This award-winning multi-volume series is dedicated to making literature and its creators better understood and more accessible to students and interested readers, while satisfying the standards of librarians, teachers and scholars. Dictionary of Literary Biography provides reliable information in an easily comprehensible format, while placing writers in the larger perspective of literary history.

Dictionary of Literary Biography systematically presents career biographies and criticism of writers from all eras and all genres through volumes dedicated to specific types of literature and time periods.

 This 4 volumes list Nobel Prize Laureates in Literature.

Bilingual edition: English/Polish

Polish-English edition of 120 poems by Wisława Szymborska. The most complete presentation available of the work of the 1996 Nobel Prize winner In literature - Wisława Szymborska. The translation by Stanisław Barańczak and Clare Cavanagh Was awarded the annual PEN-Club and the Book-of-the-Month Club Prize for the best literary translation published in the U.S.A.

Polsko-angielsko edycja 120 wierszy Wisławy Szymborskiej Najpełniejszy obraz dorobku poetyckiego Laureatki Literackiej Nagrody Nobla 1996 - Wisławy Szymborskiej. Tłumaczenie Stanisława Barańczaka i Clare Cavanagh zostało uhonorowane doroczną nagrodą PEN-Clubu oraz Book-of-the-Month Club za najlepszy przekład literacki opublikowany w Stanach Zjednoczonych.

„Rуwnie ważnym jak inteligencja, dowcip i mądrość składnikiem tego zespołu jakości, ktуry czyni poetkę osobą tak niezwykłą, a każdy jej wiersz — czymś tak niezapomnianym, jest ciepło ludzkiej sympatii. Lubimy tę poezję, ponieważ wyczuwamy instynktownie, że jej autorka autentycznie (choć bynajmniej nie bezkrytycznie) lubi nas, jest nas ciekawa, gotowa będzie zawsze wysłuchać tego, co my, ludzie, mamy do powiedzenia.”
Z posłowia Stanisława Barańczaka

Bilingual edition: English/Polish


The most complete presentation available of the work of the 1980 Nobel Prize winner In literature - Czesław Miłosz.

Najpełniejszy obraz dorobku poetyckiego Laureata Literackiej Nagrody Nobla 1980 - Czesława Miłosza.

This boxed set provides Volumes 1-3 together making this the complete and definitive set of The Feynman Lectures on Physics. For all readers interested in physics.
Richard P. Feynman was born in 1918 in Brooklyn and received his Ph.D. from Princeton in 1942. Despite his youth, he played an important part in the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos during World War II. Subsequently, he taught at Cornell and at the California Institute of Technology.
 
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The narrator of Cat's Cradle purports to be engaged in compiling a responsibly factual account of what certain interested Americans were doing at the precise moment the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. Through correspondence with the three children of the late Felix Hoenikker, Nobel Prize winner and so-called ''father of the atomic bomb,'' he evolves a portrait of the man in relation to his family and the community.