instinct

Fans of golden-era mysteries will relish the twists and turns of J. S. Fletcher’s „The Chestermarke Instinct”. This cleverly crafted mystery begins with what seems like a common enough occurrence: a bank manager is late for work one morning. But what first appears to be simply a matter of a missed train soon is revealed to be a much more vexing problem. Has the manager, formerly a pillar of honesty,...

“The Call of the Wild” is a book by Jack London, an American novelist. A pioneer of commercial fiction and an innovator in the genre that would later become known as science fiction. The Call of the Wild is a short adventure novel by Jack London. The central character of the novel is a dog named Buck. The story opens at a ranch in Santa Clara Valley, California, when Buck is stolen from his home...

„A Child of the Jago” is London-born journalist Arthur Morrison’s best known novel. It was first published in November 1896 and is set in a fictional East End slum known as the Jago, which Morrison based a real district called the Old Nichol. The novel recounts the brief life of Dicky Perrott, who is at heart full of humane instinct but his environment ensures his down fall. The Perrott family, and...

Dlaczego pisarstwo tak często bywa kiepskie i jak można je poprawić? Czy krótkie wiadomości tekstowe i media społecznościowe psują język? Czy współczesnym młodym ludziom zależy na dobrym stylu pisarskim? Dlaczego komukolwiek miałoby na nim zależeć? W swojej zajmującej i pouczającej książce Steven Pinker , wybitny kognitywista i lingwista oraz znakomity pisarz, przedstawia nowy pomysł na podręcznik...