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A Streetcar Named Desire [Oprawa Miękka]
Tennessee Williams

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
€12,83
€14,54

The Great Gatsby [Oprawa Miękka]
F. Scott Fitzgerald

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
€11,03

To the Lighthouse [Oprawa Miękka]
Virginia Woolf

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
€10,78

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

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
€14,04

Capitalism and Slavery [Oprawa Miękka]
Eric Williams

'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
€14,29

Bad Behavior [Oprawa Miękka]
Mary Gaitskill

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
€11,67

Notes of a Native Son [Oprawa Miękka]
James Baldwin

'The story of the negro in America is the story of America ... it is not a very pretty story' James Baldwin's breakthrough essay collection made him the voice of his generation. Ranging over Harle
€14,79

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

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
€14,54

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

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
€12,53

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

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
€14,21

Pedagogy of the Oppressed [Oprawa Miękka]
Paulo Freire

'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
€12,79

Dark Tales [Oprawa Miękka]
Shirley Jackson

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
€14,04

The Ice Palace [Oprawa Miękka]
Tarjei Vesaas

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
€9,99

Night [Oprawa Miękka]
Elie Wiesel

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
€10,90

The Fountainhead [Oprawa Miękka]
Ayn Rand

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
€13,54

The Spy Who Came in from the Cold [Oprawa Miękka]
John le Carre

Alex Leamas is tired. It's the 1960s, he's been out in the cold for years, spying in Berlin for his British masters, and has seen too many good agents murdered for their troubles. Now Control wants t
€11,19

Alone in Berlin [Oprawa Miękka]
Hans Fallada

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
€12,97

The Glass Menagerie [Oprawa Miękka]
Tennessee Williams

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
€10,35

If Beale Street Could Talk [Oprawa Miękka]
James Baldwin

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,
€12,03

A View from the Bridge [Oprawa Miękka]
Arthur Miller

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
€12,53

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

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
€12,53

Wide Sargasso Sea [Oprawa Miękka]
Jean Rhys

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
€11,28

Chess [Oprawa Miękka]
Stefan Zweig

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
€12,28

Tortilla Flat [Oprawa Miękka]
John Steinbeck

Steinbeck's first major critical and commercial success, Tortilla Flat is also his funniest novel. Danny is a paisano, descended from the original Spanish settlers who arrived in Monterey, Califor
€13,42

The Grapes of Wrath [Oprawa Miękka]
John Steinbeck

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
€14,54

The Dharma Bums  [Oprawa Miękka]
Jack Kerouac

Jack Kerouac's classic novel about friendship, the search for meaning, and the allure of nature A witty, moving philosophical novel, Jack Kerouac's The Dharma Bums is a journey of self-discovery t
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A Small Town in Germany [Oprawa Miękka]
John le Carre

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
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A Room of One's Own [Oprawa Miękka]
Virginia Woolf

'But, you may say, we asked you to speak about women and fiction - what has that got to do with a room of one's own?' A Room of One's Own grew out of a lecture that Virginia Woolf had been invited
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Lolly Willowes [Oprawa Miękka]
Warner Sylvia Townsend

Lolly Willowes, so gentle and accommodating, has depths no one suspects. When she suddenly announces that she is leaving London and moving, alone, to the depths of the countryside, her overbearing re
€11,76

Lady Sings the Blues [Oprawa Miękka]
Billie Holiday

Lady Sings the Blues is the inimitable autobiography of one of the greatest icons of the twentieth century. Born to a single mother in 1915 Baltimore, Billie Holiday had her first run-in with the law
€14,04

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