• Rok vydání 1995

When the elderly Allan Armadale makes a terrible confession on his death-bed, he has little idea of the repercussions to…

• Počet stran 12

With an inspirational introduction by Darren Shan, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is one of the twelve wonderful classic…

• Rok vydání 1978

\nA collection of short fiction that showcases the author\'s application of Romantic sensibilities to uncompromising studies…

• Počet stran 368
• Rok vydání 2020

Produkt One White Lie - Konen, Leah zakoupíte na Bookshop.cz od nakladatele Penguin Books Ltd.…

'Fire as she bears. Rake her, lads.' Winter, 1793. Newly promoted Master and Commander Charles Hayden's orders are to…

• Rok vydání 1972

Alice Vavasor cannot decide whether to marry her ambitious but violent cousin George or the upright and gentlemanly John…

• Počet stran 352
• Rok vydání 2010
• Angličtina

The author and Kirstin Isaacson were heartbroken when they learned that their two-year-old son Rowan was autistic. And with…

• Počet stran 208
• Rok vydání 1991

Mystery surrounds the parentage of Alexander, the prince born to Queen Olympias. Is his father Philip, King of Macedonia, or…

Presents the story of a mental ward and its inhabitants, especially the tyrannical Big Nurse Ratched and Randle Patrick…

• Rok vydání 2015

Beautiful, clever, rich and single, Emma Woodhouse is perfectly content with her life and sees no need for either love or…

John Ridd is a farmer who finds love amid the religious and social turmoil of seventeenth-century England. He is just a boy…

Returning to Russia from Italy, twenty-three-year-old Dimitry Sanin breaks his journey in Frankfurt. There, he encounters…

From the exuberant Wife of Bath's Arthurian legend to the Miller's worldly, ribald farce, this title includes tales which…

• Rok vydání 2011

• Rok vydání 1990

Shatters various images of Andre Gide as the querulous and impious Buddha to a quarter-century of intellectuals.…

Reveals some of the author's deepest thought on art, ethics, literature and natural science, and his reactions to books,…

• Počet stran 192
• Rok vydání 2026

The poems published in Joyce's own lifetime collected in a new edition, with an introduction and notes by scholar Clare…

A collection that gathers together Pulitzer Prize-winning short fiction, including Pale Horse, Pale Rider, where a young…

In 1851, at the age of twenty-two, Tolstoy joined the Russian army and travelled to the Caucasus as a soldier. Begun in 1852…

• Počet stran 400
• Rok vydání 2012

A title that involves us so deeply that Austen's final illness and death come almost as a personal tragedy to the reader. It…

1794. As the terror rages in France, Captain Charles Hayden leaves Plymouth with orders to gather intelligence from a spy…

It is 1793. The thunder of cannon fire echoes across the English Channel, chilling the stoutest hearts ...The opening…

Features two versions of a strange story set in the weird landscape of Portland. This book features a man who is obsessed…

By slaying a dragon, the young prince Tristan wins the beautiful Isolde's hand in marriage for his uncle, King Mark. On…

• Počet stran 368
• Rok vydání 2019

Produkt Missing Ingredient - Linford, Jenny zakoupíte na Bookshop.cz od nakladatele Penguin Books Ltd.…

Tells the scarcely credible story of the Apollo 11 mission. This book is suffused with Mailer's obsession both with the…

Mephistopheles takes Faust on a journey through ancient Greek mythology, conjuring for him the beautiful Helen of Troy, as…

Roubaud is consumed by a jealous rage when he discovers a sordid secret about his young wife's past. The only way he can…

Anne Garland, who lives with her widowed mother in a mill owned by Miller Loveday, has three suitors. While Festus'…

• Angličtina
• Počet stran 448
• Rok vydání 2014
• Pevná / vázaná

For more than 2,000 years, Sun Tzu's The Art of War has provided leaders with essential advice on battlefield tactics,…

Richard Hannay travels across war-torn Europe in search of a German plot and an Islamic Messiah. He is joined by three more…

'Georgic' means 'to work the earth'. This poetic guide to country living combines practical wisdom on tending the land with…

• Rok vydání 1998

Valeria Woodville investigates the murder of her husband's first wife in the attempt to prove him guiltless. This book…

When Rowland Mallet first sees a sculpture by Roderick Hudson, he is astounded and pronounces it to be a work of genius. He…

\nWritten in secret and copied for her publisher in disguised handwriting, Frances Burney\'s first novel appeared…

\nLord and Lady Clonbrony are more concerned with fashionable London society than with their responsibilities to those who…

• Brožovaná
• Angličtina
• Počet stran 528
• Rok vydání 2015

How do babies learn to speak? Why are there so many languages? Do we think in our mother tongue? Who decides what's correct…

• Rok vydání 1964

Beginning with Dante's liberation from Hell, 'Purgatory' relates his ascent, accompanied by Virgil, of the Mount of…

Western Europe became a multiethnic society in a fit of absence of mind. This book tackles uncomfortable questions about…

Abandoned by her lover and left to bring up their two children alone, Gervaise Macquart has to fight to earn an honest…

• Počet stran 256
• Rok vydání 1993

These short works, ranging from Tolstoy's earliest tales to the brilliant title story, are rich in the insights and passion…

Francis Crawford of Lymond, and outlawed rebel, is in Edinburgh again ...and his arrival in Scotland ignites a series of…

• Rok vydání 2025

The soaring new novel from Kiran Desai, Booker Prize-winning author of The Inheritance of Loss. The Loneliness of Sonia and…