Zuzana Majerová (née Dvořáková, formerly Majerová Zahradníková) is a Czech teacher, interpreter, translator and politician. From 2017 to 2021, she was a member of the Chamber of Deputies of the Parliament of the Czech Republic, a former member of the ODS, since April 2021 Chairwoman of the Tricolor Movement, and between September 2019 and April 2021 the First Vice-Chair of the Tricolor movement.
Woolf's first novel is a haunting book, full of light and shadow. It takes Mr. and Mrs. Ambrose and their niece, Rachel, on a sea voyage from London to a resort on the South american coast. "It is a strange, tragic, inspired book whose scene is a South americanca not found on any map and reached by a boat which would not float on any sea, an americanca whose spiritual boundaries touch Xanadu and Atlantis" (E. M. Forster).
Open Secrets, Alice Munro's eighth collection, features eight extraordinary stories, each as rich as a full novel, offering both compelling reading and rewarding re-reading. The collection opens with a mysterious 1917 letter to a librarian in Carstairs, Ontario, drawing readers into a realm of secrets and revelations where nothing is as it seems, including a courtship by letter that evolves into a solid marriage. The stories traverse Ontario's history, from "A Wilderness Station," recounting an 1852 tree-felling accident that highlights the pioneers' harsh lives, to contemporary settings filled with familiar family names amidst TV shows and snowmobiles. The narratives shift through time and geography, as seen in "The Albanian Virgin," where a Canadian tourist in the 1920s is captured by bandits, and her escape story comforts a bookseller seeking to leave her past behind. "The Jack Randa Hotel" follows a deserted wife pursuing her husband to Australia, leading to another captivating letter. Unexplainable events abound, such as a lawyer's wife experiencing a chilling insight into a missing teenager's fate and the haunting return of a long-dead visitor. Munro's mastery lies in her ability to unfold unexpected marriages, elopements, and sudden acts of vengeance with an effortless inevitability, a hallmark of her exceptional writing evident on every page.
Published as part of the Great Reads collection. Contains the following stories: The Fall of the House of Usher The Murders in the Rue Morgue The Pit and the Pendulum The Duc de l'Omelette The Assignation MS. Found in a Bottle The Colloquy of Monos and Una How to Write a Blackwood Article William Wilson A Descent into the Maelstrom The Imp of the Perverse Ligeia The Oval Portrait The Masque of the Red Death The Mystery of Marie Roget The Tell-Tale Heart The Gold-Bug The Black Cat The Premature Burial The Purloined Letter The Island of the Fay The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar The Case of Amontillado Von Kempelen and His Discovery The Domain of Arnheim
A collection of 14 short stories by Canadian Nobel prize winning author- Alice Munro. Vietnamese translation by Nguyen Duc Tung. In Vietnamese. Annotation copyright Tsai Fong Books, Inc. Distributed by Tsai Fong Books, Inc.
How long he fought with them in the darkness he could not tell, but at last the beating of the wings about him lessened and then withdrew . . . ' A classic of alienation and horror, 'The Birds' was immortalised by Hitchcock in his celebrated film. The five other chilling stories in this collection echo a sense of dislocation and mock man's sense of dominance over the natural world. The mountain paradise of 'Monte Verità' promises immortality, but at a terrible price; a neglected wife haunts her husband in the form of an apple tree; a professional photographer steps out from behind the camera and into his subject's life; a date with a cinema usherette leads to a walk in the cemetery; and a jealous father finds a remedy when three's a crowd . . .
Joan Baezová, zpěvačka, světově proslulá autorka více než tří desítek alb a politická aktivistka, je i půl století po svém ohromujícím debutu na festivalu v Newportu stále aktivní a uznávanou osobností světové hudby. U nás se proslavila i svou první osobní návštěvou v roce 1988, kdy děsila kulturní pracovníky i Státní bezpečnost, až je vyděsila a proměnila své vystoupení v otevřenou podporu tehdy stíhanému Václavu Havlovi a Chartě 77. Ve svých pamětech s upřímností a zaujetím popisuje svoje začátky na folkové scéně, vypráví o svém vztahu - v hudbě i soukromí - s Bobem Dylanem; o svém manželství i bolestném rozchodu s Davidem Harrisem; o radosti z narození syna Gabriela. S předmluvou uznávaného hudebního kritika Anthonyho DeCurtise je kniha Můj hlas je dar poutavým portrétem známé americké kulturní ikony. Díky otevřenosti a citlivosti, jež nás v hudbě Joan Baezové tak dojímají, a díky síle a pevnosti jejího politického postoje dostává čtenář do ruky upřímnou a inspirativní výpověď o životě a práci jedné z nejpozoruhodnějších uměleckých osobností naší doby.
