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A Lady in Kyoto

Sei Shonagon

All moonlight is moving, wherever it may be…Japanese gentlewoman Sei Shonagon invites us to ...

7,95 €

17.04.2025 (predobjednávka)

A Lost Lady

Willa Cather

How light and alive she was! Like a bird caught in a net . . .Marian Forrester enchants ...

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17.04.2025 (predobjednávka)

Tristessa

Jack Kerouac

Tristessa is a strange fever-dream of morphine sickness and belly-deep sadness. Or, in the ...

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17.04.2025 (predobjednávka)

A Moment of War

Laurie Lee

In one of the great English war memoirs, we learn what it is to cross the Pyrenees through ...

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17.04.2025 (predobjednávka)

The Drivers Seat

Muriel Spark

Muriel Spark claimed The Driver’s Seat to be her best and creepiest novel. Once you have met ...

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17.04.2025 (predobjednávka)

A Short Guide to Towns Without a Past

Albert Camus

Best known for his existentialist novel The Outsider, set in French-occupied Algeria, Albert ...

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17.04.2025 (predobjednávka)

Reflections in a Golden Eye

Carson McCullers

On a military base in 1930s Georgia, Private Ellgee Williams catches sight of his captain’s ...

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17.04.2025 (predobjednávka)

Horsie

Dorothy Parker

What can you say, when a man asks you to dance with him? I most certainly will not dance with ...

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17.04.2025 (predobjednávka)

The History of England by a Partial, Prejudiced and Ignorant Historian

Jane Austen

During his reign, Lord Cobham was burnt alive, but I forget what for. In Jane Austen’s breezy ...

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17.04.2025 (predobjednávka)

The Maverick Pig

Wang Xiaobo

Razor-sharp, pugnacious and blackly funny, Wang Xiaobo’s essays established him as one of ...

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17.04.2025 (predobjednávka)

After Midnight

Irmgard Keun

Arrested in Cologne for remarking that the Fuhrer looked sweaty, nineteen-year-old Sanna has ...

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17.04.2025 (predobjednávka)

Chess

Stefan Zweig

My dreadful situation forced me … to try splitting myself into a Black self and a White self, ...

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17.04.2025 (predobjednávka)

Unpacking My Library

Walter Benjamin

‘Every sort of passion verges on chaos, I know, but what the collecting passion verges on is a ...

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17.04.2025 (predobjednávka)

I am a Bird from Paradise

Hafez

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksMay I remember always when,Your glance ...

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17.04.2025 (predobjednávka)

To Read and Dream

Christina Rossetti

One of the finest poets of the Victorian age, Christina Rosetti is known today for the ...

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17.04.2025 (predobjednávka)

October Nights

Gerard de Nerval

In October Nights, Gerard de Nerval takes us on a gentle meander through nighttime Paris – a ...

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17.04.2025 (predobjednávka)

The Price of Freedom

Saadat Hasan Manto

Saadat Hasan Manto, the most widely read and translated writer in the Urdu language, captured ...

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17.04.2025 (predobjednávka)

Night Flight

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Fabien tonight was wandering over the vast splendour of a sea of clouds, but below him lay ...

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17.04.2025 (predobjednávka)

Revenge

Vladimir Nabokov

‘And this is fantasy, the flutter, the rapture of fantasy!’A bashful dragon, a lost ...

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17.04.2025 (predobjednávka)

Lamb to the Slaughter

Roald Dahl

No author perfected the twist in the tale better than Roald Dahl. His stories – many of which ...

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17.04.2025 (predobjednávka)

The Genius

Frank O'Connor

Known as Ireland’s Chekhov, Frank O’Connor was a master of the modern short story, with an eye ...

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17.04.2025 (predobjednávka)

Odour of Chrysanthemums

D. H. Lawrence

This small group of stories by D. H. Lawrence show him in a number of moods.The hope is that in ...

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17.04.2025 (predobjednávka)

Sailing to Byzantium

W B Yeats

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books‘Under bare Ben Bulben’s headIn ...

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17.04.2025 (predobjednávka)

The New Dress

Virginia Woolf

‘Waking, I cry “Oh, is this your – buried treasure? The light in the heart.”’In these exquisite ...

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17.04.2025 (predobjednávka)

The Dreaming Child

Isak Dinesen

‘As for me I have one ambition only: to invent stories, very beautiful stories’Gothic, ...

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17.04.2025 (predobjednávka)

The Wrath of Achilles

Homer

On the fields of Troy, war is raging. At its centre is Achilles: godlike, swift-footed, the ...

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17.04.2025 (predobjednávka)

Family Happiness

Leo Tolstoy

‘I’m not the sort of husband you dream of when you’re walking alone along the avenue in the ...

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17.04.2025 (predobjednávka)

The Dream of a Ridiculous Man

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I am a ridiculous man. They call me mad now. That would be a promotion in rankA delusional man ...

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17.04.2025 (predobjednávka)

A Hunger-Artist

Franz Kafka

The whole town got involved with the hunger-artist; from day to day of his starving, people’s ...

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17.04.2025 (predobjednávka)

Why I am a Stoic

Seneca

Plagued by ill-health, violently sick at sea, irritated by renovation costs: Seneca is never ...

7,95 €

17.04.2025 (predobjednávka)

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