Modern history is haunted by the disasters of the century--world wars, concentration camps, Hiroshima, and the Holocaust--grief, anger, terror, and loss beyond words, but still close, still impending. How can we write or think about disaster when by... Zobraziť viac
Warned not to write - and certainly not to bite - these women put pen to paper anyway and wrote themselves into history... Zobraziť viac
A pioneering study of a unique narrative form, Words about Pictures examines the special qualities of picture books—books intended to educate or tell stories to young children. Drawing from a number of aesthetic and literary sources... Zobraziť viac
Jane Austen''s classic novel, Sense and Sensibility, is presented here in an elegant hardback collector''s edition with gold cover embossing and printed page edges.Sense and Sensibility tells the story of the Dashwood sisters, Elinor and Marianne.... Zobraziť viac
A beautiful deluxe gift edition of the great Victorian mystery novel with foiled covers, marbled endpapers, sprayed edges, beautiful paper and finished with a silk ribbon... Zobraziť viac
George Eliot's most ambitious novel is a masterly evocation of diverse lives and changing fortunes in a provincial community. Peopling its landscape are Dorothea Brooke, a young idealist whose search for intellectual fulfillment leads her into ... Zobraziť viac
The Marjolein Bastin Classics Seriesis a chance to rediscover classic literature in collectible, luxuriously illustrated volumes. For the first time ever, the internationally celebrated artwork of Marjolein Bastin graces the pages of... Zobraziť viac
Tsey odyn iz naypopulyarnishykh u svitoviy literaturi romaniv spochatku publikuvavsya okremymy rozdilamy v hazeti «Le Sʹyeklʹ» z bereznya po lypenʹ 1844 roku yak tradytsiynyy roman z prodovzhennyam, rozdily yakoho obryvalysya na naytsikavis Zobraziť viac
Like Love is a momentous, raucous collection of essays drawn from twenty years of Maggie Nelson's brilliant work. These profiles, reviews, remembrances, tributes and critical essays... Zobraziť viac
Slovník prekladateliek a prekladateľov vedy o človeku a kultúre... Zobraziť viac
THE THREE MUSKETEERS has proved enduringly popular for more than a century and a half. Inspiration for many a movie and TV adaptation, this swashbuckling epic of chivalry, honour and derring-do, set in France during the 1620s, is satisfyingly peopled... Zobraziť viac
This is the classic story of a young boy who seeks his fortune on the streets of London. After Oliver Twist asks nasty Mr Bumble for more food, he has to flee the workhouse for the streets of London. Here he meets the Artful Dodger, ... Zobraziť viac
Africa has long gripped the American imagination. From the Edenic wilderness of Edgar Rice Burroughs's Tarzan novels to the 'black Zion' of Garvey's Back-To-Africa movement, all manner of Americans - whether white or black, male or female - have come... Zobraziť viac
Marcada por su temprana orfandad materna, la escritora británica Charlotte Brontë, que a lo largo de su corta vida acumuló muchos lutos, revela en su obra el apasionado deseo de encontrar un lugar en el mundo. Jane Eyre... Zobraziť viac
Vydavatel: Penguin Classics Počet strán: 768 Rozmery: 12.9 x 19.8 cm ISBN: 9780141394619 Väzba: pevná väzba (Hardcover) Zobraziť viac
The book Migration and Identity in Nordic Literature focuses on migration as it has manifested itself in literature and culture in the nineteenth, twentieth and early twenty-first centuries in Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Iceland... Zobraziť viac
Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the... Zobraziť viac
Haruki Murakami's myriad fans will be delighted by this unique look into the mind of a master storyteller. In this engaging book, the internationally best-selling author and famously reclusive writer shares with readers what he thinks about being a ... Zobraziť viac
Kniha je pokusem o komplexní popis jazyka výjimečného tvůrce druhé poloviny 20. století. Z různých pohledů se tu zkoumá Hrabalův lexikon, specifičnost jeho morfologie i frazeologie, stejně jako stattistické aspekty jeho tvorby... Zobraziť viac
