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A Streetcar Named Desire [Oprawa Miękka]
Tennessee Williams

A Streetcar Named Desire
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire is the tale of a catastrophic confrontation between fantasy and reality, embodied in the characters of Blanche DuBois and S
7,71 zł
61,99 zł

The Great Gatsby [Oprawa Miękka]
F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Great Gatsby
It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life' Jay Gatsby is the man who has everything. But one thing will alway
47,01 zł

The Plague [Oprawa Miękka]
Albert Camus

The Plague
The townspeople of Oran are in the grip of a deadly plague, which condemns its victims to a swift and horrifying death. Fear, isolation and claustrophobia follow as they are forced into quarantine. E
57,71 zł

To the Lighthouse [Oprawa Miękka]
Virginia Woolf

To the Lighthouse
To the Lighthouse is at once a vivid impressionistic depiction of a family, the Ramseys, whose annual summer holiday in Scotland falls under the shadow of war, and a meditation on marriage, on parent
45,94 zł

The Trouble With Being Born [Oprawa Miękka]
E. M. Cioran

The Trouble With Being Born
Not to be born is undoubtedly the best plan of all. Unfortunately it is within no one's reach.' In The Trouble With Being Born, E. M. Cioran grapples with the major questions of human existence: b
59,85 zł

Capitalism and Slavery [Oprawa Miękka]
Eric Williams

Capitalism and Slavery
'If one criterion of a classic is its ability to reorient our most basic way of viewing an object or a concept, Eric Williams's study supremely passes that test' Seymour Drescher Arguing that the
60,92 zł

Queer [Oprawa Miękka]
William S. Burroughs

Queer
Originally written in 1952 but not published till 1985, Queer is an enigma - both an unflinching autobiographical self-portrait and a coruscatingly political novel, Burroughs' only realist love story
58,78 zł

Up Above the World [Oprawa Miękka]
Paul Bowles

Up Above the World
A chance encounter while holidaying in Central America leads an American couple, the Slades, to befriend the charming, handsome Grove Soto and his young Cuban mistress. But as the Slades' trip become
59,85 zł

Auschwitz: A Doctor's Eyewitness Account [Oprawa Miękka]
Niklos Nyiszli

Auschwitz: A Doctor's Eyewitness Account
When the Nazis invaded Hungary in 1944, they sent virtually the entire Jewish population to Auschwitz. A Hungarian Jew and a medical doctor, Dr. Miklos Nyiszli was spared from death for a grimmer fat
60,55 zł

I Never Promised You a Rose Garden [Oprawa Miękka]
Joanne Greenberg

I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
The ground-breaking cult classic about a young woman's battle with schizophrenia With a Foreword by Esmé Weijun Wang and an Afterword by the author 'She fought them with her head and her teeth wh
61,99 zł

Howl, Kaddish and Other Poems [Oprawa Miękka]
Allen Ginsberg

Howl, Kaddish and Other Poems
Beat movement icon and visionary poet, Allen Ginsberg broke boundaries with his fearless, pyrotechnic verse. This new collection brings together the famous poems that made his name as a defining figu
53,43 zł

Naked Lunch [Oprawa Miękka]
William S. Burroughs

Naked Lunch
A cultural landmark and the most shocking novel in the English language, Naked Lunch is an exhilarating ride into the darkest recesses of the human psyche. An unnerving tale of an addict unmoored in
58,78 zł

Dark Tales [Oprawa Miękka]
Shirley Jackson

Dark Tales
Step into the unsettling world of Shirley Jackson this autumn with a collection of her finest, darkest short stories, revealing the queen of American gothic at her mesmerising best. There's someth
59,85 zł

Bad Behavior [Oprawa Miękka]
Mary Gaitskill

Bad Behavior
Mary Gaitskill's tales of desire and dislocation in 1980s New York caused a sensation with their frank, caustic portrayals of men and women's inner lives. As her characters have sex, try and fail to
49,73 zł

The Ice Palace [Oprawa Miękka]
Tarjei Vesaas

The Ice Palace
In winter, the black ice cracks like a gunshot across the lake, growing thicker and darker every night. Nearby, a frozen waterfall transforms into a fantastic, baroque structure with dripping buttres
42,60 zł

Night [Oprawa Miękka]
Elie Wiesel

Night
Elie Wiesel's harrowing first-hand account of the atrocities committed during the Holocaust, Night is translated by Marion Wiesel with a preface by Elie Wiesel in Penguin Modern Classics. Born int
46,45 zł

Tropic of Capricorn [Oprawa Miękka]
Henry Miller

Tropic of Capricorn
A story of sexual and spiritual awakening, Tropic of Capricorn shocked readers as much as Henry Miller's first novel, Tropic of Cancer. A mixture of fiction and autobiography, it is the story of Henr
58,78 zł

A Small Town in Germany [Oprawa Miękka]
John le Carre

A Small Town in Germany
West Germany, a simmering cauldron of radical protests, has produced a new danger to Britain: Karfeld, menacing leader of the opposition. At the same time Leo Harting, a Second Secretary in the Briti
54,60 zł

I, Claudius [Oprawa Miękka]
Robert Graves

I, Claudius
Despised for his weakness and regarded by his family as little more than a stammering fool, the nobleman Claudius quietly survives the intrigues, bloody purges and mounting cruelty of the imperial Ro
58,02 zł

The Fountainhead [Oprawa Miękka]
Ayn Rand

The Fountainhead
Ayn Rand's story of Howard Roark, a brilliant architect who dares to stand alone against the hostility of second-hand souls. First published in 1943, this best-selling novel is a passionate defense o
57,71 zł

The Glass Menagerie [Oprawa Miękka]
Tennessee Williams

The Glass Menagerie
Abandoned by her husband, Amanda Wingfield comforts herself with recollections of her earlier, more gracious life in Blue Mountain when she was pursued by 'gentleman callers'. Her son Tom, a poet wit
44,12 zł

Alone in Berlin [Oprawa Miękka]
Hans Fallada

Alone in Berlin
Hans Fallada's Alone in Berlin begins in Berlin, 1940, and the city is filled with fear. At the house on 55 Jablonski Strasse, its various occupants try to live under Nazi rule in their different way
55,27 zł

Pedagogy of the Oppressed [Oprawa Miękka]
Paulo Freire

Pedagogy of the Oppressed
'The foremost work on the key democratic task: helping people to identify and challenge the sources of their oppression ... a transformative text' George Monbiot, Guardian Arguing that 'education
54,50 zł

If Beale Street Could Talk [Oprawa Miękka]
James Baldwin

If Beale Street Could Talk
We are in Harlem, the black soul of New York City, in the era of Aretha Franklin and Ray Charles. The narrator of Baldwin's novel is Tish nineteen, and pregnant. Her lover Fonny, father of her child,
51,29 zł

A View from the Bridge [Oprawa Miękka]
Arthur Miller

A View from the Bridge
Arthur Miller's play A View from the Bridge is a tragic masterpiece of the inexorable unravelling of a man, set in a close-knit Italian-American community in 1950s New York. Eddie Carbone is a lon
53,43 zł

Journey's End [Oprawa Miękka]
R. C. Sherriff

Journey's End
Hailed by George Bernard Shaw as 'useful [corrective] to the romantic conception of war', R.C. Sherriff's Journey's End is an unflinching vision of life in the trenches towards the end of the First W
53,43 zł

Wide Sargasso Sea [Oprawa Miękka]
Jean Rhys

Wide Sargasso Sea
One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World' 'Rhys took one of the works of genius of the 19th Century and turned it inside-out to create one of the works of genius of the 20th Century' Mic
48,08 zł

Chess [Oprawa Miękka]
Stefan Zweig

Chess
In 1941 a cruise ship is heading to Buenos Aires, and on board a group of eager passengers challenge the reigning world chess champion to a match. At first they lose pitifully, until a kind stranger
52,36 zł

The Grapes of Wrath [Oprawa Miękka]
John Steinbeck

The Grapes of Wrath
Shocking and controversial when it was first published in 1939, Steinbeck's Pulitzer prize-winning epic remains his undisputed masterpiece. Set against the background of dust bowl Oklahoma and Califo
61,99 zł

Breakfast at Tiffany's [Oprawa Miękka]
Truman Capote

Breakfast at Tiffany's
Holly Golightly, glittering socialite traveller, generally upwards, sometimes sideways and once in a while down. She's up all night drinking cocktails and breaking hearts. She's a shoplifter, a del
51,29 zł

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