A personal description of Provencal life as seen through the eyes of the author and his wife when they move into an old farmhouse at the foot of the Luberon mountains between Avignon and Aix. The bestselling work of non-fiction in paperback of 1991 in the UK.
Great book featuring artists who used their works to report then current events. 120 black and white illustrations of works of art - cartoons, drawings, prints, sketches of politics, social, morality, entertainment, war and battle news and other subjects. Illustrated artists Hogarth, Homer, Kollwitz, Grosz, Toulouse-Lautrec, Munch, Perlin, Chagall, Kirchner, Rowlandson, and other artists. Softcover. 95 pages. Measures 6 1/2 by 7 3/4 inches. Interesting book, nicely illustrated.
This is Doris Lessing's account of a journey back to the land in which she grew up and in which so much of her concern is still invested. Her love of Africa is as strong as her hatred of the white supremacy rule that has haunted its past.
The novel begins with the titular character Jane Eyre living with her maternal uncle's family, the Reeds, as a result of her uncle's dying wish. The novel starts when Jane is ten years old and several years after her parents died of typhus. Mr. Reed was the only one in the Reed family to be kind to Jane. Jane's aunt Sarah Reed does not like her, treats her as a burden and discourages her children from associating with Jane. Mrs. Reed and her three children are abusive to Jane, both physically and emotionally. The servant Bessie proves to be Jane's only ally in the household even though Bessie sometimes harshly scolds Jane. Excluded from the family activities, Jane is incredibly unhappy with only a doll and occasionally books in which to find solace. One day, Jane is locked in the red room where her uncle died, and she panics after seeing visions of him. She is finally rescued when she is allowed to attend Lowood School for Girls, after the physician, Dr. Lloyd, convinces Mrs. Reed to send Jane away. Before Jane leaves, she confronts Mrs. Reed and declares that she'll never call her "aunt" again, that Mrs. Reed and her daughters, Georgiana, and Eliza are deceitful and that she'd tell everyone at Lowood how cruelly Mrs. Reed treated her ...
Humorný román o příhodách pana Pickwicka a jeho přátel. Výbor ze zápisů dochovaných z pozůstalosti Pickwickova klubu, v nichž se ve stručnosti líčí nebezpečenství, dobrodružství, cesty a šprýmovné počínání dopisujících členů tohoto klubu v letech 1827-1828. Pro mládež od 11 letupravili a doslov napsali Emanuela Tilschová a Emanuel Tilsch st.