Everyman
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Children and Teens, Children's Books, Cizojazyčná literatura, English literature, Fiction and Literature, Knihy
Stevenson's gift as an author and poet for children lay partly in his lack of condescension towards them, and he preserved a large element of the child in his own personality. He wrote many of…429 Kč KoupitCizojazyčná literatura, English literature, Knihy
A damsell in distress - an Almost Blandings novel set in Belphi Castle, Hampshire and a two week house party for the son-and-heir''s 21st.495 Kč KoupitCizojazyčná literatura, English literature, History, Knihy, Nonfiction
Between 1942 and 1944 a very small, very secret, very successful clandestine unit of the Royal Navy, operated between Dartmouth in Devon, and the Brittany Coast in France. It was a crossing of about 100…627 Kč KoupitCizojazyčná literatura, English literature, Knihy
In this comic novel - dedicated to Douglas Fairbanks, who starred in the stage version - Jimmy Pitt, man-about-town and former newspaper hound, takes a bet that he cannot commit burglary. He finds breaking and…495 Kč KoupitCizojazyčná literatura, Contemporary Fiction, English literature, Fiction and Literature, Knihy
Set in the Caucasus, the scene of Russia's military campaigns in the 19th century, this is both an adventure story and a sardonic look at the heroic ideals of the author's contemporaries - which makes…495 Kč KoupitCizojazyčná literatura, Classics, English literature, Fiction and Literature, Knihy
Adela and her elderly companion Mrs Moore arrive in the Indian town of Chandrapore, and feel trapped by its insular and prejudiced British community. Determined to explore the ''real India'', they seek the guidance of…495 Kč KoupitCizojazyčná literatura, Classics, English literature, Fiction and Literature, Knihy
The portrayal of Stephen Dedalus''s Dublin childhood and youth, his quest for identity through art and his gradual emancipation from the claims of family, religion and Ireland itself, is also an oblique self-portrait of the…528 Kč KoupitCizojazyčná literatura, Contemporary Fiction, English literature, Fiction and Literature, Knihy
The action of the novel takes place at the fictional "Beckford College", a private school for boys; the title alludes to the arrival at the school of a mischievous young boy called Farnie, who turns…495 Kč KoupitCizojazyčná literatura, Contemporary Fiction, English literature, Fiction and Literature, Knihy
This is the classic book that put Turgenev on the literary map--both in his own time and for all of history. The strength of this, his first book, was such that, even if Turgenev had…561 Kč KoupitCizojazyčná literatura, English literature, Knihy
The best-selling biography of the greatest spy you''ve never heard of. A Suspicion of Spies is the first biography of ''Biffy'' Dunderdale and tells the intriguing story of an extraordinary man – suave, sophisticated, genial…363 Kč KoupitCizojazyčná literatura, Contemporary Fiction, English literature, Fiction and Literature, Knihy
This powerful twentieth-century reimagining of Shakespeare''s King Lear centers on a wealthy Iowa farmer who decides to divide his farm among his three daughters. When the youngest objects, she is cut out of his will,…429 Kč KoupitCizojazyčná literatura, Classics, English literature, Fiction and Literature, Knihy
Carpenter Adam Bede is in love with the beautiful Hetty Sorrel, but unknown to him, he has a rival, in the local squire’s son Arthur Donnithorne. Hetty is soon attracted by Arthur’s seductive charm and…396 Kč KoupitCizojazyčná literatura, Classics, English literature, Fiction and Literature, Knihy
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is Anne Bronte''s second and most celebrated novel. Set in the dramatic northern landscape made familiar by the author''s more famous sisters, it tells the story of Helen Graham, a…561 Kč KoupitCizojazyčná literatura, English literature, Knihy
As a young man Pope shot to fame with The Rape of the Lock, a light-hearted mock-heroic poem about a trivial society scandal, still his best remembered work. Wit and irony, dazzling technical mastery -…363 Kč KoupitCizojazyčná literatura, Drama and Poetry, English literature, Fiction and Literature, Knihy
The Arabic poetic legacy is as vast as it is deep, spanning a period of fifteen centuries in regions from Morocco to Iraq. As a unifying principle, editor Marlé Hammond has selected eighty poems reflecting…396 Kč Koupit
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