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Since the envoys had brought news of the arrival of the Emperor, Bolesław’s kingdom had been overwhelmed by an all-encompassing state of commotion. Aside from the settlers living deep within the deepest forests, there was probably no one who did not, in some way or other, (...)
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The phones are always going wrong, so my parents aren’t upset when there’s no dialling tone. They’re at the fortieth birthday party of a female friend from their class at high school. They say they’re going downstairs to the phone booth for a (...)
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Andrzej SapkowskiManuscript Discovered in a Dragon's Cave
Bestiaries, or rather "Bestiaryes", were the first popular handbooks of applied zoology. The earliest bestiary, which contains allegorical depictions of the most bizarre and fantastic creatures imaginable, came from fourth-century Alexandria; the work of an anonymous Greek, it bore the title "Physiologus", or "Natural History". The same "Physiologus", duplicated many times over in Latin, Italian, German, and French, was the foundation and source of all later bestiaries issued up to and through the Middle Ages. Bestiaries and Physiologi were either issued as individual volumes or included in psalters. They were written in verse or prose, beautifully illuminated, and ornamented with symbolic rather than verisimilar illustrations, and they bore titles like: "De bestiis", "Liber bestiarium", or "Liber monstrorum de diversis generibus". In addition to bestiaries there were also lapidaries (such as Marbod's "Liber lapidum"), and herbals (like Albertus Magnus' famous "De vegetalibus"). [...]
I would like to take the liberty of presenting Sapkowski's "Bestiary", a work arranged in the classical style and after the classical manner [
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There are more than 31,000 publishers registered in Poland. However, the market is highly concentrated. The 300 largest publishing firms still hold almost 98 per cent of it. More »
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