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The Picture of Dorian Gray
With an Introduction and Notes by John M.L. Drew, University of Buckingham.
Wilde's only novel, first published in 1890, is a brilliantly designed puzzle, intended to tease conventional minds with its exploration of the myriad interrelationships between art, life, and consequence. From its provocative Preface, challenging the reader to believe in 'art for art's sake', to its sensational conclusion, the story self-consciously experiments with the notion of sin as an element of design.
Yet Wilde himself underestimated the consequences of his experiment, and its capacity to outrage the Victorian establishment. Its words returned to haunt him in his court appearances in 1895, and he later recalled the 'note of doom' which runs like 'a purple thread' through its carefully crafted prose.
Doteky dní
Román Doteky dní je víceméně prožitý. Pokusil jsem se zachytit okamžiky, které mi utkvěly v paměti, i když jsem si je v textu pak trochu upravoval.
Období komunistického puče roku 1968 není nijak přesně vysvětleno dodnes. Za jejich následné éry se nerozebíral, byla zdůrazňována jen bratrská pomoc Sovětského Svazu, která nás vytrhla na poslední chvíli ze spárů kapitalismu. My obyčejní lidé jsme to cítili jinak. Všechno jsme ve velké většině brali jinak, než se oficielně žádalo, i když nás donutili, mnohde vlastnoručním podpisem, jejich verzi potvrdit.
Vysvětlovat puč v KSČ z počátku roku 1968 nebyl zřejmě nikdy čas a zájem. I nyní se zkresluje ona doba až nemožně tendenčně, protože Rusko je náš nejúhlavnější nepřítel. Přesto si myslím, že v té době, kdy se prakticky všichni utrhli ze řetězu, jsme si k nám ruské tanky vlastně pozvali sami, protože se nenaskytlo jiné řešení.
Přesto ona krátká doba zdánlivé svobody bude v našich dějinách pevně zafixována, i když si myslím, že příštím generacím už nic neřekne a sotva ji budou moci chápat. Proto jsem si o těch necelých dvou letech napsat následující výpověď, která by napomohla objasnit něco z toho, co se tenkrát dělo v Praze a v celém našem státě a co prakticky pro nikoho z nás nedopadlo dobře.
V socialistickém státě nebylo běžné dostat se z provinčního městečka do opěvované Prahy a ještě v ní prožít jaro roku 1968 se všemi jeho peripetiemi. Navíc se nepřímo ocitnout mezi hereckou elitou a stát se téměř jejich dvorním fotografem. Co při tom vnímavý aktér v necelých dvou letech mohl zachytit, vstřebat a později zaznamenat, se dočtete v románu Doteky dní.
V románu Doteky dní jsou zachyceny některé skutečné události roku 1968, jak jsem je prožíval s ostatními lidmi v prostředí Realistického divadla, Změny, které v onom roce proběhly, jsou zaznamenány v dějinách a pohledy jedinců je mohou jen dokreslovat. Na jaře zářila Praha štěstím a nadějí, příští podzim chřadla tesknotou a ponížením. Jako ostatně mnohokrát v naší historii.
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Posledný vlak do Londýna
Píše sa rok 1936. V očiach pätnásťročného Stephana Neumana sú nacisti len hluční grobiani. Stephan pochádza z vplyvnej židovskej rodiny a je nádejným autorom divadelných hier. Chlapcovou najlepšou kamarátkou je matematicky nadaná Žofie-Helene, kresťanka, ktorej matka vydáva pokrokové protinacistické noviny. Ovládnutie krajiny Hitlerom dvojicou otrasie. Svetielko nádeje sa objaví v podobe Truus Wijsmullerovej, členky holandského odbojového hnutia. Truus pašuje židovské deti z nacistického Nemecka do krajín, ktoré sú ochotné sa o ne postarať. Keď pomoc ponúkne aj Veľká Británia, odváži sa priblížiť k Adolfovi Eichmannovi, mužovi, ktorý sa podieľal na konečnom riešení židovskej otázky. Truus bojuje s časom. Každým dňom je čoraz nemožnejšie zachrániť takých, ako je Stephan, jeho malý brat Walter či Žofie-Helene.
Román Posledný vlak do Londýna je inšpirovaný skutočným úsilím Holanďanky Geertruidy Wijsmullerovej-Meijerovej, ktorá v roku 1933 rozbehla misiu Kindertransport a zachraňovala deti po menších skupinách. Dodnes ju svet pozná ako tetu Truus.
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Short Stories in Spanish for Intermediate Learners
An unmissable collection of eight unconventional and captivating short stories for young adult and adult intermediate learners of Spanish.
Olly's top-notch language-learning insights are right in line with the best of what we know from neuroscience and cognitive psychology about how to learn effectively. I love his work - and you will too! - Barbara Oakley, PhD, Author of New York Times bestseller A Mind for Numbers
Short Stories in Spanish for Intermediate Learners has been written especially for students from a low-intermediate to intermediate level, designed to give a sense of achievement, and most importantly - enjoyment! Mapped to B1-B2 of the Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR) for languages, these eight captivating stories will both entertain you and give you a feeling of progress when reading.
What does this book give you?
* Eight stories in a variety of exciting genres, from science fiction and crime to history and thriller - making reading fun, while you learn a wide range of new vocabulary
* Controlled language at your level, to help you progress confidently
* Realistic spoken dialogues, to help you learn conversational expressions and improve your speaking ability
* Accessible grammar so you learn new structures naturally, in a stress-free way
* Beautiful illustrations accompanying each story, to set the scene and support your understanding
* Pleasure! Research shows that if you're enjoying reading in a foreign language, you won't experience the usual feelings of frustration - 'It's too hard!' 'I don't understand!'
With intriguing plots that will spark your imagination and keep you reading, Short Stories in Spanish for Intermediate Learners will take your grasp of Spanish to the next level with key features to support and consolidate your progress, including:
* A glossary for bolded words in each text
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As a result, you will be able to focus on enjoying reading, delighting in your improved range of vocabulary and grasp of the language, without ever feeling overwhelmed. From science fiction to fantasy, to crime and thrillers, Short Stories in Spanish for Intermediate Learners uses reading as the perfect tool to not only delight in learning Spanish, but to accelerate your journey towards fluency.
Hotel Bali (English edition)
One man. Four women. Seventeen mysterious years. Dóra, Gabi, Szilvi, and Judit: They were best friends in high school, but a terrible secret bound them together for life. After a delirious night ending in tragedy, they make a pact to leave the country. They must flee to where the past can’t catch up with them. But before they say good-bye, they vow to meet again in Budapest, seventeen years later. Life scatters them to four corners of the world. Dóra starts her new life on the Island of Bali, and though she lives in the land of Earthly Paradise, all she can think about is her unfulfilled, lost love. Szilvi secretly writes a novel in which their shared past plays an important role. Gabi is torn between two successful and charming men, while Judit finally gets the man she’d never even dared to dream of... Seventeen years pass and the date of their reunion draws near. Have they found happiness? Can best friends betray each other for the sake of love? What other surprises does their mysterious past have in store for them? Is it possible to forgive and forget? Eva Fejos is a reporter and novelist, author of eighteen best-sellers. She loves sunshine, coffee, chocolate, and travel, writes her novels in the evening and late at night, and hates getting up early.
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Theatres of Melancholy
The first substantial book on the French Neo-Romantics, a cosmopolitan group working in 1920s Paris who turned against modernist abstraction in favour of a new form of figurative painting.
In 1926, the Galerie Druet in Paris made waves presenting a group of young painters who had spurned modernist abstraction and returned to a form of figurative painting. For most of them this was the first time they had exhibited, but their impact was considerable. Art critic Waldemar George baptized them the 'Neo-Romantics' or the 'Neo-Humanists'. They were influenced by Picasso, in particular his Blue and Rose periods, but went beyond him to forge new ways of painting. These were artists who liked to play with forgotten references and obsolete visual devices such as trompe l'oeil. They produced work for secondary art forms including the theatre, set design and ballet. In some ways they were the first post-modernists in the history of art, yet until now there has only ever been one book about them, After Picasso, published ten years after their exhibition. Only more recently has their influence on contemporary artists and thinkers including Max Jacob, George Hugnet and Gertrude Stein been recognized. Though friends, these painters never formed a formal group or movement.
The Second World War sent them on different paths, with the Berman brothers and Tchelitchev moving to the United States. Before their departure, however, their activities attracted the attention and admiration of a cosmopolitan group of characters, including Gertrude Stein, Alfred Barr, Lincoln Kirstein, George Balanchine and many others including leading fashion figures of the day, Christian Dior and Elsa Schiaparelli.
Jack and the Beanstalk
Jack and his mother have only one old cow. Jack trades the cow for a handful of beans and his mother was so angry she threw the beans out the window. Overnight the beans grow into a huge beanstalk. Jack climbs the beanstalk and finds a giant at the top. Jack sees that the giant has a goose that lays golden eggs. Jack grabs the goose and returns to his surprised mother. Jack returns to the top of the beanstalk and barely escapes. He chops down the beanstalk and the giant was never heard from again. The audio EPUB ncludes every word in the book and a musical background.
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These Twisted Bonds
My night. My darkness. My power.
The spellbinding conclusion to the stunning fantasy romance These Hollow Vows.
After Abriella's sister was sold to the fae, she thought life couldn't get any worse. But when she suddenly finds herself caught in a web of lies of her own making - loving two princes and trusting neither - things are not quite as clear as she once thought.
As civil war wages in the Court of Darkness, Brie finds herself unable to choose a side. How can she know where she stands when she doesn't even know herself anymore? In this darkly romantic thrill ride, the more Faerie is torn apart from the inside, the clearer it becomes that prophecies don't lie and Brie has a role to play in the fate of this magical realm - whether she likes it or not.
Csillagpaff – Mocsári Füzi és az elveszett kedd
Mocsári Füzi egy boszorkánycsalád legifjabb tagja, és neki jutott a legkisebb varázserő – ugyanis ő csak az elveszett holmikat tudja megtalálni, mint például zoknikat vagy fából készült műfogsorokat... Hasznos, de azért nem kifejezetten izgalmas... Ám egy szép napon váratlanul megjelenik Füziéknél Csillagpaff legesleghatalmasabb boszorkánya, Moreg Vaine, és a lány segítségét kéri. Egy egész nap – hogy pontosak legyünk: a múlt kedd – eltűnt. Teljesen. Így Füzi és Moreg Vaine veszélyes kalandra indulnak Csillagpaff vad vidékén, hogy megtalálják azt, amit elvesztettek. Azonban ha nem sikerül kideríteniük, hogy mi történhetett a hiányzó nappal, akkor annak az egész királyságra nézve súlyos következményei lesznek, sőt az egész univerzum széthullhat. „Mocsári Füzi egy igazi példakép. Lehet, hogy nem ő a leghatalmasabb boszorkány, de erős, bátor, és helyén van a szíve.” Lili „Nagyon élveztem Füzi kalandját. Rengeteget nevettem a vicces szituációkon. Ugyanakkor egy kicsit szomorú is lettem, amikor kiderült, mi történt az eltűnt nappal.” Zénó
Hearts of Three
Originally intended as a film scenario, this plot is an improbably adventure story that can't help but bring to mind the "Lost Ark" films of decades later!
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Walter Mitty a jeho tajný život DVD
2013 / Fantasy, Dobrodružný, Drama, Komedie / 110 minut / USA
V životě člověka někdy nastane chvíle, kdy přestane snít a vydá se vstříc svému osudu. Pro Waltera Mittyho, snílka, který ze své anonymní existence uniká do světa fantazie, nastává takový moment právě teď. Když hrozí, že on i jeho kolegyně (Kristen Wiig) přijdou o práci, Walter vezme věci do vlastních rukou a vydá se na cestu, která je ještě neuvěřitelnější, než se mu kdy zdálo. Ben Stiller se ujal režie i hlavní role v podnětném příběhu o obyčejném muži, který našel odvahu pustit se do nejneobyčejnějšího dobrodružství svého života.
Hrají: Ben Stiller, Kristen Wiig, Shirley MacLaine, Adam Scott, Kathryn Hahn, Patton Oswalt, Adrian Martinez, Ólafur Darri Ólafsson, Terence Bernie Hines a další
Režie: Ben Stiller
Kamera: Stuart Dryburgh
Hudba: Theodore Shapiro
Scénář: Steve Conrad
Zvukové formáty: česky Dolby Digital 5.1 / anglicky Dolby Digital 5.1 / maďarsky Dolby Digital 5.1 / španělsky (Kastilie) Dolby Digital 5.1
Titulky: české, anglické, hebrejské, chorvatské, islandské, maďarské, slovinské, španělské
Obrazové formáty: 16:9 / 2,40:1
Bonusy:
• Pohled do zákulisí natáčení
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• Galerie: Referenční fotografie
Lacná kniha La Bete Humaine (-90%)
Des Batignolles Auteuil, un mécanicien de locomotive erre, le couteau en main, hanté par une idée fixe : tuer une femme... Dans le train qui mne au Havre, un couple poignarde sauvagement un notable du régime impérial, avant de le jeter sur la voie. A la Croix-de-Maufras, lieu-dit reculé, un garde-barrire empoisonne son épouse, dans l'espoir de mettre enfin la main sur son magot. La Bte humaine n'est pas seulement le grand roman ferroviaire du maître du naturalisme : c'est aussi son grand roman du crime - un Dahlia noir signé Zola, o chaque personnage semble tre tour tour le traqueur et la proie. En 1888, au moment d'entamer ce qui allait devenir l'un des volumes les plus célbres du cycle des Rougon-Macquart, Zola écrivait : Je voudrais quelque chose d'hallucinant, d'effroyable [...], qui reste jamais dans la mémoire, qui donne un cauchemar toute la France. ""
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Wake Me Up at Nine in the Morning
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Sula
As young girls in a poor but close-knit community, Nel and Sula are inseparable. But their paths as adults couldn't be more different: while Nel settles in town to raise a family, Sula escapes for the progressive ideals of the big city. When Sula reappears ten years later, she comes face to face with a community whose values are at odds with her fierce individualism and rebellious ways. Reunited, Nel and Sula must confront the consequences of their actions and the dreadful secret they shared in childhood.
Two girls who grow up to become women. Two friends who become something worse than enemies. Terrifying, comic and tragic, Sula overflows with love and life, friendship and betrayal.
Lacná kniha Si te Dicen que Cai (-90%)
Escrita a finales de los aos sesenta, Si te dicen que caí constituye una secreta y nostálgica despedida de la infancia, así como un cuadro a la vez sórdido y poético de la vida cotidiana durante el franquismo. Es una de las obras más personales de su autor, pues, según el propio Marsé, al escribirla sólo pensaba en los anónimos vecinos de un barrio pobre que ya no existe en Barcelona, en los furiosos muchachos de la postguerra que compartieron con él las calles leprosas y los juegos atroces, el miedo, el hambre y el frío, en su propia infancia y adolescencia. La novela está compuesta por voces diversas, contrapuestas y hasta contradictorias, voces que rondan la impostura y el equívoco, que tejen y destejen una espesa trama de signos y referencias y un ambiguo sistema de ecos y resonancias.
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A kék szín összeforrt a szabadsággal. A tenger pedig a halhatatlansággal. Ám a nyugalmas felszín alatt megannyi titokzatos lény lakik. Ez esetben te lehetsz határtalanul kreatív és szabad: népesítsd be a tengert! Tényleg: vajon hány árnyalata létezik a kéknek?
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The Unwanted Undead Adventurer: Volume 8
After Rentt senses something wrong with his familiar, Edel, he and Lorraine leave Hathara and return to the city of Maalt. There they find the city on fire and crawling with thralls. Rentt finds Edel safe beneath the orphanage and learns through him that a single vampire might be the cause of all the chaos. Just as Rentt goes out to help rid the city of the thralls, he runs into the last person he wants to see in this situation—Gold-class adventurer and vampire hunter Nive Maris!
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The Tomar Hoard
This book sets out to tell the story of a unique discovery, relics of the Knights Templar which came to light in 1960 in their fortress town of Tomar in Portugal. This chance discovery of highly important pieces dating from the time of the crusades includes ritual vessels, chalices, agate inlaid with gold, alters and stonework with encoded grail symbology. Some pieces originate in the Holy Land removed in 1291 following the fall of Acre, other items may well have been taken from Constantinople in 1204 during the 4th Crusade.
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Chinese Cabbages
Chinese Cabbages are a group of nutrient-dense Cruciferous vegetables. Some recent scientific researches conducted at the William Paterson University, New Jersey concluded that Cruciferous vegetables and dark leafy greens are the most nutrient-dense, plant-based foods available today. Among 47 nutritious foods studied, Chinese cabbages are the second-most nutrient-rich food, only after watercress. This small book of 100 pages explains in detail growing practices, health benefits, food preparations, and nutrient information of two varieties of Chinese Cabbages, i.e. bok choy/pak choi and napa cabbages.
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