Polish Literature

A collector of strange machines. An enthusiast of skiing and sweets. A world famous fantasy writer who kept many secrets, even from his own family. What did he do with the unsuccessful versions of his books? What did he do to anger Philip K. Dick? How did he survive three occupations of Lviv? In a word: Stanisław Lem's life was out of this world. It's a story full of unexpected twists of fate, funny anecdotes, tragic events, small secrets, and big mysteries. It's the first Polish biography of Stanisław Lem, written by another science fiction writer, Wojciech Orliński.

Concluding his acclaimed series on the Eastern Front in World War I, Prit Buttar comprehensively details not only these climactic events, but also the "successor wars" that raged long after the armistice of 1918. New states rose from the ashes of empire and war raged as German forces sought to keep them under the aegis of the Fatherland. These unresolved tensions between the former Great Powers and the new states would ultimately lead to the rise of Hitler and a new, terrible world war only two decades later.

Wykwintny dramat historyczny z watkiem milosnym w tle, przedstawia skromny swiat chrzescijan w kontrze do topiacego sie w przepychu i rozpuscie Rzymu. Za sprawa milosci i wiary bohaterowie przechodza przemiany osobowosci.

Pierwsza czesc wspanialej trylogii Henryka Sienkiewicza. Wielka milosc rycerza bez skazy, Jana Skrzetuskiego i uroczej, niewinnej szlachcianki Heleny Kurcewiczówny. A w tle dzieje Polski w dobie powstania Chmielnickiego (1648-1654).

1941, Poland. Though war rages around her and occupying German forces march steadily onward, 16-year-old Aleksandra has lived her life sheltered from danger. Until one day, she goes to school—never to return. Pushed roughly into a truck with other schoolgirls like her, a single ominous word tells her all she needs to know about her fate: Lebensborn.

"Znachor" to wzruszajaca historia chirurga, profesora Rafala Wilczura, który zrozpaczony odejsciem zony i córeczki szuka ukojenia w alkoholu. Bedac kompletnie pijanym, zostaje okradziony i pobity, w wyniku czego traci pamiec. Po latach wlóczegostwa kradnie dokumenty i pod nazwiskiem Antoniego Kosiby znajduje schronienie u mlynarza. Zyskuje slawe znachora po udanej operacji. Miejscowy lekarz, zazdrosny o jego sukcesy, grozi Kosibie sadem za wykonywanie praktyki lekarskiej bez zezwolenia.

Historia pieciu rodzin z najwyzszych sfer rosyjskiej arystokracji w dobie najazdu Napoleona na Rosje Glównym bohaterem tej wielowatkowej epopei jest Piotr Bezuchow - ulubiony nieslubny syn niezwykle bogatego hrabiego, od dziecka ksztalcony za granica. Poznajemy go, gdy jako dwudziestolatek pojawia sie na przyjeciu w Petersburgu i od razu zraza do siebie wiekszosc gosci swoja niezgrabnoscia, nieobyciem towarzyskim i podziwem dla Bonapartego.

New York Times bestselling author Alan Furst is internationally renowned as master of the European espionage thriller. Unfolding in September of 1939 as Hitler’s Wehrmacht ravages Warsaw, the Polish Officer discloses the clandestine existence of Polish Military Intelligence.

September 1939: The conquering Nazis swarm through Warsaw as social worker Irena Sendler watches in dread from her apartment window. Already, the city's poor go hungry. Irena wonders how she will continue to deliver food and supplies to those who need it most, including the forbidden Jews. The answer comes unexpectedly.

Pierwsza czesc nowego cyklu powiesciowego Joanny Jax - autorki sagi o rodzinie von Becków. Podobnie jak w swych poprzednich ksiazkach pisarka osadzila fabule powiesci w kilku krajach, pokazujac losy dwóch spokrewnionych z soba mezczyzn i ich potomków na przestrzeni kilkudziesieciu lat. Julian Chelmicki i Emil Lewin sa przyrodnimi bracmi, ale oprócz wspólnego ojca dzieli ich wszystko - pozycja spoleczna, stopien zamoznosci, wyznawane wartosci.

Wanting to learn the Polish language, but don’t know how - or where - to start? If so, you’ve come to the right place. This audiobook will give you an excellent introduction to the Polish language, and by starting with the very basics, the audiobook will increase your knowledge step-by-step. The exercises provide you with a lot of practice in both writing and talking; many useful words and phrases are included for reference during your learning, and for a long time after.

Putin's Wars is a timely overview of the conflicts in which Russia has been involved since Vladimir Putin became prime minister and then president of Russia, from the First Chechen War to the two military incursions into Georgia, the annexation of Crimea and the eventual invasion of Ukraine itself. But it also looks more broadly at Putin's recreation of Russian military power and its expansion to include a range of new capabilities, from mercenaries to operatives in a relentless information war against Western powers.

A cosmic accident sets the modern town of Grantville, West Virginia, down in war-torn 17th-century Europe and a new nation is forged. Now when United States of Europe ally King Gustavas of Sweden invades Poland, the U.S. of E. is dragged into a full-scale European war against ruthless opponents. Meanwhile Mike Stearns, wily and courageous leader of the up-time West Virginians, has been turned out of office in an election. But, like Churchill (before and after him) Stearns is not done yet.

Historia o czasach króla Popiela i Piasta Kolodzieja. Tworzenie sie zrebów polskiej panstwowosci, burzliwe losy milosci dwójki mlodych bohaterów: Domana i Dziwy. Audiobook przybliza wiele zwyczajów slowianskiej, wierzenia naszych przodków, piekne legendy i obrzedy.

"Pan Wolodyjowski" jest zwienczeniem Trylogii. Henryk Sienkiewicz polaczyl istotne watki: losy Zagloby, Skrzetuskiego i tytulowego Michala Wolodyjowskiego. Opowiesc o milosci, przyjazni, zazdrosci, nienawisci i zdradzie przedstawionych na tle wojen z Turcja.

Winner of both the Giller Prize and the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, The Polished Hoe is acclaimed author Austin Clarke's masterpiece. On a Caribbean island in the 1950s, elderly Mary Gertrude Mathilda commits murder. As she explains herself to police, her story exposes the ugly underbelly of life on Caribbean plantations, with its slavery and brutality.

In this most recent offering from Nobel laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer, A Letter to Mama and Other Uncollected Stories brings together nineteen stories that were translated in Singer's lifetime but left uncollected or unpublished. The stories were translated either by Singer himself or under his personal supervision, and appeared in The New Yorker, Harper’s Magazine, Paris Review, Tablet, Narrative, Jewish Review of Books, and American Scholar. Singer was recognized as a master storyteller. His mastery came not only from inborn talent, but also from edits and revisions. He was an artist ...

What connects the fate of a chess master, a traitor, and a beautiful woman who after the war will become an MI6 agent, and later work for American counterintelligence? Where is the priceless treasure that spies of Hitler, Stalin, Churchill, and Roosevelt want to find at all cost? Drawing from real-life events and describing real people, Maciej Siembieda created a masterful, sensational novel.

Cuchnacy Wersal to ksiazka oparta na róznorodnych zródlach z epoki i wstrzasajacy obraz obyczajów panujacych w Wersalu w czasach regencji po smierci Ludwika XIII oraz panowania Ludwika XIV, Ludwika XV i Ludwika XVI. Autorka przedstawia plejade slynnych królewskich metres, m.in. markize Montespan, markize Maintenon, markize Pompadour, ksiezna du Barry. Poznajemy ich intrygi, bezwzgledne postepowanie wobec rywalek, nieznajace hamulców erotyczne namietnosci. Opisany przez Elwire Watale wersalski dwór to miejsce targane brutalnymi, czesto krwawymi dramatami, perwersyjnymi rozrywkami, nieposkromionymi zadzami.

Akcja powieści rozgrywa się w czasach upadku dwudziestej dynastii w starożytnym Egipcie. Państwem zarządza Ramzes XII, uzależniony całkowicie od władzy kapłanów. Tymczasem kraj znajduje się w stanie kryzysu - zmniejsza się zaludnienie i wpływy finansowe, pogłębia się również zadłużenie państwa, pożyczającego ogromne sumy od Fenicjan. Młody następca tronu wyrusza w podróż, podczas której ma poznać kraj i zrozumieć przyczyny jego kłopotów. Kiedy po śmierci ojca zostaje nowym faraonem, Ramzesem XIII, posiada już pomysł na reformy, mogące przywrócić świetność Egiptu.