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The volume shows the efforts of the Kashubians to preserve their linguistic and cultural heritage as well as the development of Kashubian literature. The contributors offer information about the Kashubian region and culture and present in-depth knowledge about the Kashubian language, contemporary Kashubian literature and the teaching of the Kashubian language and culture in three parts. Part I deals with the standardization of spelling in contemporary editions of older works, with the activities of the Council for the Preservation of Kashubian Language and Culture, with the translation of the Gdask legends from Polish into Kashubian and with word formation in Kashubian, in particular with the formation of womens names. Part II deals with the representation of the Kashubian region in the Polish-language works of R. Ostrowska and the developments in contemporary Kashubian fantasy literature. Part III contains a proposal for the inclusion of Kashubian culture in Polish language teaching for foreigners and summarizes the results of 30 years of Kashubian language teaching in Polish schools.

This volume is a collection of studies on the experience of being ill as represented in a diverse range of literary and film works, offered by Polish scholars with an interest in the combination of medical, cultural and social contexts (disease, illness, sickness). The focus is on narrative strategies that condition the idiomatic styles of writing (about) disease. The analyses also cover extra-individual codes for expressing the experience of illness, arising from cultural orders or literary genres. The contributors examine cultural representations of melancholy, depression, Parkinsons disease and other boundary situations (e.g., mourning or COVID-19 pandemic). With its diversity of study approaches, the book inscribes itself in the widely defined Polish maladic discourse criticism.

Every person contains a degree of otherness, as identity is formed by social belonging. However, group solidarity can lead as well to exclusion, stigmatization, and even violence against those deemed different. They face trauma and contempt, suffering in silence that is engendered by shame or enforced by dominant communities and narratives, while the silence surrounding victimization further deepens the harm and isolation experienced by those affected. This volume brings together analyses examining past and present forms of marginalization related to various groups of excluded people. The essays it contains call for the recognition of those often ignored by society and attempt to give a voice to the unheared.

The studies collected in this volume offer multidisciplinary perspectives on modern Gdask. The chapters provide insight into the citys literature and culture, analysing works by leading Polish authors, exploring the complexities of the commemoration of the Jewish presence, as well as illuminating the citys Christian heritage, enshrined in its Bibles and churches. A similar focus on the past and the present marks the studies of the models of education in Gdask before the Second World War and after the fall of communism. Finally, linguistic analyses of internet corpora address the issues of the living language spoken in Gdask as well as used to describe the city. Collectively, the contributors paint a picture of an open, vibrant and innovative city proud of its multicultural and multilingual past.

The War of the Worlds is a groundbreaking science fiction novel depicting humanitys first encounter with hostile extraterrestrial life. Through the Martian invasion of Earth, H. G. Wells explores imperialism, human vulnerability, and survival. Suspenseful and terrifying, the novel forever changed the portrayal of alien invasion stories and remains one of the most influential works in science fiction history.

The World Set Free is one of H. G. Wellss most prophetic works, envisioning atomic energy and global warfare decades before they became reality. Blending speculative science with political foresight, Wells examines the destructive potential of technological power and humanitys struggle to control it. Visionary and unsettling, this novel stands as a milestone in predictive science fiction.

The Sleeper Awakes is an early dystopian science fiction novel that imagines a man awakening centuries into the future to find himself ruler of a mechanized, unequal society. H. G. Wells explores themes of class division, technological dominance, and political manipulation. Bold and prophetic, this novel anticipates many concerns of modern dystopian literature and showcases Wellss deep engagement with social and political futures.

Poor Folk is Dostoyevskys debut novel and a deeply compassionate portrayal of life among the impoverished. Told through letters exchanged between two struggling individuals, the novel reveals emotional vulnerability, social injustice, and quiet heroism. Sensitive and humane, this early work announced Dostoyevskys extraordinary talent and his lifelong concern for suffering, dignity, and moral depth.

Evelina is a landmark 18th-century novel that helped shape the modern novel of manners. Frances Burney follows a young womans entrance into society, revealing social hypocrisy, gender constraints, and personal growth with wit and sensitivity. Influential on later writers such as Jane Austen, this novel remains essential for understanding the evolution of English fiction.

Crime and Punishment is one of the greatest novels ever written and a cornerstone of world literature. Through the tormented mind of Raskolnikov, Dostoyevsky explores crime, conscience, moral responsibility, and the possibility of redemption. Set in the oppressive streets of St. Petersburg, the novel combines psychological realism with profound philosophical inquiry. Intense, gripping, and deeply human, this masterpiece continues to challenge and transform readers across generations.

The Great Gatsby is one of the most celebrated novels in American literature. Through the tragic figure of Jay Gatsby, Fitzgerald exposes the illusion of the American Dream and the moral emptiness behind wealth and privilege. Lyrical, symbolic, and deeply resonant, this novel remains a defining portrait of ambition and loss.

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is one of F. Scott Fitzgeralds most imaginative and philosophical stories. Following a man who ages backward, the tale explores time, mortality, love, and social norms with irony and emotional depth. Elegant and thought-provoking, this story is a classic of American short fiction.

Finnegans Wake (Unabridged) is James Joyces audacious night-book, a cyclical dream epic where Dublin becomes a world-river and language the protagonist. Following Humphrey Chimpden Earwicker, Anna Livia Plurabelle, and their children Shem, Shaun, and Issy, the text recomposes history through polyglot portmanteau, pun, and song. Its Viconian cycles, folkloric and biblical palimpsests, and the fall-and-rise of Finnegan place it at the far edge of High Modernism, where narrative dissolves into an acoustic, multilingual weave meant to be heard as much as read. Joyce, the Irish modernist exile, worked on the Wake from 1923 to 1939 while battling failing eyesight and endless revision. A polyglot steeped in European tongues, he drew on Vicos cyclical philosophy, anthropology, popular song, cinema, and notebooks of street talk to forge a total book of the night that folds colonial history, family romance, and gossip into a single riverine dream. This unabridged edition rewards reading aloud and with companions or guides; its music reveals pattern where grammar resists. Scholars of modernism, linguists, and adventurous readers will find inexhaustible wit and rigor beneath the seeming chaos. If Ulysses mapped the day, Finnegans Wake maps the archetypal nightapproach it as a score, and let its rhythms carry you.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Author Biography · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

Ulysses (the original 1922 Paris edition) unfolds over a single day, 16 June 1904, tracing Leopold Blooms Dublin wanderings and his contrapuntal encounters with Stephen Dedalus before culminating in Molly Blooms unpunctuated nocturne. Joyce recasts Homeric episodes in parodic and protean styles (newspaper pastiche, dramatic script, catechism, musical fugue) while pioneering interior monologue and the mythic method that defined high modernism. As the inaugural Shakespeare and Company printing, this edition preserves the texts first explosive appearance, with its bravura shifts, experimental syntax, and historically telling typographical peculiarities. Dublin-born and cosmopolitan in exile, James Joyce fused Jesuit training, musicality, and a polyglot ear into linguistic virtuosity. Years in Trieste, Zurich, and Paris, and a lifelong engagement with Irish politics and Catholic ritual, informed his radical realism. The date of the action commemorates his first outing with Nora Barnacle, whose presence haunts Mollys voice; Joyces forensic memory of Dublin supplies the novels cartographic precision. Readers seeking the crucible of modernist narrative will find this Paris edition indispensable: a charged artifact and a still-living experiment. Scholars will value its textual witness; adventurous readers its inexhaustible humor, humanity, and audacity. Begin here to encounter Joyce unfiltered.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Author Biography · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

Teutonic Mythology (The Complete Three-Volume Edition) is Viktor Rydbergs ambitious reconstruction of the Germanic cosmology and mythic history from fragmentary sources. Mining the Poetic and Prose Eddas, skaldic verse, sagas, chronicles, runic lore, placenames, and folklore, he stitches gods, giants, and heroes into a unified cycle. His dense, argumentative style marries close philology to comparative IndoEuropean inquiry, often contesting Grimm and other systematizers, and treats divergent passages as clues to an underlying epic chronology. Rydberga Swedish poet, novelist, journalist, and selftaught scholarcombined liberal humanist skepticism with a Romantic quest for origins. Working outside rigid academic guilds yet conversant with their methods, he joined source criticism to comparative linguistics. His companion retelling, Our Fathers Godsaga, reveals the pedagogical impulse behind this research, while his public engagement in nineteenthcentury Scandinavia sharpened his interest in national memory and religious reform. Scholars of Norse studies, comparative religion, and intellectual history will find this edition indispensable: not as final doctrine, but as a brilliant, welldocumented provocation. Read it as archive and argument, and test its bold syntheses against current research for enduring insight.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

George Saintsburys Historical Manual of English Prosody offers a clear, chronologically shaped account of English meter, rhyme, and stanza from Old English alliterative verse through Chaucer, the Renaissance, blank verse and the heroic couplet, to Romantic and Victorian experiment. He parses feet, cadence, caesura, and enjambment with copious examples, classifying stanzaic architecturesSpenserian, Pindaric, ode, balladwhile defending an accentual-syllabic foundation and treating vers libre skeptically within a long historical continuum. An erudite Victorian-Edwardian critic, Saintsbury combined classical training with decades as Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature at Edinburgh. His vast histories of criticism and prosody, his admiration for Dryden, Pope, Spenser, and Tennyson, and his journalists habit of quoting generously all inform this manuals method: concrete exemplification, comparative reach, and a cautious resistance to metrically radical theories. Students of poetry, practicing poets, and editors alike will value this as a portable companion to scansion and poetic history. Read alongside his larger History of English Prosody, the manual remains an indispensable, argumentative, and invigorating guide to how English verse works and why tradition matters.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

The Characters (Les Caracteres) is both a translation of Theophrastus and a boldly original anatomy of seventeenthcentury French mores. In aphorisms, portraits a clef, and brief essays grouped by themesof the Court, of Women, of Greatness, of Personal MeritLa Bruyeres lapidary prose wields antithesis and irony to expose vanity, servility, and pretension from Versailles to the salons. Revised across editions after 1688, it perfects social typesthe courtier, pedant, financier, precieusewhere the moraliste tradition meets theatrical satire, and numbered fragments probe the rift between public performance and inner motive. A jurist by training, Jean de La Bruyere (16451696) bought a financial office before serving as tutor in the Conde household, a vantage that opened Chantilly and Versailles. Immersed in Greek moralism and French classicism, he married keen observation to Christian ethical concern; the quarrels provoked by his portraits, and his election to the Academie française in 1693, attest to the books sharpness and its authority. Scholars of literature, philosophy, and history will find in this book a precise instrument for reading societythen and now. Read it for its style as much as its insight: an exacting mirror that corrects by delight and disenchants without despair.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

Bouvard & Pécuchet follows two Parisian copy clerks who, after a windfall, retire to Normandy to master all knowledge. Each new enthusiasm—agronomy, chemistry, aesthetics, pedagogy, politics—appe

Published in 1922, Jacobs Room is Woolfs first fully modernist experiment, composing Jacob Flanders through a mosaic of voices, objects, and rooms. Impressionistic vignettes move from a Cornish shore to Cambridge and London; syntax is elliptical, focalization fluid, so identity appears as pattern rather than possession. Classical allusion, letters, and precise things weave memory and time under the Great Wars gathering shadow; the empty room is elegy and critique. Breaking with Edwardian materialism (Bennett, Wells, Galsworthy), it stands among 1922s modernist landmarks. Woolf, a central figure in the Bloomsbury Group, co-founded the Hogarth Press and, in Modern Fiction, argued the novel should register the minds "luminous halo." Grief for her brother Thoby and the nations postwar losses, together with Roger Frys post-impressionist aesthetics, shaped the books episodic design. It enacts the new psychology she sought. Readers drawn to modernisms audacity, the poetics of absence, and the ethics of remembrance will find Jacobs Room inexhaustible. It rewards close, recursive reading and invites reflection on how a life is assembled from other peoples sentencesan invitation few novels extend with such intelligence.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Author Biography · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

Este livro, ricamente ilustrado por diversos artistas, traz histórias sobre milagres eucarísticos de diferentes locais e épocas, muitas delas envolvendo acontecimentos da vida de santos como São Tarc