Across seven tales, Haruki Murakami brings his powers of observation to bear on the lives of men who, in their own ways, find themselves alone. Here are vanishing cats and smoky bars, lonely hearts a
A young governess is sent to a great country house to care for two orphaned children. To begin with Flora and Miles seem to be model pupils but gradually the governess starts to suspect that somethin
Set in Hardy's fictional realm of Wessex, these four charming novels have been brought together in a stunning clothbound set, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. From the moving and
A beautiful new Vintage Classics edition to celebrate the 15th anniversary, and 10 million copies sold worldwide, of this wise, blackly funny, radically imaginative novel
‘A superb achievement. He
Tajima Shuji, przystojny redaktor bogacący się na czarnym rynku powojennego Tokio, ma jeden problem – zbyt wiele kochanek, z którymi na dodatek chce się rozstać. Tylko jak sprawić, by zgodziły się wy
Toru Okada's cat has disappeared.
His wife is growing more distant every day.
Then there are the increasingly explicit telephone calls he has recently been receiving.
As this compelling stor
In this powerfully influential series of short stories, James Joyce captures uneasy souls, shabby lives and innocent minds in the dark streets and homes of his native city. In doing so, he conjures u
Obecne wydanie Jądra ciemności wzbogacono o ilustracje samego tekstu, zaopatrzono w przypisy i dodano awangardowy komiks Tomasza Bohajedyna. Rysownik wykorzystując kadry ze starych zdjęć kolonialnych
When a thirty-something portrait painter is abandoned by his wife, he holes up in the mountain home of a famous artist. The days drift by, spent painting, listening to music and drinking whiskey in t
The new collection from the legendary Atwood is led by the story of a married couple as they travel the road together, the moments big and small that make up a long life of love -- and what comes aft
Why have people from different cultures and eras formulated myths and stories with similar structures? What does this similarity tell us about the mind, morality, and structure of the world itself? F
Wydana w 1899 r. powieść Josepha Conrada, zaliczana do kanonu literatury zachodniej.
Conrad podjął w tym krótkim utworze problem kolonializmu na przykładzie Wolnego Konga, należącego do belgijskieg
On the Other Hand is a short story collection by the award-winningSlovak author, Pavol Rankov. As the title implies, there is a duality to the stories in this volume – half of them are set in contemp
Un homme désemparé par la perte de son fils, un cambrioleur aux méthodes pour le moins surprenantes, une petite fille terrorisée par son pere, un grand-pere un rien cocasse mais tellement conquis par
For generations, our remote ancestors have been cast as primitive and childlike - either free and equal, or thuggish and warlike. Civilization, we are told, could be achieved only by sacrificing thos
With funny and relatable illustrations throughout, find out what it's really like to live with ADHD.
When Alice Gendron was diagnosed with ADHD aged 29, she knew she didn't fit the usual ADHD ster
Inspired by D.H. Lawrence, Chekhov and Hemingway, Bukowski's writing is passionate, extreme and has attracted a cult following, while his life was as weird and wild as the tales he wrote. This collec
A new translation of Giorgio Bassani's haunting collection of short stories that evoke 1930s Ferrara, with an introduction by Ali Smith.
Isolated lives and a lost world are evoked in these memorab
When 'The Awakening' was first published in 1899, charges of sordidness and immorality seemed to consign it into obscurity and irreparably damage its author's reputation. But a century after her deat
Pakiet, w którego skład wchodzą:
Przemiana / Metamorphosis - już pierwsze zdanie opowiadania wydanego w 1915 roku, wrzuca czytelnika w świat groteskowy, karykaturalny - i tym ciekawszy, że podany
Trzy osoby, trzy historie, jeden los.
Fatou, Marta i Hanwell. Pozornie nic ich nie łączy – ani kraj, z którego pochodzą, ani miasto, w którym żyją, ani życie, które ich doświadcza. Mają jednak coś w
Czy mężczyzna może lecieć z Moskwy do Paryża jedynie z bagażem w postaci damskich kabaretek i depilatora? W opowiadaniach Wiktora Jerofiejewa – jak najbardziej! Jego najnowsza książka Ciało to zbiór
To the Lighthouse is at once a vivid impressionistic depiction of a family holiday, and a meditation on marriage, on parenthood and childhood, on grief, tyranny and bitterness. For years now the Rams