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A new, feminist translation of Beowulf by the author of the much-buzzed-about novel The Mere WifeNearly twenty years after Seamus Heaney's translation of Beowulf–and fifty years after the translation that continues to

Kniha Beren and Luthien autora John Ronald Reuel Tolkien vydaná v nakladatelství HarperCollins Publishers v roce 2023, jazyk: Angličtina, vazba: Brožovaná, ISBN-13: 9780008655655, zařazení do kategorie: Klasická beletrie.

Ein Klassiker der literarischen Moderne»Berlin Alexanderplatz« gehört neben dem »Ulysses« von James Joyce und »Manhattan Transfer« von John Dos Passos zu den bedeutendsten Großstadtromanen der Weltliteratur. Erstmals 1929 im S. Fischer Verlag erschie ..

Franz Biberkopf is back on the streets of Berlin. Determined to go straight after a stint in prison, he finds himself thwarted by an unpredictable external agency that looks an awful lot like fate. Cheated, humiliated, thrown from a moving car; embro

Ein Klassiker der literarischen Moderne§Berlin Alexanderplatz gehört neben dem Ulysses von James Joyce und Manhattan Transfer von John Dos Passos zu den bedeutendsten Großstadtromanen der Weltliteratur. Erstmals 1929 im S. Fischer Verlag erschienen, ..

‚One of the hidden geniuses of the twentieth century‘ Colm Toibin'She suddenly leaned toward the mirror and sought the love-liest way to see herself'Lucrecia Neves is vain, unreflective, insolently superficial, almost mute. She may have no inner life ..

Guy de Maupassant was a master of the short story. This collection displays his lively diversity, with tales that vary in theme and tone, ranging from tragedy and satire to comedy and farce. In a lucidly direct style, he provides unflinching realism ..

The diverse tales selected for this volume display the astonishing virtuosity of Rudyard Kipling's early writings. A Nobel prize-winner, Kipling was phenomenally productive and imaginative, displaying a literary mastery of idioms, technology and tech ..

Set in Lombardy during the Spanish occupation of the late 1620s, The Betrothed tells the story of two young lovers, Renzo and Lucia, prevented from marrying by the petty tyrant Don Rodrigo, who desires Lucia for himself. Forced to flee, they are then ..

Kniha Beware of Pity autora Stefan Zweig vydaná v nakladatelství Penguin Books v roce 2024, jazyk: Angličtina, vazba: Brožovaná, počet stran: 384, ISBN-13: 9780241678763, zařazení do kategorie: Klasická beletrie.

A ruthless international cartel seeks world domination…

„The Big Sleep“ is Raymond Chandler's most famous and popular novel of all Los Angeles. PI Philip Marlowe is working for the Sternwood family. Old man Sternwood, crippled and wheelchair-bound, is being given the squeeze by a blackmailer and he wants ..