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The Witchstone. Klątwa Drakefordów
Henry H. Neff
Absolutna perełka fantasy dla wszystkich, którzy pokochali takie seriale, jak Dobre miejsce i Lucyfer Laszlo Zebul to osiemsetletni demon i najmniej wydajny pracownik Działu Zarządzania Klątwami piekielnego korpo. Jest między innymi strażnikiem klątwy ciążącej na rodzie Drakefordów, ale woli opalać się na Ibizie, sączyć martini i naciągać frajerów na Manhattanie. Nowy szef daje mu sześć dni na poprawę, inaczej skończy marnie. Dziewiętnastoletnia Maggie Drakeford jest obciążona klątwą i skazana na życie w wiosce zabitej dechami. Dziewczyna cierpi, widząc, jak klątwa powoli zamienia jej ojca w potwora. Przyszłość jej rodziny rysuje się ponuro, ale wtedy pojawia się Laszlo z wieścią, że mają sześć dni na zdjęcie klątwy. Czy Maggie może zaufać przystojnemu Laszlowi? Jasne, że nie. Ale nie może też przepuścić okazji do uratowania rodziny, nawet jeśli jej przewodnikiem miałby być demon. Bohaterowie wyruszają w szaloną podróż przez Nowy Jork, Liechtenstein, Zurych i Rzym. Z pozoru lekka przygoda przekształca się w morderczy wyścig z czasem i poszukiwanie rozwiązania tajemnicy, która rozwścieczyć może nawet samego Lucyfera. Czarny humor, kapitalne dialogi i hollywoodzki rozmach The Witchstone to diabelnie dobra rozrywka!
The Withered Arm - With Audio Level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library
Hardy, Thomas
A level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. This version includes an audio book: listen to the story as you read. Retold for Learners of English by Jennifer Bassett. A woman and a man . . . words of love whispered on a summer night. Later, there is a child, but no wedding-ring. And then the man leaves the first woman, finds a younger woman, marries her . . . It's an old story. Yes, it's an old, old story. It happens all the time -- today, tomorrow, a hundred years ago. People don't change. But this story, set among the green hills of southern England, has something different about it. Perhaps it is only a dream, or perhaps it is magic -- a kind of strange dark magic that begins in the world of dreams and phantoms . . .
The Withered Arm Level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library
Hardy, Thomas
A level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library graded readers. Retold for Learners of English by Jennifer Bassett A woman and a man . . . words of love whispered on a summer night. Later, there is a child, but no wedding-ring. And then the man leaves the first woman, finds a younger woman, marries her . . . It's an old story. Yes, it's an old, old story. It happens all the time -- today, tomorrow, a hundred years ago. People don't change. But this story, set among the green hills of southern England, has something different about it. Perhaps it is only a dream, or perhaps it is magic - a kind of strange dark magic that begins in the world of dreams and phantoms . . .
The Wizard of Oz - With Audio Level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library
Baum, L. Frank
A level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. This version includes an audio book: listen to the story as you read. Retold for Learners of English by Rosemary Border. Dorothy lives in Kansas, USA, but one day a cyclone blows her and her house to a strange country called Oz. There, Dorothy makes friends with the Scarecrow, the Tin Man, and the Cowardly Lion. But she wants to go home to Kansas. Only one person can help her, and that is the country's famous Wizard. So Dorothy and her friends take the yellow brick road to the Emerald City, to find the Wizard of Oz . . .
The Wizard of Oz Level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library
Baum, L. Frank
A level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Retold for Learners of English by Rosemary Border Dorothy lives in Kansas, USA, but one day a cyclone blows her and her house to a strange country called Oz. There, Dorothy makes friends with the Scarecrow, the Tin Man, and the Cowardly Lion. But she wants to go home to Kansas. Only one person can help her, and that is the country's famous Wizard. So Dorothy and her friends take the yellow brick road to the Emerald City, to find the Wizard of Oz . . .
Alexandre Dumas
During the absolutism in France, the young clog-maker Thibaudt has a deep desire to belong to the aristocracy. One day he saves the life of a wolf, who fled from the baron Jean de Vez and his hunting party. A while later Thibaudt imagine his amazement: the wolf transformed himself into a human and offers him a pact. The wolf promises to grant Thibaults wishes in exchange for a hair on his head. As Thibault wishes harm upon more and more people, the hairs on his head become red and wiry. Thibaults life only gets worse, however; he is able to take revenge on his enemies, but the villagers suspect him to be a werewolf. The Wolf-Leader, a novel by Alexandre Dumas, was originally published in 1857. In the lengthy but entertaining introduction, Dumas explains that the novel is based on folktales he grew up hearing in his hometown of Villers-Cotterts. This particular tale was told to him by a gamekeeper who often took him hunting as a young man. The novel contains elements of horror, fantasy, and science fiction, yet it times is also quite comic.
The Woman Artist: Essays in memory of Dorota Filipczak
Tomasz Dobrogoszcz, Tomasz Fisiak, Agata Handley, Krzysztof...
The volume, honoring Professor Dorota Filipczak, whose energetic and fruitful academic career was cut short in 2021, offers a contribution to literary criticism and culture studies, the areas on which her own scholarly endeavors centered. The theme of "the woman artist" was of particular significance both for Filipczak's inquiry into the work of writers such as Alice Munro, Jane Urquhart, Michele Roberts or Margaret Laurence, and for her own poetic practice. Rather than focus on her achievements in various fields (as scholar, writer, teacher, poet, and translator), the texts collected in this volume go beyond remembrance and the honoring of an established scholar's remarkable feats. Despite their undeniable commemorative role, the chapters are an attempt to carry Dorota Filipczak's academic endeavors forward, into the future, with her own texts serving as prologue and inspiration. The contributors to the volume - representing various fields of the academia - are her friends, colleagues and collaborators, and the essays eloquently testify to her intellectual influence. From more personal reflections and ruminations inspired by Filipczak's life and work to articles exploring the work of a range of women artists, the volume offers an investigation of various approaches to autobiography, tensions between public personas and private selves, subversive performative personas, transcending religious frameworks of bodily discipline, as well as "toggling" between the human and the nonhuman.
Talbot Mundy
First lets look at the situation for a moment. We were twenty people: seventeen Arabs, Narayan Singh, I and Thunder. We were in Petra over Jordan, which was a civilian land until Ali Higg, the impostor of Leo Peter, a friend of the Prophet Islam, Lord of Limit Deserts, and Lord Vaters became established there as a thorn on the flank of Palestine. Inaccessible and inaccessible, except for airplanes, once the valley of Moses, leading to it through a twelve-meter gorge, was blocked.