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The Ballad of the Sad Cafe
Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith.
Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, from haunted New England to a sun-drenched Mediterranean island, and from a game of chess on the ocean to a love story on the moon. Beautifully designed and printed, these collectible editions are bound in colourful, tactile cloth and stamped with foil.
Few writers have expressed loneliness, the need for human understanding and the search for love with such power and poetic sensibility as the American writer Carson McCullers. The Ballad of the Sad Cafe is her masterpiece: an unruly, bittersweet novella concerning the most unlikely of love triangles.
Poems: 1962-2020
A major career-spanning collection from the inimitable Nobel Prize-winning poet
For the past fifty years, Louise Gluck has been a major force in modern poetry, distinguished as much for the restless intelligence, wit and intimacy of her poetic voice as for her development of a particular form: the book-length sequence of poems. This volume brings together the twelve collections Gluck has published to date, offering readers the opportunity to become immersed in the artistry and vision of one of the world's greatest living poets.
From the allegories of The Wild Iris to the myth-making of Averno; the oneiric landscapes of The House on Marshland to the questing of Faithful and Virtuous Night - each of Gluck's collections looks upon the events of an ordinary life and finds within them scope for the transcendent; each wields its archetypes to puncture the illusions of the self. Across her work, elements are reiterated but endlessly transfigured - Persephone, a copper beech, a mother and father and sister, a garden, a husband and son, a horse, a dog, a field on fire, a mountain. Taken together, the effect is like a shifting landscape seen from above, at once familiar and unspeakably profound.
Fools
When is it wise to be a fool for something? From New York to India to Paris, from the Catholic Worker movement to Occupy Wall Street, the characters in Joan Silber's dazzling connected stories tackle this question head-on.
Vera, the shy, anarchist daughter of missionary parents, leaves her family for love and activism in New York. A generation later, her doubting daughter insists on the truth of being of two minds, even in marriage. The adulterous son of a Florida hotel owner steals money from his family and departs for Paris, where he finds himself outsmarted in turn. Fools ponders the circle of winners and losers, dupers and duped, and the price we pay for our beliefs, offering readers an unforgettable look at work, faith, love and the eternal quest for personal integrity.
Ideas of Heaven
SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD
Set in modern-day America and France, Renaissance Italy and Boxer Rebellion China, these stories embrace whole lifetimes, much in the manner of Alice Munro and William Trevor. Joan Silber skilfully and subtly ties one story to the next, as a minor element in one becomes a major element in the next, until the last is tied convincingly to the first. Intense in subject yet restrained in tone, they are about longings - often held for years - and the ways in which sex and religion can become parallel forms of dedication and comfort.
From a wannabe dancer in contemporary New York City to missionaries in China, Ideas of Heaven showcases Joan Silber's extraordinary deftness as she illuminates love, faith and sex with great originality and profundity.
Hell Screen
Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith.
Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, from haunted New England to a sun-drenched Mediterranean island, and from a game of chess on the ocean to a love story on the moon. Beautifully designed and printed, these collectible editions are bound in colourful, tactile cloth and stamped with foil.
Akutagawa was one of the towering figures of modern Japanese literature, and is considered the father of the Japanese short story. This paradigmatic selection, which includes the stories that inspired Akira Kurosawa's 1950 film Rashomon, showcases the terrible beauty, cynicism, sublime pain and absurd humour of his writing.
Lady Susan
Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith.
Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, from haunted New England to a sun-drenched Mediterranean island, and from a game of chess on the ocean to a love story on the moon. Beautifully designed and printed, these collectible editions are bound in colourful, tactile cloth and stamped with foil.
Recently widowed, the unscrupulous and beautiful Lady Susan Vernon is determined to scheme her way through high society in the hope of a profitable new match - all while trying to marry off her unfortunate daughter. Told through a series of letters, Jane Austen's magnificent first novella is as subversive as it is charming.
'The wit of Jane Austen has for partner the perfection of her taste' - Virginia Woolf
The Queen Of Spades
Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith.
Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, from haunted New England to a sun-drenched Mediterranean island, and from a game of chess on the ocean to a love story on the moon. Beautifully designed and printed, these collectible editions are bound in colourful, tactile cloth and stamped with foil.
A countess with a card trick; love letters filled with deception; a desperate man with a pistol.'The Queen of Spades', one of Pushkin's most popular and chilling stories, is accompanied here by the thrilling 'Dubrovsky' and unforgettable 'Tales of Belkin'.
Ghost Town
WINNER OF THE TAIWAN LITERATURE AWARD
Keith Chen, the desperately yearned for second son of a traditional Taiwanese family with five daughters, refuses to play the role his parochial parents would cast him in. Instead, he chooses to make a life for himself in cosmopolitan Berlin, where he finally finds acceptance as a young gay man.
The novel is set about a decade later, on Ghost Festival, the Day of Deliverance. After Keith's release from a maximum security prison, he has nowhere to go but home. With his parents gone, his siblings married, mad, on the lam, or dead, there is nothing left for him there, so it seems. As he explores his uncanny home town, we learn what tore his family apart, and, more importantly, the truth behind the terrible crime Keith committed in Germany.
Told in a myriad of voices-both living and dead-and moving through time with deceptive ease, Ghost Town is a mesmerizing story of family secrets, countryside superstitions, and the search for identity amid a clash of cultures.
More Than I Love My Life
An epic, deeply moving novel about the power of love and loving with courage - from the Man Booker International Prize-winning author of A Horse Walks into a Bar
On a kibbutz in Israel in 2008, Gili is celebrating the ninetieth birthday of her grandmother Vera, the adored matriarch of a sprawling and tight-knit family. But festivities are interrupted by the arrival of Nina: the iron-willed daughter who rejected Vera's care; and the absent mother who abandoned Gili when she was still a baby.
Nina's return to the family after years of silence precipitates an epic journey from Israel to the desolate island of Goli Otok, formerly part of Yugoslavia. It was here, five decades earlier, that Vera was held and tortured as a political prisoner. And it is here that the three women will finally come to terms with the terrible moral dilemma that Vera faced, and that permanently altered the course of their lives.
More Than I Love My Life is a sweeping story about the power of love and loving with courage. A novel driven by faith in humanity even in our darkest moments, it asks us to confront our deepest held beliefs about a woman's duty to herself and to her children.
Nekonečno v dlani jednej ruky
Je možné, že celé ľudstvo by sa mohlo vtesnať do priestoru veľkého ako kocka cukru? Mohla by explózia jediného komára vyhladiť život na Zemi? Čo všetko potrebujeme na zostrojenie stroja času? Aj na tieto otázky odpovedá obľúbený britský spisovateľ a popularizátor vedy Marcus Chown vo svojej knihe. Predstavuje 50 nesmierne zaujímavých, niekedy priam úžas vzbudzujúcich vedeckých faktov z oblasti biológie, antropológie, astronómie či fyziky, ktorými chce poukázať na výnimočnosť sveta, v ktorom žijeme. Aj tie najodbornejšie poznatky pritom podáva veľmi jednoducho, s nadhľadom a vtipom, čím z knihy plnej faktov robí dobrodružný príbeh objavovania zázrakov Zeme a vesmíru.
Fairy Tales (EN)
AudiobookFairy Tales written by George MacDonald, who was described by W.H. Auden as ‘one of the most remarkable writers of the 19th century’, was valued in his own time as an original thinker and spiritual guide. Of all his writing it is the fairy tales that have retained their fascination, and this collection includes all 11 stories, including The Light Princess, The Golden Key and The Wise Woman.
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La Terre (EN)
Audiobook La Terre written by Émile Zola. Zola’s La Terre (The Earth) proved highly controversial on publication in 1887 and still retains the power to shock. It follows the fortunes of the Fouan family in the years leading up to the Franco-Prussian War. Old Fouan, the patriarch, draws up a legal contract to divide his farmland between his three children in exchange for an allowance that will support him and his wife through a comfortable retirement.
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40,50 €
Wieland (EN)
Audiobook Wieland (1798) is an early American novel set in 1760s Pennsylvania written by Charles Brockden Brown. Based on a real case of a New York farmer who murdered his family, the story is imbued with suspense and intrigue, adopting Gothic devices such as ventriloquism and spontaneous combustion. The satanic interloper Carwin exercises his power over the narrator, Clara Wieland, wreaking havoc over the Wieland family with disastrous consequences.
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Sartor Resartus (EN)
Audiobook Sartor Resartus written by Thomas Carlyle. Part novel, part philosophical treatise, part satire, Sartor Resartus is a masterpiece of 19th-century literature, following in the footsteps of Swift’s Tale of a Tub and Sterne’s Tristram Shandy and a key influence on Melville’s Moby-Dick. Bubbling over with ideas, humour and inventiveness, it is – on the surface – a long-suffering British editor’s sceptical account of a German philosopher’s book, Clothes: Their Origin and Influence, which itself is steeped in German idealism.
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Little Women (EN)
Audiobook Little Women, closely based on Louisa May Alcott’s own experience of family life, was first published in 1869 and follows the lives of the four March sisters and their mother, ‘Marmee’. With the heartrending story of gentle Beth, the humorous adventures of tomboyish Jo, Meg’s vain attempts to cut a fashionable figure in ‘society’, and the artistic ambitions of the youngest sister Amy, it has never lost its extraordinary power to move and delight.
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Staroislandské ságy, 2. vydání
Nové vydání základního pramene poznání světa starých Seveřanů obsahuje pět nejznámějších islandských rodových ság, které realisticky líčí každodenní život na Islandu v 10.–11. století, jehož součástí byly rodové pře i vztahová dramata, ale také vyprávějí o objevitelských cestách Islanďanů, při nichž se vikingové dostali až do Severní Ameriky. Staroislandské ságy se staly inspirací pro celou řadu děl moderní literatury i filmu.
Spirit Animals - Súmrak strážcov 2
V podzemí sveta Erdas sa prebudilo čosi prastaré a skazené. Odveké zlo obostreté temnotou má obrovskú moc a len nepatrným čriepkom svojej sily môže zničiť mnohé. V ohrození sú dokonca aj posvätné putá medzi ľuďmi a zvieratami, ktoré udržujú Erdas v rovnováhe. Úlohou štyroch mladých hrdinov – Conora, Abeke, Mej-lin a Rolana – je zlo zastaviť. Spolu so svojimi spirituálnymi zvieratami sa vydávajú na zúfalú cestu, ktorá ich zavedie hlboko pod povrch zeme a do najvzdialenejších kútov sveta. Napriek tomu, že v boji proti temnote strácajú svojich priateľov a spojencov, musia vytrvať a postaviť sa zlu zoči-voči. Čoskoro si však uvedomia krutú skutočnosť : nepriateľ ich už obkľúčil.
Deník agentky
Nejlepší špionážní román roku dle Sunday Times. Geniální německý vědec vyrvaný v roce 1946 z trosek nacistické Evropy. Americký diplomat zapletený během studené války do tajného milostného vztahu. Ruský archivář prodávající na počátku 90. let tajemství, jež může navždy změnit 20. století. Britský akademik na útěku, který má šanci vyřešit jednu z největších záhad dějin špionáže… Jejich příběhy, životy a osud světa spojuje jediný rukopis. Dokument, o kterém se v metropolích po celém světě pouze šeptá. Deník agentky.
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