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In this novel, for a change, the protagonist is a master, not students. We see events from the point of view of some boys, but it is new that readers are asked to look at things from the point of view of the teacher. Mark Ralesford is a young gentleman who has just become engaged. He is also ready to start work after graduation and travel around the world. He is accepted as a teacher and home master...

Dwa serca spragnione miłości i urocze zwierzaki, które je połączą Zachary Cane prowadzi piwiarnię w Bluff Point i mieszka z gburowatym psem. Kawalerski styl życia bardzo mu odpowiada. Pewnego dnia do jego drzwi pukają córki jego sąsiadki. Gdy proszą o pomoc w uratowaniu bezpańskiego kota, nie waha się ani przez chwilę. Jessie Connelly jest rozwódką, która samotnie wychowuje dzieci i nie chce mieć do...

In 1939, five-year-old Jacques Austerlitz is sent to England on a Kindertransport and placed with foster parents. This childless couple promptly erase from the boy all knowledge of his identity and he grows up ignorant of his past. Later in life, after a career as an architectural historian, Austerlitz - having avoided all clues that might point to his origin - finds the past returning to haunt him...

In the year 2093, human consciousness has expanded to the point that man can visit the past using a technique called ‘mind-travelling’. Artist Edward Bush returns from a lengthy ‘trip’ to the Jurassic period to find the government overthrown by an authoritarian regime. Given his mind-travel experience, he is recruited by the new regime to track down and assassinate a scientist whose ideas threaten...

Un latiniste érudit voyage dans le sud de l’Espagne pour vérifier l’emplacement de l’antique cité de Munda. Il découvrira surtout une terre de passion dont la fatalité dévore les hommes à la manière des tragédies antiques… Notions littéraires : le narrateur et le point de vue ; le récit enchâssé et l’ordre de la narration ; le genre et le registre. Histoire des arts : le romantisme ; une rupture avec...

Zbiór siedmiu pełnych ciepła i humoru nowelek, opowiadających o dorastaniu, przyjaźni, miłości i podejmowaniu decyzji: tych błahych i tych na całe życie. Coś dla młodszych i starszych, dla dziewcząt i chłopaków, dla wszystkich, którzy nie wstydzą się swoich uczuć. Tytułowe „Wybory” to historia rozgrywki między prymuską Zosią a nonszalanckim Antkiem Romanem, dwojga imion, z których jedno...

While at a party organized by the lieutenant of his regiment, the shy and awkward Ryabovitch is suddenly kissed by an unknown woman in a dark room. This unexpected and electrifying encounter marks a turning point in his life and a shift in his personality, arousing his passions and setting him on a desperate quest to discover the identity of the mysterious lady. One of Chekhov’s most admired stories,...

The young Thomas Hardy, working as an architect, but fired with literary ambition, tried for years to get into print. He finally succeeded with Desperate Remedies, a 'sensation novel' in the mode of Wilkie Collins. Here was a racy specimen of the genre, replete with sudden death, dark mysteries, intriguing clues, fire and storm, flight and pursuit. Anyone who enjoys The Woman in White is likely to...

A beautiful hardback edition of the classic Discworld novel 'Anything you do in the past changes the future. The tiniest little actions have huge consequences. You might tread on an ant now and it might entirely prevent someone from being born in the future.' There's nothing like the issue of evolution to get under the skin of academics. Even if their field of expertise is magic rather than biology....

Animal Farm is one of the most famous warnings ever written. Orwell's immortal satire - 'against Stalin' as he wrote to his French translator - can be read on many levels. With its piercing clarity and deceptively simple style it is no surprise that this novel is required reading for schoolchildren and politicians alike. This fable of the steadfast horses Boxer and Clover, the opportunistic pigs Snowball...