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"Songs in the Key of Death," an anthology of music-infused crime stories by acclaimed author William Bankier. For over thirty years, starting in the 1960s, Bankier's love affair with music mixed with his hard-boiled crime stories to produce some of the most exhilarating and dramatic crime fiction of his generation. Many of Bankier's best works originally graced the pages of classic pulp magazines like...

James Joyce first wrote Portrait as a one-thousand page novel, full of well-developed scenes and long explanations of Stephen’s motives, but he decided to trim it into a short book with a new sort of style. The novel tells the story of the first twenty years of Stephen Dedalus – a young Catholic boy growing up in late 19th century Ireland. As the title suggests, this is the story not just of a young...

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„Kroniki królobójcy”, akt drugi, scena druga! Dzień drugi chyli się ku zachodowi. Kvothe powoli ujawnia, jak rodziła się jego legenda. Czy możliwe jest, by rozmawiał z istotą, która dzięki swojemu jasnowidzeniu doprowadza ludzi do obłędu? Ile zaś prawdy może być w tym, że w tak młodym wieku spędził wiele nocy z Felurianą, której sztuka miłosna pozbawiła już życia rzesze mężczyzn? Utalentowany arkanista...