Heda Margolius Kovály Book order (chronological)

This rediscovered masterpiece captures a chilling moment in the stifling early days of Communist Czechoslovakia. 1950s Prague is a city of numerous daily terrors, of political tyranny, corruption and surveillance. There is no way of knowing whether one s neighbor is spying for the government, or what one s supposed friend will say under pressure to a State Security agent. A loyal Party member might be imprisoned or executed as quickly as a traitor; innocence means nothing for a person caught in a government trap. When a little boy is murdered at the cinema, the ensuing investigation sheds a little too much light on the personal lives of the cinema s female ushers, each of whom is hiding a dark secret of her own. From the Hardcover edition.

Kniha uvádí téměř doslovný přepis rozhovoru známé filmové dokumentaristky Heleny Třeštíkové s překladatelkou a spisovatelkou Hedou Margoliovou Kovályovou (1919–2010), který se odehrál v srpnu roku 2000 ve spisovatelčině bytě v Praze během natáčení filmového dokumentu o ní. Zachycuje její autentické vzpomínky, někdy nepředstavitelně kruté a neuvěřitelné, na dobu mládí a pobyt v koncentráku, na porevoluční zmatky a na události kolem popravy jejího prvního muže Rudolfa Margolia. V rozhovoru je mnoho informací, které nebyly uvedeny v autobiografii Na vlastní kůži, kterou Heda Margoliová Kovályová napsala v americkém exilu v 70. letech. Velmi přínosná je též forma rozhovoru – otázky zkušené dokumentaristky vedou vyprávění k tématům, o kterých by dotazovaná sama asi neměla odvahu mluvit. Jedná se o silný a čtivý příběh zajímavé a výrazné ženy, která odpovídá s velkým nadhledem daným bohatými životními zkušenostmi, díky nimž dospívá k pozoruhodné vyrovnanosti.

Ocitáme se v Praze v 50. letech 20. století, v blíže neurčeném roce. V úzké uličce před malým pražským kinem byl zavražděn policejní kapitán. Během vyšetřování se před námi rozplétají životy žen, které kino svedlo dohromady. Pracují tu jako uvaděčky nebo pokladní a každá z nich by mohla mít k vraždě důvod... Celý příběh je prostoupen stísněnou atmosférou tehdejší doby, strachem a podezíravostí, která mezi lidmi vládla.

Herzog is alone, now that Madeleine has left him for his best friend. Solitary, in a crumbling house which he shares with rats, he is buffeted by a whirlwind of mental activity. People rumoured that his mind had collapsed. But was it true? Locked for days in the custody of his rambling memories, Herzog scrawls frantic letters which he never mails. His mind buzzes with conundrums and polemics, writing in a spectacular intellectual labyrinth. Is he crazy, or is he a genius?..

Marlowe's greatest case. Chandler's greatest book. Moose Malloy was a big man but not more than six feet five inches tall and not wider than a beer truck. He looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food. Malloy wanted little Velma, and there was a trail of corpses to indicate the way he'd gone. Philip Marlowe, hot on his heels, began to look like Hamlet's father, in questionable shape.

Raymond Chandler's fifth novel has Philip Marlowe going to Hollywood as he explores the underworld of the glitter capital, trying to find a sweet young thing's missing brother. Along the way he uncovers a little blackmail, a lot of drugs, and more than enough murder.

A memoir of events in Czechoslovakia surrounding the infamous Slansky Trial, in which the author's young husband was among 11 executed Jews, victims of Stalinism, who were "rehabilitated" years after they were hanged.

Golding’s iconic 1954 novel, now with a new foreword by Lois Lowry, remains one of the greatest books ever written for young adults and an unforgettable classic for readers of any age. This edition includes a new Suggestions for Further Reading by Jennifer Buehler. At the dawn of the next world war, a plane crashes on an uncharted island, stranding a group of schoolboys. At first, with no adult supervision, their freedom is something to celebrate. This far from civilization they can do anything they want. Anything. But as order collapses, as strange howls echo in the night, as terror begins its reign, the hope of adventure seems as far removed from reality as the hope of being rescued.

"Article 22 of the Constitution laid down a standard procedure for dealing with the present type of emergency..."But alas, it is completely beyond the power of Article 22 or anything else to protect the Metropolitan Egyptological Society from the Lee Eddington Schwartz disturbance which brews suddenly on a cold winter evening, or from the pyramiding alarms and confusions which follow.Should the reader be, at first, in some doubt as to the real nature of the activities of the Egyptologists, he must not be surprised. The members' expertise in camouflage and deception has baffled many perceptive persons. The Society has been suspected at various times of engaging in espionage, in drug-smuggling, in the activity implied by its all-male membership, and even in Egyptology.What is the Metropolitan Egyptological Society? What goes on behind the locked doors of its Isis Room? What is the significance of the safeguards listed in Article 22? Those who pursue these questions in the pages of The Egyptologists will come not only to the centre of the mystery, but also to one of the most outrageously funny spoofs of the season.

The daughter of prosperous Jews, Heda Kovaly found her world turned upside down with the German annexation of Czechoslovakia. Deported to Lodz Ghetto in 1941 and then to Auschwitz, where her parents were murdered, in 1944, Kovaly made a miraculous escape from a column of prisoners being marched to Bergen-Belsen in early 1945. On reuniting with her…

Toby Stephens stars in this BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of Raymond Chandler’s third Philip Marlowe mystery.Fast-talking, trouble-seeking private eye Philip Marlowe is a different kind of detective: a moral man in an amoral world. California in the ’40s and ’50s is as beautiful as a ripe fruit and rotten to the core, and Marlowe must struggle to retain his integrity amidst the corruption he encounters daily.In The High Window, Marlowe starts out on the trail of a single stolen coin and ends up knee-deep in bodies. His client, a dried-up husk of a woman, wants him to recover a rare gold coin called a Brasher Doubloon, missing from her late husband’s collection. That’s the simple part.But Marlowe finds that everyone who handles the coin suffers a run of very bad luck: they always end up dead. If Marlowe doesn’t wrap this one up fast, he’s going to end up in jail - or worse, in a box in the ground.Starring Toby Stephens, this thrilling dramatisation by Robin Brooks retains all the wry humour of Chandler’s serpentine suspense novel. It was first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on 8 October 2011.

Americký levicový spisovatel a publicista italského původu (nar. 1912) ve svém prvním románě, jehož dějovou osou je dvoudenní řízení s vyšším vládním úředníkem obviněným z komunismu, dokumentárně zobrazil vnitřní rozpory v životě a politice soudobé Ameriky. Konfrontací pohledů do minulosti se záběry z přítomnosti hledá odpověď na otázku, jakým směrem se vlastně vyvíjela a vyvíjí americká demokracie a vyslovuje víru, že v přítomném zápase o její tvářnost nad silami reakce zvítězí a přežijí ti, kdo "přispějí k pokrokovému vyřešení otázky války a míru".

Román o velkoměstském lakomci, jenž je posedlý neukojitelnou touhou po výdělku a chorobnou šetrností. Umírá u naplněné pokladny, aniž pochopil, že v honbě za penězi promarnil svůj život. Jedno z nejlepších a nejpopulárnějších děl anglického spisovatele Arnolda Bennetta (1867-1931).