragic muse. He wrote tender fairy stories for children employing all his grace, artistry and wit, of which the best-known is The Happy Prince. Counterpoints to this were his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, which shocked and outraged many readers of his day, and his stories for...

A mysterious lab. A sinister scientist. A secret history. If you think you know the truth about Eleven’s mother, prepare to have your mind turned Upside Down. It's the summer of 1969. The world is changing, and Terry Ives isn't content to watch from the sidelines. When word gets around about an important government experiment, she signs on as a test subject. But behind the walls of Hawkins...

„Wydanie tego tomu jest powodem do świętowania. Tłumaczenia Davida Fricka wreszcie pozwalają anglojęzycznym czytelnikom wsłuchać się swobodnie w wyjątkowe, polskie wypowiedzi Chopina i wychwycić ich niuanse. W poszczególnych listach obserwujemy charakterystyczne procesy zachodzące w wyobraźni kompozytora, niekiedy w postaci w pełni rozwiniętych narracji (z logicznymi strukturami właściwymi...

Zakazana magia ma swoją cenę. Utrata przyjaciół, rodziny, spokoju, moralności… Kapryśny książę demonów ma teraz nad Tobą władzę. Może jednak jest dla Ciebie jakaś szansa, a Twoja dusza nie jest do końca zepsuta? To, jak pokierujesz swoim przeznaczeniem zależy tylko od Ciebie, bo tutaj bohaterem jesteś Ty! Komiks paragrafowy w klimacie mangi Piękne wydanie w twardej oprawie...

Roland Deschain, bliski śmierci po ataku Powolnych Mutantów, zostaje przygarnięty przez grupę Sióstr specjalizujących się w tym co można nazwać przeciwieństwem leczenia. Te szkaradne, przypominające trupy istoty znane jako Siostrzyczki z Elurii w swych pokręconych umysłach mają żądzę mordu. A w swym obecnym stanie Roland nie może zrobić prawie nic by nie znajdować się na ich łasce.

'How can the bird that is born for joy / Sit in a cage and sing?' A selection of Blake's most haunting verse, including 'The Songs of Innocence and Experience'. One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946. Each book gives readers a taste of the Classics' huge range and diversity, with works from around...

300 years before A Game of Thrones, an even greater game began, one that set the skies alight with dragon flame and saw the Seven Kingdoms turned to ash. So began the Targaryens’ bloody rule, with fire and blood. Setting brother against brother, mother against daughter, and dragon against dragon. Chronicled by a learned maester of the Citadel, this thrilling and...

Anna Karenina is one of the most loved and memorable heroines of literature. Her overwhelming charm dominates a novel of unparalleled richness and density. Tolstoy considered this book to be his first real attempt at a novel form, and it addresses the very nature of society at all levels of destiny, death, human relationships and the irreconcilable contradictions of existence. It ends...

How did our species succeed in the battle for dominance? Why did our foraging ancestors come together to create cities and kingdoms? How did we come to believe in gods, nations and human rights; to trust money, books and laws; and to be enslaved by bureaucracy, timetables and consumerism? And what will our world be like in the millennia to come?

Based on Charlotte Brontë's personal experience as a teacher in Brussels, Villette is a moving tale of repressed feelings and subjection to cruel circumstance and position, borne with heroic fortitude. Rising above the frustrations of confinement within a rigid social order, it is also the story of a woman's right to love and be loved.

Adam Smith (1723-1790) was one of the brightest stars of the eighteenth-century Scottish Enlightenment. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations was his most important book. First published in London in March 1776, it had been eagerly anticipated by Smith’s contemporaries and became an immediate bestseller. That edition sold out quickly and others followed. Today,...

Niekończący się konflikt. Stary grzech. Nowe objawienie. Simon Hathaway, członek Wewnętrznego Sanktuarium Zakonu Templariuszy, staje na czele wydziału Badań Historycznych Abstergo Industries, wnosząc do nowej pracy swoje analityczne podejście i chłodne spojrzenie. Ale Simon jest także głodny wiedzy i zafascynowany możliwością bezpośredniego doświadczania historii poprzez wspomnienia...

The Winter's Tale, one of Shakespeare's later romantic comedies, offers a striking and challenging mixture of tragic and violent events, lyrical love-speeches, farcical comedy, pastoral song and dance, and, eventually, dramatic revelations and reunions. Thematically, there is a rich orchestration of the contrasts between age and youth, corruption and innocence, decline and regeneration. Both...

The Wordsworth Classics' Shakespeare Series presents a newly-edited sequence of William Shakespeare's works. The Textual editing takes account of recent scholarship while giving the material a careful reappraisal. Hamlet is not only one of Shakespeare's greatest plays, but also the most fascinatingly problematical tragedy in world literature. First performed around 1600, this a gripping and...

With an Introduction and Notes by Owen Knowles, University of Hull. Thackeray's upper-class Regency world is a noisy and jostling commercial fairground, predominantly driven by acquisitive greed and soulless materialism, in which the narrator himself plays a brilliantly versatile role as a serio-comic observer. Although subtitled A Novel without a Hero, Vanity Fair follows the fortunes of...

Brisingr” (czytaj:bri-sin-gr) Christophera Paoliniego czyli 3. tom przygód Eragona Eragon i jego smoczyca Saphira ledwie uszli z życiem z ogromnej bitwy z wojownikami Imperium na Płonących Równinach. Teraz muszą stawić czoło kolejnym niebezpieczeństwom – a także splątanej sieci obietnic i przysiąg, których Eragon może nie zdołać dotrzymać. Pierwsza to obietnica złożona kuzynowi Rotanowi, że...

Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) is one of the most important and innovative figures of the European Middle Ages. Writing his Comedy (the epithet 'Divine' was added by later admirers) in exile from his native Florence, he aimed to address a world gone astray both morally and politically. At the same time, he sought to push back the restrictive rules which traditionally governed writing in the...