The armies of the Dark Lord are massing as his evil shadow spreads ever wider. Men, dwarves, elves and ents unite forces to do battle against the Dark. Meanwhile, Frodo and Sam struggle further into Mordor in their heroic quest to destroy the One Ring.
The Fellowship of the Ring is the first part of J.R.R. Tolkien's great work of imaginative fiction The Lord of the Rings. It is impossible to convey to the new reader all the book's qualities, and the range of its creation. By turns comic, homely, epic, monstrous and diabolic, the narrative moves through countless changes of scenes and character in an imaginary world which is totally convincing in its detail. In the words of the novelist Richard Hughes 'For width of imagination it almost beggars parallel, and it is nearly as remarkable for its vividness and narrative skills which carries the reader on enthralled for page after page'. Tolkien created in The Lord of the Rings a new mythology in an invented world which has proved timeless in its appeal.
Tento príbeh narastal pri rozprávaní, až sa stal dejinami Veľkej vojny o Prsteň a obsahuje mnoho pohľadov do ešte starodávnejších dejín, ktoré mu predchádzali - napísal v predslove k druhému vydaniu J. R. R. Tolkien o tejto vari najznámejšej knižnej trilógii minulého storočia. Čarovný svetelfov a hobitov je paralelným svetom veľkých ľudí. Jeho hlavnou témou je Prsteň ako ohnivko, ktoré ho púta k Hobitovi. Proti akýmkoľvek alegóriám sa autor bránil a všetky možné posolstvá a vnútorné významy spájané s jeho knihou sa mu zo srdca protivili. Preto je túto knihu potrebné chápať ako najobľúbenejšie dejiny pradávneho veku a nijako inak.
Or There and Back Again
"The Hobbit" is the prelude to "The Lord of the Rings" series, and should be read before "The Fellowship of the Ring".
This passionate, terrifying drama takes us behind the scenes of a great television network faced with mortal dangers and moral challenges as it collides with a smaller but equally potent force--the most feared terrorist group in the Americas. Few writers possess Hailey's ability to combine careful, accurate research with a profound sense of human drama. (Doubleday)
'An epic tale and a brutal evocation of a disappearing world' The Times A young peasant girl is sold as servant and apprentice to a renowned geisha house. Many years later she tells her story from a hotel in New York, opening a window into an extraordinary half-hidden world of eroticism and enchantment, exploitation and degradation and summoning up a quarter of a century of Japan's dramatic history. 'Intimate and brutal, written in cool, lucid prose it is a novel whose psychological empathy and historical truths are outstanding' Mail on Sunday
Kniha novinára, prekladateľa a spisovateľa, ktorý pôsobil ako zahraničný spravodajca slovenskej agentúry TASR vo Washingtone v rokoch 1992 — 1998, prináša málo známe alebo doteraz neznáme skutočnosti o zákulisí intervencie vojsk Varšavskej zmluvy do Československa v auguste 1968. Jadrom knihy sú prepisy denníkových záznamov Piotra Šelesta, ktorého Leonid Brežnev poveril na tajné rokovania s Vasiľom Biľakom, a okolnosti, za ktorých došlo k napísaniu a odovzdaniu tzv. Pozývacieho listu. Knihu dopĺňajú výsledky štúdia americkej diplomatickej korešpondencie z toho obdobia, postoje americkej vlády, prezidenta Lyndona Johnsona a dokumenty CIA o príčinách a následkoch sovietskej agresie.
In the year 2301, guns are only museum pieces and benign telepaths sweep the minds of the populace to detect crimes before they happen. In 2301 murder is virtually impossible, but one man is about to change that ... Ben Reich, a psychopathic business magnate, has devised the ultimate scheme to eliminate the competition and destroy the order of his society. The Demolished Man is a masterpiece of imaginative suspense, set in a superbly imagined world in which everything has changed except the ancient instinct for murder.
Príhody dvoch priateľov, ktorí sa vybrali na vlastnú päsť poznávať Taliansko. Knižka nás zavedie do oblasti Neapola, na Vezuv a do Pompejí. Nechýba trpasličie San Marino, Rimini či vychytené letoviská ako Amalfi, Positano a ostrov Capri s chýrnou Modrou jaskyňou. Ich putovanie bez vopred stanovených trás a termínov má príchuť zvláštneho čara, slobody a prekvapení z neznámeho.
