WITH INTRODUCTIONS BY FRANCES SPALDING AND ERICA WAGNERA party of English people board the Euphrosyne bound for South America. Among them is Rachel Vinrace, young, innocent and wholly ignorant of the world of politics and society. She is a free spirit, half-caught, momentarily and passionately, by Terence Hewet, an aspiring writer.
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Open Secrets. Offene Geheimnisse, englische Ausgabe
- 304 páginas
- 11 horas de lectura
Ranging from the 1850s to the present and from Ontario to Brisbane and Albania, these eight linked stories are concerned with the daily threads of life in two small Ontario towns. All the stories centre on unconventional women who refuse to let themselves be constrained by society or everyday life.
The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Stories
- 234 páginas
- 9 horas de lectura
Published as part of the Great Reads collection. Contains the following stories: The Fall of the House of Usher The Murders in the Rue Morgue The Pit and the Pendulum The Duc de l'Omelette The Assignation MS. Found in a Bottle The Colloquy of Monos and Una How to Write a Blackwood Article William Wilson A Descent into the Maelstrom The Imp of the Perverse Ligeia The Oval Portrait The Masque of the Red Death The Mystery of Marie Roget The Tell-Tale Heart The Gold-Bug The Black Cat The Premature Burial The Purloined Letter The Island of the Fay The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar The Case of Amontillado Von Kempelen and His Discovery The Domain of Arnheim
Contemporánea: Demasiada felicidad
- 334 páginas
- 12 horas de lectura
Una joven madre recibe consuelo inesperado por la muerte de sus tres hijos, otra mujer reacciona de forma insólita ante la humillación a la que la somete un hombre; otros cuentos describen la crueldad de los niños y los huecos de soledad que se crean en el día a día de la vida de pareja. Como broche de oro, en el último cuento acompañamos a Sofía Kovalevski, una matemática rusa que realmente vivió a mediados del siglo XIX, en su largo peregrinaje a través de Europa en busca de una universidad que admitiera a mujeres como profesoras, y viviremos con ella su historia de amor con un hombre que hizo lo que supo por decepcionarla. Contents: Dimensiones -- Ficción -- El filo de Wenlock -- Pozos profundos -- Radicales libres -- Cara -- Algunas mujeres -- Juego de niños -- Madera -- Demasiada felicidad.
Biblioteca Grandes Exitos - 39: Los pájaros
- 236 páginas
- 9 horas de lectura
Los pájaros Monte Verita El manzano El pequeño fotógrafo Bésame otra vez, desconocido El anciano
Joan Baezová, zpěvačka, světově proslulá autorka více než tří desítek alb a politická aktivistka, je i půl století po svém ohromujícím debutu na festivalu v Newportu stále aktivní a uznávanou osobností světové hudby. U nás se proslavila i svou první osobní návštěvou v roce 1988, kdy děsila kulturní pracovníky i Státní bezpečnost, až je vyděsila a proměnila své vystoupení v otevřenou podporu tehdy stíhanému Václavu Havlovi a Chartě 77. Ve svých pamětech s upřímností a zaujetím popisuje svoje začátky na folkové scéně, vypráví o svém vztahu - v hudbě i soukromí - s Bobem Dylanem; o svém manželství i bolestném rozchodu s Davidem Harrisem; o radosti z narození syna Gabriela. S předmluvou uznávaného hudebního kritika Anthonyho DeCurtise je kniha Můj hlas je dar poutavým portrétem známé americké kulturní ikony. Díky otevřenosti a citlivosti, jež nás v hudbě Joan Baezové tak dojímají, a díky síle a pevnosti jejího politického postoje dostává čtenář do ruky upřímnou a inspirativní výpověď o životě a práci jedné z nejpozoruhodnějších uměleckých osobností naší doby.
Written between 1906 and 1941 (shortly before her death), this complete collection of Woolf’s shorter fiction offers invaluable insight into her development as a writer, and serves as a fascinating introduction to her novels.
Love
- 208 páginas
- 8 horas de lectura
May, Christine, Heed, Junior, Vida - even L - all women obsessed by Bill Cosey. More than the wealthy owner of the famous Cosey Hotel and Resort, he shapes their yearnings for father, husband, lover, guardian, friend, yearnings that dominate the lives of these women long after his death. But, he himself is driven by secret forces.
Geografická terminológia
- 63 páginas
- 3 horas de lectura
April 1951. It is twenty years since the death of Rebecca, the hauntingly beautiful first wife of Maxim de Winter. It is twenty years since the inquest, which famously and controversially passed a verdict of suicide. Twenty years since Manderley, the de Winter's ancient family seat, was razed to the ground. But Rebecca's tale is just beginning...
Old love and other stories
- 288 páginas
- 11 horas de lectura
This classic collection explores the varieties of wisdom gained with age and especially those that teach us how to love, as "in love the young are just beginners and the art of loving matures with age and experience". Tales of curious marriages and divorce mingle with psychic experiences and curses, acts of bravery and loneliness, love and hatred.
Vítězný houpací kůň
- 65 páginas
- 3 horas de lectura
Mistrovská miniatura jako podobenství o nedostatku lásky ve světě, kde štěstí má podobu peněz a úspěchu. Nevelká povídka mistra anglické prózy 20. století je příběhem chlapce, který vyrůstá v rodině bez lásky. Chladná matka, pro niž je smyslem života konzum, příliš pozdě pozná, že měla věnovat více pozornosti svému citlivému synkovi, který byl ochoten z lásky k ní obětovat vše. Lawrenceovi se podařilo na malé ploše vytvořit vícevrstevný příběh s prvky tajemna i psychoanalýzy. Kniha je doprovázena půvabnými ilustracemi Jiřího Šalamouna.
A heartbreaking work of staggering genius
- 484 páginas
- 17 horas de lectura
A book that redefines both family and narrative for the twenty-first century. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius is the moving memoir of a college senior who, in the space of five weeks, loses both of his parents to cancer and inherits his eight-year-old brother. Here is an exhilarating debut that manages to be simultaneously hilarious and wildly inventive as well as a deeply heartfelt story of the love that holds a family together.A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius is an instant classic that will be read for decades to come.
"The Fall of the House of Usher" ist ein Meisterwerk Edgar Allan Poes, das mehrmals verfilmt wurde
The Imaginary Girlfriend
- 192 páginas
- 7 horas de lectura
"The Imaginary Girlfriend is a candid memoir of the writers and wrestlers who played a role in John Irving's development as a novelist and as a wrestler"--Publisher's description
Marlene Dietrich por su hija Maria Riva
- 843 páginas
- 30 horas de lectura
"Gossipy...Elaborately detailed...Greatly entertaining...Riva leaves no sequin unturned." THE NEW YORK TIMES Marlene Deitrich was considered one of the most glamorous stars of her day. A determined perfectionist with an incredible ego, her beauty, her style, her sense of the outrageous, made her a star. In this candid, illuminating, and detailed biography full of photographs, her only daughter Maria Riva, tells the incredible, fascinating, story of the star's life and career, loves and hates, hits and misses, as only a daughter can.
Resurgir
- 256 páginas
- 9 horas de lectura
Figura señera de las letras anglosajonas, la canadiense MARGARET ATWOOD (1939) nos ofrece en esta novela un singular y penetrante relato de una dolorosa lucha interior. En compañía de su amante y de una pareja de amigos, la narradora parte hacia una isla lacustre para intentar encontrar a su padre, un viudo solitario que ha desaparecido. Sumida en una profunda crisis de identidad, los siete días que permanece allí se revelarán como un espacio exento en el que descubrirá el trasfondo de sus acompañantes, hará un balance de su infancia y de su vida afectiva, y experimentará un RESURGIR, con nueva intensidad, de sus obsesiones y deseos más profundos. Una naturaleza virgen, vasta e indómita y unos apuntes, plagados de símbolos, de su progenitor serán la llave que le abra el camino al enfrentamiento con su auténtico ser y a la aceptación, finalmente, del aislamiento y la soledad.
Zákon o rodině s komentářem
- 245 páginas
- 9 horas de lectura
Lad a Dog
- 246 páginas
- 9 horas de lectura
Recounts the heroic and adventurous life of a thoroughbred collie that was particularly devoted to his owners.
Beretning om en rig jødisk slægt i Warszawa gennem et par generationer frem til krigens begyndelse i 1939
Jazz
- 240 páginas
- 9 horas de lectura
It is winter, barely three days into 1926, seven years after Armistice; we are in the scintillating City, around Lenox Avenue, when all the wars are over and there will never be another one.At last, at last, everything's ahead.Here comes the new. Look ou
Pojmenování pro oficiální vztahy a poválečnou politiku mezi USA a Velkou Británií,zde na základě románu postaveném na politické fikci.
A Son of the Circus
- 682 páginas
- 24 horas de lectura
"A SON OF THE CIRCUS IS COMIC GENIUS....GET READY FOR IRVING'S MOST RAUCOUS NOVEL TO DATE." --The Boston Globe "Dr. Farrokh Daruwalla, reared in Bombay by maverick foes of tradition, educated in Vienna, married to an Austrian and long a resident of Toronto, is a 59-year-old without a country, culture or religion to call his own....The novel may not be 'about' India, but Irving's imagined India, which Daruwalla visits periodically, is a remarkable achievement--a pandemonium of servants and clubmen, dwarf clowns and transvestite whores, missionaries and movie stars. This is a land of energetic colliding egos, of modern media clashing with ancient cultures, of broken sexual boundaries." --New York Newsday "HIS MOST DARING AND MOST VIBRANT NOVEL...The story of circus-as-India is told with gusto and delightful irreverence." --Bharati Mukherjee The Washington Post Book World "Ringmaster Irving introduces act after act, until three (or more) rings are awhirl at a lunatic pace....[He] spills characters from his imagination as agilely as improbable numbers of clowns pile out of a tiny car....His Bombay and his Indian characters are vibrant and convincing." --The Wall Street Journal "IRRESISTIBLE...POWERFUL...Irving's gift for dialogue shines." --Chicago Tribune
Sugestivní moralita o údělu slabého jedince, kterého ničí organizovaná síla státní moci. Hrdinou knihy je chudý Žid, příslušník krutě utlačovaného národa v carském Rusku v letech 1911–13. Námětem románu je skutečný příběh židovského dělníka, který byl obviněn z rituální vraždy křesťanského chlapce.






















