Alma Books Ltd
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Cizojazyčná literatura, Classics, English literature, Fiction and Literature, Knihy
Life of Dante offers fascinating everyday details, while also exploring the true nature of Dante's poetic life.264 Kč KoupitCizojazyčná literatura, Contemporary Fiction, English literature, Fiction and Literature, Knihy
Phaedrus - a character familiar to readers of ''Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance'' - is sailing down the Hudson River when he meets Lila Blewitt, an unapologetically sexual, psychologically unstable woman whom a…297 Kč KoupitCizojazyčná literatura, English literature, Knihy, Literature and Linguistics, Nonfiction
One of the most celebrated novelists in the English language, George Orwell was also a prolific essay writer and literary reviewer, penning articles on such diverse subjects as the craft of writing, international politics and…429 Kč KoupitCizojazyčná literatura, Classics, English literature, Fiction and Literature, Knihy
Based, like the earlier Impressions of Africa, on uniquely eccentric principles of composition, this book invites the reader to enter a world which in its innocence and extravagance is unlike anything in the literature of…330 Kč KoupitCizojazyčná literatura, Classics, English literature, Fiction and Literature, Knihy
A major work by one of France’s most important authors of the twentieth century, London Bridge is a riotous novel about the London underworld during the First World War.Picking up where its predecessor Guignol’s Band…429 Kč KoupitCizojazyčná literatura, Contemporary Fiction, English literature, Fiction and Literature, Knihy
Beautiful Emma Rouault yearns for the life of wealth, passion and romance she has encountered in popular sentimental fiction, and when her doctor, the well-meaning but awkward and unremarkable Charles Bovary, begins to pay her…231 Kč KoupitCizojazyčná literatura, Contemporary Fiction, English literature, Fiction and Literature, Knihy
The titular story in this collection, ‘Man on a Road’ – which famously led to the 1936 congressional hearings that exposed the worst industrial disaster in American history – is a snapshot of appalling capitalist…330 Kč KoupitCizojazyčná literatura, Contemporary Fiction, English literature, Fiction and Literature, Knihy
Born into a poor family, Fanny Price is raised amid the daunting splendour of Mansfield Park by her rich uncle, Sir Thomas Bertram. Treated as an inferior by most of the family, Fanny forms a…259 Kč KoupitCizojazyčná literatura, Classics, English literature, Fiction and Literature, Knihy
Turgenev’s first major publication, Memoirs of a Hunter is a series of tales based largely on the author’s own experiences while hunting on his mother’s estate of Spasskoye, where he became aware of the iniquities…330 Kč KoupitCizojazyčná literatura, Classics, English literature, Fiction and Literature, Knihy
Jane Tressider has never been afraid of speaking her mind, even if she admits that she may have occasionally given offence by doing so. But as a busy mother of nine children, she cannot let…264 Kč KoupitCizojazyčná literatura, Classics, English literature, Fiction and Literature, Knihy
This unique edition, translated by critically-acclaimed translator Andrew Brown, is one of the earliest examples of the classic murder mystery and it has been an inspiration for a host of thriller and crime writers.198 Kč KoupitCizojazyčná literatura, Classics, English literature, Fiction and Literature, Knihy
Born in Newgate Prison to an incarcerated mother, Moll Flanders is compelled from earliest childhood to make her own way in the world and to live off her wit and beauty. Her desire to climb…189 Kč KoupitCizojazyčná literatura, English literature, Knihy
Originally hand-printed at her Hogarth Press in Richmond, Monday or Tuesday is the only collection of short stories that Virginia Woolf published during her lifetime, providing a fascinating insight into the early stages of development…264 Kč KoupitCizojazyčná literatura, Classics, English literature, Fiction and Literature, Knihy
Now bankrupt after some failed gambles, Aristide Saccard, the former kingpin of the Paris Stock Exchange, desperately wants to get back to the top of the financial pile. When his powerful brother, the government minister…297 Kč KoupitCizojazyčná literatura, Classics, English literature, Fiction and Literature, Knihy
"Published in the Christmas edition of Charles Dickens’s magazine All the Year Round, Mugby Junction is the spellbinding result of a literary collaboration between some of the leading writers of the day, and contains four…264 Kč Koupit
Zobrazeno 76. – 90. z 235 výsledků