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Siedem zamieszczonych tu opowiadań to wspaniałe przykłady zawrotnego i zupełnie niezwykłego świata, który Roald Dahl - nazywany "wielkim czarodziejem" - uczynił swoim własnym. Mamy tu nie tylko świadectwa jego czarnego humoru i fantazji (Łabędź i O chłopcu, który rozmawiał ze zwierzętami), ale także fascynującą opowieść o początkach jego...

Half Bad by Sally Green is a breathtaking debut novel about one boy's struggle for survival in a hidden society of witches. You can't read, can't write, but you heal fast, even for a witch. You get sick if you stay indoors after dark. You hate White Witches but love Annalise, who is one. You've been kept in a cage since you were fourteen. All...

World War Terminus had left the Earth devastated. Through its ruins, bounty hunter Rick Deckard stalked, in search of the renegade replicants who were his prey. When he wasn't 'retiring' them with his laser weapon, he dreamed of owning a live animal -- the ultimate status symbol in a world all but bereft of animal life. Then Rick got his chance:...

This is an intoxicating yet sensitive novel about the sexual experiences of ten couples from Tarbox, New England. Well-to-do, sociable, articulate but dangerously unfulfilled; they play word games in the evening and adultery all year round. "I can think of no other novel, even in these years of our sexual freedom, as sexually explicit in its...

Only hours after Holmes and Russell return from solving one murky riddle on the moor, another knocks on their front door...literally. It#8217;s a mystery that begins during the Great War, when Gabriel Hughenfort died amidst scandalous rumors that have haunted the family ever since. But it#8217;s not until Holmes and Russell arrive at Justice Hall,...

Wśród pism retorycznych starożytności traktat Marka Tulliusza Cycerona (106-43) O mówcy (De oratore) zajmuje miejsce szczególne. Nie jest on bowiem zwykłym podręcznikiem retoryki rozumianej jako oparta na konkretnych zaleceniach teoretycznych (praecepta) wiedza na temat wymowy (ars dicendi), lecz próbą połączenia owej teorii z praktyczną wiedzą,...