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On The Road, the most famous of Jack Kerouac's works, is not only the soul of the Beat movement and literature, but one of the most important novels of the century. Like nearly all of Kerouac's writing, On The Road is thinly fictionalized autobiography, filled with a cast made of Kerouac's real life friends, lovers, and fellow travelers. Narrated by Sal Paradise, one of Kerouac's alter-egos, On the Road is a cross-country bohemian odyssey that not only influenced writing in the years since its 1957 publication but penetrated into the deepest levels of American thought and culture. MAXnotes offer a fresh look at masterpieces of literature, presented in a lively and interesting fashion. Written by literary experts who currently teach the subject, MAXnotes will enhance your understanding and enjoyment of the work. MAXnotes are designed to stimulate independ ent thought about the literary work by raising various issues and thought-provoking ideas and questions. MAXnotes cover the essentials of what one should know about each work, including an overall summary, character lists, an explanation and discussion of the plot, the work's historical context, illustrations to convey the mood of the work, and a biography of the author. Each chapter is individually summarized and analyzed, and has study questions and answers.

Cestopisná knižka Na skok do Toskánska voľne nadväzuje na predchádzajúci čitateľsky veľmi úspešný autorov cestopis Do Amalfi na kávu. Jeho protagonistami sú opäť tí istí dvaja priatelia. Chcú poznávať cudzinu na vlastnú päsť – bez cestovných kancelárií, bez turistických sprievodcov, bez obmedzení termínmi. Slovom, čo cesta dá. Tentoraz si vybrali Toskánsko a knižka nás zavedie do Pisy, Luccy, do Vinci, rodiska Leonarda da Vinci, do Sieny a na mnohé iné miesta, kam turisti chodievajú zriedkavo.

Missa solemnis - takto slávny hudobný skladateľ nazval jedno svoje nie veľmi úspešné dielo, ktoré pokladal za svoju najlepšiu skladbu a ktorá sa stala tvrdým orieškom aj pre najkompetentnejších hudobných mágov. Fiktívny dialóg medzi umelcom a jeho Múzou sa odohráva niekoľko mesiacov pred smrťou hudobného génia, gniaveného životnými okolnosťami, hluchotou, beznádejou.

One of the major novels by Vladimir Nabokov, originally entitled The Defense. The novel features a chess-playing genius Luzhin who discovers his gift in boyhood, rising to the rank of Grandmaster.

The awesome conclusion to The Lord of the Rings—the greatest fantasy epic of all time—which began in The Fellowship of the Ring and The Two Towers. Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read While the evil might of the Dark Lord Sauron swarms out to conquer all Middle-earth, Frodo and Sam struggle deep into Mordor, seat of Sauron’s power. To defeat the Dark Lord, the One Ring, ruler of the accursed Rings of Power, must be destroyed in the fires of Mount Doom. But the way is impossibly hard, and Frodo is weakening. Weighed down by the compulsion of the Ring, he begins finally to despair.

"Bilbo Baggins is a hobbit who enjoys a comfortable, unambitious life, rarely travelling further than the pantry of his hobbit-hole in Bag End. But his contentment is disturbed when the wizard, Gandalf, and a company of thirteen dwarves arrive on his doorstep one day to whisk him away on an unexpected journey 'there and back again'. They have a plot to raid the treasure hoard of Smaug the Magnificent, a large and very dangerous dragon..."--Page [4] of cover.

Fashion model and UN ambassador Waris Dirie was born into a traditional family of tribal desert nomads in Somalia and told the story of her escape from there in "Desert Flower". Here she traces the roots of her courage, resilience and humour back to her motherland, and particularly her mother

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.

This is a seductive and evocative epic on an intimate scale, which tells the extraordinary story of a geisha girl. Summoning up more than twenty years of Japan's most dramatic history, it uncovers a hidden world of eroticism and enchantment, exploitation and degredation. From a small fishing village in 1929, the tale moves to the glamorous and decadent heart of Kyoto in the 1930s, where a young peasant girl is sold as servant and apprentice to a renowned geisha house. She tells her story many years later from the Waldorf Astoria in New York; it exquisitely evokes another culture, a different time and the details of an extraordinary way of life. It conjures up the perfection and the ugliness of life behind rice-paper screens, where young girls learn the arts of the geisha - dancing and singing, how to wind the kimonok, how to walk and pour tea, and how to beguile the most powerful men.

Autor z dlhoročného novinárskeho pôsobenia v USA vydal veľmi úspešnú knihu Washington — Sedem rokov v centre moci (2001), za ktorú bol odmenený prémiou Literárneho fondu a Cenou Vydavateľstva Spolku slovenských spisovateľov. Kořínkova kniha Vtedy v Amerike prináša čitateľovi nový civilný pohľad na Ameriku dnešných dní. Na rozdiel od turistických bedekrov či politických reportáži zobrazuje každodennú tvár Ameriky. Jeho reportáže majú vysokú literárnu úroveň a ponúkajú tým čitateľovi ďalšiu pridanú hodnotu. Dielo je o to zaujímavejšie, že práve dnes sme svedkami ďalšej vysťahovaleckej vlny, že práve v tomto čase až nebývalé množstvo Slovákov žije a pracuje v USA. Aj preto je pre slovenského čitateľa obzvlášť zaujímavé poznávať túto spoločnosť z čo najviac strán a uhlov.