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 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.

Like George Orwell, Franz Kafka has given his name to a world of nightmare, but in Kafka’s world, it is never completely clear just what the nightmare is. The Trial, where the rules are hidden from even the highest officials, and if there is any help to be had, it will come from unexpected sources, is a chilling, blackly amusing tale that maintains, to the very end, a relentless atmosphere...

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...

J-23 znowu nadaje! Trzeci z dwudziestu zeszytów kultowego komiksu „Kapitan Kloss”.

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...

Komuna ustępuje miejsca krwiożerczemu kapitalizmowi , co jednak wcale nie oznacza, że wszystko nagle układa się świetnie. To był taki dobry plan, co mogło się nie udać?! Miały być zyski z wyśrubowanych norm i wakacje w Bułgarii. Miał być wyzysk i poganianie klasy robotniczej batogiem przez spasionego burżuja z cygarem w zębach....

Książka "Moje komiksy Vol. 1. Od Tajfuna do Supermana" zabiera czytelnika w nostalgiczną, ale także pełną odniesień do współczesności, podróż przez fantastyczne światy. Wszystko zaczyna się na odległej planecie, terroryzowanej przez straszliwe monstrum, a kończy w świecie opanowanym przez superbohaterów. W trakcie tej wyprawy dowiecie się, co Tytus zawdzięcza radzieckiemu Sputnikowi, czym...

'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...

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,...

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...

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...

"Jane Eyre" ranks as one of the greatest and most perennially popular works of English fiction. Although the poor but plucky heroine is outwardly of plain appearance, she possesses an indomitable spirit, a sharp wit and great courage. She is forced to battle against the exigencies of a cruel guardian, a harsh employer and a rigid social order. All of which circumscribe her life and position...

The Art Of War is an ancient Chinese military treatise attributed to Sun Tzu, a high-ranking military general, strategist and tactician. The text is composed of 13 chapters, each of which is devoted to one aspect of warfare. It is commonly know to be the definitive work on military strategy and tactis of its time. it has been the most famous oan influential of China's Seven Military...

‘As a man loved a woman, that was how I loved…It was good, good, good…’ Stephen is an ideal child of aristocratic parents – a fencer, a horse rider and a keen scholar. Stephen grows to be a war hero, a bestselling writer and a loyal, protective lover. But Stephen is a woman, and her lovers are women. As her ambitions drive her, and society confines her, Stephen is forced into...

Kolejny album historyczny z przygodami Tytusa, Romka i A’Tomka. Po ukazaniu się 31 ksiąg w formacie zeszytowym przygody Tytusa przybrały formę albumów omawiających ważne tematy historyczne. W albumach historycznych czytelnicy mieli okazję poznania wielu władców, przywódców, bohaterów i ich dokonań. Wspólnie z chłopcami poznawali historię Polski i śledzili losy...

Drugi tom cyklu Szklany tron, opowiadającego o zabójczyni Celaenie Sardothien Po roku ciężkiej pracy w kopalni soli osiemnastoletnia Celaena Sardothien zdobywa pozycję królewskiej zabójczyni. Nie jest jednak lojalna względem tronu, choć ukrywa ten sekret nawet przed najbliższymi przyjaciółmi. Nie jest jej łatwo utrzymać tę tajemnicę, zwłaszcza gdy król zleca jej...