The tales in the Grey Fairy Book are derived from many countries - Lithuania, various parts of Africa, Germany, France, Greece, and other regions of the world. They have been translated and adapted by Mrs. Dent, Mrs. Lang, Miss Eleanor Sellar, Miss B...

Asimov's Guide to the Bible is a work by Isaac Asimov that was first published in two volumes in 1967 and 1969, covering the Old Testament and the New Testament (including the Catholic Old Testament, or deuterocanonical, books and the Eastern Orthodo...

Machiavelli praised his military genius. European royalty sought out his secret elixir against poison. His life inspired Mozart's first opera, while for centuries poets and playwrights recited bloody, romantic tales of his victories, defeats, intrigu...

The purpose of this work is to analyze how the intellectual life of the second century, the age whose mentality manifests itself both in the sublime mind of Aelius Aristides and in the stinging, cynical wit of Lucian, the age that prepared the ground...

Drakulic has produced yet another remarkable book. Her collection of 18 essays, named for the train between Vienna and Rijeka, moves from the comfortable distance of Cambridge's Harvard Club through the consequences of war for former Yugoslavia. As i...

"Polskość i europejskość w Josepha Conrada wizjach historii, polityki i etyki" zawiera artykuły pięciu autorów z Polski oraz ośmiu zza granicy (z USA, Kanady, Ukrainy i Japonii). Podobnie jak poprzedni tom niniejszej serii ("Conrad a Polska"), stanow...