Walka Kotów

Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2022 | Co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union ‘I too wanted to forget that girl. Really forget her, that is, stop yearning to write about her. Stop thinking that I have to write about this girl and her desire and madness, her idiocy and pride, her hunger and her blood that ceased to flow. I have never managed to do so.’ In A Girl’s Story, her latest book, Annie Ernaux revisits the summer of 1958, spent working as a holiday camp instructor in Normandy, and recounts the first night she spent with a man. When he moves on, she realizes she has submitted her will to his and finds that she is a slave without a master. Now, sixty years later, she finds she can obliterate the intervening years and return to consider this young woman whom she wanted to forget completely. In writing A Girl’s Story, which brings to life her indelible memories of that summer, Ernaux discovers that here was the vital, violent and dolorous origin of her writing life, built out of shame, violence and betrayal. Irish Times Books of the Year 2020 ‘Ernaux is an unusual memoirist: she distrusts her memory... Ernaux does not so much reveal the past—she does not pretend to have any authoritative access to it—as unpack it.’ — Madeleine Schwartz, New Yorker ‘A profound and beautiful examination of the impenetrable wall that time erects between the self we are, and the selves we once were. I know of no other book that so vividly illustrates the frustrations and the temptations of that barrier, and our heartache and longing in trying to breach it. Annie Ernaux is one of my favorite contemporary writers, original and true. Always after reading one of her books, I walk around in her world for months.’ — Sheila Heti, author of Motherhood

Days before his release from prison, Shadow's wife, Laura, dies in a mysterious car crash. Numbly, he makes his way back home. On the plane, he encounters the enigmatic Mr Wednesday, who claims to be a refugee from a distant war, a former god and the king of America. Together they embark on a profoundly strange journey across the heart of the USA, whilst all around them a storm of preternatural and epic proportions threatens to break.

Considered the best mystery novel ever written by many readers, And Then There Were None is the story of 10 strangers, each lured to Indian Island by a mysterious host. Once his guests have arrived, the host accuses each person of murder. Unable to leave the island, the guests begin to share their darkest secrets - until they begin to die.

CZYTASZ INTRYGUJĄCY KRYMINAŁ W ORYGINALE I UCZYSZ SIĘ ANGIELSKIEGO! The Valley of Fear autorstwa Arthura Conan Doyle'a wydana w 1915 roku jest czwartą i zarazem ostatnią powieścią o przygodach najsłynniejszego detektywa wszechczasów – Sherlocka Holmesa. Powieść dzieli się na dwie części. Pierwsza rozpoczyna się z chwilą, gdy Holmes otrzymuje zaszyfrowany list zapowiadający zabójstwo niejakiego Johna Douglasa. Gdy zagadkowe morderstwo staje się faktem, detektyw i doktor Watson rozpoczynają śledztwo, które prowadzi ich do geniusza zła, profesora Moriarty'ego.Część druga odsłania kulisy zabójstwa Douglasa. Akcja przenosi nas do tytułowej Doliny Trwogi – miejsca drastycznych zbrodni... Angielski. The Valley od Fear to niekonwencjonalny sposób nauki języka, który łączy lekturę wciągającej historii z rozwiązywaniem pomocniczych ćwiczeń. Podczas czytania opowieści w naturalny sposób przyswoisz słownictwo i konstrukcje leksykalno-gramatyczne oraz utrwalisz umiejętność czytania ze zrozumieniem. Na końcu książki znajdziesz klucz odpowiedzi i praktyczny słowniczek angielsko-polski. Czytaj adaptację i...: wciągnij się w intrygującą opowieść o tajemniczej zbrodni i śledztwie prowadzącym do zaskakującego rozwiązania, sprawdzaj znaczenie słówek, nie odrywając się od książki dzięki tłumaczeniom na marginesach, poznaj angielskie słownictwo na poziomie podstawowym i średnio zaawansowanym (A2-B1), ćwicz umiejętność czytania ze zrozumieniem, rozwiązuj 65 urozmaiconych ćwiczeń leksykalnych i gramatycznych. W serii także: Angielski z ćwiczeniami. Heart of Darkness Angielski z ćwiczeniami. Nightmare Abbey

'It is impossible to live the pleasant life without also living sensibly, nobly and justly' The ancient Greek philosopher and teacher Epicurus argued that pleasure - not sensual hedonism, but the absence of pain or fear - is the highest goal of life. His hugely influential lessons on happiness are a call to appreciate the joy of being alive. One of twenty new books in the bestselling Penguin Great Ideas series. This new selection showcases a diverse list of thinkers who have helped shape our world today, from anarchists to stoics, feminists to prophets, satirists to Zen Buddhists.

The exquisite last novel from Nobel Prize-winning author Yasunari Kawabata Ineko has lost the ability to see things. At first it was a ping-pong ball, then it was her fiancé. The doctors call it 'body blindness', and she is placed in a psychiatric clinic to recover. As Ineko's mother and fiancé walk along the riverbank after visiting time, they wonder: is her condition a form of madness - or an expression of love? Exploring the distance between us, and what we say without words, Kawabata's transcendent final novel is the last word from a master of Japanese literature.