Ta kategoria dedykowana jest współczesnym czytelniczkom literatury kobiecej. Bardzo szeroki wybór romansów, kryminałów, powieści obyczajowe, poruszająca literatura kobieca, erotyki, harlequiny polskich i zagranicznych autorów. Każda lubiąca czytać kobieta znajdzie coś szczególnego dla siebie.
Polecamy literaturę Sergiusza Piaseckiego, Stanisława Srokowskiego, Diany Palmer czy w końcu Blanki Lipińskiej.
Sylish, shimmering and amoral, Sagan's tale of adolescence and betrayal on the French Riviera was her masterpiece, published when she was just eighteen. However, this frank and explicit novella was considered too daring for 1950s Britain, and sexual scenes were removed for the English publication. Now this fresh and accurate new translation presents the uncensored text in full for the first time.
Bonjour Tristesse tells the story of Cécile, who leads a carefree life with her widowed father and his young mistresses until, one hot summer on the Riviera, he decides to remarry - with devastating consequences. In A Certain Smile, which is also included in this volume, Dominique, a young woman bored with her lover, begins an encounter with an older man that unfolds in unexpected and troubling ways.
Both novellas have been freshly translated by Heather Lloyd and include an introduction by Rachel Cusk. Heather Lloyd has also written a new afterword for this edition.
Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design.
Beautiful, clever, rich - and single - Emma Woodhouse is perfectly content with her life and sees no need for either love or marriage. Nothing, however, delights her more than interfering in the romantic lives of others. But when she ignores the warnings of her good friend Mr Knightley and attempts to arrange a suitable match for her protégée Harriet Smith, her carefully laid plans soon unravel and have consequences that she never expected. With its imperfect but charming heroine and its witty and subtle exploration of relationships, Emma is often seen as Jane Austen's most flawless work.
The Sheltering Sky is a book about people on the edge of an alien space; somewhere where, curiously, they are never alone' Michael Hoffman.
Port and Kit Moresbury, a sophisticated American couple, are finding it more than a little difficult to live with each other. Endeavouring to escape this predicament, they set off for North Africa intending to travel through Algeria - uncertain of exactly where they are heading, but determined to leave the modern world behind. The results of this casually taken decision are both tragic and compelling.
When Joel Knox's mother dies, he is sent into the exotic unknown of the Deep South to live with a father he has never seen. But once he gets there, everyone is curiously evasive when Joel asks to see his father. Truman Capote's first novel, Other Voices, Other Rooms is a brilliant, searching study of homosexuality set in a shimmering landscape of heat, mystery and decadence.
'Shooting an Elephant' is Orwell's searing and painfully honest account of his experience as a police officer in imperial Burma; killing an escaped elephant in front of a crowd 'solely to avoid looking a fool'. The other masterly essays in this collection include classics such as 'My Country Right or Left', 'How the Poor Die' and 'Such, Such were the Joys', his memoir of the horrors of public school, as well as discussions of Shakespeare, sleeping rough, boys' weeklies and a spirited defence of English cooking. Opinionated, uncompromising, provocative and hugely entertaining, all show Orwell's unique ability to get to the heart of any subject.
A collection of witty and incisive non-fiction, George Orwell's Shooting an Elephant includes an introduction by Jeremy Paxman in Penguin Modern Classics.
Odrzucana przez znanych brytyjskich wydawców, również z przyczyn politycznych (wcześniej jej maszynopis omal nie został zniszczony w Londynie w eksplozji niemieckiej latającej bomby V-1), alegoryczna bajka Folwark zwierzęcy ukazała się w Anglii 17 sierpnia 1945 r. w nakładzie 4500 egzemplarzy. Od tamtej pory wydrukowano ich na świecie dziesiątki milionów, a brytyjski Book Marketing Council zaliczył Folwark zwierzęcy do dwunastu najznakomitszych dzieł czasów współczesnych. Pochodząca zeń fraza "równi i równiejsi" weszła do powszechnego obiegu. Genialne dzieło Orwella można przy tym odczytywać na wielu płaszczyznach: pozornie jest to satyra na rewolucję październikową i fundamentalny konflikt Stalina z Trockim, zarazem można je rozumieć jako mroczną, metaforyczną opowieść o ludzkiej niedoskonałości i niezmiennych prawach historii. Światek tytułowego folwarku to nie tylko świat za "żelazną kurtyną", który w tej części Europy poznaliśmy na własnej skórze, lecz i symbolicznie ujęty epizod z dziejów ludzkości...
„Cień burzowych chmur” to pierwszy tom pięcioczęściowej sagi Spacer Aleją Róż, traktującej o losach rodziny Szymczaków. To epicka opowieść mocno osadzona na płaszczyźnie społeczno-obyczajowej. Fikcja literacka przeplata się z autentycznymi zdarzeniami, a postaci wykreowane przez pisarkę ocierają się o osoby, które dzisiaj spoglądają na nas z kart książek historycznych.
Autorka poczytnych powieści w brawurowy sposób serwuje osadzoną w realiach wczesnego PRL-u historię rodzinną ze zbrodnią i zemstą w tle.
Jest rok 1949.
W małopolskiej wsi Pawlice zamieszkują zamożni gospodarze, którzy od dawna byli solą w oku najpierw okolicznego ziemiaństwa – Pawłowskich, a po II wojnie światowej przedstawicieli nowej władzy. Pomiędzy głową rodziny, Bronisławem, a Bartłomiejem Marczykiem, bratem wysoko postawionego funkcjonariusza UB, dochodzi do konfliktu. Marczyk poprzysięga zemstę. Na skutek reformy rolnej Szymczakowie tracą gospodarstwo będące owocem pracy kilku pokoleń. We wsi zostaje utworzona spółdzielnia rolnicza, której zarząd obejmuje Bartek. Mężczyzna zaprowadza własne porządki, uprzykrzając życie ograbionej z majątku rodzinie. Z braku perspektyw Bronek postanawia szukać szczęścia w świecie. Porzuca dotychczasowe życie rolnika i podejmuje pracę przy budowie Nowej Huty. Po pewnym czasie dołącza do niego młodsza siostra Julia, uciekająca przed nienawiścią Marczyka.
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Cóż to jest za powieść! Poznajcie zupełnie nowe, zaskakujące wcielenie Edyty Świętek. Cień burzowych chmur to mocne rozpoczęcie sagi Spacer Aleją Róż, a że apetyt rośnie w miarę jedzenia… ja już czekam na drugi tom!
Magdalena Majcher, autorka m.in. Stanu nie! błogosławionego, recenzentka
Wreszcie historia Nowej Huty znalazła się na kartach powieści - Cień burzowych chmur !!! To zasługa Edyty Świętek. Gorąco zachęcam do przeczytania pierwszego tomu sagi: Spacer Aleją Róż.
Łukasz Zarodkiewicz, nowohucianin od urodzenia, działacz lokalny.
„Cień burzowych chmur” to powieść, która nie tylko fascynuje ciekawą intrygą i świetnie nakreślonymi postaciami bohaterów, ale i przeraża realizmem opisów życia w powojennej Polsce. Autorka zręcznie wkomponowała dzieje rodziny Szymczaków w obraz zachodzących przemian, obnażając absurdy i niegodziwości wczesnego PRL-u. Smaczku dodaje rodzinna waśń, zrodzona z zawiści i zbrodni, a wiodąca ku krwawej zemście.
Hanna Greń, autorka Cynamonowych dziewczyn
Wzruszająca opowieść o miłości do skrzywdzonego dziecka. napisana przez Kristin Hannah, uwielbianą na całym świecie autorkę powieści "Słowik" oraz "Zimowy ogród".Pewnego jesiennego dnia mieszkańców Rain Valley elektryzuje wiadomość o znalezieniu w parku dziwnego dziecka. Emocje sięgają zenitu, a plotki nie milkną, ponieważ okazuje się, że z kilkuletnią przerażoną dziewczynką nie sposób nawiązać kontaktu.Kim jest dziecko i jak przetrwało samo w leśnej głuszy?Czy siostrze pani komendant, psychiatrze Julii Cates, która wskutek fatalnego zbiegu okoliczności traci pacjentów i wraca do rodzinnego miasteczka leczyć swoje rany, uda się stworzyć więź z dzieckiem?Czy odnaleziona dziewczynka pokona strach i znów zaufa ludziom?"Wspaniała powieść - szalona, promienna, tętniąca życiem. Kristin Hannah pisze z głębi swojego serca". Luanne Rice
These five rich, witty and magical stories from the author of Out of Africa include one of her most well known tales, ‘Babette’s Feast’, which was made into the classic film. It tells the story of a French cook working in a puritanical Norwegian community, who treats her employers to the decadent feast of a lifetime. There is also a real-life Prospero and his Ariel in ‘Tempests’, a mysterious pearl-fisher in ‘The Diver’ and a brief, tragic encounter in ‘The Ring’. All the stories have a mystic, fairy-tale quality, linked by themes of angels, the sea, dreams and fate. They were among the last to be written by Isak Dinesen, and show her as a master of short fiction.
'I'll never understand the fucking Army.'
Prew won't conform. He could have been the best boxer and the best bugler in his division, but he chooses the life of a straight soldier in Hawaii under the fierce tutelage of Sergeant Milt Warden. When he refuses to box for his company for mysterious reasons, he is given 'The Treatment', a relentless campaign of physical and mental abuse. Meanwhile, Warden wages his own campaign against authority by seducing the Captain's wife Karen - just because he can. Both men are bound to the Army, even though it may destroy them.
Published here in its uncensored, original version, From Here to Eternity is a raw, electrifying account of the soldier's life in the months leading up to Pearl Harbor-of men who are trained to fight the enemy, but cannot resist fighting each other.
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry is the classic story of a girl growing up in the deep South. Set in Mississippi at the height of the American Depression, this is the story of a family's struggle to maintain their integrity, pride and independence against the forces of a cruelly racist society.
'We have no choice of what colour we're born or who our parents are or whether we're rich or poor. What we do have is some choice over what we make of our lives once we're here.'
The Mississippi of the 1930s was a hard place for a black child to grow up in, but still Cassie didn't understand why farming his own land meant so much to her father. During that year, though, when the night riders were carrying hatred and destruction among her people, she learned about the great differences that divided them, and when it was worth fighting for a principle even if it brought terrible hardships.
Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design.
At twenty-seven, Anne Elliot is no longer young and has few romantic prospects. Eight years earlier, she had been persuaded by her friend Lady Russell to break off her engagement to Frederick Wentworth, a handsome naval captain with neither fortune nor rank. What happens when they encounter each other again is movingly told in Jane Austen's last completed novel. Set in the fashionable societies of Lyme Regis and Bath, Persuasion is a brilliant satire of vanity and pretension, but, above all,it is a love story tinged with the heartache of missed opportunities.
Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design.
After reading Christmas Carol, the notoriously reculsive Thomas Carlyle was "seized with a perfect convulsion of hospitality" and threw not one but two Christmas dinner parties. The impact of the story may not always have been so dramatic but, along with Dickens other Christmas writings, it has had a lasting and significant influence upon our ideas about the Christmas spirit, and about the season as a time for celebration, charity, and memory.
A new translation of Giorgio Bassani's haunting collection of short stories that evoke 1930s Ferrara, with an introduction by Ali Smith.
Isolated lives and a lost world are evoked in these memorable stories set in the Jewish-Italian community of 1930s Ferrara. A young man's unrequited love; a strange disappearance; a faded hotel; a lonely funfair; the smell of mown hay at the gates of the Jewish Cemetery - these vivid, impressionistic snapshots build a picture of life's brevity and intensity. Part of the sequence including The Gold-Rimmed Spectacles and The Garden of the Finzi-Continis, and featuring people and places from these novels, The Smell of Hay is told with a voice that is by turns intimate, ironic, elegiac and rueful.
This new translation contains two pieces, added by Bassani to his earlier collection, which have never appeared in English before.
Exploring the decadence of Jazz Age New York through a fictionalised version of his own marriage to Zelda Fitzgerald, F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Beautiful and the Damned includes an introduction by Geoff Dyer in Penguin Modern Classics.
Anthony Patch and his wife Gloria are the essence of Jazz Age glamour. A brilliant and magnetic couple, they fling themselves at life with an energy that is thrilling. New York is a playground where they dance and drink for days on end. Their marriage is a passionate theatrical performance; they are young, rich, alive and lovely and they intend to inherit the earth. But as money becomes tight, their marriage becomes impossible. And with their inheritance still distant, Anthony and Gloria must face reality; they may be beautiful - but they are also damned.
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) has acquired a mythical status in American literary history, and his masterwork The Great Gatsby is considered by many to be the 'great American novel'. In 1920 he married Zelda Sayre, dubbed 'the first American Flapper', and their traumatic marriage and Zelda's gradual descent into insanity became the leading influence on his writing. As well as many short stories, Fitzgerald wrote five novels This Side of Paradise, The Great Gatsby, The Beautiful and the Damned, Tender is the Night and, incomplete at the time of his death, The Last Tycoon. After his death The New York Times said of him that 'in fact and in the literary sense he created a "generation" '.
If you enjoyed The Beautiful and the Damned, you might like John Dos Passos' Manhattan Transfer, also available in Penguin Classics.
'A prose that has the tough delicacy of a garnet'
New York Review of Books
When Lolita was first published in 1955 it created a sensation and established Nabokov as one of the most original prose writers of the twentieth century.
This annotated edition, a revised and considerably expanded version of the 1970 edition, does full justice to the textual riches of Lolita, illuminating the elaborate verbal textures and showing how they contribute to the novel's overall meaning. Alfred Appel, Jr. also provides fresh observations on the novel's artifice, games and verbal patternings and a delightful biographical vignette of Nabokov. The annotations themselves were prepared in consultation with Nabokov while newly identified allusions were confirmed by him during the final years of his life.
These three great plays by one of the founding fathers of the theatre of the absurd, are alive and kicking with tragedy and humour, bleakness and farce. In Rhinoceros we are shown the innate brutality of people as everyone, except for Berenger, turn into clumsy, unthinking rhinoceroses. The Chairs depicts the futile struggle of two old people to convey the meaning of life to the rest of humanity, while The Lesson is a chilling, but anarchically funny drama of verbal domination. In these three 'antiplays' dream, nonsense and fantasy combine to create an unsettling, bizarre view of society.
The Forsyte Saga is the first part of John Galsworthy’s magnificent, well-loved Forsyte Chronicles, which trace the changing fortunes of the wealthy Forsyte dynasty through fifty years of material triumph and emotional disaster. The Forsyte Saga begins as the nineteenth century is drawing to a close, and the upper middle classes, with their property and propriety, are becoming a dying section of society. The Forsytes are blind to this fact, clinging to their conventions and ‘brilliant respectability’. As dignified Soames Forsyte struggles to uphold the old moral code in the face of the social revolution resulting from the Great War, his wife Irene’s extraordinary beauty causes even more disruption. The bitter feud between them comes to split the Forsyte family for two generations.
Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design.
Enthralled by his own exquisite portrait, Dorian Gray exchanges his soul for eternal youth and beauty. Influenced by his friend Lord Henry Wotton, he is drawn into a corrupt double life; indulging his desires in secret while remaining a gentleman in the eyes of polite society. Only his portrait bears the traces of his decadence. The novel was a succès de scandale and the book was later used as evidence against Wilde at the Old Bailey in 1895. It has lost none of its power to fascinate and disturb.
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