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• Rok vydání 2000

Often imitated but never bettered, it is in Marlowe's long shadow that every fictional detective must stand - and under the…

Brings together the works of Classical comedy, with two early Greek plays: Aristophanes\' Birds, and Menander\'s The Girl…

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• Rok vydání 1992

Thady Quirk, steward to the decaying estate of the Rackrent family, narrates a story of four generations of a dying dynasty…

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• Rok vydání 2008

A selection of the earliest poems in English comprising works from an age in which verse was not written down, but recited…

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• Rok vydání 2006

Conservative and working-class, Jean Macquart is an experienced, middle-aged soldier in the French army, who has endured…

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• Rok vydání 1997

Ethelberta reinvents herself to disguise her humble origins. She exploits the attentions of four very different suitors.…

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• Rok vydání 2009

Tells the story of solitary young farmer, Sam Marsdyke, and his extraordinary battle with the world. Expelled from school…

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• Rok vydání 1990

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

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• Rok vydání 1995

A story with elaborate imagery, sardonic humour and an unforgettable gallery of grotesques - which describes a journey to…

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• Rok vydání 2014

Charlie Mortdecai (and his intrepid moustache) is invited to Oxford to investigate the cruel and most definitely unusual…

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• Rok vydání 2014

Taliesin Jones is a boy on the brink of adulthood, faced for the first time with life's biggest questions. Taliesin's life…

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• Rok vydání 2010

Horace Rumpole is not overfond of the rituals of Christmas: turkey, tinsel and the like. But happily the festive season is…

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• Rok vydání 1984

Edward Gibbon was one of the world's greatest historians and a towering figure of his age. When he died in 1794 he left…

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• Rok vydání 2006

Throws a subversive brick at the smug face of Victorian domesticity. Published in 1903, a year after Butler's death, this…

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• Rok vydání 2006

Examines alternative destinies, choices and the moments in our lives when we could have chosen a different path. The author…

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• Rok vydání 1998

Portrays the Russian people. This title presents a series of interlinked stories including "The Shot", in which a duel is…

• Počet stran 320
• Rok vydání 2000

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

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• Rok vydání 2010

24 August 1939: The fate of the world is hanging in the balance. Hitler has ambitions to invade Poland and hopes Stalin will…

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• Rok vydání 1995

This is an edition of the Old English epic poem "Beowulf", offering linguistic and glossarial aids on each page.…

Features the play Robbers that presents a passionate consideration of liberty, fraternity and deep betrayal; and Wallenstein…

• Počet stran 320
• Rok vydání 2009

For the last six years of his life, Roger Deakin kept notebooks in which he wrote his daily thoughts, impressions, feelings…

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• Rok vydání 2017

Produkt Draft Animals - Gaimon, Phil zakoupíte na Bookshop.cz od nakladatele Penguin Putnam Inc.…

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• Rok vydání 2019

Produkt Diary of a Country Priest - Bernanos, Georges zakoupíte na Bookshop.cz od nakladatele Penguin Books Ltd.…

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• Rok vydání 2004

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

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• Rok vydání 2009

When a society becomes more affluent, does it lose other values? Are the skills that education and literacy gave millions…

• Počet stran 320
• Rok vydání 2008

Georges Perec produced some of the most entertaining and spirited essays of his age. His literary output was amazingly…

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• Rok vydání 2000

A collection of poems that explore the raw merging of American pastoral and urban squalor.…

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• Rok vydání 2007

Tells the story of Al Qaeda from its roots up to 9/11. This title investigates the extraordinary group of idealogues behind…

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• Rok vydání 2013

'How are you today?' the doctor asked. 'I'm fine', was the reply. 'But Sybil isn't. She was so sick she couldn't come. So I…

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• Rok vydání 2001

Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) is often regarded as the unofficial Laureate of the British Empire. This selection of his poetry…

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• Rok vydání 2008

Henri Poincare formulated his Conjecture in 1904 that promised to describe the very shape of the universe, but remained…

• Počet stran 352
• Rok vydání 2015

Including works from Welsh, Irish and Scottish Gaelic, Cornish, Breton and Manx, this book offers a blend of poetry and…

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• Rok vydání 2005

The poems of Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) are among the most haunting and tender in Indian and in world literature,…

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• Rok vydání 2001

Whitney's two volumes of verse miscellany, "Sweet Nosegay" (1573) and "The Copy of a Letter" (1567), were part of a literary…

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• Rok vydání 2009

Gervase Phinn thinks he's heard just about everything in his two years as a school inspector, but a surprising enquiry from…

• Počet stran 288
• Rok vydání 1978

Produkt Maldoror and Poems - Lautreamont, Comte zakoupíte na Bookshop.cz od nakladatele Penguin Books Ltd.…

• Počet stran 160
• Rok vydání 1989
• Čeština

An account of feng-shui, a Chinese art providing the ability to live in harmony with nature and at peace. Skinner outlines…

• Počet stran 528
• Rok vydání 1999

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

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• Rok vydání 2013

What really makes us who we are? This book shows that our identity does not lie in our genes, but in the connections between…

Michael McIntyre is Britain's biggest comedy star. He has released two record-breaking DVDs, Live and Laughing and Hello…

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• Rok vydání 2013

Icelandic literary culture was one of the richest and most important in the medieval world. This title brings together the…

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• Rok vydání 2012

From their founding in the fifth century BC and for over 800 years, the Cynic philosophers sought to cure humanity of greed…

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• Rok vydání 2005

This new historical atlas, richly illustrated with photographs, artwork recreations and full-colour maps, explores the…

• Počet stran 352
• Rok vydání 2011

How hard can it be: To build a power station without upsetting the eco-mentalists? To seek world domination if you've been…

• Počet stran 416
• Rok vydání 2013

Explores how the implements we use in the kitchen have shaped the way we cook and live. This title tells the story of how we…

• Počet stran 544
• Rok vydání 1985

The Penguin Rhyming Dictionary is an indispensable reference companion for anyone who writes verse - whether lyric poet,…

• Počet stran 752
• Rok vydání 2003

In the victories of Tamburlaine, Faustus' encounters with the demonic, the irreverence of Barabas and the humiliation of…