The poem 'Odyssey', created by the genius of the legendary epic poet of Ancient Greece Homer, is one of the greatest works of world literature, a creation full of full-blooded life, bright fantasy and poetic brilliance. The dangerous adventures of the cunning and long-suffering Odyssey (he, passionately striving to go home to Ithaca, will have to fight with Poseidon, visit the country of cruel...

ompleted the tragedy a few months before his death. This work was the result of the philosophical and artistic searches of the author - a poet, playwright, prose writer, the greatest scientist of his time, a man of encyclopedic knowledge. The hero of the tragedy, Dr. Johann Faust, lived in the first half of the 16th century and was known as a magician and a warlock who, having rejected modern...

Множество источников разной степени достоверности утверждают, что однажды при встрече с автором «Хижины дяди Тома» Авраам Линкольн якобы произнес такую фразу: «Эта маленькая леди начала великую войну». Роман американской писательницы Гарриет Бичер-Стоу (1811–1896) очень быстро приобрел мировую известность и признание. Написанная в характерном для девятнадцатого века сентиментальном стиле...

Роман «Скажи изюм» Василия Аксёнова - яркая, сатирически заостренная картина советского общества семидесятых. В годы брежневского застоя, казалось бы, уже вполне «травоядные», фотографы задумали небывалое - издать неподцензурный альбом «Скажи изюм» в двенадцати экземплярах… Но бдительные «железы» (они же «органы») всегда лучше знают, что граждане Страны Советов должны думать, как действовать...

The surest way to creative immortality is to write from the point of view of eternity. It is from this position that Chingiz Aitmatov, a classic of Russian and Kyrgyz literature, a laureate of prestigious awards, writes his prose. His books - 'And the Day Lasts More Than a Century ...', 'Scaffold' and many others have been translated into dozens of languages. These novels became the property of...

Gwen has a destiny to fulfill, but no one will tell her what it is. She's only recently learned that she is the Ruby, the final member of the time-traveling Circle of Twelve, and since then nothing has been going right. She suspects the founder of the Circle, Count Saint-German, is up to something nefarious, but nobody will believe her. And she's just learned that her charming time-traveling...

Gwyneth Shepherd's sophisticated, beautiful cousin Charlotte has been prepared her entire life for traveling through time. But unexpectedly, it is Gwyneth who in the middle of class takes a sudden spin to a different era! Gwyneth must now unearth the mystery of why her mother would lie about her birth date to ward off suspicion about her ability, brush up on her history, and work with Gideon,...

Czy wyobrażasz sobie, że się zakochujesz, choć nie wolno ci nawet dotknąć drugiej osoby? Jedyną szansą Stelli na przeżycie są nowe płuca. Życie dziewczyny to ciągłe pobyty w szpitalu, przyjmowanie leków i oczekiwanie na przeszczep. W tym czasie musi zachować bezpieczną odległość od wszystkich, żeby nie narażać układu odpornościowego osłabionego nieustanną walką z zakażeniami i bakteriami. Bez...

Seventeen-year-old Alice and her mother have spent most of Alice’s life on the road, always a step ahead of the uncanny bad luck biting at their heels. But when Alice’s grandmother, the reclusive author of a cult-classic book of pitch-dark fairy tales, di

Po mile spedzonym dniu przychodzi czas spania. Kicia Kocia myje zeby i przebiera sie w pizamke. Ale gdy lezy juz w lózeczku, nie moze zasnac. Boi sie ciemnego pokoju. Razem z mama sprawdza, czy aby na pewno w domu nie czai sie jakis potwór.

With unmistakable characters and signature rhymes, Dr. Seuss’s beloved favorite has cemented its place as a children’s classic. Kids will love the terrific tongue-twisters as the list of places to enjoy green eggs and ham gets longer and longer...and they

The classic tale about the elephant Horton and being responsible. In Polish with the original English included in the back as an appendix.