Viktor Janiš Orden de los libros (cronológico)

Tom Ripley si ve Francii plnými doušky užívá život v luxusu - až do chvíle, kdy se z minulosti vynoří podvod s falešnými obrazy. Kolotoč lží, manipulací a zločinu se roztáčí naplno a Tom musí zajít mnohem dál, než si dokázal představit. Jenže hranice mezi pravdou a lží se začíná nebezpečně rozplývat. Druhý román s nepolapitelným podvodníkem se odehrává šest let po událostech knihy Talentovaný pan Ripley.

Skinner Sweet je skrznaskrz zkažený pistolník – lstivý, nemilosrdný a nebezpečný jako chřestýš. A to bylo ještě předtím, než na Divoký západ přijeli evropští upíři a proměnili Skinnera v opravdovou nestvůru, silnější druh upíra imunního vůči slunečnému svitu, amerického upíra,jenž nenávidí veškeré své aristokratické evropské předky. Ale když Skinnerova válka s jeho předchůdci přiměje tajnou společnost Vazalové Jitřenky k tomu, aby se pustila do boje s oběma druhy upírů, Skinner si k sobě vybere první upírskou posilu: protloukající se mladistvou herečku Pearl Jonesovou.

"It all starts on the morning the letter D disappears from the language. First, it vanishes from her parents' conversation at breakfast, then from the road signs outside. Soon the local dentist and the neighbour's Dalmatian are missing, and even the Donkey Derby has been called off. Though she doesn't know why, Dhikilo is summoned to the home of her old history teacher Professor Dodderfield and his faithful Labrador, Nelly Robinson. And this is where our story begins. Set between England and the wintry land of Liminus, a world enslaved by the monstrous Gamp and populated by fearsome, enchanting creatures, D (Tale of Two Worlds) is a mesmerising tale of friendship and bravery in an uncertain world."--Publisher

'This collection is [like] the Beatles' "White Album": massive in size and scope, with individually brilliant pieces presented together because the only context they need is how good they are' MARLON JAMES A captivating collection of fiction from one of the world's most beloved writers, introduced with a foreword by Booker Prize-winning author, Marlon James. With a writer as prolific as Neil Gaiman, where do you begin? Or how do you know what to try next? Spanning his career to date, this collection of ambitious, groundbreaking and endlessly imaginative fiction will be your guide. Curated within this book are nearly fifty of Gaiman's short stories and novellas, interposed with excerpts from his five novels for adults - Neverwhere, Stardust, American Gods, Anansi Boys and The Ocean at the End of the Lane. It is both an entryway to his oeuvre and a literary trove Gaiman fans old and new will return to time and again. Start where it suits you. There aren't any rules. NEIL GAIMAN. WITH STORIES COME POSSIBILITIES.

For a decade Alice Sheldon produced an extraordinary body of work under the pseudonym James Tiptree Jr, until her identity was exposed in 1977. HER SMOKE ROSE UP FOREVER presents the finest of these stories and contains the NEBULA AWARD-winning LOVE IS THE PLAN THE PLAN IS DEATH; HUGO AWARD-winning novella THE GIRL WHO WAS PLUGGED IN; HOUSTON, HOUSTON, DO YOU READ? - winner of both the HUGO and NEBULA - and of course the story for which she is best known: THE WOMEN MEN DON'T SEE. This is a true masterwork - an overview of one of SF's true greats at the very height of her powers.

Un rotundo alegato a favor de la libertad y en contra el totalitarismo. Esta satira de la Revolucion Rusa y el triunfo del estalinismo, escrita en 1945, se ha convertido por derecho propio en un hito de la cultura contemporanea y en uno de los libros mas mordaces de todos los tiempos. Ante el auge de los animales de la Granja Solariega, pronto detectamos las semillas del totalitarismo en una organizacion aparentemente ideal; y en nuestros lideres mas carismaticos, la sombra de los opresores mas crueles. Una obra literaria perfecta. T. S. Eliot ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Animal Farm is the most famous by far of all twentieth-century political allegories. Its account of a group of barnyard animals who revolt against their vicious human master, only to submit to a tyranny erected by their own kind, can fairly be said to have become a universal drama. Orwell is one of the very few modern satirists comparable to Jonathan Swift in power, artistry, and moral authority; in animal farm his spare prose and the logic of his dark comedy brilliantly highlight his stark message. Taking as his starting point the betrayed promise of the Russian Revolution, Orwell lays out a vision that, in its bitter wisdom, gives us the clearest understanding we possess of the possible consequences of our social and political acts

New York Times Bestseller Winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction World Fantasy Awards Finalist The instant New York Times bestselling novel from the author of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, an intoxicating, hypnotic book set in a dreamlike alternative reality. Piranesi's house is no ordinary building: its rooms are infinite, its corridors endless, its walls are lined with thousands upon thousands of statues, each one different from all the others. Within the labyrinth of halls an ocean is imprisoned; waves thunder up staircases, rooms are flooded in an instant. But Piranesi is not afraid; he understands the tides as he understands the pattern of the labyrinth itself. He lives to explore the house. There is one other person in the house-a man called The Other, who visits Piranesi twice a week and asks for help with research into A Great and Secret Knowledge. But as Piranesi explores, evidence emerges of another person, and a terrible truth begins to unravel, revealing a world beyond the one Piranesi has always known. For readers of Neil Gaiman's The Ocean at the End of the Lane and fans of Madeline Miller's Circe, Piranesi introduces an astonishing new world, an infinite labyrinth, full of startling images and surreal beauty, haunted by the tides and the clouds.

How did a collective of self-taught internet sleuths end up solving some of the biggest crimes of our time? Bellingcat, the home-grown investigative unit, is redefining the way we think about news, politics and the digital future. Here, their founder - a high-school dropout on a kitchen laptop - tells the story of how they created a whole new category of information-gathering, galvanising citizen journalists across the globe to expose war crimes and pick apart disinformation, using just their computers. From the downing of Malaysia Flight 17 over the Ukraine to the sourcing of weapons in the Syrian Civil War and the identification of the Salisbury poisoners, We Are Bellingcat digs deep into some of Bellingcat's most successful investigations. It explores the most cutting-edge tools for analysing data, from virtual-reality software that can build photorealistic 3D models of a crime scene, to apps that can identify exactly what time of day a photograph was taken. In our age of uncertain truths, Bellingcat is what the world needs right now - an intelligence agency by the people, for the people

„My všichni máme svoje malé spouště… věci, které na nás čekají v temných chodbách našich životů,“ píše Neil Gaiman v úvodu Předběžného varování, pozoruhodného kompendia pětadvaceti povídek a básní, ve kterých zkoumá transformativní moc imaginace. V povídce "Dobrodružný příběh" – jistým způsobem spřízněné s knihou Oceán na konci uličky – se Gaiman zamýšlí nad smrtí a jak si lidé berou svoje příběhy s sebou, když umírají. „Kalendář příběhů“ je sestaven z minipovídek o měsících v roce – příběh pirátky a březnových větrů, iglú postaveného z knih a pohlednice ke Dni matek, která způsobí poruchu ve vesmíru. V povídce „Případ smrti a medu“ nabízí Gaiman možnost podívat se na legendárního detektiva Sherlocka Holmese trochu jinak. Ve sbírce najdete také „Bezčasí“, velice zvláštní příběh napsáný v roce 2013 pro oblíbený seriál Pán času, stejně jako dosud nepublikovaný příběh ze světa Amerických bohů „Černý pes“ o tom, co se stalo, když se Stín cestou zpátky do Ameriky zastavil v jedné vesnické hospodě. Gaiman, kreativní spisovatel s nenapodobitelným tvůrčím géniem, nás pomocí své literární alchymie přenáší hluboko do neprobádané země, kde se fantastické stává skutečným a každodenní jasně žhne. Předběžné varování, plné divů a hrůz, překvapení a pobavení, je pokladnice literárních požitků, které zaměstnají mysl, sevřou u srdce a zatřesou s duší.

The controversial, long-awaited prequels to the best-selling graphic novel of all-time are finally here: BEFORE WATCHMEN! For over twenty years, the back stories of the now-iconic characters from Alan Moore and Dave Gibbon's landmark graphic novel had been the subject of much debate and theorizing. Now, DC Comics has assembled the greatest creators in the industry to further paint the world of WATCHMEN, starting with this first volume starring MINUTEMEN and SILK SPECTREThe critically acclaimed and Eisner Award-winning creator of DC: THE NEW FRONTIER Darwyn Cooke lends his talents MINUTEMEN. As the predecessor to the Watchmen, the Minutemen were assembled to fight against a world that have more and more rapidly begun to spin out of control. Can these heroes from completely different backgrounds and with completely different attitudes on crime come together? Or will they fall apart before they begin? SILK SPECTRE takes an introspective look at the WATCHMEN feature player's struggles with her overbearing superhero mother and her scattered path toward taking the mantle of the Silk Spectre. With gorgeous art by co-writer and illustrator Amanda Conner (POWER GIRL, The Pro), SILK SPECTRE takes a very different perspective at the world of BEFORE WATCHMEN. Collects BEFORE WATCHMEN: MINUTEMEN 1-6 and BEFORE WATCHMEN: SILK SPECTRE 1-4.

Království tvé, kniha první (Původně vyšlo v květnu a červnu 1996) V blízké budoucnosti jsou superhrdinové všudypřítomní, jen hrdinství je vzácné. Liga spravedlnosti, která po desítky let bránila Zemi, se stáhla a nahradila ji nová generace bojovníků se zločinem, jejichž krutá spravedlnost lidstvo děsí. Osud planety visí na vlásku, a tak musí Superman, Batman a Wonder Woman vyjít z ústraní a naposledy se postavit za pravdu a spravedlnost. More Fun Comics #52 (Původně vyšlo v únoru 1940) Když detektiva Jima Corrigana zavraždí gangsteři, je mu odepřen vstup do království nebeského a vrátí se pomstít zločincům jako Spectre, bytost nadaná mnoha schopnostmi.

Úžasný Spider-Man se vítězně vrátil z Tajných válek - a vypadá teď úplně jinak! Není ale na Spideyho novém černém obleku něco trošku divného? Po návratu do newyorských ulic Spidey zjistí, co přesně jeho nový kostým umí - nemá ale ponětí, že ten zvláštní oblek je ve skutečnosti mnohem nebezpečnější, než by si kdy dokázal představit... Obsahuje komiksy Amazing Spider-Man č. 252-259

The conclusion to a masterful graphic novel trilogy that follows Berlin's citizens as Nazism rises The third and final act of Jason Lutes’s historical fiction about the Weimar Republic begins with Hitler arriving in Berlin. With the National Socialist party now controlling Parliament, the citizenry becomes even more divided. Lutes steps back from the larger political upheaval, using the intertwining lives of a small group of Germans to zero in on the rise of fascism and how swiftly it can replace democracy. The idle rich, the naïve bourgeoisie, and the struggling lower classes: all seek meaning in the warring political factions dividing their nation. He especially focuses on the Brauns—a working-class family torn apart by a political system that doesn’t care about them. Lovers couple and uncouple; families and friends share rituals and laughter; most of Berlin’s citizens go about their day with little sense of the larger threat to their existence. Meanwhile, the journalist Kurt Severing and the artist Marthe Muller watch in horror as their society begins a dizzying descent into extremism. Lutes’ Berlin Book Three: City of Light is one of the most anticipated graphic novels of 2018, and the long-awaited conclusion to his beloved trilogy.

Este manifiesto, publicado en Londres en 1848, fue redactado por Marx y Engels por encargo del segundo congreso de la Liga Comunista. Además del programa de un partido, es un lúcido análisis de la sociedad capitalista del siglo XIX que, en muchos aspectos, sigue siendo actual. No estamos ante un panfleto sino ante un clásico del pensamiento occidental que ha llegado a ser el libro más difundido tras la Biblia y cuyos planteamientos deben ser conocidos, pues han encarnado los sueños de millones de personas y son parte fundamental de la historia del movimiento obrero.

Equal parts historical thriller, romance and ghost story, this is an ingenious literary page-turner and is completely unforgettable.

Máte rádi viktoriánskou žánrovou literaturu? Máte rádi komiks? Pokud jste si na obě otázky odpověděli ANO, pak vám nesmí uniknout poslední dílko Alana Moora a jeho dvorního malíře Kevina O’Neilla, pokračování Ligy výjimečných, trilogie NEMO. Píše se rok 1925 a patnáct let po smrti kapitána Nema plánuje jeho dcera Janni Dakkarová v Ledovém srdci nebezpečnou expedici do Antarktidy, která končí konfrontací pod Horami šílenství, v neprobádané mezeře v mapě, kde se realita naší hrdinky zbortí. V Berlínských růžích se zase utká s mechanickými metropolitními monstrozitami a v Řece duchů bojuje se zvrhlými tropickými tyrany. České vydání jako první na světě vychází v jednom svazku.

Leading crime critic Maxim Jakubowski presents this year's must-have collection of British mystery fiction

A return to the epic romance, heroism, history and warm and eccentric cast of characters that made CAPTAIN CORELLI'S MANDOLIN such an extraordinary hit (2.5 million copies sold). In the brief golden years before the outbreak of World War I, Rosie McCosh and her three very different sisters are growing up in an eccentric household in Kent, with their neighbours the Pitt boys on one side and the Pendennis boys on the other. But their days of childhood adventure are shadowed by the approach of the conflict that will engulf them on the cusp of adulthood. When the boys end up scattered along the Western Front, Rosie is left confused by her love for two young men - one an infantry soldier and one a flying ace. Can she, and her sisters, build new lives out of the opportunities and devastations that follow the Great War?

Michel Faber je bytostný prozaik, básním se věnoval jen okrajově a sám vtipkoval, že tímhle tempem bude mít dost materiálu na první sbírku někdy ve svých devadesáti letech. Pak ale po dvaceti letech manželství Faberova žena Eva onemocněla nevyléčitelnou rakovinou kostní dřeně (mnohočetným myelomem, abychom byli přesní) a Faber se vrátil ke své původní profesi, totiž ošetřovatelství. A právě v pokoji londýnské nemocnice, kde Eva strávila poslední měsíce svého života, vznikly první básně z předkládaného cyklu (je jich nakonec něco přes 70, na cca 140 tiskových stranách.) Tematicky se básně omezují na průběh nemoci, Evinu smrt a Faberův žal. Je to poezie nekompromisně upřímná, emocionálně intenzivní, místy protkaná šibeničním humorem. Drtivá většina básní je psaná volným veršem a rýmovaná sporadicky, což je paradoxně její výhoda: je mnohem přístupnější, než poezie obvykle bývá, a účinek je bezprostřednější. V těchto básních, jež ocenily i takové těžké literární váhy jako Ian McEwan, přišel Michel Faber na něco obecně sdělného: co to znamená najít životní lásku a pak ji takhle krutým způsobem ztratit. Dal hlas lidem, kteří o rakovině kvůli přetrvávajícímu tabu neumí mluvit, nemocným, kteří si své pocity nechávají pro sebe.

A quartet of fallen mystics dubbed the "TrenchCoat Brigade" is introduced in this first collection of the adventures of Timothy Hunter. John Constantine, the Phantom Stranger, Dr. Occult, and Mister E take Hunter on a tour of the magical realms. Along the way he's introduced to Vertigo's greatest practitioners of magic and must choose whether or not to join their ranks.

Continuing the hardcover collection of master comics writer Alan Moore’s award-winning run on The Saga of The Swamp Thing, this fourth volume brings Swamp Thing’s quest for self-discovery with the mystic John Constantine to its shattering conclusion. A harbinger of doom has been released with the sole charge of waking an evil beyond comprehension, and Swamp Thing, John Constantine, Deadman, The Phantom Stranger, Etrigan the Demon, The Spectre and other masters of the occult must unite against the dark forces that threaten to eradicate Heaven’s light.

Michel Faber's first novel in twelve years. Soon to be Amazon original series Oasis in 2017

Zdraví začíná zevnitř – přispěje k tomu i to, když jíte skutečné, průmyslově nezpracované a výživné jídlo, které vám umožní vést zdravější a aktivnější život. Z knihy sester Hemsleyových pochopíte, co je pro vaše tělo dobré. A můžete pak jednoduše změnit své návyky a vybrat si jídlo, které je lahodné a zároveň vám svědčí. Autorky na základě vlastních zkušeností a deseti let studia sepsaly základní pravidla, v nichž kombinují odvěké principy stravování s moderním dietetickým výzkumem. Ze svého bohatého repertoáru vyzkoušených receptů pak vybraly jednoduché předpisy pro domácí vaření od snídaní, polévek přes maso a ryby, přílohy, zeleninová jídla, saláty, dipy a zálivky až po pečené či nepečené dezerty a nápoje. Výhodou těchto zdravých a chutných receptů je také to, že se dají zvládnout i při hektickém životním stylu. To je umění dobrého jídla.

An acclaimed collection of stories from the internationally bestselling author of The Crimson Petal and the White

Winner of the 2013 Hugo award for Best Graphic Story! When two soldiers from opposite sides of a never-ending galactic war fall in love, they risk everything to bring a fragile new life into a dangerous old universe. From New York Times bestselling writer Brian K. Vaughan (Y: The Last Man, Ex Machina) and critically acclaimed artist Fiona Staples (Mystery Society, North 40), Saga is the sweeping tale of one young family fighting to find their place in the worlds. Fantasy and science fiction are wed like never before in this sexy, subversive drama for adults. This specially priced volume collects the first six issues of the smash-hit series The Onion A.V. Club calls "the emotional epic Hollywood wishes it could make." Voted one of the top graphic novels of the year by the NYT, IGN, the Examiner, and SF Weekly. Voted Best Comic of the year by MTV Geek and Best New Series by Paradox Comics. Voted a finalist in the GoodReads Best GN of 2012 contest. Named one of Time Magazine's top 10 graphic novels for 2013

Richard Dawkins has created a dazzling celebration of our planet with explanations of space, time, evolution and more, taking us on a journey through scientific reality.

The bestselling, award-bedecked Neil Gaiman and Chris Riddell are reunited in this irresistible fairytale reboot, with vibrant red ink adding lustre to an amazingly beautiful book. 'Suffused with joy and melancholy ... It is absolutely a retelling for our age, but also for ages still to come' Guardian Weaving together hints of Snow White and Sleeping Beauty with a shimmering thread of dark magic, this twist on classic fairytales will hold readers spellbound from start to finish. On the eve of her wedding, a young queen sets out to rescue a princess from an enchantment. She casts aside her fine wedding clothes, takes her chain mail and her sword and ventures into the tunnels under the mountain towards the sleeping kingdom. This queen will decide her own future - and the princess who needs rescuing is not quite what she seems. Twisting together the familiar and the new, this delicious, captivating and darkly funny tale shows its creators at the peak of their talents and was the winner of the 2016 CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal. Lavishly produced and packed with glorious Chris Riddell illustrations, this amazingly beautiful book makes a spectacular and magical gift.

Global phenomenon and Sunday Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman returns to dazzle, captivate, haunt, and entertain with this third collection of short fiction following Smoke and Mirrors and Fragile Things, which includes a never-before published American Gods story, BLACK DOG. 'We are all wearing masks. THat is what makes us interesting. These are stories about those masks, and the people we are underneath them.' Neil Gaiman, writing from a cabin in the dark woods. MAke sure you secure your own mask before reading. BEfore being transported to worlds filled with witches, watchers and big black bees, with deathless Kin and pirate girls, with things that prowl in the darkness beyond the circle fire, to find the Shadder lurking at your journey's end. But then what happens? There's always something waiting for you. THere's always more. JUst keep turning the pages. 'We each have our little triggers.' Literary alchemy from 'a writer of rare perception and endless imagination' (William Gibson), TRIGGER WARNING is a cornucopia of storytelling: horror and ghost stories, science fiction and fairy tales, fabulism and poetry. IT will open your eyes to the inexhaustible supply of darkness around you, the magic and the monsters, the myths and the miracles, and to finding truths in the most extraordinary of places.

Find out what became of Sophie.Michel Faber revisits the world of his bestselling novel The Crimson Petal and the White, conjuring tantalising glimpses of its characters, their lives before we first met them and their intriguing futures. You'll be desperate for more by the time you reluctantly re-emerge into the twenty-first century.

Co si Češi nalhávají o Češích? Proč nedůvěřují policii a soudům? Co si dnes myslíme o sametové revoluci nebo o rozdělení Československa? Může mít jméno vliv na naši kariéru? Proč nám nevadí bezpečnostní kamery? Je u nás náboženství mrtvé? Jsou české hodnoty něčím výjimečné? Je česká společnost skutečně tak tolerantní, jak se traduje? Jaké je vůbec v České republice „Názorové klima“? Tato populárně-vědná kniha nastiňuje témata spojená s výzkumem společnosti. Pokouší se přístupnou formou seznámit čtenáře-neodborníka s prací sociologů. Vždyť mnohé otázky, které sociologie zkoumá, jsou přímo spojené s rozhodováním a opatřeními, jež mají dopad na nás všechny.

Jonathan Strange y el seǫr Norrell es una novela fabulosa en todos los sentidos: por su ambicin̤ narrativa y por las historias extraordinarias que cuenta. Mezcla prodigiosa de fantasa̕ e Historia, de caballeros magos y personajes reales como el duque de Wellington, Jorge III o lord Byron, la novela plantea una versin̤ alternativa de la historia de Inglaterra, una versin̤ en la que la magia, una magia seria de carc̀ter casi cientf̕ico, desempeą un papel destacado. El resultado es absolutamente convincente, y el asombroso despliegue de personajes y aventuras hipnotiza al lector desde la primera pg̀ina hasta la l︢tima

Follows the adventures of storybook and nursery rhyme characters who live side-by-side with humans.

Collects Before Watchmen: Nite Owl numbered 1-4 and Before Watchmen: Dr Manhattan numbered 1-4.

Explains the origins of The Comedian and Rorschach from the comics series, "Watchmen."

Death incarnate, as defined by master storyteller Neil Gaiman (THE SANDMAN), is a genuinely likeable young girl with a fondness for ankhs who truly cares about people. It's small wonder then that when a rising star of the music world wrestles with revealing her true sexual orientation just as her lover is lured into the realm of Death that Death herself should make an appearance. A practical, honest, and intelligent story that illuminates "the miracle of death."

This masterpiece of modern comics storytelling brings to vivid life a dark world and an even darker man. Together with inker Klaus Janson and colorist Lynn Varley, writer/artist Frank Miller completely reinvents the legend of Batman in his saga of a near-future Gotham City gone to rot, ten years after the Dark Knight's retirement. Crime runs rampant in the streets, and the man who was Batman is still tortured by the memories of his parents' murders. As civil society crumbles around him, Bruce Wayne's long-suppressed vigilante side finally breaks free of its self-imposed shackles. The Dark Knight returns in a blaze of fury, taking on a whole new generation of criminals and matching their level of violence. He is soon joined by this generation's Robin—a girl named Carrie Kelley, who proves to be just as invaluable as her predecessors.But can Batman and Robin deal with the threat posed by their deadliest enemies, after years of incarceration have made them into perfect psychopaths? And more important, can anyone survive the coming fallout of an undeclared war between the superpowers—or a clash of what were once the world's greatest superheroes?Over fifteen years after its debut, Batman: The Dark Knight Returns remains an undisputed classic and one of the most influential stories ever told in the comics medium.Collecting Batman: The Dark Knight Returns #1-4

So far the Foundation was safe. But there was a hidden Second Foundation to protect the first. The Mule has yet to find it, but he was getting closer all the time. The men of the Foundation sought it, too, to escape from Mule's mind control. Only Arkady, a 14 year-old girl seemed to have the answer, or did she...?

Casting his mind back to the village in southern Surrey where he grew up in the sixties and seventies, but plagued by a novelist's inability to stick to the truth, Louis de Bernieres brings us in "Notwithstanding" stories of a vanished England which will delight readers of his much-loved novels. The English village was a place where an old lady might dress as a man in plus fours and spend her time shooting squirrels with a twelve bore, or keep a vast menagerie in her house. A retired general might give up wearing clothes, a spiritualist might live in a cottage with her sister and the ghost of her husband, and people might think it quite natural to confide in a spider that lives in a potting shed. De Bernieres' characters roam through the book, appearing in each others' stories and painting a picture of an entire community.

Fundación es el comienzo de la primera trilogía de Las Fundaciones, una de las obras maestras del género. Mucho tiempo después de que la Tierra pasara al olvido, la galaxia se unificó alrededor de un Imperio pacífico gobernado desde la majestuosa ciudad de Trántor. El sistema funcionó y prosperó durante incontables generaciones. Todo el mundo creía que duraría eternamente... Todos menos Hari Seldon, la mente científica más poderosa de su tiempo. Sus investigaciones en el campo de la psicohistoria (las matemáticas aplicadas a las grandes aglomeraciones humanas) auguraban un desastre imposible de prevenir. El Imperio estaba condenado... Pero el Plan Seldon era una estrategia a largo plazo, destinada a minimizar las peores consecuencias del futuro que se avecinaba. Para ello se establecieron dos Fundaciones en ambos extremos de la galaxia. Esta es la historia de la primera. Fuente: casadellibro.com

This stunning graphic novel chronicles the fall from grace of a group of superheroes plagued by all too human failings. The concept of the super hero is dissected and inverted as strangely realistic characters are stalked by an unknown assassin.

Mýty všech zemí, spojte se! Od té doby, co Nepřítel vyhnal Mýty z jejich původní vlasti, žijí ty nehumanoidní z nich na Farmě na severu státu New York, skrytí před všetečnými zraky lidí. Nyní ovšem po mnoha stech letech izolace doutná na Farmě revoluce. Rozdmýchává ji štvavá rétorika Zlatovlásky a třech malých prasátek. A když Sněhurka a její sestra Růženka náhodou odhalí jejich plán osvobodit původní vlast, jsou komisaři na Farmě připraveni umlčet je... a to jakýmikoli prostředky! V této knize najdete další pět sešitů jedné z nejúspěšnějších a nejoriginálnějších komiksových řad současnosti a zjistíte, že i pohádkové bytosti jsou postavy z masa a krve... případně dřeva a barvy.

A collection of eight comics that introduce the series' lead character, the Sandman, Lord of Dreams.

A narrator remembers his childhood encounters with an old osteopath who claims to have treated Al Capone. Gradually, England of the 1960s and Chicago of the 1920s merge into a haunting and beautifully drawn tale....

The Sandman is a series of award-winning graphic novels. It blends modern myth and dark fantasy, in which historical drama, contemporary fiction and legend are interwoven.

In Good Bones, first published in 1992, Margaret Atwood has fashioned an enthralling collection of parable, monologue, mini-romance and mini-biography, speculative fiction, prose lyric, outrageous recipe and reconfigured fairy tale, demonstrating yet again the play of an unerring wit overseen by a panoramic intelligence.  Good Bones is a cornucopia of good things — precise, witty, wise, and sometimes offbeat Atwood writing, with the funny and the sidelong view of the world which her readers recognize at once.

Set against the backdrop of the collapsing Ottoman Empire, Birds Without Wings traces the fortunes of one small community in south-west Anatolia - a town in which Christian and Muslim lives and traditions have co-existed peacefully for centuries. When war is declared and the outside world intrudes, the twin scourges of religion and nationalism lead to forced marches and massacres, and the peaceful fabric of life is destroyed. Birds Without Wings is a novel about the personal and political costs of war, and about love- between men and women; between friends; between those who are driven to be enemies; and between Philothei, a Christian girl of legendary beauty, and Ibrahim the Goatherd, who has courted her since infancy. Epic in sweep, intoxicating in its sensual detail, it is an enchanting masterpiece. 'A mesmerising patchwork of horror, humour and humanity' Independent

A whirling library of ghost story, funny story, love story, scary story, and more. Like Russian dolls, separate yet invisibly linked, they unfold from and into one another.

Kouzelný příběh o jednom (obyčejném) dni dvou lidí v Turecku - zahraničního botanika, studujícího tamní floru a místního učitele, který si přivydělává sběrem kovových plechovek od nápojů.

Jimmy Corrigan - the creation of artist Chris Ware - is a boy with the face of a disappointed old man. This graphic novel tells the poignant story of a shy character and his relationship with his absent father. The book collects Ware's comic strips in hardback format, with a fold-out jacket.

While the economy of his small South American country collapses, President Veracruz joins his improbable populace of ex-soldiers, former guerillas, unfrocked priests and reformed - though by no means inactive - whores, in a bizarre search for sexual fulfillment. But for Cardinal Guzman, a man tormented by his own private demons, their stupendous, hedonistic fiestas represent the epicenter of all heresies. Heresies that must be challenged with a horrifying new inquisition destined to climax in a spectacular confrontation... The second part of a trilogy, following "The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts, which won the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Fiction.

Charles Darwin was an independent thinker who continues even now to influence the way we look at the natural world. His endless curiosity and passion for detail resulted in a wealth of notebooks, diaries, correspondence, and published writings that Peter Sis transforms into a visual treasure trove.

WINNER OF THE HUGO AWARD FOR BEST ALL-TIME SERIES The Foundation series is Isaac Asimov's iconic masterpiece. Unfolding against the backdrop of a crumbling Galactic Empire, the story of Hari Seldon's two Foundations is a lasting testament to an extraordinary imagination, one that shaped science fiction as we know it today. The First Foundation survived two centuries of barbarism as the once-mighty Galactic Empire descended into chaos. Now it mist prepare for war against the remnants of the Empire as the Imperial fleet advances on their planet, Terminus. Hari Seldon predicted this war; he even prepared his Foundation for it. But he couldn't foresee the birth of the mutant Mule. In possession of a power which reduces fearsome opposition to devoted slaves, the Mule poses a terrible threat to Seldon's Foundation.

"Originally published in single magazine form as The Sandman 9-16"--T.p. verso.

Following the huge success of From Hell, Knockabout presents a stunning volume comprising a new story by Alan Moore, Snakes and Ladders, based on a performance given on Red Lion Square in Holborn. The other story, originally a performance piece by Alan Moore and Tim Perkins, was adapted as a comic by Eddie Campbell. It is a shamanism of childhood, a journey from the present to the past, back into the womb and beyond. The last part of this volume is an extensive interview of Alan Moore he gave Eddie Campbell for his self-published magazine, Egomania.

Dionisio Vivo, a young South American lecturer in philosophy, is puzzled by the hideously mutilated corpses that keep turning up outside his front door. To his friend, Ramon, one of the few honest policemen in town, the message is all too clear: Dionisio's letters to the press, exposing the drug barons, must stop; and although Dionisio manages to escape the hit-men sent to get him, he soon realizes that others are more vulnerable, and his love for them leads him to take a colossal revenge. "Senor Vivo and the Coca Lord is the second novel in a trilogy set in South America. It won a Commonwealth Writers Prize in 1992.

Tato Saroyanova kniha vychází z deníků Henri-Fredericka Amiela, který si v 19. století více než padesát let vedl jeden z nejdéle psaných deníků vůbec. A Saroyanova kniha není tudíž ničím jiným, než jeho osobními deníkovými zápisky ze srpna 1967, kdy pobýval v Paříži, a prosince a listopadu 1968. V době, kdy toto dílo psal, mu bylo devětapadesát (respektive šedesát) let, a jeho věk ho nutí k melancholickým zamyšlením, kdy přemítá o svém dosavadním a nad budoucím životem. Navíc se v jeho zápiscích často objevují poznámky, kdo zrovna zemřel, a smrt druhých lidí ho inspiruje k napsání různých úvah, odboček, parabol a fejetonů, které se týkají naprosto všeho - pojednávají o tématech počínajíc zbytečností Vánoc a končíc zoufalými pokusy dobýt Měsíc. Jazyk knihy je moderní, moc se mi líbí Saroyanův osobitý styl využívající neobvyklých obratů a zvláštních přirovnání. Celkový koncept a ráz knížky vyznívá pesimisticky, autor si uvědomuje, že stejně jako všichni ostatní lidé i on musí zemřít. Nicméně posledního etapu svého života, stáří, bere s nadhledem.

When the spoilt and haughty Dona Constanza tries to divert a river to fill her swimming pool, she starts a running battle with the locals. The skirmishes are so severe that the Government dispatches a squadron of soldiers led by the fat, brutal and stupid Figueras to deal with them. Despite visiting plagues of laughing fits and giant cats upon the troops, the villagers know that to escape the cruel and unusual tortures planned for them, they must run. Thus they plan to head for the mountains and start a new and convivial civilization. "The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts is the first novel in a trilogy set in South America. It won a Commonwealth Writers Prize in 1991.

Hanif Kureishi's fourth novel made many reviewers uneasy on its first appearance in the U.K., because it cuts so painfully near to the bone. If a novelist's first duty is to tell the truth, then the author has done his duty with unflinching courage. Intimacy gives us the thoughts and memories of a middle-aged writer on the night before he walks out on his wife and two young sons for of a younger woman. A very modern man, without political convictions or religious beliefs, he vaguely hopes to find fulfillment in sexual love. No one is spared Kureishi's cold, penetrating gaze or lacerating pen. "She thinks she's feminist, but she's just bad-tempered," the unnamed narrator says of his abandoned wife. A male friend advises him, "Marriage is a battle, a terrible journey, a season in hell, and a reason for living." At the heart of Intimacy is this terrible paradox: "You don't stop loving someone just because you hate them." Male readers will wince with recognition at the narrator's hatred of entrapment and domesticity, and his implacable urge towards freedom, escape, even loneliness. Female readers may find it a truly horrific revelation. Kureishi is only telling it like it is, in staccato sentences of pinpoint accuracy. By far the author's best yet: a brilliant, devastating work. --Christopher Hart, Amazon.co.uk

En plena Segunda Guerra Mundial, en una isla griega invadida por los alemanes se desarrollará una inolvidable historia de amor entre una lugarela y un oficial italiano. Una pequeña historia de amor que encarna todas las historias de amor del mundo...

Svazek obsahuje čtyři vybrané romány od současných úspěšných angloamerických autorů ve zkrácené verzi. Tento svazek obsahuje tyto tituly: Baldacci, David: Výhra Higgins, Jack: Černý baron Delinsky, Barbara: Místo ženy Edison, Tom: Pistolník a řeholnice

The sequel to The Eagle has Landed. By the end of 1943, all the evidence of the abortive German attempt to assassinate Winston Chuchill has been buried in a grave in Norfolk. But two of the most wanted ringleaders are still alive, and the Reichsfuhrer is demanding the eagle's return.

Powerful, perverse, and engrossing, this controversial novel offers a graphic portrait of a serial killer told in the first-person. "Read it if you dare!"--"The Daily Express".

In 'The Basement Room' a small boy witnesses an event that blights his whole life. Like the other stories in this book (written between 1929 and 1954), it hinges on the themes that dominate Graham Greene's novels - fear, pity and violence, pursuit, betrayal and man's restless search for salvation. Some of the stories are comic - poor Mr. Maling's stomach mysteriously broadcasts all sorts of sounds; others are wryly sad - a youthful indiscretion catches up with Mr. Carter in 'The Blue Film.' They can be deeply shocking: in 'The Destructors' a gang of children systematically destroys a man's house. Yet others are hauntingly tragic - a strange relationship between twins that reaches its climax at a children's party. Whatever the mood, each one is a compelling entertainment and unmistakably the work of one of the finest storytellers of the century. Contents - The Destructors - Special Duties - The Blue Film - The Hint of an Explanation - When Greek Meets Greek - Men at Work - Alas, Poor Maling - The Case for the Defence - A Little Place off the Edgware Road - Across the Bridge - A Drive in the Country - The Innocent - The Basement Room - A Chance for Mr Lever - Brother - Jubilee - A Day Saved - I Spy - Proof Positive - The Second Death - The End of the Party

Bisson ist bekannt durch seinen Roman Mars Live und die Novellisierung von Bessons SF-Thriller Das fünfte Element. Mars Live fiel durch seinen subtilen, ironischen Humor auf. In der Erzählung einer Mars-Expedition, die Alien-Artefakte geheim hält, zeigt sich dieser Humor auch in Bissons Kurzgeschichten, die oft in der ländlichen Gegend von Tennessee/Kentucky/Ohio spielen. Hier geht es gemütlich zu, die Dorfgemeinschaft ist eng verbunden, und der Pfarrer hat noch Einfluss. In der Titelgeschichte leben Bären auf Mittelstreifen von Highways und versammeln sich am Lagerfeuer. Die verwirrte Mutter des Erzählers flieht aus dem Altersheim und gesellt sich zu den Bären, was den Erzähler dazu bringt, sich ihr anzuschließen. In „Drück auf Ann“ erlebt ein verliebtes Paar Abenteuer mit einem intelligenten Bankautomaten. „George“ handelt von einer besonderen Vogelseele in einem Baby, die eines Tages davonfliegt. Die bedeutendsten Erzählungen sind „Über den Tafelberg“ und „Der Schatten weiß es“. Letztere schildert die Rückkehr eines alten Mannes zur Mondkolonie, wo ein Experiment mit einem Alien stattfindet. Der Alien, nur als Schatten wahrnehmbar, bringt bald erste Opfer mit sich. Bisson fügt seiner Sammlung ein Nachwort hinzu, in dem er seine Inspirationen teilt. Die Sammlung ist eine der wichtigsten des Jahres und spiegelt die Vielfalt und Kreativität des Genres wider.

Exactamente a la una de la mañana del sábado 6 de noviembre de 1943, Heinrich Himmler, Reichsführer de las SS y jefe de la Policía, recibió un lacónico mensaje: Ha llegado el Águila. Quería decir que un pequeño destacamento de paracaidistas alemanes había llegado a Inglaterra con el propósito de secuestrar al Primer ministro, Winston Churchill, sacándolo de la casa de campo de Norfolk, lugar en el que se encontraba pasando un fin de semana.