In 1937 Ernest Hemingway traveled to Spain to cover the civil war there for the North American Newspaper Alliance. Three years later he completed the greatest novel to emerge from "the good fight," For Whom the Bell Tolls. The story of Robert Jordan, a young American in the International Brigades attached to an antifascist guerilla unit in the mountains of Spain, it tells of loyalty and courage, love and defeat, and the tragic death of an ideal. In his portrayal of Jordan's love for the beautiful Maria and his superb account of El Sordo's last stand, in his brilliant travesty of La Pasionaria and his unwillingness to believe in blind faith, Hemingway surpasses his achievement in The Sun Also Rises and A Farewell to Arms to create a work at once rare and beautiful, strong and brutal, compassionate, moving and wise. "If the function of a writer is to reveal reality," Maxwell Perkins wrote to Hemingway after reading the manuscript, "no one ever so completely performed it." Greater in power, broader in scope, and more intensely emotional than any of the author's previous works, it stands as one of the best war novels of all time.
Paul Baudisch Books
Napínavý detektivní příběh, v němž se po létech Ellery Queen vrací do malého města Wrightsville, aby se stal hostem prvního muže ve městě Diedricha Van Horna. Ve skutečnosti má ale sledovat, co dělá jeho syn Howard Van Horn ve chvílích, kdy ho přepadají ztráty paměti. Queenovi se podařínahlédnout do spletitých rodinných záležitostí Van Hornových, které vyvrcholí vraždou Dietrichovy ženy Sally a sebevraždou Howarda. Queen nalézá pro vše brilantní vysvětlení, založené na desateru. Po roce však do Wrightsvillu znovu přijíždí, protože shodou okolností zjistil, jak se zmýlil a že pravda je naprosto jiná.