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The fate of the Amber Room is one of the abiding mysteries of the 20th Century. We have many photographs of the magnificent creation - a room in the Tsar's palace at Tsarskoe Selo panelled in huge sheets of beautiful, glossy amber - and we know that the Nazis dismantled it and took it with them as their army retreated from Russia, but what happened...

In Oscar Wilde?s famous novel, Dorian Gray is tempted by Henry Wotton to sell his soul in order to hold on to beauty and youth. Dorian succumbs and murders the portrait painter Basil Haliward, who stands between him and his goal. Though in the end vice is punished and virtue rewarded, the novel remains one of the most important expressions of fin...

Everybody who is anybody is seen at Gatsby's glittering parties. None of the socialites understand Gatsby. He seems to always be watching and waiting, though no one knows what for. But as the tragic story unfolds, Gatsby's destructive dreams and passions are revealed....

Two sisters of opposing temperaments but who share the pangs of tragic love provide the subjects for Sense and Sensibility. Elinor, practical and conventional, is the epitome of sense; Marianne, emotional and sentimental, the embodiment of sensibility. To each comes the sorrow of unhappy love: Elinor desires a man who is promised to another while...

A prize-winning new translation which brings a combined knowledge of Russian and English to Dostoevsky's compelling text. Raskolnikov is an impoverished student who commits murder. His subsequent devouring guilt throws him into insanity and delirium that become increasingly unbearable....

Pomocy nie wolno odkładać na poacute;źniej. Choćby nawet miało się dobre wymoacute;wki. Augusta, Alicja i Andżelika to przedstawicielki roacute;żnych pokoleń tej samej rodziny. Łączą je nie tylko więzy krwi, lecz także podobne losy - dwie z nich to matki nieślubnych dzieci, trzecia jest niechcianą coacute;rką. Nieświadomie wszystkie popełniają...