Pride and Prejudice

Emma is young, rich and independent. She has decided not to get married and instead spends her time organising her acquaintances' love affairs. Her plans for the matrimonial success of her new friend Harriet, however, lead her into complications that ultimately test her own detachment from the world of romance.

Elinor is as prudent as her sister Marianne is impetuous. Each must learn from the other after they are they are forced by their father's death to leave their home and enter into the contests of polite society. The charms of unsuitable men and the schemes of rival ladies mean that their paths to success are thwart with disappointment but together they attempt to find a way to happiness.

Dorian is a good-natured young man until he discovers the power of his own exceptional beauty. As he gradually sinks deep into a frivolous, glamorous world of selfish luxury, he apparently remains physically unchanged by the stresses of his corrupt lifestyle and untouched by age. But up in his attic, hidden behind a curtain, his portrait tells a different story...

Jay Gatsby is the man who has everything. But one thing will always be out of his reach... Everybody who is anybody is seen at his glittering parties. Day and night his Long Island mansion buzzes with bright young things drinking, dancing and debating his mysterious character. For Gatsby – young, handsome, fabulously rich – always seems alone in the crowd, watching and waiting, though no one knows what for. Beneath the shimmering surface of his life he is hiding a secret: a silent longing that can never be fulfilled. And soon this destructive obsession will force his world to unravel.

Wuthering Heights is the tale of two families both joined and riven by love and hate. Cathy is a beautiful and wilful young woman torn between her soft-hearted husband and Heathcliff, the passionate and resentful man who has loved her since childhood. The power of their bond creates a maelstrom of cruelty and violence which will leave one of them dead and cast a shadow over the lives of their children. Emily Brontë's novel is a stunningly original and shocking exploration of obsessive passion.

Eight years ago Anne Elliot bowed to pressure from her family and made the decision not to marry the man she loved, Captain Wentworth. Now circumstances have conspired to bring him back into her social circle and Anne finds her old feelings for him reignited. However, when they meet again Wentworth behaves as if they are strangers and seems more interested in her friend Louisa. In this, her final novel, Jane Austen tells the story of a love that endures the tests of time and society with humour, insight and tenderness.

Rich or poor, we will keep together and be happy in one another. Christmas won't be the same this year for Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy, as their father is away fighting in the Civil War, and the family has fallen on hard times. But though they may be poor, life for the four March sisters is rich with colour, as they play games, put on wild theatricals, make new friends, argue, grapple with their vices, learn from their mistakes, nurse each other through sickness and disappointments, and get into all sorts of trouble.

Perfectly preserving the tone and mood of the novel whilst condensing it into two acts, David Malouf, with the gift for language already evident from his novels and poetry, presents afresh the timeless story of Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre, one of the most enduring literary classics of all time. The love between Jane and Mr Rochester, and the mystery of the woman behind the locked door, are here set to music in the opera composed by Michael Berkeley.

Edgar Allan Poe was a writer of uncommon talent; in The Murders in the Rue Morgue he created the genre of detective fiction while his genius for finding the strangeness lurking within us all has been an influence on everyone from Freud to Hollywood. This complete collection of all his short stories and novellas contains well-known tales The Pit and the Pendulum and The Tell-Tale Heart alongside hidden gems that both unsettle and enthrall the reader.

One freezing morning, a lone man wandering across the Artic ice caps is rescued from starvation by a ship's captain. Victor Frankenstein's story is one of ambition, murder and revenge. As a young scientist he pushed moral boundaries in order to cross the final frontier and create life. But his creation is a monster stitched together from grave-robbed body parts who has no place in the world, and his life can only lead to tragedy. Written when she was only nineteen, Shelley's gothic tale is one of the greatest horror stories ever published.

In this powerfully influential series of short stories, James Joyce captures uneasy souls, shabby lives and innocent minds in the dark streets and homes of his native city. In doing so, he conjures uncertainties and desires, illumines moments of joy and sorrow otherwise lost in private memory, and pierces the many mysteries at the heart of things.

Na początku dziewiętnastego stulecia każdy niezbyt zamożny ojciec córek – zwłaszcza kiedy miał ich na przykład pięć – nader często musiał zadawać sobie pytanie: kiedy to w sąsiedztwie pojawi się odpowiedni kawaler? A kiedy już się pojawił, następowały perypetie, które Jane Austen z upodobaniem opisywała. Duma i uprzedzenie uznana została za arcydzieło w dorobku tej angielskiej pisarki, głównie dzięki zabawnym, zgoła Dickensowskim opisom postaci głupich i niesympatycznych. Swoje znaczenie miały też melancholijna refleksja nad rolą pieniądza i pozycji społecznej, które decydowały o życiu młodej panny, oraz znakomity, powściągliwy styl, doskonale oddający harmonię opisywanego świata.

Graficzna adaptacja, jednej z najsłynniejszych powieści Jane Austen, "Dumy i uprzedzenia". Jane Austen określiła Dumę i uprzedzenie (1813), najwcześniejszą z jej opublikowanych powieści, jako swoje „ukochane dziecko” – i od tamtej pory pokolenia czytelników biorą to sobie do serca. Przedstawione przez nią napięcie pomiędzy błyskotliwą, niezależną Elizabeth Bennet a uroczym i surowym panem Darcy zalicza się do najwspanialszych, najbardziej romantycznych – i najzabawniejszych – historii miłosnych, jakie kiedykolwiek opowiedziano. Tłumacz: Agnieszka Wilga

Adaptacje dwóch najsłynniejszych powieści Jane Austen w jednym tomie: Sense and Sensibility. Rozważna i romantyczna oraz Pride and Prejudice. Duma i uprzedzenie Seria wydawnicza "czytamy w oryginale" zawiera adaptacje największych dzieł literatury światowej w wersji dwujęzycznej, przeznaczonej dla uczących się języka angielskiego. śledząc losy bohaterów, możemy na bieżąco porównywać tekst angielski i polski. Adaptacje zostały przygotowane z myślą o czytelnikach na poziomie średnio zaawansowanym, jednak dzięki obecności polskiego tłumaczenia z książki korzystać mogą również początkujący w nauce języka angielskiego. Książka zawiera zestaw ćwiczeń językowych oraz klucz z odpowiedziami.

Jane Austen seems to have been born with the comic precision and other-worldly insight she everywhere displays in Sense and Sensibility, her first published novel (1811), which, though revised later, was completed in 1797 at the age of twenty-two. This meticulously constructed story of two sisters with opposing temperaments and romantic inclinations exemplifies the distilled spirit of classicism in English literature.

Gratka dla fanów prozy Jane Austen. Od ponad dwustu lat powieści Jane Austen zdumiewają świeżością i ujmują wdziękiem oraz wnikliwością obserwacji, są znane i kochane przez czytelników na całym świecie, bez względu na płeć i wiek. Lady Susan, Sanditon, Watsonowie to trzy nowele, w których autorka z właściwym sobie kunsztem eksperymentuje z formą literacką, od powieści epistolarnej poprzez satyrę i melodramat do powieści społecznej.  Lady Susan to powieść epistolarna, z listów bohaterów dowiadujemy się o najważniejszych wydarzeniach, a co więcej, patrzymy na nie przez różne pryzmaty. Bez wątpienia osobą najbardziej interesującą jest tytułowa lady Susan, bezwstydna intrygantka i uwodzicielka, która świeżo owdowiawszy, zaczyna cieszyć się ży...