„(…) Nurring przerwał. Nieoczekiwanie przybrał służbowy ton. – Can I speak to Anne, please? – Well, there is a slight problem. I am afraid she’s got amnesia. She doesn’t know who you are. The psychiatrist says it is only temporary… - Amnesia? Ewa skonstatowała, że podczas całej rozmowy z Nurringiem nie dokończyła żadnego ważnego zdania.(…)”
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Flower Power… The Beatles… Thunderbirds… The Space Race… Breakfast at Tiffany’s… Woodstock… Serge Gainsbourg… Mini Coopers… Carry on Camping… Mop Tops… Jimi Hendrix… Action Man… mini skirts… Morecambe and Wise… Mrs Robinson… Kerplunk… doing the twist… Would you know a Mod from a Rocker, Dr No from Dr Who, or Simon from Garfunkel? If so, then kick off your go-go boots, switch on the lava lamp and reminisce...
„(…) Doreen wydawała się nie do końca przekonana, więc szybko zmieniła temat – What’s that motto of yours about? „Let sleeping men lie”. Doreen odpowiedziała pytaniem. – Have you ever tried to wake a guy up in the middle of the night and asked: „Darling, can we talk?” He’ll tell you in no uncertain terms that you’re crazy and that he’s...
Witchcraft has recently been undergoing a huge popular revival, but does modern pagan witchcraft really bear any resemblance to its historical antecedents? The witch in history was a very different creature from her modern counterpart, and this book sets out to explore the historical background to the European witchcraft phenomenon. It examines in detail the growth of the ideological, cultural and...
The Holy Grail is a subject that fascinates and intrigues. Through its various guises as magic cauldron, cornucopia, horn of plenty and chalice cup it has remained at the centre of popular culture from antiquity right up to the present day. An object of marvel and mystery it inhabits a place in mythology that has its roots in historical facts. The Grail has been a major inspiration and catalyst for...
Nelson continues to fascinate academics as well as the general public.
He is still considered one of Britain’s greatest heroes and featured within the top ten of the BBC poll of such figures. But why does Nelson still remain such a prominent figure in the national imagination? With 2005 being the bicentenary of the Battle of Trafalgar, Victoria Carolan embarks on a timely reappraisal of Nelson,...
From Robert Louis Stevenson’s 'Treasure Island' to Errol Flynn in 'Captain Blood' on to today’s 'Pirates of the Caribbean', the romantic image of pirates in modern Western popular culture has long been with us. But of course pirates come in many guises, and not all of them as charming as Johnny Depp.
Pirates are outlaws who move quickly, a form of lawlessness based on the application...
There comes a time in every one’s life when he feels he was born to be an actor. Something within him tells him that he is the coming man, and that one day he will electrify the world. Then he burns with a desire to show them how the thing’s done, and to draw a salary of three hundred a week...
This audiobook is a faithful reproduction of one of Jerome K Jerome’s first successes,...
To many, Urban Legends are nothing more than harmless tales told round a camp fire, in a dormitory or round a table in a pub with the express aim of provoking a frisson of fear in the listener through the use of some horrific shock element in a familiar location and to an unlucky protagonist who is known to a friend of a friend of a friend. But is there something working at a deeper level?
We have...
An unusual treatise on sex education, dating back to 1922 in America. There is a strong bias towards abstinence and indeed there are threats of hellfire and brimstone as a result of, shall we say, 'interference'? With its hectoring tone and finger wagging stance, it is alarming to think that this book was treated as a serious authority on the subject of sex and even more alarming that, even today,...
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