By its nature, literature is a form of alternate construal. It deals with imaginative alternatives to the status quo, projecting narrative accounts which in one way or another engage the real and the imagined. Among the many types of alternate constr...

From a Cork childhood to the World Cup finals, the story of football's toughest competitor. Love him or hate him, Roy Keane is the inspiration behind Manchester United FC's success over the past nine years. A relentless, aggressive midfield general,...

język polski ISBN 9780224059732 kategoria poezja data wydania 1999 (data przybliżona)

Charles Bukowski's gamble in art was as prolific as it was audacious. The second in Black Sparrow's series of posthumous volumes of Bukowski's poetry takes us deeper into the raw, wild vein that extends from the early 1970s to the 1990s. As in Bone P...

Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize and the first democratically elected president of South Africa, Mandela began his autobiography during the course of his 27 years in prison.. Among the book's interesting revelations is Mandela's ambivalence toward his...

Sayo Masuda's story is an extraordinary portrait of rural life in Japan and an illuminating contrast to the fictionalised lives of glamorous geishas. At the age of six masuda's poverty-stricken family sent her to work as a nursemaid. At the age of tw...