Partly modelled on his own life--although in no way a direct autobiography--David Copperfield follows a young boy''s life, from his birth in Suffolk, through the trials and tribulations of childhood (including his mother''s death), to his triumphant success as a novelist. The masterful early scenes, ...
Hamlet''s combination of violence and introspection is unusual among Shakespeare''s tragedies. It is also full of curious riddles and fascinating paradoxes, making it one of his most widely discussed plays. Professor Hibbard''s illuminating and original introduction explains the process by which variant ...
Autor : W. Bruce Cameron, Druh sortimentu : Kniha, Název : A Dog''s Promise, Jazyk : Angličtina, Počet stran : 384.
From the astonishingly talented writer of The Accidental and Hotel World comes Ali Smith’s brilliant retelling of Ovid’s gender-bending myth of Iphis and Ianthe, as seen through the eyes of two Scottish sisters. Girl Meets Boy is about girls and boys, girls and girls, love and transformation, and the ...
A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER, NOW A MAJOR FILM STARRING HELEN MIRREN AND IAN MCKELLEN This is a life told back to front. This is a man who has lied all his life. Roy is a conman living in a leafy English suburb, about to pull off the final coup of his career. He is going to meet and woo a beautiful woman ...
Delightful and witty, this is a simple story of mistaken identity! Peter and Paul are the best of friends, but when Peter gets lost in a terrible storm he can''t find Paul anywhere. With the help of a big blue whale Puffin Peter sets off to find him. They find all kinds of birds that match Peter''s description ...
All 51 Hercule Poirot short stories presented in chonological order in a single volume - plus a bonus story not seen for more than 70 years. ''My name is Hercule Poirot and I am probably the greatest detective in the world.'' The dapper, moustache-twirling little Belgian with the egg-shaped head, curious ...
Ancient Rome is the setting for the superb new novel from Robert Harris, author of the number one bestsellers Fatherland, Enigma and Archangel.Where else to enjoy the last days of summer than on the beautiful Bay of Naples. All along the coast, the Roman Empire’s richest citizens are relaxing in their ...
The achievement of Stephen King is unlike that of any writer. He has taken a genre which was somewhat moribund when he came to it -- the horror novel -- and transformed it into one of the most phenomenally successful areas for quality popular writing -- what''''s more, his unprecedented sales success ...
The Cowards (1958) is Josef Skvorecky's blackly comic tale of post-war politics that was immediately banned on publication. In 1945, in Kostelec,Danny is playing saxophone for the best jazz band in Czechoslovakia. Their trumpeter has just got out of a concentration camp, their bass player is only ...
Titul je viazaný na špeciálnu objednávku, ktorú nie je možné vrátiť (platia Všeobecné obchodné podmienky)! Limited edition of 10.000 copies; each unique copy is bound with one of a selection of recent print fabrics from the Pucci collection. Emilio Pucci (1914-1992) had a passion for women, a visionary ...
Drei ausergwönliche Frauen treffen eine außergewöhnliche Entscheidung Jackson, Mississippi, 1962: Die junge Skeeter ist frustriert. Nach dem Studium verbringt sie die Tage auf der elterlichen Baumwollfarm, als einzige ihrer Freundinnen ohne einen Ring am Finger. Sehr zum Missfallen der Mutter. Doch der ...
Set in the Gulf Stream off the coast of Havana, Hemingway''s magnificent fable is the story of an old man, a young boy and a giant fish. It was The Old Man and the Sea that won for Hemingway the Nobel Prize for Literature. Here, in a perfectly crafted story, is unique and timeless vision of the beauty ...
Of the five contenders for power, one is dead, another in disfavor, and still the wars rage as violently as ever, as alliances are made and broken. Joffrey, of House Lannister, sits on the Iron Throne, the uneasy ruler of the land of the Seven Kingdoms. His most bitter rival, Lord Stannis, stands defeated ...
The legendary 1951 scroll draft of On the Road, published as Kerouac originally composed it IN THREE WEEKS in April of 1951, Jack Kerouac wrote his first full draft of On the Road—typed as a single-spaced paragraph on eight long sheets of tracing paper, which he later taped together to form a 120-foot ...
Homer''s great epic, The Odyssey, is perhaps Western literature''s first adventure story, and certainly remains one of its finest. It describes King Odysseus of Ithaca''s epic, ten-year quest to return home after the Trojan War. He encounters giants, sorceresses, sea-monsters and sirens, while his wife ...
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'All human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil.' After taking an elixir created in his laboratory, mild mannered Dr Jekyll is transformed into the cruel and despicable Mr Hyde. Although ...
Bilingvní vydání slavného románu, který vyšel již v roce 1949 a byl inspirován stalinistickým režimem. Vize totalitní společnosti, kde není místo pro lásku, vlastní názor ani pro víru ve vlastní smysly, varuje před jakoukoli diktaturou moci. Kniha vychází v novém překladu. Česko - anglický text.
