Everyman
Zobrazeno 211. – 225. z 375 výsledků
Cizojazyčná literatura, Drama and Poetry, English literature, Fiction and Literature, Knihy
Many cultures identify mourning as the very source of poetry and music, what Elizabeth Bishop calls the art of losing. That might well be the title of this collection. Not every poem is cornered with…363 Kč KoupitCizojazyčná literatura, Drama and Poetry, English literature, Fiction and Literature, Knihy
One of America''s best-loved poets, Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950) burst onto the literary scene at a very young age and won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1923. Her passionate lyrics and superbly crafted…396 Kč KoupitCizojazyčná literatura, Contemporary Fiction, English literature, Fiction and Literature, Knihy
When mild-mannered and unremarkable academic Roland Mitchell stumbles upon a letter written by Victorian poet Randolph Ash to a mysterious woman with whom he seems to be infatuated, he is determined to uncover the truth.Winner…561 Kč KoupitCizojazyčná literatura, Contemporary Fiction, English literature, Fiction and Literature, Knihy
The Golden City of Prague has long been an intellectual centre of the western world. The writers collected here range from the early nineteenth century to the present and include both Prague natives and visitors…495 Kč KoupitCizojazyčná literatura, English literature, Knihy, Nonfiction, Religion and Spirituality
The pieces in this volume are taken from all religions and traditions with the purpose of providing material for prayer and meditation. They are arranged in seven sections following the Canonical Hours of the Chruch:…396 Kč KoupitCizojazyčná literatura, Classics, English literature, Fiction and Literature, Knihy
Probably the popular favourite among Jane Austen''s novels, Pride and Prejudice was the first to be written (1796-7), when the author was just twenty-one. Revised for publication thirteen years later, it combines the freshness of…495 Kč KoupitCizojazyčná literatura, Classics, English literature, Fiction and Literature, Knihy
When Psmith finds himself working in the City for the pompous Mr Bickersdyke, he makes it his mission to bring a little sweetness and light into the bank manager''s life. The monocled wit with the…495 Kč KoupitCizojazyčná literatura, English literature, Knihy
Newly revised by the author for this edition, and printed together in one volume for the first time, Updike''s four Rabbit novels chronicle the history of a man and a nation from the 1950s to…1 155 Kč KoupitCizojazyčná literatura, Drama and Poetry, English literature, Fiction and Literature, Knihy
Railway Rhymes is probably the first time that the poetry of railways has been brought together into one dedicated volume. Here will certainly be found the old favourites - Philip Larkin''s ''Whitsun Weddings'', W.H. Auden''s…396 Kč KoupitCizojazyčná literatura, Classics, English literature, Fiction and Literature, Knihy
At the end of the Great War, Andreas Pum has lost a leg but at least he has a medal and a barrel-organ which he plays on the streets of Vienna. At first the simple-minded…396 Kč KoupitCizojazyčná literatura, Classics, English literature, Fiction and Literature, Knihy
A nobleman faces the consequences of his youthful wrongdoing when the girl he seduced and abandoned some years earlier is put on trial in a murder case. Initially conceived as a love story, Tolstoy’s last…495 Kč KoupitCizojazyčná literatura, English literature, Fiction and Literature, Historical Fiction, Knihy
The romantic forested landscape of southwest Germany is the setting for the birth of a friendship that will haunt sixteen-year-old Hans Schwarz for the rest of his life. Hans is Jewish, the son of a…429 Kč KoupitCizojazyčná literatura, Contemporary Fiction, English literature, Fiction and Literature, Knihy
''The very essence of all illustration for children''s books'' said The Times on Christmas Eve, 1878, shortly after the publication of Caldecott''s first two picture books, or Toy Books as they were called, John Gilpin…363 Kč KoupitCizojazyčná literatura, Contemporary Fiction, English literature, Fiction and Literature, Knihy
The trouble which begins with Gussie Fink-Nottle wandering the streets of London dressed as Mephistopheles reaches its awful climax in his drunken speech to the boys of Market Snodsbury Grammar School. For Bertie Wooster's old…495 Kč KoupitCizojazyčná literatura, Drama and Poetry, English literature, Fiction and Literature, Knihy
Though as yet little known in English-speaking countries, Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) is the finest German poet of this century and one of the greatest lyrical writers in the history of Western literature. A major…359 Kč Koupit
Zobrazeno 211. – 225. z 375 výsledků