Bořivoj Prusík Book order (chronological)

"This revised Norton Critical Edition, like its predecessor, is the only edition available that includes both the 1890 Lippincott's and the 1891 book version of The Picture of Dorian Gray. Under the editorial guidance of Wilde scholar Michael Patrick Gillespie, students have the opportunity to read comparatively both published versions of this controversial novel." ""Backgrounds" and "Reviews and Reactions" allow readers to gauge The Picture of Dorian Gray's sensational reception when the 1890 version appeared and to consider the heated public debate over art and morality that followed its publication. Joris-Karl Huysmans, Walter Pater, and Oscar Wilde offer a sense of the diverse opinions on these topics. Eight contemporary reviews and comments on the novel are reprinted, among them four opinions from the St. James's Gazette immediately after publication in 1890, each followed by Oscar Wilde's vehement reply." ""Criticism" includes seven new essays on the novel that reflect key changes in interpretive theory in recent years and reveal the broad range of perspectives associated with Wilde and The Picture of Dorian Gray. Simon Joyce, Donald L. Lawler, Sheldon W. Liebman, Maureen O'Connor, Ellie Ragland-Sullivan, John Paul Riquelme, and Michael Patrick Gillespie provide their varied assessments. A Chronology and a Selected Bibliography are also included."--BOOK JACKET.

Pravděpodobně nejvydařenější adaptace slavného románu Lva Nikolajeviče Tolstého, který pojednává o morálce a postavení ženy v carském Rusku 19. století. Anna Karenina je krásná a inteligentní žena žijící ve spokojeném manželství. Její muž je bohatý, takže Anna netrpí materiálnímnedostatkem – přesto se však začíná nudit. Při návštěvě rodiny svého bratra poznává mladého, ale lehkomyslného hraběte Vronského. Ten má sice známost s dívkou Kitty, ale elegantní Anna ho zcela okouzlí. Situace se vyhrotí, když Anna s Vronským otěhotní – teď už se o všem dozvídá i její muž a chce se s ní dát rozvést. Rozvodem by ale Anna přišla o syna Sergeje, kterého neskonale miluje, a proto odmítá. Po porodu však manžela i syna opouští a odjíždí s Vronským. Štěstí ale nedosáhne – časem se s milencem odcizují a Anně se navíc silně stýská po synovi. Lidé v jejím okolí ji vesměs odsuzují a Anna se cítí čím dál tím více osamělá. Duševně zcela vyčerpaná a zlomená žena nakonec vidí jediné východisko ve smrti a vrhá se pod vlak...

Considered by some to be the greatest novel ever written, Anna Karenina is Tolstoy's classic tale of love and adultery set against the backdrop of high society in Moscow and Saint Petersburg. A rich and complex masterpiece, the novel charts the disastrous course of a love affair between Anna, a beautiful married woman, and Count Vronsky, a wealthy army officer. Tolstoy seamlessly weaves together the lives of dozens of characters, and in doing so captures a breathtaking tapestry of late-nineteenth-century Russian society. As Matthew Arnold wrote in his celebrated essay on Tolstoy, "We are not to take Anna Karenina as a work of art; we are to take it as a piece of life."

First published in serial form as Der Golem in the periodical Die weissen Blätter in 1913–14, The Golem is a haunting Gothic tale of stolen identity and persecution, set in a strange underworld peopled by fantastical characters. The red-headed prostitute Rosina; the junk-dealer Aaron Wassertrum; puppeteers; street musicians; and a deaf-mute silhouette artist. Lurking in its inhabitants’ subconscious is the Golem, a creature of rabbinical myth. Supposedly a manifestation of all the suffering of the ghetto, it comes to life every 33 years in a room without a door. When the jeweller Athanasius Pernath, suffering from broken dreams and amnesia, sees the Golem, he realises to his terror that the ghostly man of clay shares his own face. . . . The Golem, though rarely seen, is central to the novel as a representative of the ghetto's own spirit and consciousness, brought to life by the suffering and misery that its inhabitants have endured over the centuries. Perhaps the most memorable figure in the story is the city of Prague itself, recognisable through its landmarks such as the Street of the Alchemists and the Castle.

Příběh je vyprávěn americkým cestovatelelm Joerlinkem, který se v srpnu roku 1839 na Kerguelenových ostrovech nalodí na loď Halbrane kapitána Lena Guye. Cestou na Falklandy zjistí, že kapitán Guy je přesvědčen o tom, že Poeův román je založen na pravdivých skutečnostech a že loď je na výpravě do Antarktidy, aby zachránila zbytek posádky goelety Jana, na které se Pym plavil, a jejíž kapitán William Guy je bratrem kapitána Lena Guye. Joerlink se nakonec k záchrané výpravě přidá.