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Flush [Oprawa Miękka]
Virginia Woolf

'Things are not simple but complex. If he bit Mr. Browning he bit her too. Hatred is not hatred; hatred is also love.' Virginia Woolf's delightful biography of the poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning'
22,40 zł

The Book of Tea 112 [Oprawa Miękka]
Kakuzo Okakura

'Meanwhile, let us have a sip of tea. The afternoon glow is brightening the bamboos, the fountains are bubbling with delight, the soughing of the pines is heard in our kettle.' In this charming bo
23,47 zł

A Nervous Breakdown [Oprawa Miękka]
Anton Chekhov

"I did have hallucinations, but did they harm anyone? Who did they harm, that's what I'd like to know!' From the supreme artist of the short story, three disturbing tales of supernatural hallucina
18,12 zł

White Nights [Oprawa Miękka]
Fyodor Dostoyevsky

'My God! A whole minute of bliss! Is that really so little for the whole of a man's life?' A poignant tale of love and loneliness from Russia's foremost writer. One of 46 new books in the bests
20,40 zł

Seven Hanged [Oprawa Miękka]
Leonid Andreyev

It was like walking along the knife-edge of the highest possible mountain range, seeing life on one side and death on the other in the form of two deep, gorgeous and gleaming seascapes.' This asto
11,92 zł

Aphorisms on Love and Hate [Oprawa Miękka]
Friedrich Nietzsche

We must learn to love, learn to be kind, and this from our earliest youth ... Likewise, hatred must be learned and nurtured, if one wishes to become a proficient hater' This volume contains a sele
20,40 zł

The Meek One [Oprawa Miękka]
Fyodor Dostoyevski

I could see that she was still terribly afraid, but I didn't soften anything; instead, seeing that she was afraid I deliberately intensified it.' In this short story, Dostoyevsky masterfully depic
20,40 zł

The Nose [Oprawa Miękka]
Nikolai Gogol

'Strangely enough, I mistook it for a gentleman at first. Fortunately I had my spectacles with me so I could see it was really a nose. .Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th
20,40 zł

Socrates' Defence [Oprawa Miękka]
Plato

'I'll stop doing it as soon as I understand what I'm doing.' Somewhere between a historical account and work of philosophy, Socrates' Defence details the final plea of Plato's beloved mentor. I
20,40 zł

The Life of a Stupid Man [Oprawa Miękka]
Ryunosuke Akutagawa

'What is the life of a human being - a drop of dew, a flash of lightning? This is so sad, so sad.' Autobiographical stories from one of Japan's masters of modernist story-telling.Introducing Little B
20,40 zł

The Gate of the Hundred Sorrows [Oprawa Miękka]
Rudyard Kipling

'Mind you, it was a pukka, respectable opium-house, and not one of those stifling, sweltering chandoo-khanas that you can find all over the City.'Kipling first became famous for his pungent, harsh an
20,40 zł

The Dolphins, the Whales and the Gudgeon [Oprawa Miękka]
Aesop

'An ass, clothed in the skin of a lion...'Aesop's animal fables are some of the earliest stories ever told, thought to have been composed by a slave in Greek antiquity and giving glimpses of a world
13,13 zł

Daphnis and Chloe [Oprawa Miękka]
Longus

'This only they knew, that the kiss had destroyed him and the bath had destroyed her.' In this beautiful Ancient Greek tale, Daphnis and Chloe are the inexperienced goatherd and shepherd who must
11,92 zł

Kidnapped [Oprawa Miękka]
Olaudah Equiano

'Cut iron with iron, What makes iron valuable, Big kuku tree and big silk-cotton tree, Fari and Kaunju -' Told and retold since the fourteenth century, this West African epic chronicles the sto
15,54 zł

The Frogs [Oprawa Miękka]
Aristophanes

'Ko-ax, ko-ax, ko-ax! Now listen, you musical twerps, I don't give a damn for your burps!' A biting comedy from the great Ancient Greek playwright. One of 46 new books in the bestselling Litt
15,54 zł

Lips too Chilled [Oprawa Miękka]
Matsuo Basho

'Nothing more lonely -' A selection of Basho's most magical haiku Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and div
20,40 zł

My life had stood a loaded gun 114 [Oprawa Miękka]
Emily Dickinson

Electrifying poems of isolation, beauty, death and eternity from a reclusive genius and one of America's greatest writers. One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to c
20,40 zł

Green Tea 90 [Oprawa Miękka]
Le Fanu Sheridan

From the pioneer of horror fiction, this tale of a clergyman tormented by a demonic creature is one of the greatest Victorian ghost stories. One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Cla
8,28 zł

The Sandman [Oprawa Miękka]
E.T.A Hoffmann

The disturbing tale of a young man's obsession with the Sandman, stealer of eyes, which has inspired writers from Sigmund Freud to Neil Gaiman. One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black
14,33 zł

Circles of Hell [Oprawa Miękka]
Dante

A terrifying depiction of si and eternal damnation from Dante's Inferno, the medieval epic that revolutionized the italian language.
20,40 zł

It Was Snowing Butterflies [Oprawa Miękka]
Charles Darwin

The vessel drove before her bows two billows of liquid phosphorus' A selection of Darwin's extraordinary adventures during the voyage of the Beagle Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books f
20,40 zł

Femme Fatale [Oprawa Miękka]
Guy Maupassant

A selection of Maupassant's brilliant, glittering stories set in the Parisian beau monde and Normandy countryside. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little B
13,13 zł

The World is Full of Foolish Men [Oprawa Miękka]
Jean De La Fontaine

'The pleasure is twice as sweet When you cheat a cheat.' An illustrated collection of fables from one of France's most vital writers. One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classi
20,40 zł

A Terrible Beauty is Born [Oprawa Miękka]
W.B. Yeats

By turns joyful and despairing, some of the twentieth century's greatest verse on fleeting youth, fervent hopes and futile sacrifice.
20,40 zł

Trivia or the Art of Walking the Streets of London.. [Oprawa Miękka]
John Gay

This joyful poetic satire describes wig thieves, chamberpots, prostitutes and other hazards to be avoided on the teeming streets of eighteenth-century London.
7,07 zł

The Queen of Spades [Oprawa Miękka]
Alexander Pushkin

One of Pushkin's most popular and chilling stories, 'The Queen of Spades' tells of a young man who develops a dangerous obsession in pursuit of the wealth he craves. One of 46 new books in the bes
8,28 zł

Love That Moves the Sun and Other Stars [Oprawa Miękka]
Dante

A collection of cantos from Paradiso, the most original and experimental part of the Divina Commedia. One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ev
20,40 zł

The Withered Arm 99 [Oprawa Miękka]
Thomas Hardy

A jealous lover's curse and an ingenious party trick feature in these two suspenseful stories set in Hardy's imaginary Wessex. One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series,
7,07 zł

Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast [Oprawa Miękka]
Oscar Wilde

It would be unfair to expect other people to be as remarkable as oneself' Wilde's celebrated witticisms on the dangers of sincerity, duplicitous biographers, the stupidity of the English - and his
20,40 zł

Nonsense 100 [Oprawa Miękka]
Edward Lear

Exuberant and ingenious, Lear's best-loved poems tell of jumblies, quangle wangles and luminous noses. One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first e
7,07 zł
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