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The Idiot - a novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, a Russian novelist, philosopher and short story writer. Many literary critics rate him as one of the greatest psychological novelists in world literature. The title is an ironic reference to the central character of the novel, Prince (Knyaz) Lev Nikolayevich Myshkin, a young man whose goodness, open-hearted simplicity and guilelessness lead many of the...

“Great Catherine” is a play by George Bernard Shaw, an Irish playwright who became the leading dramatist of his generation, and in 1925 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. “Great Catherine” is a play by George Bernard Shaw. The plot focuses on Captain Charles Edstaston, a very prim and proper British military attaché who, in 1776, is assigned to the Imperial Russiancourt in Saint Petersburg,...

Lucy Maud Montgomery Anne z Avonlea przeł. Anna Bańkowska Drugi tom przygód rudowłosej Anne Shirley w znakomitym przekładzie Anny Bańkowskiej. Anne zamierza wyjechać na studia, ale los chce inaczej – zostaje w Avonlea, żeby opiekować się tracącą wzrok Marillą. Dostaje posadę w tutejszej szkole, zawiera nowe znajomości z mieszkańcami wioski, a założone przez nią Koło Entuzjastów Avonlea...