James Joyce first wrote Portrait as a one-thousand page novel, full of well-developed scenes and long explanations of Stephen’s motives, but he decided to trim it into a short book with a new sort of style. The novel tells the story of the first... więcej >

Le roman „Le Portrait de Dorian Grayy” est le livre le plus abouti d’Oscar Wilde. Dans le premier chapitre, Gray est montré a un beau jeune homme dont la beauté extérieure est en harmonie avec sa pureté spirituelle. Et puis Dorian se livre... więcej >

A daring daylight art theft from a crowded museum, a secret document centuries old, and a hidden treasure, these are the elements of the title story in this collection of tales by R. Austin Freeman. Though best known for his famous forensic sleuth,... więcej >

Isabel, the main character of the story, knows the charm of marriage with a worthless person. Her fate – the confluence of fatal circumstances. Being a dowry and finding herself in Europe, she refuses to quite worthy applicants for a hand, and... więcej >

“Man and Superman” is a play by George Bernard Shaw, an Irish playwright who became the leading dramatist of his generation, and in 1925 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.Man and Superman is a four-act drama written by George Bernard... więcej >

The novel is set in England in the mid-nineteenth century. Due to the imperfection of the marriage legislation of England, Ireland and Scotland and the presence of conflicting articles in it, a woman becomes a victim of her scoundrel husband, and... więcej >

The stories that make up The Changed Man were written at different points in Hardy’s life, but this collection was not published until 1913. Hardy wrote really excellent short stories – many of his stories had the scope and complexity of a... więcej >

1926. A Novel. The third in a series that includes „Some Do Not” and „No More Parades”. It chronicles the life of Christopher Tietjens, „the last Tory”, a brilliant government statistician from a wealthy landowning family who is serving... więcej >

The Rev. Tadeusz Dajczer (1931–2009) was a professor of theological sciences, a leading expert of Catholic religious studies in Poland, specialising in the phenomenology of religion. This remarkable academic was primarily a man of spiritual life,... więcej >