Angielski
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Książka w dwóch wersjach językowych: polskiej i angielskiej. A dual Polish-English language edition. Adonais utwór angielskiego poety romantycznego Percy'ego Bysshe Shelleya, będący elegią na cześć młodo zmarłego Johna Keatsa, opublikowany w 1821. Poemat jest napisany strofą spenserowską, czyli zwrotką dziewięciowersową rymowaną ababbcbcc. Składa się z pięćdziesięciu pięciu takich strof. Na język polski utwór przełożył Jan Kasprowicz. A oto fragment z przedmowy: John Keats umarł w Rzymie, na suchoty, w dwudziestym czwartym roku życia, dnia 27 grudnia 1820 i pochowany został na romantycznym i samotnym cmentarzu protestantów tego miasta, u stóp piramidy, będącej grobem Cestiusza, w pobliżu murów i baszt, obecnie rozpadłych, a które ongi okalały Rzym starożytny. Cmentarz jest wśród otoczenia ruin miejscem otwartym, w zimie pokrytym fiołkami i stokrotkami. Można by się nieomal zakochać w Śmierci na myśl, że zwłoki nasze na tak uroczym spoczną miejscu. Duch opłakiwanej istoty, której pamięci te niegodne poświęciłem wiersze, był niemniej delikatnym i wiotkim, jak pięknym; gdzie zaś istnieje obfitość robactwa, cóż dziwnego, że robak kwiecie młode podgryzł jeszcze w zawiązku? Surowa krytyka jego Endymiona, wydrukowana w Quarterly Rewiew, wpłynęła w sposób najgwałtowniejszy na jego umysł wrażliwy, a spowodowane przez nią wstrząśnienie skończyło się tym, że pękło mu w płucach jedno z naczyń krwionośnych; szybko wywiązały się suchoty, a późniejsze ze strony krytyków sprawiedliwszych uznanie prawdziwej wielkości sił jego ducha nie zdołało uleczyć już blizny, tak lekkomyślnie zadanej. Można by słusznie powiedzieć, że nieszczęśliwi ci ludzie nie wiedzą, co czynią. Rozsiewają obelgi i plotki, nie zważając wcale, azali grot zatruty nie ugodzi w serce, stwardniałe od mnogości otrzymanych razów, albo, jak u Keatsa, z przenikliwszej stworzone materii.
Jack London
“Adventure” is a book by Jack London, an American novelist. A pioneer of commercial fiction and an innovator in the genre that would later become known as science fiction. The novel explores the themes of domination of one people over the others, the differences between races, emancipation of women, and the strength of the human spirit, strengthened in a struggle with the nature and society.
Krystyna Wilkoszewska
The idea of the bilateral conference “Aesthetics and Cultu-res. The 1st Polish-Japanese Meeting: Exchanging Experi-ences” was initiated by the Polish Society of Aesthetics and firmly supported by the Japanese Society for Aesthetics. It was for the first time that the PSA organized a mutual con-ference concerning intercultural studies in aesthetics. A question arises why it is that the remote Japan become the first partner on the path of developing a tradition of bilateral conferences between two countries representing two different cultures. This book tries, at least to a certain extent, to answer the question. Although aesthetics is one discipline among others, this “small window” opens the broad perspective on art, theory of art as well as on all cultural phenomena, espe-cially those that are today in the process of intensive aesthetization.
Agatha Christie, Woman of Mystery - With Audio Level 2 Oxford Bookworms Library
Escott, John
A level 2 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. This version includes an audio book: listen to the story as you read. Written for Learners of English by John Escott. What does the name 'Agatha Christie' mean? To many people, it means a book about a murder mystery - a 'whodunnit'. 'I'm reading an Agatha Christie,' people say. 'I'm not sure who the murderer is - I think it's . . .' But they are usually wrong, because it is not easy to guess the murderer's name before the end of the book. But who was Agatha Christie? What was she like? Was her life quiet and unexciting, or was it full of interest and adventure? Was there a mystery in her life, too?
Agatha Christie, Woman of Mystery Level 2 Oxford Bookworms Library
Escott, John
A level 2 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Written for Learners of English by John Escott What does the name 'Agatha Christie' mean? To many people, it means a book about a murder mystery - a 'whodunnit'. 'I'm reading an Agatha Christie,' people say. 'I'm not sure who the murderer is - I think it's . . .' But they are usually wrong, because it is not easy to guess the murderer's name before the end of the book. But who was Agatha Christie? What was she like? Was her life quiet and unexciting, or was it full of interest and adventure? Was there a mystery in her life, too?
Age of Innocence - With Audio Level 5 Oxford Bookworms Library
Wharton, Edith
A level 5 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. This version includes an audio book: listen to the story as you read. Retold for Learners of English by Clare West. Into the narrow social world of New York in the 1870s comes Countess Ellen Olenska, surrounded by shocked whispers about her failed marriage to a rich Polish Count. A woman who leaves her husband can never be accepted in polite society. Newland Archer is engaged to young May Welland, but the beautiful and mysterious Countess needs his help. He becomes her friend and defender, but friendship with an unhappy, lonely woman is a dangerous path for a young man to follow - especially a young man who is soon to be married.
Age of Innocence Level 5 Oxford Bookworms Library
Wharton, Edith
A level 5 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Retold for Learners of English by Clare West. Into the narrow social world of New York in the 1870s comes Countess Ellen Olenska, surrounded by shocked whispers about her failed marriage to a rich Polish Count. A woman who leaves her husband can never be accepted in polite society. Newland Archer is engaged to young May Welland, but the beautiful and mysterious Countess needs his help. He becomes her friend and defender, but friendship with an unhappy, lonely woman is a dangerous path for a young man to follow - especially a young man who is soon to be married.
Aladdin and the Enchanted Lamp - With Audio Level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library
Dean, Judith
A level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. This version includes an audio book: listen to the story as you read. Written for Learners of English by Judith Dean. In a city in Arabia there lives a boy called Aladdin. He is poor and often hungry, but one day he finds an old lamp. When he rubs the lamp, smoke comes out of it, and then out of the smoke comes a magical jinnee. With the jinnee's help, Aladdin is soon rich, with gold and jewels and many fine things. But can he win the love of the Sultan's daughter, the beautiful Princess Badr-al-Budur?