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Swann’s Way is one of the preeminent novels of childhood – a sensitive boy’s impressions of his family and neighbors, all brought dazzlingly back to life years later by the famous taste of a madeleine. The first volume of the work that established Proust as one of the finest voices of the modern age – satirical, skeptical, confiding, and endlessly varied in his response to the human condition – Swann’s...

Thorne Smith’s imaginative novel „Skin and Bones” takes the concept of suffering for one’s art to a whole new level. This classic book contains the humorous and fantastical story of Mr. Quintus Bland, the eminent photographer, whose efforts to perfect X-ray film had, one evening, the unfortunate effect of leaving Mr. Bland in the position of an X-ray film himself; in other words, him found himself...

With their penetrating psychological insight and their emphasis on human dignity, respect and forgiveness, Dostoyevsky’s early short stories contain the seeds of the themes that came to his major novels. „Poor Folk” is a short novel focused on a powerful exchange of letters between two bright and introspective individuals living in difficult circumstances in 19th century Saint Petersburg who are in...

Dwa miesiące spędzone w Cedar Falls, żeby dopilnować budowy luksusowego hotelu Sin International Network, a przy okazji podlizywać się upierdliwemu burmistrzowi, który stawia naszej firmie niedorzeczne warunki? Wiedziałem, że to nie będzie nic przyjemnego. W dodatku z tym malowniczym, turystycznym miasteczkiem w Montanie łączą mnie wspomnienia z młodości. Wspomnienia równie piękne, co bolesne. Właśnie...