Luis Scafati Books

Little Red Riding Hood is the orally transmitted fairy tale that has best survived the passage of time, as evidenced by the multiple versions of this story that have been made through the centuries. It has many readings, but above all it is a story for young people that, in some way, symbolizes the transition from childhood to adolescence. This edition brings together the three main versions of the story: In 1697 Charles Perrault was the first to include the story of Little Red Riding Hood in a volume of stories. He wrote a moralizing fable intended to warn the "ladies" of the court about the dangers of "certain men", disguised as wolves. In 1812 Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm took up the tale and their version is the best known today. Finally we publish a rarity, the dramatic and verse version that the great German writer Ludwig Tieck wrote in 1800.

V povídkách tohoto výběru se čtenář setkává s jinou, temnější realitou, rozum se střetává s nepravděpodobností a objevuje se nadpřirozeno. Poe je právem považován za průkopníka hororových příběhů, který svými texty ovlivnil generace spisovatelů a pro mnohé z čtenářů dodnes zůstává nepřekonaným. Originální ilustrace známého argentinského umělce Luise Scafatiho výjimečným způsobem dotvářejí atmosféru Poeových příběhů... Obsahuje povídky: • Černý kocour (The Black Cat) • Jáma a kyvadlo (The Pit and the Pendulum) • Předčasný pohřeb (The Premature Burial)

This collection of new translations brings together the small proportion of Kafka's works that he himself thought worthy of publication. It includes Metamorphosis, his most famous work, an exploration of horrific transformation and alienation; Meditation, a collection of his earlier studies; The Judgement, written in a single night of frenzied creativity; The Stoker, the first chapter of a novel set in America and a fascinating occasional piece, and The Aeroplanes at Brescia, Kafka's eyewitness account of an air display in 1909. Together, these stories reveal the breadth of Kafka's literary vision and the extraordinary imaginative depth of his thought.

In the mountains of Transylvania there stands a castle. It is the home of Count Dracula - a dark, lonely place, and at night the wolves howl around the walls. In the year 1875 Jonathan Harker comes from England to do business with the Count. But Jonathan does not feel comfortable at Castle Dracula. Strange things happen at night, and very soon, he begins to feel afraid. And he is right to be afraid, because Count Dracula is one of the Un-Dead - a vampire that drinks the blood of living people...