In ancient Greece, one of the twelve labours of Heracles was to bring back a golden apple from the Garden of Hesperides. To archaeologist Oriel Anderson, joining a team of Greek divers on the island of Helios seems like the golden apple of her dreams.
Yet the dream becomes a nightmare when she meets the devilish owner of the island, Damian Lekkas. In shocked recognition, she is flooded with the memory...
A young woman’s journey of discovery takes her to a world of forbidden passion, savage beauty - and revenge.
Spring, 1950. Alexandra de Falla, a half-English, half-Spanish youngwriter abandons her privileged but suffocating life in London and travels to Spain to be reunited with her long-estranged family.
Instead of providing the sense of belonging she yearns for, the de Fallas are riven by...
Persuasion is the last novel fully completed by Jane Austen. It was published at the end of 1817, six months after her death.
The story concerns Anne Elliot, a young Englishwoman of 27 years, whose family is moving to lower their expenses and get out of debt. They rent their home to an Admiral and his wife. The wife’s brother, Navy Captain Frederick Wentworth, had been engaged to Anne in 1806,...
Bilingual publication - publikacja dwujęzyczna
We would like to offer you a bilingual publication, in English and Polish. It allows you both to read the original text, published for the first time in English in 1902, and at the same time to have a look on one of its first translations - an unforgettable version proposed by Eugenia Żmijewska. Additionally, the original, irreplaceable and over 100...
Książka w dwóch wersjach językowych: polskiej i angielskiej. A dual Polish-English language edition.
Akcja toczy się w dwóch fikcyjnych państwach Paflagonii i Krymtatarii. W obu tych krająch rządzą uzurpatorzy. W pierwszym Walorozo, który zagarnął tron prawowitego następcy tronu Lulejki, a w drugim Padella, który pokonał króla Kalafiore, rządzi na jego miejscu przekonany o śmierci jego córki - prawowitej...
Przypadki Robinsona Cruzoe. The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner . Książka w dwóch wersjach językowych: polskiej i angielskiej. A dual Polish-English language edition.
Akcja rozpoczyna się w 1651 r. Książka opisuje dzieje Robinsona Crusoe , syna kupca w mieście Hull. Robinson nie chce wieść nudnego żywota jak jego ojciec, jako 17-latek ucieka z domu i płynie...
