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Possessing eternal youth and beauty produces exactly the same effect as sentencing a man to life without the possibility of parole. Both have nothing to lose and morals disappear before the desire for immediate self-gratification in all things. And so it is with Dorian Gray. It’s a moral story so eventually his evil catches up with him and he dies, as does the criminal. „The Picture of Dorian Gray”...

A romance of the fifth century, in which many of the scenes described in the ’Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire’ are reset to suit the purpose of the author. Only two historical personages are introduced into the story,– the Emperor Honorius, and Alaric the Goth; and these attain only a secondary importance. Among the historical incidents used are the arrival of the Goths at the gates of Rome, the...

Anglozjęzyczna wersja bestsellerowej książki, która doczekała się już kilkunastu wydań, zyskała status jednej z najczęściej kupowanych pozycji literatury dziecięcej w Polsce (ponad 500 tys. sprzedanych egzemplarzy) i trafiła na listę lektur szkolnych dla klas I-III. Teraz będą mogli ją poznać także anglozjęzyczni Czytelnicy. Prosty i zabawny język sprawi, że będzie świetną motywację dla najmłodszych...

The book seeks to address comprehensively the relationship between legal scholarship and the notion of the political understood as the fundamental antagonism at the foundation of any human society, present in the deep structure of legal theory/philosophy of law and doctrinal legal scholarship (a concept developed in contemporary philosophy of politics by, inter alia, Chantal Mouffe). Specifically,...