Nach dem Militärputsch 1971 flieht die Erzählerin aus Istanbul übers Meer nach Europa. Wie auch andere Künstlerinnen und Künstler, Linke und Intellektuelle fürchtet sie um ihre Existenz. Im Gepäck: das unbedingte Verlangen, den so jäh gekappten kulturellen Reichtum ihres Landes andernorts bekannt zu machen und lebendig zu halten. Im geteilten Berlin, auf den Boulevards von Paris, im...

This volume examines the present-day situation of Hungarian as a minority language in Romania. It is an important addition to the study of the Hungarian language in the diaspora that should be of interest not only to linguists and sociologists also sociol

В сборнике представлены знаменитая сатирическая повесть Подпоручик Киже и роман Смерть Вазир-Мухтара, повествующий о трагической судьбе одного из самых удивительных и талантливых людей России Александра Грибоедова.

Maria Sklodowska was an extraordinary woman. Not only was she interested in completely extraordinary things, such as chemical experiments and physical phenomena, but she also wanted to educate herself and became an outstanding scientist! She left Poland and studied at the Sorbonne in France. There she met her husband - Pierre Curie. While researching radioactivity in a duo with her husband,...

Under the alias GirlOnline, Penny blogs her hidden feelings about friendship, boys, high school drama, her crazy family, and the panic attacks that have begun to take over her life. When things go from bad to worse, her family whisks her away to New York, where she meets Noah, a gorgeous, guitar-strumming American. Suddenly Penny is falling in love - and capturing every moment of it on her blog.

Эти парень и девушка знакомы с детства и еще могут полюбить друг друга, но им придется стать врагами. По жребию они должны участвовать в страшных Голодных играх, где побеждает только один - таков закон, который не нарушался еще никогда… Китнисс и Пит выжили - заставили признать победителями их обоих. Но многие из тех, кому не нравится победа, считают парня и девушку опасными. У этих людей...

This time you have a chance to meet one of the most famous artists in the world. Pablo Picasso, because that's who we're talking about, was the creator of paintings hanging in the best museums, but also sculptures and theater sets. He also had a very interesting and intense life, covering most of the eventful 20th century. He met many famous and interesting people, and he was occupied not...

Dieses Lesebuch breitet das gesamte Spektrum eines beeindruckenden Werkes aus: Der vitale Erzähler Zuckmayer ist genauso vertreten wie der große Dramatiker, der mit dem ›Hauptmann von Köpenick‹ eines der wichtigsten Stücke des 20. Jahrhunderts verfasst hat. Vor allem die Essays und autobiographischen Texte zeigen den tiefen Humanismus Zuckmayers, der sich selbst in finsterster Zeit nicht...

n lore as he confronts a shadow from his past. While others towns celebrate Halloween, in Eerie-on-Sea it’s Ghastly Night, and a grim spirit in a lantern awaits its moment. Legend has it that if people fail to light manglewick candles on Ghastly Night, and if no showman conjures shadow puppets on the pier as an offering, the insulted Shadowghast will seize and devour the shadows of the living....

The Polish American Congress is an umbrella organization that represents approximately ten million Americans of Polish descent. It was founded in 1944 with the aim of representing the interests of the Polish nation in the view of the Soviet plans to subjugate Poland and at the same time of promoting the Polish American ethnic group in the United States. It is the largest and longest-lasting...

На пятьдесят оттенков темнее - вторая книга трилогии Э Л Джеймс Пятьдесят оттенков, которая стала бестселлером №1 в мире, покорив читателей откровенностью и чувственностью.

Nicolaus Copernicus is certainly one of the most famous Poles in the world. No wonder, after all, he led to a real scientific revolution! It was he who ‘stopped the Sun and moved the Earth’, discovering that the planets move around the Sun, not the other way around, as was believed for hundreds of years. Although this citizen of Torun is primarily the author of the famous treatise ‘On the...