Everyman
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Cizojazyčná literatura, Drama and Poetry, English literature, Fiction and Literature, Knihy
From tenth-century Japan''s Izumi Shikibu, colonial America''s Anne Bradstreet, and Victorian England''s Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Israel''s Yehuda Amichai, Ireland''s Paul Muldoon, and Russia''s Anna Akhmatova, poets across the centuries and around the world have…396 Kč KoupitCizojazyčná literatura, English literature, Fiction and Literature, Knihy, Thriller and Crime
Motherless Brooklyn is a compulsively readable riff on the classic noir detective novel. Brooklyn''s self-appointed Human Freakshow, Lionel Essrog is an orphan whose Tourettic impulses drive him to rip apart our language in startling and…660 Kč KoupitCizojazyčná literatura, Contemporary Fiction, English literature, Fiction and Literature, Knihy
While staying with his Aunt Dahlia to help out in the election at Market Snodsbury, Bertie Wooster comes up against the familiar horrors of Florence Craye, his former fiancee, and Roderick Spode, head of the…495 Kč KoupitCizojazyčná literatura, Classics, English literature, Fiction and Literature, Knihy
Variations on a musical theme by a striking range of authors, among them Flaubert, Turgenev, Proust, Nabokov, Katherine Mansfield, Kazuo Ishiguro, Ian McEwan, Amit Chaudhuri, Bernard MacLaverty and Maya Angelou. Wesley Stace's attractive medley embraces…402 Kč KoupitCizojazyčná literatura, Contemporary Fiction, English literature, Fiction and Literature, Knihy
Containing drafts of stories later rewritten for other collections (including Carry On, Jeeves), My Man Jeeves offers a fascinating insight into the genesis of comic literature's most celebrated double-act. All the stories are set in…495 Kč KoupitCizojazyčná literatura, Contemporary Fiction, English literature, Fiction and Literature, Knihy
The Ottoman Sultan has commissioned the best artists in the land to create a book celebrating the glories of his realm: but he wants them to illuminate it in the European style. Because figurative art…502 Kč KoupitCizojazyčná literatura, English literature, Knihy
This volume pairs two novels, one early, one late, by Ivan Turgenev, master chronicler of nineteenth-century Russia. Nest of the Gentry (1859) was his most popular work in his lifetime, and with good reason. An…561 Kč KoupitCizojazyčná literatura, Contemporary Fiction, English literature, Fiction and Literature, Knihy
As children, Kathy, Ruth and Tommy attended an exclusive boarding-school in the English countryside. Idyllic in some ways yet vaguely sinister, 'Hailsham' was a place of intense friendships, mysterious rules, and 'guardians' who constantly reminded…561 Kč KoupitCizojazyčná literatura, English literature, Knihy, Literature and Linguistics, Nonfiction
Writers have always been uniquely inspired by New York City, and the classic stories collected here provide a kaleidoscopic vision of the metropolis in all its grittiness and glamour. Acclaimed writers past and present, ranging…495 Kč KoupitCizojazyčná literatura, Classics, English literature, Fiction and Literature, Knihy
Dicken''s third novel, published in 1839, is a brilliant and vivid melodrama of honest youth triumphing over vice and injustice. Bursting with energy and populated by a whole world of inimitable and memorable characters -…627 Kč KoupitCizojazyčná literatura, Contemporary Fiction, English literature, Fiction and Literature, Knihy
This early novel, written in collaboration with a friend, is a fascinating curiosity which suggests that Wodehouse might have become a very different, experimental sort of writer, had he continued to write in the same…363 Kč KoupitCizojazyčná literatura, Drama and Poetry, English literature, Fiction and Literature, Knihy
One of the most important writers to emerge from the Harlem Renaissance, LangstonHughes may be best known as a poet, but he was also a brilliant storyteller, blendingelements of blues and jazz, speech and song,…660 Kč KoupitCizojazyčná literatura, Classics, English literature, Fiction and Literature, Knihy
Further stories of members of the Drones Club and several adventures related by the Oldest Member of the golf club. Many old friends reappear - Bingo Little and Mrs Bingo, Freddie Widgeon, Ambrose Gussett, Agnes…495 Kč KoupitCizojazyčná literatura, English literature, Knihy
The archetypal Romantic, killed in a duel in 1837 at the age of 37, Alexander Pushkin was effectively the founder of modern Russian literature. Though famous as a poet, he was equally at home in…561 Kč KoupitCizojazyčná literatura, Classics, English literature, Fiction and Literature, Knihy
After a lonely boyhood, and the painful ordeal of his schooldays, Philip''s yearning for adventure takes him to Germany and later Paris where he tries to make his mark as an artist before returning to…399 Kč Koupit
Zobrazeno 166. – 180. z 380 výsledků