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Swann’s Way is one of the preeminent novels of childhood – a sensitive boy’s impressions of his family and neighbors, all brought dazzlingly back to life years later by the famous taste of a madeleine. The first volume of the work that established Proust as one of the finest voices of the modern age – satirical, skeptical, confiding, and endlessly varied in his response to the human condition – Swann’s...

At the reception in the rich manor there are not the first youth mister and also not a young lady anymore. Both belong to the same circle of birth, but the financial affairs of a man are in somewhat better condition. It all seems to him that he is meant for something great and terrible that will destroy his own life and the lives of loved ones – like a sudden fit of madness or, yes, how many anything...

With their penetrating psychological insight and their emphasis on human dignity, respect and forgiveness, Dostoyevsky’s early short stories contain the seeds of the themes that came to his major novels. „Poor Folk” is a short novel focused on a powerful exchange of letters between two bright and introspective individuals living in difficult circumstances in 19th century Saint Petersburg who are in...

Cedrowe orzechy to daleki przedsmak  Syberiady polskiej , a tak pisała o nich wiele lat temu w paryskiej „Kulturze” Maria Danilewicz- Zielińska: „ Cedrowe orzechy , krótkie opowiadania z wyraźnymi pointami, napisane gładko i interesująco, zasługują na uwagę ze względu na temat niechętnie poruszany w wydawnictwach krajowych. Mimo wyraźnie autobiograficznego charakteru opowiadań, brak informacji, jak...