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From Booklist For die-hard Lem fans, any new work featuring his lovably hapless hero, Ijon Tichy, of Star Diaries fame, is a welcome treat. Here, the legendary polymath and veteran of uncountable uni...
From Booklist For die-hard Lem fans, any new work featuring his lovably hapless hero, Ijon Tichy, of Star Diaries fame, is a welcome treat. Here, the legendary polymath and veteran of uncountable uni...
His best stuff is right up there with Borges and Calvino. But in the Pirx tales it is the adventure story he puts to use. And he handles it with the ease of Jack London.(-San Francisko Chronicle) R...
Na ksiazkę składa się pięć esejów przystępnych dla wszystkich, których fascynuja tajemnice kosmosu. Słynni teoretycy - Stephen W. Hawking, Kip S. Thorne, Igor Nowikow, Timothy Ferris, Alan Lightman - ...
Known for his philosophic poetry that questions and ponders the human condition in place and in time, Zagajewski, author of two collections of poems, Tremor and Canvas, and a previous collection of es...
"An exeptionally powerful book...Milosz's personal involvement, his spontaneity and freshness combined with erudition and knowledge of history, philosophy, literature and life...always enlightens an...
Written immediately after the end of World War II, this morally complex Holocaust memoir is notable for its exact depiction of the grim details of life in Warsaw under the Nazi occupation. "Things you...
This definitive Polish cookbook contains recipes for all the traditional favorites enjoyed in Poland for more than 1,000 years. The Art of Polish cooking includes 500 recipes for hors d'oeuvres, soups...
"Schulz's book is a masterpiece of comoc writing; grave yet dignified, domestically plain yet poetic, exultant and forgiving, marvelously inventive, shy, and never raw." In the Polish city of Dro...