Eine Liebesgeschichte? - Zweifellos. Die zärtliche Zuneigung der Bauernkinder Sali und Vreneli ist voller Poesie, voller Licht und Sonne. Die Sehnsucht, die sie weckt, hat ihre Wurzel jedoch nicht in der Erfüllung. Denn von Habsucht ist die kleine Welt der Kinder bestimmt, von der Besitzgier ihrer sich auf den Tod verfeindenden Väter.

Der Bahnwärter Thiel lebt glücklich mit seiner Frau und seinem Sohn Tobias zusammen und führt seinen Dienst stets pflichtbewusst und zuverlässig aus. Als seine Frau stirbt, heiratet er die dominante und herrische Magd Lene, mit der er ein Kind bekommt. Lene misshandelt Tobias, und Thiel sieht in einer Wahnvorstellung bereits seine erste Frau mit einem blutigen Bündel über die Gleise fliehen....

Kafka beendete die Niederschrift dieser "kleinen Geschichte", die er auch selbst einmal als "ausnehmend ekelhafte Geschichte" bezeichnete, in der Nacht vom 6. Dezember zum 7. Dezember 1912. Er beschreibt hier minutioes die Folgen der Verwandlung des Handelsreisenden Gregor Samsa in eine Tiergestalt und somit die unterschiedlichsten Elemente der Gegenwelt des Menschlichen. Im Jahr 1914 von...

Hedda Gabler to jedna z wielkich kobiecych postaci Ibsena - kobieta trawiona wielkimi ambicjami, która nie potrafi odnaleźć swojego miejsca w społeczeństwie. Henrik Ibsen konfrontuje niesprecyzowane dążenia bohaterki oraz mieszczański świat, którego ona nie potrafi i nie chce uznać za swój. Z konieczności zgodziła się na rolę żony w mieszczańskim domu, lecz pragnie czegoś więcej, za wszelką...

Jane Austen is without question, one of England's most enduring and skilled novelists. With her wit, social precision, and unerring ability to create some of literature's most charismatic and believable heroines, she mesmerises her readers as much today as when her novels were first published. Whether it is her sharp, ironic gaze at the Gothic genre invoked by the adventures of Catherine...

In the Middle Ages there were gaols and dungeons, but punishment was for the most part a spectacle. In this provocative work, Michel Foucault argues that the development of the Western system of prisons, police and legal hierarchies have merely shifted the focus of social control from our bodies to our souls.

Transplanted to Europe from her native America, Isabel Archer has candour, beauty, intelligence, an independent spirit and a marked enthusiasm for life. An unexpected inheritance apparently gives her freedom, but despite all her natural advantages she makes one disastrous error of judgement and the result is genuinely tragic. Her tale, told with James inimitable poise, is of the widest...

With Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, International Booker Prize-winner Olga Tokarczuk returns with a subversive, entertaining noir novel.

Kokoro (1914) is a novel by Natsume Soseki. Set during a period of modernization in Japan, Kokoro is a story of family, faith, and tragedy that explores timeless themes of isolation and identity. Spanning generations, Kokoro is a classic novel from one of Japan’s most successful twentieth century writers. Tradition and change, life and death—such are the subjects of Soseki’s...

Powieść angielskiej pisarki i poetki okresu romantyzmu jest uważana przez niektórych za pierwszą książkę z gatunku SF. Mary Shelley napisała ją zainspirowana odkryciami naukowymi swojej epoki. Wymowa powieści obraca się wokół dylematu moralnego równania się człowieka z Bogiem-stwórcą. Powieść doczekała się wielu przeróbek i adaptacji filmowych.

What happens to those girls who go missing? What happens to the Zoe Nolans of the world?' In the early hours of Saturday, December 17th, 2011, Zoe Nolan, a 19-year-old Manchester University student, walked out of a party taking place in the shared accommodation where she had been living for three months. She was never seen again.

One of the most celebrated and popular historical romances ever written, The Three Musketeers tells the story of the early adventures of the young Gascon gentleman, D'Artagnan and his three friends from the regiment of the King's Musketeers - Athos, Porthos and Aramis. Under the watchful eye of their patron M. de Treville, the four defend the honour of the regiment against the...

Told with Lemmy's indomitable charisma and humour, this is the autobiography of a rock icon who over the past thirty years in the industry, has stayed true to his music, his fans and his pleasures. Lemmy was born Ian Fraser Kilmister in 1945, the son of a vicar who walked out on his mother when Lemmy was just three months old. Having been inspired to play the guitar by Chicks, Little Richard...

The massively acclaimed Alien franchise is one of the most successful of all time, beginning with the first film in 1979. In a dramatic twist, this novel will return us to that time, to Ellen Ripley, and to never-before-revealed secrets of the Weyland-Yutani Corporations...secrets that lead into the events of the second film, Aliens...and beyond!

Vanessa Wye was fifteen years old when she first had sex with her English teacher. She is now thirty-two and in the storm of allegations against powerful men in 2017, the teacher, Jacob Strane, has just been accused of sexual abuse by another former student. Vanessa is horrified by this news, because she is quite certain that the relationship she had with Strane wasn't abuse. It was love....

'Anyone who can read should read this book' Maya Angelou 'Estés points to storytelling, our ancient narratives, as a way for women to reconnect to the Wild Woman all women have within themselves, but have lost' Emma Watson Go out in the woods, go out. If you don't go out in the woods nothing will ever happen and your life will never begin. Within every woman, there lies a powerful force of...

It was just an ordinary day for Alex Harper at Harper's Antiquities, until Callum Winters walked in with a watch. "It was my Grandfather's. I was hoping you could tell me something about it."

Sherlock Holmes, scourge of criminals everywhere, whether they be lurking in London\'s foggy...

1948: Japan is rebuilding her cities after the calamity of World War II, her people putting defeat behind them and looking to the future. The celebrated painter Masuji Ono fills his days attending to his garden, his two grown daughters and his grandson, and his evenings drinking with old associates in quiet lantern-lit bars. His should be a tranquil retirement. But as his memories...

A major anthology of great Japanese short stories introduced by Haruki Murakami This is a celebration of the Japanese short story from its modern origins in the nineteenth century to remarkable contemporary works. It includes the most well-known Japanese writers - Akutagawa, Murakami, Mishima, Kawabata - but also many surprising new pieces, from Yuko Tsushima's 'Flames' to Banana Yoshimoto's...