Polish Literature

Sluchacze "Lalki" poznaja opowiesc o nieszczesliwej milosci bogatego kupca Wokulskiego do zubozalej arystokratki Izabeli Leckiej. W tle obraz spoleczenstwa polskiego konca XIX wieku.

New York Times bestselling author Alan Furst is internationally renowned as master of the European espionage thriller. Unfolding in September of 1939 as Hitler’s Wehrmacht ravages Warsaw, the Polish Officer discloses the clandestine existence of Polish Military Intelligence.

1941, Poland. Though war rages around her and occupying German forces march steadily onward, 16-year-old Aleksandra has lived her life sheltered from danger. Until one day, she goes to school—never to return. Pushed roughly into a truck with other schoolgirls like her, a single ominous word tells her all she needs to know about her fate: Lebensborn.

Oto powieść, z utworów Dostojewskiego kto wie czy nie największa, na pewno zaś najgłębiej badająca mroczne tajniki duszy, a zarazem wzywająca do wytrwania w poszukiwaniu piękna jej wnętrza, chrześcijańskiej caritas, miłości współczującej i wybaczającej. Taki jest główny bohater, książę Lew Myszkin, który bez grosza przy duszy przyjeżdża do Rosji, by objąć spory majątek. Swej dobrotliwości, pokorze oraz irytującej wręcz naiwnej ufności do ludzi, zawdzięcza tytułowy przydomek, jakim obdarzają go znajomi.

September 1939: The conquering Nazis swarm through Warsaw as social worker Irena Sendler watches in dread from her apartment window. Already, the city's poor go hungry. Irena wonders how she will continue to deliver food and supplies to those who need it most, including the forbidden Jews. The answer comes unexpectedly.

A cosmic accident sets the modern town of Grantville, West Virginia, down in war-torn 17th-century Europe and a new nation is forged. Now when United States of Europe ally King Gustavas of Sweden invades Poland, the U.S. of E. is dragged into a full-scale European war against ruthless opponents. Meanwhile Mike Stearns, wily and courageous leader of the up-time West Virginians, has been turned out of office in an election. But, like Churchill (before and after him) Stearns is not done yet.

Winner of both the Giller Prize and the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, The Polished Hoe is acclaimed author Austin Clarke's masterpiece. On a Caribbean island in the 1950s, elderly Mary Gertrude Mathilda commits murder. As she explains herself to police, her story exposes the ugly underbelly of life on Caribbean plantations, with its slavery and brutality.

The best-known prose work by the winner of the 1980 Nobel Prize for Literature examines the moral and intellectual conflicts faced by men and women living under totalitarianism of the left or right. Written in the early 1950s, when Eastern Europe was in the grip of Stalinism and many Western intellectuals placed their hopes in the new order of the East, this classic work reveals in fascinating detail the often beguiling allure of totalitarian rule to people of all political beliefs and its frightening effects on the minds of those who embrace it.

Pierwsza czesc wspanialej trylogii Henryka Sienkiewicza. Wielka milosc rycerza bez skazy, Jana Skrzetuskiego i uroczej, niewinnej szlachcianki Heleny Kurcewiczówny. A w tle dzieje Polski w dobie powstania Chmielnickiego (1648-1654).

The bold one, they call her - too bold for most. To her father, the great duke of Poland, Swietoslawa and her two sisters represent three chances for an alliance. Three marriages on which to build his empire. But Swietoslawa refuses to be simply a pawn in her father's schemes; she seeks a throne of her own, with no husband by her side.

Legendarne Zakopane czy przed wojna czy po wojnie tak samo zapelnione oryginalami artystami i wariatami Czy Romuald Roman ktory urodzil sie w miasteczku pod Giewontem byl jednym z nich Fantazji na pewno mu nie brakowalo jednak biorac pod uwage co spotkalo za czasow komuny az dziw ze wytrzymal tam az trzydziesci cztery lata i nie zwariowal Potem wyjechal do Ameryki i wlasnie z amerykanskiej perspektywy spojrzawszy postanowil troche powspominac.

Zamachowiec zajmuje przedszkole, grożąc że zabije wychowawców i dzieci. Policja jest bezsilna, a mężczyzna nie przedstawia żadnych żądań. Nikt nie wie, dlaczego wziął zakładników, ani co zamierza osiągnąć. Sytuację komplikuje fakt, że transmisja na żywo z przedszkola pojawia się w internecie. Służby w akcie desperacji proszą o pomoc Gerarda Edlinga, byłego prokuratora, który został dyscyplinarnie wydalony ze służby. Edling jest specjalistą od kinezyki, działu nauki zajmującego się badaniem komunikacji niewerbalnej.

When the greatest female mathematician in history passes away, her son, Alexander "Sasha" Karnokovitch, just wants to mourn his mother in peace. But rumor has it the notoriously eccentric Polish émigré has solved one of the most difficult problems in all of mathematics and has spitefully taken the solution to her grave. A ragtag group of mathematicians from around the world descends upon Rachela's shiva, determined to find the proof or solve it for themselves - even if it means prying up the floorboards for notes.

Druga czesc "Trylogii", wydana w 1886 Roku. Akcja dzieje sie w okresie najazdu szwedzkiego na Polske (1655-1660). Zareczony z Olenka Billewiczówna chorazy orszanski Andrzej Kmicic opowiada sie poczatkowo po stronie kolaborujacego ze Szwedami poteznego rodu magnackiego Radziwillów.

Winter 1939: Danusha and her family are forced to flee their home when the Nazis invade Poland. Danusha’s mother, Anna, changes her name and secures a position as a housekeeper in a German doctor’s mansion in Kraków where Gestapo meetings are hosted in the kitchen. Her secret is their salvation, but what Danusha remembers most is the solitude, with only her baby brother and the girl in the mirror for company.

Without question Spencer Hartley burns hot for his girlfriend, Rory, but his other desires are hidden down deep. He might blow things up for a living and climb mountains for kicks, but the scariest thing in his life is the truth about his sexuality. Jack Rothman works hard and plays dirty and meaningless sex helps him forget that he's suffocating. When a catastrophic accident traps Spencer with Jack, they need each other to survive. But something strong stirs there in the darkness, and it's more than their desperation to live. There's a spark between them that's impossible to ignore.

Yaakov Fine’s practical wife and daughters are baffled by his decision to leave his flourishing dress shop for a ten-day trip to his family’s ancestral village in Poland. Struggling to emerge from a midlife depression, Yaakov is drawn to Szydowce, intrigued by the stories he'd heard as a child from his parents and their friends, who would wax nostalgic about their pastoral, verdant hometown in the decades before 1939. The horrific years that followed were relegated to the nightmares that shattered sleep and were not discussed during waking hours.

It’s 1937. Poland is about to catch fire. In the boxing ring, Jakub Szapiro commands respect, revered as a hero by the Jewish community. Outside, he instills fear as he muscles through Warsaw as enforcer for a powerful crime lord. Murder and intimidation have their rewards. He revels in luxury, spends lavishly, and indulges in all the pleasures that barbarity offers. For a man battling to be king of the underworld, life is good. Especially when it’s a frightening time to be alive.

A collector of strange machines. An enthusiast of skiing and sweets. A world famous fantasy writer who kept many secrets, even from his own family. What did he do with the unsuccessful versions of his books? What did he do to anger Philip K. Dick? How did he survive three occupations of Lviv? In a word: Stanisław Lem's life was out of this world. It's a story full of unexpected twists of fate, funny anecdotes, tragic events, small secrets, and big mysteries. It's the first Polish biography of Stanisław Lem, written by another science fiction writer, Wojciech Orliński.

"Profesor Wilczur" to kontynuacja "Znachora". Po dramatycznych przejsciach profesor Wilczur wraca do swojej dawnej pracy w klinice. Powrót czlowieka uznanego za zmarlego nie podoba sie jego dotychczasowemu zastepcy Dobranieckiemu, który swoimi intrygami doprowadza chirurga do powrotu na wies. Wraz z profesorem osiedla sie zakochana w nim mloda lekarka. Tam tez ponownie splataja sie losy profesora i jego córki Marysi.