Škola hrou a taky základ života. Ale i expert by užasl, jak se učí tady… Když se usedlý učitýlek Philip Swallow z univerzity v anglické Papridgi ocitne na semestrálním pobytu v kalifornské Euforii a na jeho židli výměnou... Zobraziť viac
When Philip Swallow and Professor Morris Zapp participate in their universities' Anglo-American exchange scheme, the Fates play a hand, and each academic finds himself enmeshed in the life of his counterpart ... Zobraziť viac
Luck, good or bad, plays an important part in a writer's career. In 1976 Lodge was pursuing a `twin-track career' as novelist and academic but the balancing act was increasingly difficult, and he became a full-time writer just before he published his... Zobraziť viac
Human consciousness, long the province of literature, has lately come in for a remapping - even rediscovery - by the natural... Zobraziť viac
A MAN OF CONTRADICTIONS. A MAN OF PASSION. A MAN OF THE FUTURE. Sequestered in his blitz-battered Regent's Park house in 1944, the ailing Herbert George Wells, 'H.G.' to his family and friends, looks back on a life crowded with incident, ... Zobraziť viac
Thinks . . . , his witty new novel about secret infidelities and the nature of consciousness, unfolds in the alternating voices of Ralph Messenger, director of the Centre for Cognitive Science at the University of Gloucester, and Helen Reed... Zobraziť viac
Welcome to the Palladium, Brickley. Once the grandest music-hall south of the river, now its peeling foyer is home to stale popcorn, a depressed manager, and a cast of disparate picture goers who touch and shape each other's destinies... Zobraziť viac
