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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 Stalls of Barchester Cathedral [Oprawa Miękka]
M.R. James

There are many great English ghost stories, but they appear flimsy and emotionally spectral compared to the works of M.R. James. This selection gives the reader a flavour of his strange gifts. Often,
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A Confirmed Bachelor [Oprawa Miękka]
Arthur Schnitzler

Following the death of his sister, middle-aged Dr Graesler leaves his winter home in Lanzarote for a health resort in Germany, where he practised medicine for many years. There he meets the Schleheim
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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 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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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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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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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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The Genius [Oprawa Miękka]
Frank O"Connor

Known as Ireland’s Chekhov, Frank O’Connor was a master of the modern short story, with an eye for capturing the spaces between our selves and our surroundings. The Genius brings together some of his
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A Short Guide to Towns Without a Past [Oprawa Miękka]
Albert Camus

Best known for his existentialist novel The Outsider, set in French-occupied Algeria, Albert Camus was profoundly influenced by the landscapes, towns and traditions of his youth. Selected here are so
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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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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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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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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 Broken Nest [Oprawa Miękka]
Rabindranath Tagore

Rabindranath Tagore was one of the greatest authors of his generation. In these two short stories – ‘The Broken Nest’ and ‘Dead or Alive’ – he is at his devastating best, charting the slow, then fast
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Hell [Oprawa Miękka]
Dante

Through the gates of Hell, past whirling hurricanes, leering devils and rivers of blood, lies the ultimate evil: Satan himself. Masterfully translated by Dorothy L. Sayers, this first instalment of T
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Stan the Killer [Oprawa Miękka]
Georges Simenon

‘Maigret moved slowly, edging his bulky frame through the throng in Rue Saint-Antoine, which burst into life every morning, the sunshine streaming down from a clear sky on to the little barrows piled
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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 Umbrella [Oprawa Miękka]
Tove Ditlevsen

Longing shimmers from these spare but profoundly moving short stories by one of Denmark’s most fearless and sharp-eyed authors. In these tales of inarticulate desire and repression, Ditlevsen pulls t
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How I Came to Know Fish [Oprawa Miękka]
Ota Pavel

Through tender, vivid, and often humorous recollections – from magical fishing trips to the rivers and ponds of Bustehrad to his charismatic father’s eccentric business ventures - this bittersweet me
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The Prose Edda [Oprawa Miękka]
Snorri Sturluson

Composed in Iceland in the 13th Century, The Prose Edda is the most renowned of all works of Scandinavian literature, taking readers on a voyage through an enthralling world of gods, giants, dwarfs a
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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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Where Everything is Music [Oprawa Miękka]
Rumi

Rumi’s verses have been a balm for readers’ souls for over eight centuries. This exquisite selection brings together some of the Persian mystic’s most profound, evocative and transcendent works. Expl
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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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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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