This labyrinthine and extraordinary book, first published more than fifty years ago, was the outcome of Graves`s vast reading and curious research into strange territories of folklore, mythology, religion and magic. Erudite and impassioned, it is a... Zobraziť viac
'There has been a lot of fighting hereabouts. The trenches have made themselves rather than been made, and run inconsequently in and out of the big thirty-foot high stacks of bricks; it is most confusing. The parapet of a trench which we don't occupy... Zobraziť viac
In Homer's Daughter Robert Graves recreates the Odyssey. This bold retelling of the ancient epic imagines that its author was not the blind and bearded Homer of legend, but a young woman in Western Sicily who calls herself Nausicaä. In Robert Graves's... Zobraziť viac
Román <i>Zvedá se severní vítr</i> (1949) vypráví o básníkovi, který je ve spánku přenesen do vzdálené budoucnosti. Do budoucnosti, kterou si lidstvo připravilo tak, že se ve vývoji nejprve vrátilo do minulosti a vyhnulo se opakování chyb... Zobraziť viac
The ever-popular novelist and story-teller Robert Graves wrote fascinating and durable stories, here collected together in a single volume for the first time by the poet's daughter Lucia Graves. Zobraziť viac
Bringing to life the intrigue of ancient Rome, Robert Graves's I, Claudius is one of the most celebrated, gripping historical novels ever written. Despised for his weakness and regarded by his family as little more than a stammering fool... Zobraziť viac
Claudius has survived the murderous intrigues of his predecessors to become, reluctantly, Emperor of Rome. Here he recounts his surprisingly successful reign: how he cultivates the loyalty of the army and the common people to repair the damage caused... Zobraziť viac
An autobiographical work that describes firsthand the great tectonic shifts in English society following the First World War, Robert Graves's Goodbye to All That is a matchless evocation of the Great War's haunting legacy... Zobraziť viac
Robert Graves first came across the name of Roger Lamb in 1914, when Graves was an English officer instructing his platoon in regimental history. Lamb was a British soldier who had served his king during the American War of Independence, and whose... Zobraziť viac
Soubor mýtů řeckých klasiků a zároveň základní dílo pro studium řecké mytologie. Graves uvádí a komentuje i méně známé verze... Zobraziť viac
Dnů padesát tři, deset jar, a Clau-Clau-Clau dostane dar, touhu všech lidí, jeho zmar. Bez přátel, které by měl rád,koktavě bude klopýtat…pravidlo proroctví, jež v kúmské věštírně v Kampánii vyslechl Claudius, kulhavý, nahluchlý... Zobraziť viac
Zavražděním Claudia v roce 54 našeho letopočtu, uzavírá Graves druhou knihu svého románu fiktivního Claudiova vlastního životopisu... Zobraziť viac
Historický román ze starého Říma je přímým pokračováním románu "Já, Claudius" a sleduje další osudy Tiberia Claudia Caesara až do jeho násilné smrti. Zobraziť viac
Edward Venn-Thomas lives in the twentieth century but has been mysteriously transported to the future, and the apparently idyllic society of New Create, where there is no hunger, no war and no dissatisfaction. However Venn-Thomas is starting to find... Zobraziť viac
Robert Graves čerpá z děl římských historiků – Plutarcha, Suetonia a Tacita – a s pochopením, soucitem, bravurou, erudicí, spisovatelským umem i přiměřenou dávkou literární licence vykresluje císaře, jehož okolí považovalo za hlup Zobraziť viac
Published by Penguin for more than sixty years, the author and scholar Robert Graves wrote two of the greatest historical novels of the twentieth century... Zobraziť viac
A grandson of Mark Antony, young Claudius is mistaken for a weakling and an idiot because of his stutter and his physical infirmities and grows up learning to use his reputation for harmlessness as a shield. Dismissed as insignificant by his powerful... Zobraziť viac
No poetry has touched readers' hearts more deeply than the soldier poets of the First World War. Published to commemorate the centenary of 1914, this stunning set of books, with specially commissioned covers by leading print makers, is an essential... Zobraziť viac
