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The Great Gatsby
In 1922, F. Scott Fitzgerald announced his decision to write "something new--something extraordinary and beautiful and simple + intricately patterned." That extraordinary, beautiful, intricately patterned, and above all, simple novel became The Great Gatsby, arguably Fitzgerald's finest work and certainly the book for which he is best known. A portrait of the Jazz Age in all of its decadence and excess, Gatsby captured the spirit of the author's generation and earned itself a permanent place in American mythology. Self-made, self-invented millionaire Jay Gatsby embodies some of Fitzgerald's--and his country's--most abiding obsessions: money, ambition, greed, and the promise of new beginnings. "Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgiastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter--tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther.... And one fine morning--" Gatsby's rise to glory and eventual fall from grace becomes a kind of cautionary tale about the American Dream.
It's also a love story, of sorts, the narrative of Gatsby's quixotic passion for Daisy Buchanan. The pair meet five years before the novel begins, when Daisy is a legendary young Louisville beauty and Gatsby an impoverished officer. They fall in love, but while Gatsby serves overseas, Daisy marries the brutal, bullying, but extremely rich Tom Buchanan. After the war, Gatsby devotes himself blindly to the pursuit of wealth by whatever means--and to the pursuit of Daisy, which amounts to the same thing. "Her voice is full of money," Gatsby says admiringly, in one of the novel's more famous descriptions. His millions made, Gatsby buys a mansion across Long Island Sound from Daisy's patrician East Egg address, throws lavish parties, and waits for her to appear. When she does, events unfold with all the tragic inevitability of a Greek drama, with detached, cynical neighbor Nick Carraway acting as chorus throughout. Spare, elegantly plotted, and written in crystalline prose, The Great Gatsby is as perfectly satisfying as the best kind of poem.
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"Now we have an American masterpiece in its final form: the original crystal has shaped itself into the true diamond. This is the novel as Fitzgerald wished it to be, and so it is what we have dreamed of, sleeping and waking." -- James Dickey
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The Great Gatsby is a novel by the American author F. Scott Fitzgerald. First published on April 10, 1925, it is set on Long Island's North Shore and in New York City during the summer of 1922.
The novel takes place following the First World War. American society enjoyed prosperity during the "roaring" 1920s as the economy soared. At the same time, Prohibition, the ban on the sale and manufacture of alcohol as mandated by the Eighteenth Amendment, made millionaires out of bootleggers. After its republishing in 1945 and 1953, it quickly found a wide readership and is today widely regarded as a paragon of the Great American Novel, and a literary classic. The Great Gatsby has become a standard text in high school and university courses on American literature in countries around the world, and is ranked second in the Modern Library's lists of the 100 Best Novels of the 20th Century.
--Wikipedia
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Artists' Lives
Engaging encounters, personal anecdotes and jargon-free critical insights into some of the liveliest creative minds in modern art, by an international art world insider.
Praised by the Art Newspaper as ‘the best art writer of his generation’, Michael Peppiatt has encountered many European modern artists over more than fifty years. This selection of some of his best biographical writing covers a wide spectrum of modern art, from Van Gogh and Pierre Bonnard, to personal conversations with painter Sonia Delaunay, artist Dora Maar, who was Picasso’s lover in the 1930s and 1940s, and Francis Bacon, perhaps the most famous of the many artists with whom Peppiatt has formed personal friendships.
Michael Peppiatt’s lively, engaging writing takes us into the company of many notable art-world personalities, such as the Catalan painter Antoni T?pies, whom he visits in his studio, and moments of disillusion, such as his meeting with the self-mythologizing artist Balthus. Art criticism blends with anecdote: riding with Lucian Freud in his Bentley, drinking with Bacon in Soho, discussing Picasso’s trousers with David Hockney...
This collection of Peppiatt’s most perceptive texts includes under-recognized artists, such as Dachau survivor Zoran Music, or Montenegrin artist Dado, whose retrospective Peppiatt curated at the 2009 Venice Biennale. Remarkably varied in their scope and lucidly written for a general reader, these selected essays not only provide us with perceptive commentary and acute critical judgment, they also give a unique personal insight into some of the greatest creative minds of the modern era.
Prize Women
The gripping and unforgettable new novel from Caroline Lea, based on one of history's most shocking but largely untold scandals
Toronto, Canada, 1926
Best friends Lily di Marco and Mae Thebault were once inseparable. They lived under the same roof and cared for each other's children. But with mouths to feeds and demanding husbands to keep happy, both women are forced into terrible decisions as the Great Depression tightens its grip.
When lawyer Charles Vance Miller's will promises a handsome sum of money to the woman who can produce the most babies in the next ten years, it is initially dismissed as a vanity project. But as the Great Depression worsens, and times get increasingly tough across the world, for the most desperate in society this contest known as The Great Stork Derby suddenly seems like a way out.
Ten years later, Lily and Mae couldn't be further apart. And as The Great Stork Derby continues to make headlines, for all the wrong reasons, both these women must face up to their part in it, and the consequences...
Hardy Women
A TOP BOOK FOR 2024 IN: THE OBSERVER, INDEPENDENT, SUNDAY TIMES AND BOOKSELLER
'He understands only the women he invents - the others not at all'
Thomas Hardy is one of the most beloved and most-read British authors. His influence on literature and the minds of his readers is singular. But how is it that the novelist who created some of the most memorable and modern female characters in literature had such troubled relationships with real women?
In this highly innovative book, acclaimed biographer Paula Byrne re-examines Hardy's life through the eyes of the women who made him - mother, sisters, girlfriends, wives, muses. The story veers from shocking scenes such as his obsession with the sight of a woman hanged, to poignant vignettes of unfulfilled passion, to fascinating details of working women's lives in the nineteenth century.
Hardy Women is the story of how the magnificent fictional women he invented would not have been possible without the hardship and hardiness of the real ones who shaped his passions and his imagination. It is only through understanding and witnessing these hardy women that we can truly enter the heart of this great novelist and poet.
Latin American Artists
The essential survey showcasing the work of more than 300 modern and contemporary artists born or based in Latin America.
Latin American artists have gained increasing international prominence as the art world awakens to the area’s extraordinary art scenes and histories. In an accessible A-Z format, this volume introduces key artworks by 308 artists who together demonstrate the variety and vitality of artwork being made. Focusing on those born, or who have lived, in the 20 Spanish and Portuguese-speaking regions of Latin America, and featuring historic and living artists – both those celebrated internationally and names less-known outside their native countries – this book has been created in close collaboration with an expert panel of 68 advisors and writers.
Artists featured include: Allora and Calzadilla, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Francis Alys, Olga de Amaral, Fernando Botero, Leonora Carrington, Lygia Clark, Carlos Cruz-Diez, Leonor Fini, Gego, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Carmen Herrera, Graciela Iturbide, Alfredo Jaar, Frida Kahlo, Guillermo Kuitca, Wifredo Lam, Teresa Margolles, Marisol, Cildo Meireles, Ana Mendieta, Beatriz Milhazes, Ernesto Neto, Hélio Oiticica, Gabriel Orozco, José Clemente Orozco, Diego Rivera, Zilia Sánchez, David Alfaro Siqueiros, Cecilia Vicuna, Adrián Villar Rojas and Faith Wilding.
The advisory panel includes: Deri Andrade, David Ayala-Alfonso, Fernanda Brenner, Estrellita B. Brodsky, Tatiana Cuevas, Anna Di Stasi, Andrés Gustavo Duprat, Raphael Fonseca, Zanna Gilbert, Laura Hakel, Yina Jiménez Suriel, Maya Juracán, Pablo Léon de la Barra, Miguel A. López, Bernardo Mosqueira, Gerardo Mosquera, Rodrigo Moura, Laura Orozco, Taisa Palhares, Maylin Pérez, Catherine Petitgas, Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, Florencia Portocarrero, Ileana Ramírez Romero, Amy Rosenblum-Martín, Emiliano Valdés and Michael Wellen.
Začni cvičiť s POHYBom for Women
Začni cvičiť s POHYBom for Women je komplexný tréningový manuál. Tento manuál obsahuje konkrétny tréningový postup od A do Z, aby sa tvoja postava zmenila. Vytvorilo ju 8 profesionálnych trénerov, z ktorých každý odovzdal svoje know-how. Kniha neobsahuje rozsiahlu teóriu, práve naopak vecne sa zameriava na konkrétne kroky. Heslo tréningového manuálu pre ženy znie: Budeš sa cítiť skvele ale vyzerať budeš ešte lepšie. Takže? Chceš sa cítiť skvele a vyzerať ešte lepšie?
Nelson Willie - The Great Divide LP
Willie Hugh Nelson (narodený 29. apríla 1933) je americký spevák, skladateľ, hudobník, politický aktivista a herec. Bol jednou z hlavných postáv outlaw country, subžánru country hudby, ktorý sa vyvinul koncom 60. rokov ako reakcia na konzervatívne obmedzenia zvuku z Nashvillu. Kritický úspech jeho albumu Shotgun Willie (1973) v kombinácii s kritickým a komerčným úspechom skladieb Red Headed Stranger (1975) a Stardust (1978) urobili z Nelsona jedného z najuznávanejších umelcov country hudby. Nelson hral vo viac ako 30 filmoch, bol spoluautorom niekoľkých kníh a bol zapojený do aktivizmu za používanie biopalív a legalizáciu marihuany. "The Great Divide" je 50. štúdiový album, ktorý vydal v roku 2002. Obsahuje niekoľko duetov a hudobných spoluprác s umelcami ako Rob Thomas z Matchbox Twenty, Lee Ann Womack, Kid Rock, Sheryl Crow, Brian McKnight a Bonnie Raitt. Z albumu vznikli dva hitparádové singly „MendocinoCounty Line“ a „Maria (Shut Up and Kiss Me)“, ktoré sa dostali na 22. a 41. miesto v rebríčkoch Hot Country Songs.
Tracklist:
Side A:
1. Maria (Shut Up And Kiss Me)
2. Mendocino County Line
3. Last Stand In Open Country
4. Won't Catch Me Cryin'
5. Be There For You
6. The Great Divide
Side B:
1. Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In)
2. This Face
3. Don't Fade Away
4. Time After Time
5. Recollection Phoenix
6. You Remain
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Little Women
Little Women or, Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy is a novel by American author Louisa May Alcott (1832–1888). Written and published in two parts in 1868 and 1869, the novel follows the lives of four sisters — Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy March — and is loosely based on the author's childhood experiences with her three sisters. The first part of the book was an immediate commercial and critical success and prompted the composition of the book's second part, also a huge success. Both parts were first published as a single volume in 1880. The book is an unquestioned American classic.
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The Little Man´s Great journey
Knihu Jiřího Stacha a Lenky Uhlířové vydalo nakladatelství Meander v roce 2008. Jedinečný příběh doplněný o autentické fotografie ze světa Malého Pána získal mnohá ocenění včetně nominace Magnesia Litera na Objev roku. Režisér Radek Beran příběh zpra
coval jako loutkový film za pomoci Výtvarníka Františka Antonína Skály. Ve filmu Malý Pán, který přijde do kin letos na jaře, budou nitě a drátky přiznané, takže divák uvidí, jak se loutky vodí. Žádná animovaná kouzla, jen reálně vytvořené kulisy a r
ekvizity. Velký vliv na režiséra Berana měla i tvorba Jana Švankmajera. Právě u příležitosti uvedení filmu do českých i slovenských kin připravujeme druhé vydání knihy, která se stala prvotní inspirací pro film, avšak také samostatným dílem, který po
hyblivý obraz v mnohém doplňuje. Malý pán si žije spokojeně ve svém malém světě, a když má dost nudlí, nikam se zvlášť nežene. Jenže má sen, a se sny bývají jak známo jen samé potíže nenechají člověka (ani malého) v klidu. Malý pán po probuzení překvapeně zjišťuje, že mu něco schází. A tak nerad opouští svůj útulný domov a vydá se na cestu, aby tomu přišel na kloub. Kdo ví, co na konci své velké cesty najde?
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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator
'Did we go too far?' Charlie asked. 'Too far?' cried Mr Wonka. 'Of course we went too far! We've gone into orbit!'WHOOSH! Inside the Great Glass Elevator, Willy Wonka, Charlie Bucket and his family are cruising a thousand feet above the chocolate factory.
They can see the whole world below them, but they're not alone. The American Space Hotel has also just launched. Lurking inside are the Vermicious Knids - the most brutal beasts in the universe!Can Charlie and Willy Wonka stop them from destroying everything?
SK 21- Twenty one slovak artists
Jedinečná publikácia prezentuje najvýznamnejšie diela a výstavy 21 súčasných popredných slovenských umelcov, akými sú napr. Jakub Bachorík, Oto Bachorík, Zuzana Bachoríková, Viťo Bojňanský, Jana Brisudová, Ladislav Černý, Juraj Čutek, Martin Dzurek, Frank Jalšovský, Stanislav Kiča, Marián Komáček, Milan Lukáč, Andrej Margoč, Martin Pala, Ivan Pavle, Štefan Polák, Peter Pollág atď.
Lacná kniha Great Journeys 1 (HB) (-50%)
Lonely Planet's selection of the world's most spectacular journeys in a lush hardback edition. Expert content with stunning images, practical planning tips and inspiring background information. Thematic coverage including famous literary journeys, gr
eat walks, classic rail journeys and more.
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Famous Women (EN)
V této audioknize najdete příběhy dvaceti výjimečných žen, které žily v různých koutech světa a v různých epochách. Audiokniha je určená pro mírně pokročilé, kteří se chtějí procvičit v poslechu angličtiny. Audiokniha je načtená rodilým mluvčím.
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Amon Amarth - The Great Heathen Army CD
Tracklist:
1. Get In the Ring
2. The Great Heathen Army
3. Heidrun
4. Oden Owns You All
5. Find a Way or Make One
6. Dawn of Norsemen
7. Saxons and Vikings (feat. Biff Byford)
8. Skagul Rides With Me
9. The Serpent's Trail
Amon Amarth - The Great Heathen Army LP
Tracklist:
1. Get In the Ring
2. The Great Heathen Army
3. Heidrun
4. Oden Owns You All
5. Find a Way or Make One
6. Dawn of Norsemen
7. Saxons and Vikings (feat. Biff Byford)
8. Skagul Rides With Me
9. The Serpent's Trail
Uncontrollable Women
Uncontrollable Women is a history of radical, reformist and revolutionary women between the outbreak of the French Revolution in 1789 and the passing of the Great Reform Act in 1832. Very few of them are well-known today; some were unknown even in their own day. All of them contributed something to the world we now inhabit.
At a time when women were supposed to leave politics to men they spoke, wrote, marched, organised, asked questions, challenged power structures, sometimes went to prison and even died. History has not usually been kind to them, and they have frequently been pushed into asides or footnotes, dismissed as secondary, or spoken over, for, or through by men and sometimes other women. In this book, they take centre stage in both their own stories and those of others, and in doing so bring different voices to the more familiar accounts of the period. These women and many others played a part in developing political ideas and freedoms as we know them today, and some fought battles which still remain to be won or raised questions that are still unresolved. These are their stories.
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