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From the first essay of volume: The Moment and Other Essays, a multi-layered portrait of a summer evening in the English countryside in the company of friends, we are delighted with Wolfe’s perception and her ability to articulate them clearly. A series of sensory descriptions – the rumble of an airplane, the night darkness of an night, the flight of an owl – give way to a thought no less important,...

When her mother dies, Cinderella’s father remarries and now she lives with her new family; her father, new mother and two new wicked sisters. They are mean and unkind to Cinderella and she is treated no better than a house servant, cooking and cleaning for everyone else. One day the two sisters are invited to a great ball to be given by the king and queen. Cinderella is unfortunately excluded....

Miłość. Ruletka. Syberia. Życiem Dostojewskiego można by obdarzyć kilku rosyjskich klasyków. Młody rewolucjonista skazany na śmierć, po tajemniczej próbie egzekucji zesłany na Syberię, by przeżyć koszmar w obozowym "domu umarłych". W czasach politycznej zawieruchy zostaje przyjęty do wewnętrznego kręgu cara, a jego życie zaczyna kręcić się wokół dwóch wielkich słabości pisarza: kobiet i hazardu....