Kamil Bednář Book order

Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky's masterful translation of The Idiot is destined to stand with their versions of Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov, and Demons as the definitive Dostoevsky in English. After his great portrayal of a guilty man in Crime and Punishment, Dostoevsky set out in The Idiot to portray a man of pure innocence. The twenty-six-year-old Prince Myshkin, following a stay of several years in a Swiss sanatorium, returns to Russia to collect an inheritance and be among people. Even before he reaches home he meets the dark Rogozhin, a rich merchant's son whose obsession with the beautiful Nastasya Filippovna eventually draws all three of them into a tragic denouement. In Petersburg the prince finds himself a stranger in a society obsessed with money, power, and manipulation. Scandal escalates to murder as Dostoevsky traces the surprising effect of this positively beautiful man on the people around him, leading to a final scene that is one of the most powerful in all of world literature.

This is Edmond Rostand's immortal play in which chivalry and wit, bravery and love are forever captured in the timeless spirit of romance. Set in Louis XIII’s reign, it is the moving and exciting drama of one of the finest swordsmen in France, gallant soldier, brilliant wit, tragic poet-lover with the face of a clown. Rostand’s extraordinary lyric powers gave birth to a universal hero—Cyrano De Bergerac—and ensured his own reputation as author of one of the best-loved plays in the literature of the stage. This translation, by the American poet Brian Hooker, is nearly as famous as the original play itself, and is generally considered to be one of the finest English verse translations ever written.

This is an abridged and illustrated version of the classic novel, for young readers. Ishmael, a young school teacher, signs up on a whaling ship to seek adventure. With his unexpected friend, Queequeg, a cannibal harpooner, he joins the Pequod, captained by the mysterious Ahab. But Ahab is only interested in seeking revenge upon the great white whale, Moby Dick, who took off Ahab's leg on an earlier trip. It's a hair-raising whale hung where Ishmael's search for adventure turns into a desperate wish to survive!

Výběr z poezie Robinsona Jefferse. Verše vybrala, sv. uspoř., vysvětl., kalendáriem a ediční poznámkou doplnila Emilie Bednářová. Přehled čes. kniž. vydání Jeffersovy poezie.

Z pozůstalosti autora vyšla sbírka deset let po jeho smrti, v níž Bednář vyjadřuje své pojetí lidského života, potřebu mravních hodnot, fantasie a poezie a v kritických verších glosuje lidské a společenské neduhy.

Výbor z básníkovy milostné lyriky z celého období jeho tvorby.

Zajímavá publikace zejména o mládí B.Smetany a dívkách, které mu byly blízké. a také se postupně dvě z nich staly jeho manželkami. Přibližuje i jeho rodinný život a zákulisí jeho odboré práce.