Paperback, 192 pages "A Short History of Decay (1949)" is E. M. Cioran's nihilistic and witty collection of aphoristic essays concerning the nature of civilization in mid-twentieth-century Europe. Touching upon Man's need to worship, the feebleness of God, the downfall of the Ancient Greeks and the melancholy baseness of all existence, Cioran's pieces are pessimistic in the extreme, but also display a beautiful certainty that renders them delicate, vivi

Wydawnictwo: PENGUIN BOOKS

In Drohobycz, Drohobycz, one of our most highly regarded Polish writers, Henryk Grynberg, delivers thirteen authentic tales of the Holocaust, including the riveting title story, which reconstructs the assassination of the celebrated writer and artist Bruno Schulz.

Wydawnictwo: PALGRAVE

As with dogs, so with gods - by and large, you should blame the owners.' A particular trait, common to all human civilisations, is the worship of non-human entities with followings of devotees who claim that their reverence can transport them to transcendental heights of complete and unfettered love.

Wydawnictwo: Vintage Books

Christiana Gregoriou's book, now available in paperback, attempts to redefine the boundaries of an endlessly fascinating genre by exploring three aspects of deviance that contemporary crime fiction manipulates: linguistic, social, and generic. It includes detailed case studies on James Patterson, Michael Connelly and Patricia Cornwell.

Wydawnictwo: Palgrave Macmillan

If your name appears on the Dagger of Doom, you're marked for death. Or so the legends say. No one has seen the weapon for hundreds of years. Ages 8+ years.

Wydawnictwo: Wizards of the Coast

Kornblatt: Cossack Hero In Russian Literature

Wydawnictwo: University of Wisconsin Press

With tremendous narrative drive, unpretentious grace, and a thorough grasp of McCarthy's themes, Kenneth Lincoln invites the reader into McCarthy's astonishingly creative and dramatic writing.

Wydawnictwo: Palgrave Macmillan

"A Companion to American Fiction, 1865-1914" is a groundbreaking collection of 29 essays written by leading critics for a wide audience of scholars, students, and interested general readers. It is an exceptionally broad-ranging and accessible Companion to the study of American fiction of the post-civil war period and the early twentieth century.

Wydawnictwo: Blackwell Science

'The only four things that interested me were: reading books, going to the movies, tap-dancing and drawing pictures. Then one day I started writing . . .' Truman Capote began writing at the age of eight, and never looked back.

Wydawnictwo: PENGUIN

Mark Twain is a central figure in nineteenth-century American literature, and his novels are among the best-known and most often studied texts in the field. This clear and incisive introduction provides a biography of the author and situates his works in the historical and cultural context of his times. Peter Messent gives accessible but penetrating readings of the best-known writings including Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn.

Wydawnictwo: Cambridge University Press

Raised a Muslim but increasingly outraged by her religion's hostility towards women, Ayaan Hirsi Ali has now become one of today's most talked-about, admired and controversial political figures because of her desire to free women from an oppressive Muslim culture.

Wydawnictwo: POCKET BOOKS

These papers from the 2001 Byron Conference represent a range of scholarly approaches and include close textual study, comparative readings, and broad cultural analysis.

Wydawnictwo: Palgrave Macmillan

What is the difference between cant and jargon, or assume and presume? What is a fandango? How do you spell supersede? Is it hippy or hippie?

Wydawnictwo: CORGI BOOKS

1543 saw the publication of one of the most significant scientific works ever written: "De revolutionibus (On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres)", in which Nicolaus Copernicus presented a radically different structure of the cosmos by placing the sun, and not the earth, at the centre of the universe.

Wydawnictwo: ARROW

John Milton's Paradise Lost has long been celebrated for its epic subject matter and the poet's rhetorical fireworks. In Between Worlds, William Pallister analyses the rhetorical methods that Milton uses throughout the poem and examines the effects of the three distinct rhetorical registers observed in each of the poem's major settings

Wydawnictwo: University of Toronto Press

Given that the Nobel Prize-winning author Samuel Beckett (1906-1989) was personally acquainted with the modernist master James Joyce, and even helped research and promote Finnegans Wake, it should come as no surprise that Beckett was greatly influenced by Joyce's own work.

Wydawnictwo: University of Toronto Press

The Polish science fiction writer Stanislaw Lem, whose works include Return from the Stars, The Cyberiad, A Perfect Vacuum, and Solaris, has been hailed as a "literary Einstein" and a science-fiction Bach.

Wydawnictwo: McGill-Queen's University Press

The anthology offers short stories from both types of colonial and post-colonial literature: the British subjects in colonial settings and the colonised indigenous people. It includes apparatus to help undergraduates understand British colonialism, grasp the essentials of postcolonial theory as it applies to reading and understanding short fiction and put the stories into historical and literary context.

Wydawnictwo: Houghton Mifflin Company

Against Interpretation was Susan Sontag's first collection of essays and is a modern classic. Originally published in 1966, it has never gone out of print and has influenced generations of readers all over the world.

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