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• Rok vydání 2009

W. B. Yeats (1865-1939) was not only Ireland's greatest poet but one of the most influential voices in world literature in…

• Rok vydání 2018

- What were you in life?- In life, as you put it, I was a schoolmaster. The Beth, an old fashioned cradle-to-grave hospital…

Larkin's final collection of poems shows, as does all his best work, his ability to adapt contemporary speech rhythms and…

The Oresteia comprises three of the greatest plays of all time: Agamemnon, The Cheophori and The Eumenides.…

• Rok vydání 1957

Published in 1957, Hawk in the Rain was Ted Hughes's first collection of poems. When Robin Skelton wrote, 'All looking for…

Tormented by old regrets and terrible fears -- vague recollections of his brother's violent demise, and his best friend's…

• Rok vydání 2004

Girl in Landscape…

Award-winning author Lorrie Moore has been writing criticism for over thirty years - and her forensically intelligent, witty…

• Čeština

The prizewinning debut from Britain's most exciting contemporary novelist. In a remote dale in a northern English county, a…

Gathering one hundred poems by writers and performers who have drawn new audiences to the artform, it highlights poetry as a…

• Čeština

A young lawyer's involvement in her first case leads her through a criminal justice system - police, courts and prisons -…

• Rok vydání 2019

Maria faces a stony path, but one she will surely climb to the summit. In this sumptuous and elegant novel you will taste…

• Rok vydání 2024

\nWith an illuminating new preface by Colm Tóibín, here is Thom Gunn\'s extraordinary memorial to love, life and death in…

• Rok vydání 2015

Written in French and first performed at the Theatre du Bablyone in Paris, in 1953, En attendant Godot was subsequently…

\nASTEROID CITY (adapted from a \"hypothetical\" play) takes place in a fictional desert town, circa 1955. The itinerary of…

'Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge.'Gauguin's aphorism serves as the motto for this morality tale of two women,…

\nThis East-meets-West hybrid work combines playful cavort with serious comment.\n…

• Rok vydání 2023

\nA powerful new collection from one of our leading contemporary poets, reflecting the strange and chaotic times we live…

• Rok vydání 2025

• Čeština

\nI\'ve rounded up a rowdy assemblyOf my own Consequential DogsAs counterparts to Eliot\'s mogs. Mine are a rough and ready…

Offers a collection of lyrics and descriptive poems.…

Shot through with the energy and imagery of its spectacular setting, Mercy River is the latest in Glen Erik Hamilton's…

Winner of the Whitbread First Novel AwardAgnes Day - sub-editor, suburbanite, failure extraordinaire - has discovered…

\nYou\'d be surprised how a simple thing like locking up your husband in the same room as you, makes you aware of something.…

\nThough never elected to office, he manipulated those who were through a mix of guile, charm and intimidation. Motivated at…

One of a hand-picked selection of some of the most popular and cult-worthy titles on Faber and Faber\'s extensive list of…

The Thief's Journal is perhaps Jean Genet's most authentically autobiographical novel; With a holy trinity of his own making…

One of a hand-picked selection of some of the most popular and cult-worthy titles on Faber and Faber's extensive list of…

• Rok vydání 2023

\nShe spends her days tending plants, slogging through high school and imagining what life could be if she had been born to…

The first collection of plays by Marina Carr introduces the work of a major new voice in playwriting. But it has to be…

• Rok vydání 2024

\n\'Counterintuitive, funny and provocative . Along the way, he reveals the deep-lying and often controversial roots of…

\nScotland. Aaron and Robbie, two working-class friends since childhood, are taking their first diving exams in the depths…

The Poetry of Derek Walcott 1948-2013 draws from every stage of the poet's storied career. Here are examples of his very…

\nJones combines her personal experience as a mixed-race woman who cares about racism with her professional expertise as a…

\nThe Ballets Russes not only left a matchless artistic legacy - they changed style and glamour, they changed taste, and…

But Rafi's own shady past threatens to haunt him. London Kills Me (1991)A weekend in the lives of homeless Clint and his pal…

It won Academy Awards for Best Director, Best Actress, Best Original Screenplay and Best Picture of 1977.…

• Rok vydání 2018

Gordy LaSure's alwaystalking about films and how they'd be a shit ton better if only people would pull their asses out of…

• Rok vydání 2023

\nA profound, luminous masterpiece by one of Ireland\'s greatest playwrights.\n…

When Paul Casablancas, Claire DeWitt's musician ex-boyfriend, is found dead in his home in San Francisco's Mission District,…

Living on a quiet street in Hampstead, he develops a close bond with the Nelson family next door: Josh, Samantha and their…

Lyrical and powerful - a tender debut about family, loss and life in the countryside.…

• Rok vydání 1961

January 1961, and the beaten, stabbed and strangled body of a nineteen year old Pearl Gambol is discovered, after a dance…

Dennis and Karen lead a pleasant life in North Oxford until the day one of their dinner guests seduces Karen in the kitchen,…

\nSamuel Beckett directed Krapp\'s Last Tape on four separate occasions: this volume offers a facsimile of his 1969…

This gorgeously illustrated collection of poems illuminates and reimagines the ingenious, fragile dwellings of the living…

• Rok vydání 2025

The judges of the 2024 Forward Prizes for Poetry - comprising the poets Alycia Pirmohamed, Vanessa Kisuule, Daniel Sluman…