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Bohumil Mužík

    Zvukové kino
    Like Death
    Drama na lovu
    War and Peace
    Преступление и наказание
    Zločin a trest I.
    • 2022
    • 1929

      Like Death

      • 218 pages
      • 8 hours of reading
      3.8(88)Add rating

      A devastating novel about the treachery of love by Maupassant, now in a new translation by National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize winning poet and translator Richard Howard Olivier Bertin is at the height of his career as a painter. After making his name as a young man with his Cleopatra, he has gone on to establish himself as “the chosen painter of Parisiennes, the most adroit and ingenious artist to reveal their grace, their figures, and their souls.” And though his hair may be white, he remains a handsome, vigorous, and engaging bachelor, a prized guest at every table and salon. Olivier’s lover is Anne, the Countess de Guilleroy, the wife of a busy politician. Their relationship is long-standing, close, almost conjugal. The countess’s daughter is Annette, and she is the spitting image of her mother in her lovely youth. Having finished her schooling, Annette is returning to Paris. Her parents have put together an excellent match. Everything is as it should be—until the painter and countess are each seized by an agonizing suspicion, like death. . . . In its devastating depiction of the treacherous nature of love, Like Death is more than the equal of Swann’s Way. Richard Howard’s new translation brings out all the penetration and poetry of this masterpiece of nineteenth-century fiction.

      Like Death
    • 1928

      Druhá kniha řady Nové ruské knihovny. OSUDY a postavy z míru, války a revoluce, charakterisované tak životně, že se na nás Rusko z této knihy dívá jako z tisíce velkých očí. V těchto vzpomínkách, v nichž se umění Gorkého obrozuje a pročisťuje až k průzračné jasnosti, jest plno sympatie i humoru, kteréžto dvě vlastnosti vyznačují nejzralejší období tvorby u každého autora.

      Spisy M. Gorkého. II, Lidé a osudy
    • 1928

      War and Peace

      • 1440 pages
      • 51 hours of reading
      4.4(733)Add rating

      At a glittering society party in St Petersburg in 1805, conversations are dominated by the prospect of war. In this book, the author entwines grand themes - conflict and love, birth and death, free will and faith - with unforgettable scenes of nineteenth-century Russia, to create a magnificent epic of human life in its imperfection and grandeur.

      War and Peace
    • 1927

      jeden z nejznámějších románů o 6ti dílech od F.M.Dostojevského. Sloužil jako předloha k několika divadelním hrám i filmům

      Zločin a trest I.
    • 1927

      Pátá a šestá část třísvazkového románu. Závěr románu, Raskolnikov se přiznává ke zločinu, přijímá trest, jeho milá s ním sdílí jeho osud, a dochází ke katarzi.

      Zločin a trest III.