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Featuring 20th-century writers, including Nobel Prize winners Czeslaw Milosz and Wislawa Szymborska, as well as celebrated poet Zbigniew Herbert and internationally renowned Bruno Schulz, this collection captures the brilliance and originality of a literary culture rightly considered one of the most important and influential of our time. These writers are branded by the political realities of their country - creating literature out of the brutality of the World War II, under the numbing and inhibiting Communist reign, and finally within a free society, but one freighted with the weight of its history.
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A dazzling collection of classic and cutting-edge images examining urban life. This large format, opulently designed book features hundreds of images, exploring the dialogue between photographs and cities. How does photography reflect the transformation of the urban environment over time? What does it tell us about the lives of city dwellers, the ravages of war? These and other issues are compellingly examined through works both classical and...
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This selection, made by the author himself, draws from his English language collections - both in and out of print. Vivid, attentive to the world, the poems in this lucid translation share the vocation that allows us, in Zagajewski's words, 'to experience astonishment and to stop still in that astonishment for a long moment or two.
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The ``canvas'' in the title of this new collection by Polish poet Zagajewski refers primarily to the artist's canvas, on which surreal images and memorable collections of dreamlike objects are created. A portrait of Europe emerges--Europe as the home of Mozart, Schumann, Chopin, Schubert, and Bruckner, of Gothic cathedrals with their ``ribs of granite,'' of philosophers like Nietzsche with his ``head like a bullet.'' Zagajewski is a born...
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One of the indisputable totems of twentieth-century world literature, Witold Gombrowicz wrote Pornografia after leaving his native Poland for Argentina in 1939 and then watching from afar as the German invasion destroyed his country. Translated for the first time into English from the original Polish by award-winning translator Danuta Borchardt, Pornografia is one of Gombrowicz's highest regarded works - a richly imagined tale of violence and...
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When the full moon shines, a paralysing fear descends on the isolated Maine town of Tarker Mills. No one knows who will be attacked next, but snarls that sound like human words can be heard and all around are the footprints of a monster whose hunger cannot be sated.
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Weranda pełna słońca to słodko-gorzka książka o życiu kobiety, w której każda z nas może odnaleźć cząstkę siebie. Opowiada o stracie i cierpieniu, ale także o wybaczaniu, rodzącej się miłości i nie zawsze prostych kontaktach z rodziną.
Historia jedenastu edycji programu "Taniec z Gwiazdami" opowiedziana przez pryzmat strojów!
Kolorowanki dla dzieci nie od dziś są codzienną formą spędzania czasu. Całe mnóstwo rodziców jednak zadaje pytanie czy ta forma bawienia się jest dla ich dzieci właściwa, czy wspomaga ich prawidłowy rozwój i wspiera naturalne mechanizmy nauki dzieci.