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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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The Blazing World [Oprawa Miękka]
Margaret Cavendish

‘I had rather die in the adventure of noble achievements, than live in obscure and sluggish security’ In 1666, Margaret Cavendish had a vision: there was a crack in reality at the North Pole leadi
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Coal [Oprawa Miękka]
Audre Lorde

‘I am Black because I come from the earth’s inside now take my word for jewel in the open light.’ Impassioned and profound, the poems in Coal showcase Audre Lorde in all her dazzling elegance and
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The Fire Next Time [Oprawa Miękka]
James Baldwin

‘It demands great spiritual resilience not to hate the hater whose foot is on your neck, and an even greater miracle of perception and charity not to teach your child to hate’ Told in the form of
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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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After Midnight [Oprawa Miękka]
Irmgard Keun

Arrested in Cologne for remarking that the Fuhrer looked sweaty, nineteen-year-old Sanna has fled to Frankfurt. But her troubles are far from over. Her best friend Gerti has fallen for a Jewish boy,
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The Rich Boy [Oprawa Miękka]
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me . . . In this glittering new selection of Fitzgerald’s short stories, we meet Anson Hunter, ‘The Rich Boy’, whose opulent, h
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The New Dress [Oprawa Miękka]
Virginia Woolf

In these exquisite stories from the genius of English modernism, everyday objects acquire profound significance: a lump of buried green glass leads to a lifetime of obsession; a mark on the wall prom
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Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night [Oprawa Miękka]
Dylan Thomas

Luminous and intensely lyrical, Dylan Thomas’ works have captivated generations of readers, inspiring artists like The Beatles, Bob Dylan, Igor Stravinsky, and Phoebe Bridgers. This selection include
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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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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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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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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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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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The Lady Bandit [Oprawa Miękka]
Emilia Pardo Bazán

Priests with shotguns, scheming lovers and a necrophiliac gravedigger haunt the fables of Emilia Pardo Bazán, the formidable Spanish aristocrat, intellectual and feminist. These stories paint a rich
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The Seducer’s Diary [Oprawa Miękka]
Soren Kierkegaard

'What does love fear? Limitation.' Johannes stealthily pursues Cordelia through the streets of Copenhagen, and through an intricate, manipulative courtship contrives to possess her. Motivated not
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Night Owls [Oprawa Miękka]
Nikolai Leskov

'I decided that my trip had evidently been in vain, since nothing of interest could possibly occur on this visit. I was mistaken.' Condemned to sleeplessness by the chatter permeating his guesthou
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Secretary [Oprawa Miękka]
Mary Gaitskill

A writer engulfed by a new obsession, an occasional sex-worker, a runaway, a teenager entering the workplace: these four tales of desire and dislocation explore the rough edges of relationships and t
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The Escape of Arsene Lupin [Oprawa Miękka]
Maurice Leblanc

In this thrilling collection, we meet Arsène Lupin, a brilliant, alluring master of disguise – or, as some would have it, a notorious criminal. We follow him on a series of high-stakes adventures, fr
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Under the Jaguar Sun [Oprawa Miękka]
Italo Calvino

I went down, I climbed back up into the light of the jaguar sun – into the sea of the green sap of the leaves. The world spun, I plunged down, my throat cut by the knife of the king-priest … The sola
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Passion [Oprawa Miękka]
June Jordan

These poems of radical love, urgency and global consciousness reach across borders to break open the silence of oppression and the taboo, liberating both body and soul. Lively and enigmatic, Passi
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For Art and for Life [Oprawa Miękka]
Gogh Vincent Van

Few artists' letters are as self-revelatory as Vincent van Gogh's. From the humanistic inspiration behind The Potato Eaters to his long-time obsession with painting the vision that eventually became
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Hop-Frog [Oprawa Miękka]
Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allen Poe’s short stories have lost none of their power to horrify. He remains a destabilizingly terse sketcher out of ideas, a writer who allows the reader to fill in the many ghastly blanks i
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A Dog's Heart [Oprawa Miękka]
Mikhail Bulgakov

What would happen if a doctor implanted the pituitary gland and testicles of a man into the body of a stray dog? In Mikhail Bulgakov’s topsy-turvy world, the dog starts to walk on two legs, drink, sm
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A Dill Pickle [Oprawa Miękka]
Katherine Mansfield

She drew a long, soft breath, as though the paper daffodils between them were almost too sweet to bear Katherine Mansfield was a magician of the short story, whose work was described by Virginia W
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Transformation [Oprawa Miękka]
Mary Shelley

He stretched out his two long, lank arms, that looked like spider’s claws, and seemed to embrace with them the expanse before him' His inheritance squandered and engagement severed, Guido di Corte
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Cicada! [Oprawa Miękka]
Federico García Lorca

Now you slip away in sleep. Your boat is sea-mist, dreaming, by the shore. Spain’s most beloved poet, Federico García Lorca brilliantly captures the beauty and brutality of the twentieth century.
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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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