<p> Z ilustracjami Gosi Herby</p> <p> „Pisarzom z kotami do twarzy. [...] Od razu przyjemnie znaleźć się w prestiżowym towarzystwie: Hemingway, Colette, Bukowski, Burroughs, wszyscy przyznawali się wszak do kociarstwa, zostawili na dowód cytaty i strofy”. Obserwacjami i anegdotami dzielą się wybitni kociarze: Stefan Chwin, Olga Drenda, Piotr Paziński, Małgorzata Rejmer, Piotr Siemion i Paweł Sołtys. Każdy z nich w charakterystycznym dla siebie stylu, a wszyscy z niezwykłą wrażliwością, zabierają czytelnika do świata, w którym rządzą koty.</p> <p> Polecamy także tom opowiadań „O psach”.</p>
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<p>ONCE upon a time there was a very beautiful doll's-house; it was red brick with white windows, and it had real muslin curtains and a front door and a chimney. <br> <br>IT belonged to two Dolls called Lucinda and Jane; least it belonged to Lucinda, but she never ordered meals. <br>Jane was the Cook; but she never did any cooking, because the dinner had been bought ready-made, in a box full of shavings. <br> <br>THERE were two red lobsters and a ham, a fish, a pudding, and some pears and oranges. <br>They would not come off the plates, but they were extremely beautiful. <br>ONE morning Lucinda and Jane had gone out for a drive in the doll's perambulator. There was no one in the nursery, and it was very quiet. Presently there was a little scuffling, scratching noise in a corner near the fire-place, where there was a hole under the skirting-board. <br>Tom Thumb put out his head for a moment, and then popped it in again. <br>Tom Thumb was a mouse. <br> <br>A MINUTE afterwards, Hunca Munca, his wife, put her head out, too; and when she saw that there was no one in the nursery, she ventured out on the oilcloth under the coal-box.</p>
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<p>"TOM!" <br>No answer. <br>"TOM!" <br>No answer. <br> <br>"What's gone with that boy, I wonder? You TOM!" <br>No answer. <br> <br>The old lady pulled her spectacles down and looked over them about the room; then she put them up and looked out under them. She seldom or never looked through them for so small a thing as a boy; they were her state pair, the pride of her heart, and were built for "style," not service—she could have seen through a pair of stove-lids just as well. She looked perplexed for a moment, and then said, not fiercely, but still loud enough for the furniture to hear: <br> <br>"Well, I lay if I get hold of you I'll—" <br> <br>She did not finish, for by this time she was bending down and punching under the bed with the broom, and so she needed breath to punctuate the punches with. She resurrected nothing but the cat. <br> <br>"I never did see the beat of that boy!" <br>She went to the open door and stood in it and looked out among the tomato vines and "jimpson" weeds that constituted the garden. No Tom. So she lifted up her voice at an angle calculated for dis-tance and shouted: <br> <br>"Y-o-u-u TOM!"</p>
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<p><strong>Scene</strong>: The Mississippi Valley Time: Forty to fifty years ago: <br> <br>IN this book a number of dialects are used, to wit: the Missouri negro dialect; the extremest form of the backwoods Southwestern dialect; the ordinary "Pike County" dialect; and four modified varie-ties of this last. The shadings have not been done in a haphazard fashion, or by guesswork; but painstakingly, and with the trustworthy guidance and support of personal familiarity with these several forms of speech. <br>I make this explanation for the reason that without it many readers would suppose that all these characters were trying to talk alike and not succeeding. <br> <br><strong> THE AUTHOR. </strong><br> <br> <br><strong>Now the way that the book winds up is this</strong>: <br> <br>Tom and me found the money that the robbers hid in the cave, and it made us rich. We got six thousand dollars apiece—all gold. It was an awful sight of money when it was piled up. Well, Judge Thatcher he took it and put it out at interest, and it fetched us a dollar a day apiece all the year round—more than a body could tell what to do with. <br> <br>The Widow Douglas she took me for her son, and allowed she would sivilize me; but it was rough living in the house all the time, considering how dismal regular and decent the widow was in all her ways; and so when I couldn't stand it no longer I lit out. I got into my old rags and my sugar-hogshead again, and was free and satisfied. But Tom Sawyer he hunted me up and said he was going to start a band of robbers, and I might join if I would go back to the widow and be respectable. So I went back. <br> <br>The widow she cried over me, and called me a poor lost lamb, and she called me a lot of other names, too, but she never meant no harm by it. She put me in them new clothes again, and I couldn't do nothing but sweat and sweat, and feel all cramped up. Well, then, the old thing commenced again. The widow rung a bell for supper, and you had to come to time. When you got to the table you couldn't go right to eating, but you had to wait for the widow to tuck down her head and grumble a little over the victuals, though there warn't really anything the matter with them,—that is, nothing only everything was cooked by itself. In a barrel of odds and ends it is different; things get mixed up, and the juice kind of swaps around, and the things go better. <br> <br>After supper she got out her book and learned me about Moses and the Bulrushers, and I was in a sweat to find out all about him; but by and by she let it out that Moses had been dead a considerable long time; so then I didn't care no more about him, because I don't take no stock in dead people.</p>
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<p> WHO says that English folk have no fairy tales of their own? The present volume contains only a selection out of some 140, of which I have found traces in this country. It is probable that many more exist.</p> <br> <p> A quarter of the tales in this volume have been collected during the last ten years or so, and some of them have not been hitherto published. Up to 1870, it was said equally of France and of Italy, that they possessed no folk-tales. Yet, within fifteen years from that date, over 1000 tales had been collected in each country. I am hoping that the present volume may lead to equal activity in this country, and would earnestly beg any reader of this book who knows of similar tales, to communicate them, written down as they are told, to me, care of the Publishers. The only reason, I imagine, why such tales have not hitherto been brought to light, is the lamentable gap between the governing and recording classes and the dumb working classes of this country--dumb to others but eloquent among themselves. It would be no unpatriotic task to help to bridge over this gulf, by giving a common fund of nursery literature to all classes of the English people, and, in any case, it can do no harm to add to the innocent gaiety of the nation.</p> <br> <br> <p><strong> English Fairy Tales: </strong><br> <br>- ST. GEORGE OF MERRIE ENGLAND <br>- THE STORY OF THE THREE BEARS <br>- TOM-TIT-TOT <br>- THE GOLDEN SNUFF-BOX <br>- TATTERCOATS <br>- THE THREE FEATHERS <br>- LAZY JACK <br>- JACK THE GIANT-KILLER <br>- THE THREE SILLIES <br>- THE GOLDEN BALL <br>- THE TWO SISTERS <br>- THE LAIDLY WORM <br>- TITTY MOUSE AND TATTY MOUSE <br>- JACK AND THE BEANSTALK <br>- THE BLACK BULL OF NORROWAY <br>- CATSKIN <br>- THE THREE LITTLE PIGS <br>- NIX NAUGHT NOTHING <br>- MR. AND MRS. VINEGAR <br>- THE TRUE HISTORY OF SIR THOMAS THUMB <br>- HENNY-PENNY <br>- THE THREE HEADS OF THE WELL <br>- MR. FOX <br>- DICK WHITTINGTON AND HIS CAT <br>- THE OLD WOMAN AND HER PIG <br>- THE WEE BANNOCK <br>- HOW JACK WENT OUT TO SEEK HIS FORTUNE <br>- THE BOGEY-BEAST <br>- LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD <br>- CHILDE ROWLAND <br>- THE WISE MEN OF GOTHAM OF BUYING OF - <br>- SHEEP <br>OF HEDGING A CUCKOO <br>OF SENDING CHEESES <br>OF DROWNING EELS <br>OF SENDING RENT <br>OF COUNTING <br>- CAPORUSHES <br>- THE BABES IN THE WOOD <br>- THE RED ETTIN <br>- THE FISH AND THE RING <br>- LAWKAMERCYME <br>- MASTER OF ALL MASTERS <br>- MOLLY WHUPPIE AND THE DOUBLE-FACED GIANT <br>- THE ASS, THE TABLE, AND THE STICK <br>- THE WELL OF THE WORLD'S END <br>- THE ROSE TREE <br> <br></p>
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Read and enjoy the original collection! I. Hans in Luck II. The Travelling Musicians III. The Golden Bird IV. The Fisherman and His Wife V. The Tom-tit and the Bear VI. The Twelve Dancing Princesses VII. Rose-bud VIII. Tom Thumb IX. The Grateful Beasts X. Jorinda and Jorindel XI. The Wonderful Musician XII. The Queen Bee XIII. The Dog and the Sparrow XIV. Frederick and Catherine XV. The Three Children of Fortune XVI. King Grisley-beard XVII. The Adventures of Chanticleer and Partlet XVIII. Snow-drop XIX. The Elves and the Shoemaker XX. The Turnip XXI. Old Sultan XXII. The Lady and the Lion XXIII. The Jew in the Bush XXIIV. The King of the Golden Mountain XXV. The Golden Goose XXVI. Mrs. Fox XXVII. Hansel and Grettel XXVIII. The Giant with the Three Golden Hairs XXIX. The Frog-prince XXX. The Fox and the Horse XXXI. Rumpel-stilts-kin XXXII. The Goose-girl XXXIII. Faithful John XXXIV. The Blue Light XXXV. Ashputtel XXXVI. The Young Giant and the Tailor XXXVII. The Crows and the Soldier XXXVIII. Pee-wit XXXIX. Hans and His Wife Grettel XL. Cherry, or the Frog-bride XLI. Mother Holle XLII. The Water of Life XLIII. Peter the Goatherd XLIV. The Four Clever Brothers XLV. The Elfin Grove XLVI. The Salad XLVII. The Nose XLVIII. The Five Servants XLIX. Cat-skin L. The Robber-bridegroom LI. The Three Sluggards LII. The Seven Ravens LIII. Roland and May-bird LIV. The Mouse, the Bird and the Sausage LV …
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<p> Rok 1605. Polskie wojska wkraczają do Moskwy. Fantastyka? Nie! Najprawdziwsza prawda historyczna!</p> <p> Opowieść o największej, awanturniczej wyprawie Polaków, porównywalnej z podbojami hiszpańskich konkwistadorów. Wyprawie po koronę carów Moskwy, zwanej Trzecim Rzymem.</p> <p> Książka o zderzeniu dwóch światów - wyrosłej na gruncie wolności szlacheckiej Rzeczypospolitej i ksenofobicznej Moskwy, odgrodzonej od Europy murem prawosławia. Opowieść o fenomenie husarii i wojska polskiego, zwyciężających na mroźnych stepach i lodowych pustkowiach Rosji, gdzie wieki później klęskę poniosły armie Napoleona i III Rzeszy.</p> <p> Pierwszy tom "Samozwańca" otwiera nowy, poświęcony stosunkom polsko-rosyjskim cykl "Orły na Kremlu".</p> <p> Kontynuacja wyprawy Polaków po koronę carów w drugim tomie "Samozwańca".</p>
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<p> Intryga, wojna, i niepowtarzalny świat wykreowany przez Andrzeja Ziemiańskiego powracają! Ponad pół miliona fanów cesarzowej Achai doczekało się siódmej odsłony kultowego uniwersum.</p> <p> Co czeka władcę? Zwycięstwo czy śmierć? Imperium musi trwać Imperium musi trwać</p> <p> <em>Jak zwykle doskonały język i błyskotliwe pomysły. Ziemiański to prawdziwy fachowiec fantastyki.</em></p> <p> Jarosław Grzędowicz, autor Pana Lodowego Ogrodu </p> <p> <em>Świetni bohaterowie. Dużo akcji. Zero nudy. Czego chcieć więcej od fantasy?</em></p> <p> Jakub Winiarski, Nowa Fantastyka</p>
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