Rudolf Chalupský Books

Výbor z povídek prvního anglicky píšícího nositele Nobelovy ceny za literaturu.

'Tender and elegant' Guardian 'Unlike anything else in modern English literature' D.J. Taylor, Spectator A damaged survivor of the First World War, Tom Birkin finds refuge in the quiet village church of Oxgodby where he is to spend the summer uncovering a huge medieval wall-painting. Immersed in the peace and beauty of the countryside and the unchanging rhythms of village life he experiences a sense of renewal and belief in the future. Now an old man, Birkin looks back on the idyllic summer of 1920, remembering a vanished place of blissful calm, untouched by change, a precious moment he has carried with him through the disappointments of the years. Adapted into a film starring Colin Firth, Natasha Richardson and Kenneth Branagh, A Month in the Country traces the slow revival of the primeval rhythms of life so cruelly disorientated by the Great War. With an introduction by Penelope Fitzgerald

'The most brilliant British historian of his generation' The Times This astoundingly successful, superbly reviewed book vividly recreates the excitement, brutality and adventure of the British Empire. Ferguson's most revolutionary and popular work, Empire is a major reinterpretation of the British Empire as one of the world's greatest modernising forces. It shows on a vast canvas how the British Empire in the 19th Century spearheaded real globalisation with steampower, telegraphs, guns, engineers, missionaries and millions of settlers.

From the author of THE FRENCH LIEUTENANT'S WOMAN, a novel first published by Jonathan Cape in 1977. Set in various international locations over the course of three decades, an account of an Englishman's attempt to see himself and his time in the mirrors of the past.

Dva klíčové prvky díla světoznámého britského prozaika karibského původu – autobiograficky pojatý příběh uměleckého zrání a cesty za vlastním já a nezjednodušený obraz postkoloniální situace třetího světa – se v románové sekvenci z poloviny 90. let, řadící se k vrcholným autorovým prózám, projevují se zvlášť výraznou naléhavostí. V časově i tematicky široce pojatém cyklu devíti kapitol sjednoceném rodným karibským regionem se Naipaulovi podařilo skloubit tragické historické osudy evropských objevitelů a dobyvatelů, epizody z poválečného politického vývoje i osobně laděný příběh hledání vlastních kořenů v neobyčejně originální a přesvědčivý celek, potvrzující autorovu mistrovskou schopnost reflexe historického vývoje i vlastního osudu.

Suffused with rich satire, chaotic brilliance, verbal turbulence and wild humour, The Crying of Lot 49 opens as Oedipa Maas discovers that she haas been made executrix of a former lover's estate. The performance of her duties sets her on a strange

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE. Bruce Chatwin's bestselling novel traces the fortunes of the enigmatic and unconventional hero, Kaspar Utz. Despite the restrictions of Cold War Czechoslovakia, Utz asserts his individuality through his devotion to his precious collection of Meissen porcelain. Although Utz is permitted to leave the country each year, and considers defecting each time, he is not allowed to take his porcelain with him and so he always returns to his Czech home, a prisoner both of the Communist state and of his collection.