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Just in time to celebrate Roald Dahl Day in September come three of his beloved classic stories, now with a brand-new look and featuring illustrations by his longtime collaborator, Quentin Blake. Full color.
Powerful, intense, visually magnificent, Fiesta is the novel which established Ernest Hemingway as a writer of genius. 'Hemingway captures atmosphere by reticence and breathes life into his characters by pages left unsaid ... It is American; it is literature; and it is a novel by a genius' Evening News Paris in the twenties: Pernod, parties and expatriate Americans, loose-living on money from home. Jake is wildly in love with Brett Ashley, aristocratic and irresistibly beautiful, but with an abandoned, sensuous nature that she cannot change. When the couple drift to Spain to the dazzle of the fiesta and the heady atmosphere of the bullfight, their affair is strained by new passions, new jealousies, and Jake must finally learn that he will never possess the woman he loves.
Ernest Hemingway's classic portrait of the pageantry of bullfighting. 'I was trying to learn to write, commencing with the simplest things, and one of the simplest things of all and the most fundamental is violent death' This is Hemingway's classic portrait of the pageantry of bullfighting. Here are the sights, the sounds, the excitement, and above all, the knowledge, that fuelled Hemingway's passion for Spain and the bullfight. This remarkable book contains some of his finest writing, inspired by the intense life, as well as the inevitable death, of those hot, violent afternoons. 'Hemingway's style, at its best, is a superb vehicle for revealing tenderness of feeling beneath descriptions of brutality' Guardian
Green Hills of Africa is Ernest Hemingway's lyrical journal of a month on safari in the great game country of East Africa, where he and his wife Pauline journeyed in December 1933. Hemingway's well-known interest in - and fascination with - big-game hunting is magnificently captured in this evocative account of his trip. It is an examination of the lure of the hunt and an impassioned portrait of the glory of the African landscape and of the beauty of a wilderness that was, even then, being threatened by the incursions of man.
The Pulitzer Prize and Drama Critics Circle Award winning play—reissued with an introduction by Arthur Miller (Death of a Salesman and The Crucible), and Williams’ essay “The World I Live In.” It is a very short list of 20th-century American plays that continue to have the same power and impact as when they first appeared—57 years after its Broadway premiere, Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desireis one of those plays. The story famously recounts how the faded and promiscuous Blanche DuBois is pushed over the edge by her sexy and brutal brother-in-law, Stanley Kowalski. Streetcar launched the careers of Marlon Brando, Jessica Tandy, Kim Hunter, and Karl Malden, and solidified the position of Tennessee Williams as one of the most important young playwrights of his generation, as well as that of Elia Kazan as the greatest American stage director of the ’40s and ’50s.
The tragic impact of the Vietnam War on a relationship between father and daughter. The father is an upstanding individual who believes in the American Dream, but his daughter has a different dream, to get America out of Vietnam and she kills innocent people to achieve it. For the father it is the end of the world, he has lost his daughter. By the author of Sabbath's Theater
Radioservis ve spolupráci s Českým rozhlasem vydal v listopadu minulého roku vzpomínkovou knihu herce, zpěváka, skladatele a překladatele Rudolfa Pellara. Paměti, nazvané podle Kainarovy básně, obsahují lakonické vzpomínky na přibližně sto stran, doplněné fotografiemi z osobního archivu a soupisem Pellarovy herecké, autorské a překladatelské činnosti. Memoáry umožňují autorovi tematizovat proces vzpomínání a zachycují jeho rané dětství, které je protkáno místopisnými a historickými prvky, jako je dvojjazyčnost. Vzpomínky plynou chronologicky a odhalují, jak velká historie ovlivnila Pellarovu cestu k divadlu a překládání. Po maturitě, kdy byly univerzity zavřené, se přihlásil na brněnskou konzervatoř a začal svou kariéru v jihlavském Horáckém divadle. Spolu se svou ženou se věnoval překladům americké literatury, včetně Salingerova románu. Kniha také přináší pohled do překladatelské práce Pellarových, jejich metody a zkušenosti s angličtinou v padesátých letech. Fenomén normalizace je rovněž přítomen, neboť Pellar nesměl vystupovat v televizi a jeho překlady byly publikovány pod cizími jmény. Vzpomínková knížka je protkána humorem a laskavostí.
"George, a disillusioned academic, and Martha, his caustic wife, have just come home from a faculty party. When a handsome young professor and his mousy wife stop by for a nightcap, an innocent night of fun and games quickly turns dark and dangerous. Long-buried resentment and rage are unleashed as George and Martha turn their rapier-sharp wits against each other, using their guests as pawns in their verbal sparring. By night's end, the secrets of both couples are uncovered and the lies they cling to are exposed."--Jacket
Williams' play about drifter Chance Wayne who returns to his hometown with a
faded movie star hoping to find the girl of his youth is a classic study of
the dream of recapturing youth and finding fame. This edition features an
extensive critical commentary and questions aimed at students of the play.
Nine Stories (1953) is a collection of short stories by American fiction writer J. D. Salinger published in April 1953. It includes two of his most famous short stories, "A Perfect Day for Bananafish" and "For Esmé – with Love and Squalor". (Nine Stories is the U.S. title; the book is published in many other countries as For Esmé - with Love and Squalor, and Other Stories.)The stories are:"A Perfect Day for Bananafish""Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut""Just Before the War with the Eskimos""The Laughing Man""Down at the Dinghy""For Esmé – with Love and Squalor""Pretty Mouth and Green My Eyes""De Daumier-Smith's Blue Period""Teddy"
Published in 1983 to phenomenal reviews, Blue Highways: A Journey into America became a cult classic on par with Jack Kerouac's On the Road and John Steinbeck's Travels with Charley. In this highly acclaimed, bestselling memoir, a 38-year-old laid-off college professor of Sioux and white blood drives around the U.S. on the "blue highways, " the rural back made that are colored blue on old maps. The places he discovers during his 13,000-mile journey are unexpected, sometimes mysterious, and often full of simply the wonder of the ordinary.-- Blue Highways received extraordinary reviews when it was first published.
Volně spojený cyklus dvanácti elegických povídek amerického autora českého původu tvoří jakýsi skupinový portrét tří generací mužů a žen obývajících podmanivé okolí jezera ve státě New York. Výjimečná schopnost zachytit ducha krajiny, jenž jako by spoluutvářel životní osudy jednotlivých postav, přitom není jediným pozoruhodným rysem této neobyčejně vyzrálé prvotiny: autorovo umění ponoru do skutečných i domnělých hlubin vnitřních životů jeho hrdinů je tu ukázkovým příkladem zdánlivě paradoxní schopnosti imaginativní prózy překonat v živosti a autenticitě samu skutečnost.
Winner of the IMPAC Award and Booker Prize nominee In this rich and compelling novel, written in language of astonishing poise and resonance, one of Australia's greatest living writers gives an immensely powerful vision of human differences and eternal divisions. In the mid-1840s a thirteen-year-old British cabin boy, Gemmy Fairley, is cast ashore in the far north of Australia and taken in by aborigines. Sixteen years later he moves back into the world of Europeans, among hopeful yet terrified settlers who are staking out their small patch of home in an alien place. To them, Gemmy stands as a different kind of challenge: he is a force that at once fascinates and repels. His own identity in this new world is as unsettling to him as the knowledge he brings to others of the savage, the aboriginal. "Breathtaking...To read this remarkable book is to remember Babylon well, whether you think you've been there or not." --The New York Times Book Review
Kishon und die Bibel - das ist eine höchst brisante Konfrontation, die von Kishon mit der gebührenden Ehrfurcht, aber auch mit seinem unverwechselbaren Humor dargeboten wird. Denn Humor, so der bekannte Satiriker, sei Gottes schönste Gabe und bringe die Menschen dem Universum näher. Aber nicht nur um die Ereignisse im Himmel und um Moses' Werk geht es in diesem köstlichen Buch, es geht wie immer bei Kishon vor allem um die unheilbaren Schwächen der „Krone der Schöpfung“.
Ernest Hemingway's final posthumous work is labeled "a fictional memoir," emerging amid controversial editing. Despite lacking the clarity of his best works, it remains quintessentially Hemingway. The narrative unfolds against the backdrop of the Mau Mau rebellion in 1953 Kenya, where the era of "great white hunters" is fading. Hemingway is portrayed as a revered figure by the local gun bearers and scouts. The story follows two parallel quests: Mary, Hemingway's fourth wife, pursues a massive black-maned lion, while Hemingway becomes infatuated with Debba, a young African woman. Intriguingly, Mary accepts Debba as a "supplementary wife," all while criticizing Hemingway for his drinking and behavior in camp.
Atmosphere and attitude overshadow plot, with Mary confronting Hemingway as a "conscience-ridden murderer," a stance that heightens the tension in the hunting scenes. Hemingway's reflections on the lion he describes as "Mary's lion" evoke a poignant beauty, illustrating his mastery of language. While some criticize the book's structure and moments of self-indulgence, the power of Hemingway's prose shines through. The work's value lies in its raw honesty, offering a glimpse of a master navigating his creative process.
J.D. Salinger, author of the classic Catcher in the Rye (1951), wrote the stories Franny and Zooey for publication in the New Yorker magazine in 1955 and 1957 respectively. Both stories were part of a series centred around a family of settlers in New York, the Glasses, particularly the children of Les and Bessie Glass, a Jewish-Irish theatrical act. All are brilliant former radio actors. Their eldest child, Seymour, a genius, commits suicide in his thirties. The repercussions to the family of this act provide the unifying theme to the stories. In Franny and Zooey the youngest member of the family, Franny, has a religious and nervous breakdown. She attempts to ward off the meaninglessness of college life by the obsessive repetition of a Jesus prayer. Her brother Zachary (Zooey) rests at nothing in his attempts to restore her sanity. J.D. Salinger wrote the Glass stories, 'It is a long-term project, patently an ambitious one, and there is a real-enough danger, I suppose, that sooner or later I'll bog down, perhaps disappear entirely, in ly own methods, locutions and mannerisms. On the whole, though, I'm very hopeful.I love working on these Glass stories, I've been waiting for them most of my life, and I think I have fairly decent, monomaniacal plans to finish them with due care and all-available skill.'
'Subtle, funny and furious' Observer. What if a lookalike stranger stole your
name, hijacked your biography, and went about the world pretending to be you?
Startlingly, Philip Roth meets a man in Jerusalem called Philip Roth who has
been touring Israel - riding high on the author's reputation - preaching a
bizarre reverse-exodus of the Jews, encouraging them to return to their
ancestral homes in Europe. Roth decides to stop him, even if that means
impersonating the impersonator. Operation Shylock is at once spy story,
political thriller, meditation on identity and unfathomable journey through a
volatile, frightening middle-east.
In the spring of 1948 Arthur Miller retreated to a log cabin in Connecticut with the first two lines of a new play already fixed in his mind. He emerged six weeks later with the final script of Death of a Salesman - a painful examination of American life and consumerism. Opening on Broadway the following year, Miller's extraordinary masterpiece changed the course of modern theatre. In creating Willy Loman, his destructively insecure anti-hero, Miller himself defined his aim as being 'to set forth what happens when a man does not have a grip on the forces of life'.
When Adam Dalgliesh visits Larksoken, a remote headland community on the
Norfolk coast in the shadow of a nuclear power station, he expects to be
engaged only in the sad business of tying up his aunt's estate.
Dva půvabné, na sebe navazující romány ironizují snobství americké lepší společnosti. V románu Páni mají radši blondýnky (1925) líčí autorka formou fingovaného deníku, psaného záměrně neumělým, chybujícím jazykem, život naivní, půvabné lehkomyslné ženy, „dámy z povolání“, která ve světě, jemuž vládnou peníze, zpeněžuje své mládí, půvab a zábavnou prostořekou bezprostřednost. Satira na věčné soupeření mezi oběma pohlavími, jejímž terčem jsou bohatí, leč důvěřiví páni z kruhů amerických obchodníků a anglických aristokratů a snobské společnosti kolem literatury a filmu. Román Ale žení se s brunetkami (1927) vypráví o životě její přítelkyně, která byla příliš upřímná a jejíž cesta za úspěšným sňatkem byla proto daleko složitější....
For Spenser, that most unorthodox of private detectives, no case is ever straightforward and the theft of a 14th-century illuminated manuscript proves no exception. His investigation soon leads him into organized crime, dope-pushing, theft, radical politics, adultery and murder.
Rozsáhlý výbor dvaačtyřiceti próz sleduje tři základní tematické okruhy Singerova díla: život zaniklého světa židovské diaspory na polském venkově a varšavské periferii počátkem 20. století, intelektuální prostředí ve Varšavě 20. let a osudy polských uprchlíků a vystěhovalců ve Spojených státech v druhé třetině našeho století.
2. vydání
Bratři Machalovi cestovali po místech, kde žil E. Hemingway, hovořili s těmi, kdo velkého amerického spisovatele poznali. Rekonstruují jeho pohnutý život - neukázněné mládí, osobní vztahy k rodičům, čtyřem manželkám, přátelům a konečně i dramatický závěr spisovatelova bytí.
2. část trilogie, která navazuje na 1. část Vesnice a bude pokračovat 3. částí Panské sídlo. Doslov: Eva Masnerová Druhý díl Faulknerovy volné trilogie začíná ve chvíli, kdy Flem Snopes, reprezentant nastupujících dravých ekonomických sil na americkém Jihu počátku 20. století, přijíždí do Jeffersonu...
2. část trilogie, která navazuje na 1. část Vesnice a bude pokračovat 3. částí Panské sídlo. Doslov: Eva Masnerová Druhý díl Faulknerovy volné trilogie začíná ve chvíli, kdy Flem Snopes, reprezentant nastupujících dravých ekonomických sil na americkém Jihu počátku 20. století, přijíždí do Jeffersonu...
The publishing house Megali focuses on making historical works accessible by reproducing them in large print, catering specifically to individuals with impaired vision. This initiative emphasizes the importance of inclusivity in literature, allowing a broader audience to engage with historical texts.
Prosté vyprávění anglického přírodovědce a beletristy o tom, jak založil na anglickém ostrově New Jersey vlastní zoologickou zahradu. Ve vyprávění o vlastní zoologické zahradě, navazujícím na knihu Zoo v kufru, líčí autor své zkušenosti i veselé příhody s nejrůznějšími zvířaty, přičemž uplatňuje osobitý humor a dokumentuje velké profesionální znalosti.
Dobrodružné až detektivní povídky, jejich námětem je oslava mužnosti, statečnosti a spravedlnosti: Plantážník z Malaty, Společník, Hostinec u dvou čarodějnic, Kvůli dolarům.
Bernard Malamud's second novel, originally published in 1957, is the story of Morris Bober, a grocer in postwar Brooklyn, who "wants better" for himself and his family. First two robbers appear and hold him up; then things take a turn for the better when broken-nosed Frank Alpine becomes his assistant. But there are complications: Frank, whose reaction to Jews is ambivalent, falls in love with Helen Bober; at the same time he begins to steal from the store. Like Malamud's best stories, this novel unerringly evokes an immigrant world of cramped circumstances and great expectations. Malamud defined the immigrant experience in a way that has proven vital for several generations of writers.
Sylvia Barrett arrives at New York City’s Calvin Coolidge High fresh from earning literature degrees at Hunter College and eager to shape young minds. Instead she encounters broken windows, a lack of supplies, a stifling bureaucracy, and students with no interest in Chaucer. Her bumpy yet ultimately rewarding journey is narrated through an extraordinary collection of correspondence—sternly worded yet nonsensical administrative memos, furtive notes of wisdom from teacher to teacher, “polio consent slips,” and student homework assignments that unwittingly speak from the heart. An instant bestseller when it was first published in 1964, Up the Down Staircase remains as poignant, devastating, laugh-out-loud funny, and relevant today as ever. It timelessly depicts a beleaguered public school system redeemed by teachers who love to teach and students who long to be recognized.
Nová, do značné míry autobiografická hra, děj se odehrává v mysli ústřední postavy, v jejích myšlenkách. Na scénu staví asi čtyřicetiletého právníka, jenž se rozborem nejvýznamnějších skutečností svého života snaží dopátrat se pravdy o své vině na tom, co udělal on i společnostkolem něho. Přeložili Luba a Rudolf Pellarovi za jazykové spolupráce Hildy Lassové.
The "brilliant, funny, meaningful novel" (The New Yorker) that established J. D. Salinger as a leading voice in American literature--and that has instilled in millions of readers around the world a lifelong love of books. "If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth." The hero-narrator of The Catcher in the Rye is an ancient child of sixteen, a native New Yorker named Holden Caufield. Through circumstances that tend to preclude adult, secondhand description, he leaves his prep school in Pennsylvania and goes underground in New York City for three days.
Written in 1915, The Shadow-Line is based upon events and experiences from twenty-seven years earlier to which Conrad returned obsessively in his fiction. A young sea captain's first command brings with it a succession of crises: his sea is becalmed, the crew laid low by fever, and his deranged first mate is convinced that the ship is haunted by the malignant spirit of a previous captain. This is indeed a work full of "sudden passions", in which Conrad is able to show how the full intensity of existence can be experienced by the man who, in the words of the older Captain Giles, is prepared to "stand up to his bad luck, to his mistakes, to his conscience." A subtle and penetrating analysis of the nature of manhood, The Shadow-Line investigates varieties of masculinity and desire in a subtext that counters the tale's seemingly conventional surface.
A través de los recuerdos de una anciana portera y de un visitante ocasional de una pequeña cafetería en Viena, conocemos la historia de un hombre dedicado a los libros. Este ser sencillo e inocente, que vive únicamente para sus lecturas y no se preocupa por los acontecimientos del mundo, se enfrenta a un final trágico y desesperado debido a la locura y la brutalidad de la maquinaria bélica durante la Primera Guerra Mundial.
