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Rudolf Pellar

    Rudolf Pellar
    Kishons beste Reisegeschichten
    Nejdřív se musíte narodit
    Tales of Unrest
    Po pádu
    Zoo na zámku
    Stará láska a jiné povídky
    • Cat on a hot tin roof

      • 222 pages
      • 8 hours of reading

      Englische Literatur in Reclams Roter Reihe: das ist der englische Originaltext – mit Worterklärungen am Fuß jeder Seite, Nachwort und Literaturhinweisen. »Cat on a Hot Tin Roof« ist die Geschichte einer Familie in den amerikanischen Südstaaten. Krankheit, Alkohol und Eifersucht haben sie zerstört. Liebe und Hass liegen dicht beieinander. An einem schwülen Sommerabend bricht die Verzweiflung aus der Familie heraus, und es kommt zu einem dramatischen Konflikt Englische Lektüre: Niveau B2–C1 (GER) Sprachen: Deutsch, Englisch

      Cat on a hot tin roof2023
      4.1
    • The Enormous Crocodile

      • 32 pages
      • 2 hours of reading

      The enormous crocodile is incredibly greedy. He plans to guzzle as many children as he can for his lunch. Luckily, he's not very clever, and the other animals in the jungle are determined to spoil his wicked schemes and teach him a lesson he won't forget. Suggested level: junior, primary.

      The Enormous Crocodile2019
      3.9
    • “There is never any ending to Paris and the memory of each person who has lived in it differs from that of any other.” —Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast Ernest Hemingway’s classic memoir of Paris in the 1920s remains one of his most beloved works. Filled with tender memories of his first wife Hadley and their son Jack; irreverent portraits of literary luminaries such as F. Scott Fitzgerald and Gertrude Stein; and insightful recollections of his own early experiments with his craft, A Moveable Feast brilliantly evokes the exuberant mood of Paris after World War I and the youthful spirit, unbridled creativity, and unquenchable enthusiasm that Hemingway himself epitomized. It is an elegy to a remarkable group of expatriates and a testament to the risks and rewards of the writerly life.

      A moveable feast2016
      4.1
    • 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

      Death in the Afternoon2015
      3.7
    • A streetcar named Desire and other plays

      • 320 pages
      • 12 hours of reading

      Set in St. Louis during the Depression of the 1930s, this work is a personal account of the author's family and its gradual disintegration as it succumbed to external and internal pressures.

      A streetcar named Desire and other plays2012
      4.0
    • American pastoral

      • 500 pages
      • 18 hours of reading

      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

      American pastoral2009
      4.2
    • Nejdřív se musíte narodit

      • 119 pages
      • 5 hours of reading

      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.

      Nejdřív se musíte narodit2008
      4.5
    • Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf?

      • 144 pages
      • 6 hours of reading

      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. Considered by many to be Albee's masterpiece.

      Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf?2008
      4.1
    • Sweet Bird of Youth

      • 107 pages
      • 4 hours of reading

      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.

      Sweet Bird of Youth2006
      3.7
    • Indhold: A perfect day for bananafish ; Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut ; The laughing man ; Down at the Dinghy ; Just before the war with the Eskimos ; For Esmé - with love and squalor ; Pretty mouth and green my eyes ; De Daumier-Smith's blue period ; Teddy.

      Nine Stories2005
      4.2
    • Kishons beste Reisegeschichten

      • 349 pages
      • 13 hours of reading

      »Wenn du deinem Paßbild ähnlich zu sehen beginnst, ist es höchste Zeit wegzufahren.« Dieses Motto stellt Kishon seiner Weltreise des Humors in 13 Länder von Holland bis Griechenland, von Deutschland bis in die Türkei voran und charakterisiert damit den Traum jedes Alltagsmenschen nach der lockenden Ferne, in der er sich in sein anderes Ich verwandelt. Höchstes Lesevergnügen für Weltenbummler und Reise-Profis, für alle, die von fremden Ländern träumen oder in Gedanken die Fahrt in das Land ihrer Sehnsucht antreten wollen: die besten Satiren um Reisen und Reisende in einem Band.

      Kishons beste Reisegeschichten2005
      4.3
    • Blue highways

      A Journey Into America

      • 448 pages
      • 16 hours of reading

      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.

      Blue highways2005
      4.2
    • 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.

      Ztracené jezero2001
      3.9
    • Remembering Babylon

      • 224 pages
      • 8 hours of reading

      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

      Remembering Babylon2000
      3.5
    • Ein Apfel ist an allem schuld

      • 397 pages
      • 14 hours of reading

      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“.

      Ein Apfel ist an allem schuld1999
      4.1
    • Both a satire on the idle rich and a brutally realistic depiction of the desperate plight of the unemployed. Contrasts the underdogs of Key West with decadent socialites down for the winter season.

      True at First Light1999
      3.4
    • Meet Franny and her younger brother, Zooey, in two Salinger stories.

      Franny and Zooey1999
      4.0
    • Operation Shylock : A Confession

      • 400 pages
      • 14 hours of reading

      '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.

      Operation Shylock : A Confession1999
      3.8
    • 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'.

      Death of a Salesman : certain private conversations in two acts and a requiem1993
      3.6
    • Devices and Desires

      • 608 pages
      • 22 hours of reading

      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.

      Devices and Desires1993
      3.8
    • Hlavní hrdinka, dívka, která si rozhodně žádné životní problémy nepřipouští, líčí otevřeně ve svém fingovaném deníčku poněkud neromantickou cestu za „svým místem na slunci“. Nešetří při tom ani své okolí a s humorem a nadhledem vypráví nejen o vyšších společenských, ale též o uměleckých – literárních a filmových kruzích i o jiném atraktivním prostředí. Zajímavý je také hrdinčin pohled na mužské protějšky – to si už však jistě rádi přečtete v této milé knížce.

      Páni mají radši blondýnky--, Ale žení se s brunetkami1992
      3.4
    • The Godwulf Manuscript

      • 175 pages
      • 7 hours of reading

      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.

      The Godwulf Manuscript1991
      3.9
    • 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

      Stará láska a jiné povídky1988
      4.6
    • To pravé místo: Reportér Hemingway

      • 409 pages
      • 15 hours of reading

      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.

      To pravé místo: Reportér Hemingway1987
      3.4
    • 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...

      Vesnice. Město1985
    • 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...

      Vesnice. Město. Panské sídlo1985
    • Tales of Unrest

      in large print

      • 228 pages
      • 8 hours of reading

      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.

      Tales of Unrest1981
      5.0
    • Zoo na zámku

      • 146 pages
      • 6 hours of reading

      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.

      Zoo na zámku1981
      4.5
    • Čtyři povídky umístěné do exotických zemí Indonésie: Karain, Úsměv štěstěny, Tajný souputník, Freya ze Sedmi ostrovů.

      Mezi mořem a pevninou1978
    • Dobrodružné až detektivní povídky, jejich námětem je oslava mužnosti, statečnosti a spravedlnosti: Plantážník z Malaty, Společník, Hostinec u dvou čarodějnic, Kvůli dolarům.

      Mezi přílivem a odlivem1975
      4.0
    • Green Hills of Africa

      • 208 pages
      • 8 hours of reading

      'There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things, and because it takes a man's life to know them the little new that each man gets from life is very costly and the only heritage he has to leave.'-- ERNEST HEMINGWAYIn the winter of 1933, Ernest Hemingway and his wife Pauline set out on a two-month safari in the big-game country of East Africa, camping out on the great Serengeti Plain at the foot of magnificent Mount Kilimanjaro. 'I had quite a trip,' the author told his friend Philip Percival, with characteristic understatement.Green Hills of Africa is Hemingway's account of that expedition, of what it taught him about Africa and himself. Richly evocative of the region's natural beauty, tremendously alive to its character, culture, and customs, and pregnant with a hard-won wisdom gained from the extraordinary situations it describes, it is widely held to be one of the twentieth century's classic travelogues.

      Green Hills of Africa1972
      3.6
    • The Assistant

      • 297 pages
      • 11 hours of reading

      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.

      The Assistant1972
      3.9
    • Up the Down Staircase

      • 384 pages
      • 14 hours of reading

      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.

      Up the Down Staircase1971
      4.0
    • 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.

      Po pádu1965
      4.5
    • A 16-year old American boy relates in his own words the experiences he goes through at school and after, and reveals with unusual candour the workings of his own mind. What does a boy in his teens think and feel about his teachers, parents, friends and acquaintances?

      The Catcher in the Rye1960
      3.8
    • The Shadow-Line

      • 192 pages
      • 7 hours of reading

      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.

      The Shadow-Line1957
      3.8
    • Buchmendel

      Erzählungen

      • 336 pages
      • 12 hours of reading

      Bedrängte und Bedrohte, jüdische Minderheiten, Kriegsgegner und -opfer, um ihrer selbst willen Verfolgte. Alle diese Erzählungen sind Beispiele des Kampfes von Sensibilität und Intellekt gegen Brutalität und Ungeist, nicht zuletzt in der Hoffnung geschrieben, auch andere von den Zielen der Menschlichkeit zu überzeugen. Denn: "In der Kunst spielen Mut und Glauben eine enorm wichtige Rolle; diejenigen, die nicht vor Überzeugung brennen, haben nicht die Macht, andere zu begeistern." Die Sammlung enthält Zweigs bedeutendste und meist gelesene Erzählung, die Schachnovelle .

      Buchmendel1957
      4.1