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The reader finally got the opportunity to read a quality translation of one of the best works of Rudyard Kipling. This almost autobiographical novel tells about the fun and arduous life of students in an English private school. Arkady Strugatsky was a real fan of Stalki and Company. It was the protagonist of this book - ""the great man of the century"", the bully and the cunning Stalki - who inspired...

Danger, intrigue, and adventure await you in one of L. Frank Baum’s rarest works! Baum published the novel under the pen name „Schuyler Staunton,” one of his several pseudonyms (Baum arrived at the name by adding one letter to the name of his late maternal uncle, Schuyler Stanton). „Daughters of Destiny” unfolds in the Middle Eastern country of Baluchistan and is an exciting page-turner from start...

Ellis Parker Butler (1869-1937) was a contemporary of many big names in American fiction straddling the 19th and 20th centuries, but today he’s almost completely forgotten. The selections in „Mike Flannery On Duty and Off” book include three humorous stories, „Just Like a Cat,” „The Three Hundred” and „Fleas Will Be Fleas,” by this American humorist, whose first success, „Pigs is Pigs” (1906), remained...

Książka dwujęzyczna – z jednej strony czytasz po polsku, z drugiej po angielsku. Wszystko wskazywało na to, że Kulka nigdy się nie urodzi. Bezduszni właściciele jej mamy postanawiają pozbyć się bernardynki oczekującej potomstwa. Pod osłoną ponurego jesiennego wieczoru wywożą ją w głąb lasu i tam bezradną porzucają. Resztką sił bohaterska mama rodzi swoje maleństwo, przypłacając to życiem. Kolejny...