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Why I am a Stoic [Oprawa Miękka]
Seneca

Plagued by ill-health, violently sick at sea, irritated by renovation costs: Seneca is never less than sympathetically human. In these letters written 2000 years ago, the ancient philosopher speaks t
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All God's Chillun Got Pride [Oprawa Miękka]
Chester Himes

Best known for his hardboiled Harlem Detective series, Chester Himes was also a superb literary writer, beginning his creative life by writing short stories in the 1930s while serving jail time for a
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Lamb to the Slaughter [Oprawa Miękka]
Roald Dahl

No author perfected the twist in the tale better than Roald Dahl. His stories – many of which were filmed as Tales of the Unexpected – take us into a world that is shocking, cruelly funny and always
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The Price of Freedom [Oprawa Miękka]
Saadat Hasan Manto

Saadat Hasan Manto, the most widely read and translated writer in the Urdu language, captured the devastation and absurdity of the partition of India and Pakistan like no other. The Price of Freedom
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Unpacking My Library [Oprawa Miękka]
Walter Benjamin

‘Every sort of passion verges on chaos, I know, but what the collecting passion verges on is a chaos of memories.’ From intimate musings on his book collection, to a dream-like trip through the bu
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Thousand Cranes [Oprawa Miękka]
Yasunari Kawabata

Kikuji has been invited to a tea ceremony by a mistress of his dead father, only to find that the mistress’ rival and successor is also present. He falls for her, with devastating consequences. By 19
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Strange News from Another Planet [Oprawa Miękka]
Hermann Hesse

Of course, very few people go through the gate and abandon the beautiful phenomenon of the outside world for the interior reality that they intuit… A visitor to a zoo discovers he can understand t
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Tristessa [Oprawa Miękka]
Jack Kerouac

Tristessa is a strange fever-dream of morphine sickness and belly-deep sadness. Or, in the words of Allen Ginsberg: ‘a narrative meditation studying a hen, a rooster, a dove, a cat, a chihuahua dog,
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A Lost Lady [Oprawa Miękka]
Willa Cather

Marian Forrester enchants everyone around her: her husband, an elderly railroad pioneer; the small town of Sweet Water; and Niel Herbert, her unwavering confidant. Yet, her irresistible charm and daz
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Closely Watched Trains [Oprawa Miękka]
Bohumil Hrabal

Closely Watched Trains tells the story of Miloš Hrma, a young railroad apprentice coming of age in wartime Czechoslovakia. Miloš is overwhelmed with worries – about his virginity, his love for the co
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Odour of Chrysanthemums [Oprawa Miękka]
D.H. LAWRENCE

This small group of stories by D. H. Lawrence show him in a number of moods. The hope is that in such a limited number of pages, the reader will come away with a compressed, rich sense of Lawrence’s
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Family Happiness [Oprawa Miękka]
Leo Tolstoy

‘I’m not the sort of husband you dream of when you’re walking alone along the avenue in the evening, am I? And it would be a disaster, wouldn’t it?’ How does love die? This question lies at the he
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Requiem [Oprawa Miękka]
Antonio Tabucchi

My dear friend, he said, life is strange and strange things happen in life' It is a hot July Sunday in Lisbon and our narrator has an appointment to meet someone by the quayside. But when his gues
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The Burial of the Rats [Oprawa Miękka]
Bram Stoker

The bones were still warm; but they were picked clean. They had even eaten their own dead This spine-chilling collection from Dracula creator Bram Stoker showcases five haunting tales, including t
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The Dream of a Ridiculous Man [Oprawa Miękka]
Fyodor Dostoyevsky

A delusional man whose strange dream changes his life; a self-justifying husband who causes his wife’s suicide; a witness to a young girl’s ruin; a writer who stretches out on a gravestone and listen
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Beauty [Oprawa Miękka]
Andy Warhol

People should fall in love with their eyes closed. Just close your eyes. Don’t look.’ From Warhol’s romantic relationships to his thoughts on interior design, these candid, highly entertaining mus
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Whatever is Rational is Tolerable [Oprawa Miękka]
Epictetus

I must die. But must I die bawling?’ What does it mean to live a virtuous life? How can we rise above pain and anguish? In these teachings from Book 1 of his Discourses, ancient philosopher Epicte
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Rescue [Oprawa Miękka]
Czeslaw Miłosz

Collecting two of his most celebrated works – Rescue, written in Warsaw in the shadow of Nazi occupation, and A Treatise on Poetry – a momentous history of Poland, told in four cantos – here lie the
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The Story of an Hour [Oprawa Miękka]
Kate Chopin

There was something coming to her and she was waiting for it, fearfully. What was it? She did not know; it was too subtle and elusive to name Nuns, maidens, adventurers – with electricity, The Sto
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The Wrath of Achilles [Oprawa Miękka]
Homer

On the fields of Troy, war is raging. At its centre is Achilles: godlike, swift-footed, the greatest champion of the Greeks. But when his pride is wounded and he refuses to fight, the thread of fate
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Can Socialists be Happy? [Oprawa Miękka]
George Orwell

No thinking person can or does genuinely keep out of politics, in an age like the present one Unfailingly wise and often startlingly prophetic, George Orwell’s essays are masterpieces of plain Eng
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Night Flight [Oprawa Miękka]
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Fabien tonight was wandering over the vast splendour of a sea of clouds, but below him lay eternity. Inspired by his career as an aviator, Saint-Exupéry’s soaring novel follows the journeys of thr
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The Shadow out of Time [Oprawa Miękka]
H. P. Lovecraft

Assuming that I was sane and awake, my experience on that night was such as has befallen no man before’ After five years of 'strange amnesia', Nathaniel Wingate Peaslee remains haunted by madness
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October Nights [Oprawa Miękka]
Gerard de Nerval

In October Nights, Gerard de Nerval takes us on a gentle meander through nighttime Paris – a dreamlike journey towards getting lost. Also included in this volume is Sylvie, his haunting novella of lo
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I am a Bird From Paradise [Oprawa Miękka]
Hafez

May I remember always when, Your glance in secrecy met mine, And in my face your love was like A visibly reflected sign. May I remember always when, Your chiding eyes were like my death, And
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Paris France [Oprawa Miękka]
Gertrude Stein

All Frenchmen know you have to become civilised between eighteen and twenty-three and that civilisation comes upon you by contact with an older woman, by revolution, by army discipline, by any escape
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The Maverick Pig [Oprawa Miękka]
Wang Xiaobo

Razor-sharp, pugnacious and blackly funny, Wang Xiaobo’s essays established him as one of China’s most popular – and subversive – writers. From the political power of silence to the irrepressible spi
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Reflections in a Golden Eye [Oprawa Miękka]
Carson McCullers

On a military base in 1930s Georgia, Private Ellgee Williams catches sight of his captain’s wife in the nude and becomes obsessed with her. But Captain Penderton – unhappily married to the unfaithful
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The Driver's Seat [Oprawa Miękka]
Muriel Spark

Muriel Spark claimed The Driver’s Seat to be her best and creepiest novel. Once you have met her heroine Lise – heading for the holiday of a lifetime in an extraordinarily garish dress and with viole
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Lady L. [Oprawa Miękka]
Romain Gary

Why should I bother to invent things? My life has been far more exciting and wonderful than any fairy-tale’ In the heart of the English countryside, surrounded by irritatingly polite relatives and
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