travels

Villette is Charlotte Bronte’s last novel, published in 1853. After an unspecified family disaster, protagonist Lucy Snowe travels to the fictional city of Villette to teach at an all-girls school where she is unwillingly pulled into both adventure and romance. However, the novel is celebrated not so much for its plot as in its acute tracing of Lucy’s psychology, particularly Bronte’s use of Gothic...

H.G. Wells is best remembered as a central figure in the development of the science fiction genre. However, much of his literary output was more conventional in nature, and he published a number of novels dealing with interpersonal relationships and social themes. H.G. Wells was so charmed by Margaret Sanger that he based „The Secret Places of the Heart” on his time with her. The novel is a thinly-veiled...

Lavie Tidhar przebywał w Dar Es Salaam w dniu zamachu na ambasadę amerykańską w 1998 roku. W Nairobi mieszkał w tym samym hotelu, w którym zatrzymali się członkowie Al Kaidy. Od tamtej pory wraz z żoną o mały włos uniknęli śmierci w zamachach londyńskim (2005) i na Synaju (2004) - te doświadczenia nakłoniły autora do napisania najpierw opowiadania "My Travels with Al-Qaeda" (Moje podróże z Al Kaidą)...