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Andrzej Polkowski

    Andrzej Polkowski was a Polish translator, notably bringing the Harry Potter series to Polish readers. His extensive work spanned approximately forty titles across diverse genres such as children's literature, fantasy, science fiction, and history. Through his translations, he introduced a wealth of significant world literature to a Polish audience. His broad range of translated works underscores a deep passion for literature.

    The Horse and His Boy
    That Hideous Strength
    The Silver Chair
    Prince Caspian
    The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
    Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
    • 2005

      "How captive Prince Rilian escaped from the Emerald Witch's underground kingdom"--Book jacket.

      The Silver Chair
    • 2005

      The "Dawn Treader" is the first ship Narnia has seen in centuries. King Caspian has built it for his voyage to find the seven lords, good men whom his evil uncle Mizaz banished when he usurped the throne. The journey takes Edmund, Lucy, and their cousin Eustace to the Eastern Islands, beyond the Silver Sea, toward Aslan's country at the End of the World. Illustrations.

      The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
    • 2005

      Prince Caspian

      • 240 pages
      • 9 hours of reading
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      Four children help Prince Caspian and his army of Talking Beasts to free Narnia from evil.

      Prince Caspian
    • 2005

      During the Golden Age of Narnia, when Peter is High King, a boy named Shasta discovers he is not the son of Arsheesh, the Calormene fisherman, and decides to run far away to the North--to Narnia. When he is mistaken for another runaway, Shasta is led to discover who he really is and even finds his real father. Illustrations.

      The Horse and His Boy
    • 2000

      Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

      • 352 pages
      • 13 hours of reading
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      Strange things always seem to happen when Harry Potter is around. Things that unsettle his guardians, the Dursleys. They strongly disapprove of strangeness. It's only when a letter arrives, delivered by a shaggy giant of a man called Hagrid, that Harry learns the truth that will transform his entire future: his parents were killed by the evil Lord Voldemort, and he, Harry, is a wizard. Whisked away to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardy, Harry discovers a world of enchantments, ghosts, Quidditch, and friends who will stand, through everything, by his side. But when Harry hears of a stone with great powers, he finds that his school has its own dark secrets - and an adventure that will become the stuff of legend begins

      Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
    • 1993

      That Hideous Strength

      • 384 pages
      • 14 hours of reading
      3.9(35412)Add rating

      Written during the dark hours immediately before and during World War II, C. S. Lewis's Space Trilogy, of which That Hideous Strength is the third and final volume, stands alongside such works as Albert Camus's The Plague and George Orwell's 1984 as a timely parable that has become timeless, beloved by succeeding generations as much for the sheer wonder of its storytelling as for the significance of its moral concerns. The final book in C. S. Lewis's acclaimed Space Trilogy, which includes Out of the Silent Planet and Perelandra, That Hideous Strength concludes the adventures of the matchless Dr. Ransom. The dark forces that were repulsed in Out of the Silent Planet and Perelandra are massed for an assault on the planet Earth itself. Word is on the wind that the mighty wizard Merlin has come back to the land of the living after many centuries, holding the key to ultimate power for that force which can find him and bend him to its will. A sinister technocratic organization is gaining power throughout Europe with a plan to "recondition" society, and it is up to Ransom and his friends to squelch this threat by applying age-old wisdom to a new universe dominated by science. The two groups struggle to a climactic resolution that brings the Space Trilogy to a magnificent, crashing close.

      That Hideous Strength