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Selected Letters (Oxford World´s Classics)
Letter-writing was something of an addiction for young women of Jane Austen's time and social position, and Austen's letters have a freedom and familiarity that only intimate writing can convey. Wiser than her critics, who were disappointed that her correspondence dwelt on gossip and the minutiae of everyday living, Austen understood the importance of 'Little Matters', of the emotional and material details of individual lives shared with friends and family through the medium of the letter. Ironic, acerbic, always entertaining, Jane Austen's letters are a fascinating record not only of her own day-to-day existence, but of the pleasures and frustrations experienced by women of her social class which are so central to her novels. Vivien Jones's selection includes very nearly two-thirds of Austen's surviving correspondence, and her lively introduction and notes set the novelist's most private writings in their wider cultural context.
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Parliamentary Elections and Party Landscape in the Visegrád Group Countries
The countries of the so-called Visegrád Group (V4) were already a relatively common topic in comparative political science in the 1990s. Not only are they close both geographically and in terms of their historical and political developments a shared herit
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Miluj ma navždy
Kimberly Richardsová je popudená otcovým zámerom vydať ju čo najrýchlejšie, len aby upokojil svoju žiarlivú milenku. Bohatá Kimberly cíti hlboký odpor k zlatokopom a opovrhuje `počestným nápadníkom`, schudobneným zemanom Lachlanom MacGregorom, s ktorým sa stretáva na panstve Sherring Cross. Pekný a povýšenecký Lachlan si brúsi zuby na vydatú vojvodkyňu z Wrothstonu. Zvláštny zvrat udalostí však vedú nerovnú dvojicu k nečakanému osudu, kde sa tvrdé, zaťaté srdce otvorí nefalšovanej láske.
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Hostinec Jamajka
Cornwall, devätnáste storočie. Dvadsaťtriročná Mary Yellanová plní po matkinej smrti jej poslednú vôľu a odchádza k tete do Bodminu. Teta sa medzitým vydala za Jossa Merlyna a z niekdajšej krásavice je zničená starena. Už cestou sa Mary dozvie, že o hostinci Jamajka kolujú hrôzostrašné chýry. Po krátkom pobyte u tety Mary zistí, že Joss Merlyn je vodcom zločineckej bandy. V hostinci sa zoznámi s Jemom, Jossovým mladším bratom. Počiatočná nenávisť k nemu sa postupne mení na lásku, i keď naplnenú pochybnosťami, lebo Mary nevie, či aj Jem nie je členom bandy. Chce sa dopátrať pravdy za každú cenu. Po tragickej udalosti, ktorej je očitým svedkom, sa dozvie všetko o Jossovi Merlynovi a jeho bande. Záhadou zostáva už len to, kto stojí v pozadí zločinov. Rozuzlenie je prekvapujúce a pôvodca všetkého zla neočakávaný.
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Tři novely
Tři krátké Bernhardovy prózy spojuje společné téma sebetrýznivého požitku lidského údělu. V novele Ungenach (1968) autor rozkrývá motiv dědictví, který z téměř o dvacet lep později zpracoval ve svém vrcholném románu Vyhlazení. Ve světě zachváceném rozpadem se mladý hrdina v konfrontaci s minulostí pokouší vážně se vypořádat s rozvolňováním hodnot. Raná próza Amras (1964) navíc odkrývá, jak je téma rozpadu u Bernharda velmi těsně spjato s duchem novalisovské romantiky a přírodní filozofie, v níž se život prostupuje se smrtí a melancholie s jasnožrivostí. Dva bratři se na krátkou dobu po sebevraždě rodičů ocitají na hranici života a smrti, v místě, kde se jejich život uzavřel, ale neskončil. V této knize Bernhard mistrovsky využívá neprímého vyprávění, kombinuje prvky deníku, útržky korespondence, aforismy i styl vědeckého pojednání: vše má již jen podobu fragmentu, protože svět se pro oba bratry rozpadl. Také závěrečné Moušlování (1969) je zprávou o zraněném životě a o jednotvárnosti lidské existence. Čtyři muži sde po léta scházejí v hostinci u karet. Ale jednoho večera je zvyk porušen, protože jeden z hráčůse už nedokáže ke hře dostavit. Na jediné situaci Bernhard ukazuje, jak se konvence a všední očekávání pod tíhou a tlakem nevypočitatelné skutečnosti rozpadají, jak se z norem, z nichž se skádá život, náhle bez pravidel rodí katastrofa.
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Kráľovné renesancie
Osem vznešených žien éry renesancie, osem zaujímavých životných osudov. Boli vzdelané, bohaté, milovali luxus. Mali svoje túžby, sny… Napriek tomu zakotvili v manželstvách s mužmi, ktorých im určil záujem rodu. Reč je o aragónskych princeznách Beatrice, Kataríne a Jane zvanej Šialená, bretónskej vojvodkyni Anne, pápežovej dcére Lucrezii Borgii, „kupeckej“ dcére Kataríne Medicejskej z Florencie, milovanej dcére „svetového pavúka“ Ľudovíta XI. a vzdelanej sestre Františka I.
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Zlaté rozprávky
Bohato ilustrovaná knižka prináša neskrátené verzie najobľúbenejších rozprávok – Popoluška, Snehová kráľovná, Škaredé káčatko...
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Smaragdová labuť
Známa autorka historických románov sa tentoraz sústredila na jedno z kľúčových období európskych dejín, predznačené neslávne známou Bartolomejskou nocou. Jej cit pre atmosféru, široký záber v charakteristickej skladbe dobových postáv a dôvtipné riešenie zápletky sa uplatnili aj v dramatickom príbehu rozdelených dvojčiat, ktorým koluje v žilách modrá krv. Cesty osudu sú nevyspytateľné - a tak z Maude vyrastá krehká preduchovnená aristokratka pohybujúca sa v najvyšších spoločenských kruhoch a z Mirandy malá prešibaná komediantka z ulice. Spoločné majú len jedno - pôvabný zovňajšok, ktorý musí upútať každého muža, nevynímajúc francúzskeho kráľa. Práve táto skutočnosť vnukne Maudinmu chránencovi, mladému earlovi z Harcourtu, zosnovať plán, na základe ktorého sa škaredé kačiatko premení na nádhernú labuť. Netuší však, že aj on je len človek s ľudskými slabosťami a šahko sa môže stať, že uviazne v klepci, ktorý prefíkane nastražil druhému...
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In Her Shoes
Rose Feller is thirty years old, a high-powered attorney, with a secret passion for romance novels, an exercise regime she's going to start next week, and dreams of a man who will slide off her glasses, gaze into her eyes, and tell her that she's beautiful. Meet Rose's sister Maggie. Twenty-eight years old, drop-dead gorgeous and only occasionally employed, Maggie is a backing singer in a band called Whiskered Biscuit. She dreams of fame and fortune -- and of getting her dowdy big sister to stick to a skin-care regime. These two women with nothing in common but a childhood tragedy, shared DNA, and the same size feet, are about to learn that their family is more different than they ever imagined, and that they're more alike than they'd ever believe. Funny and poignant, richly detailed and wrenchingly real, IN HER SHOES will speak to anyone who's endured the bonds of sisterhood, and to everyone who's dreamed of trying something else on for size.
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For a moment the two trains were side by side. In that moment, Elspeth witnessed a murder as she stared out of her window. But who, apart from Miss Marple, would take her story seriously? There were no suspects, no other witnesses - and no corpse.
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Temnými cestami
Grzegorz Rosinski je známý především jako tvůrce Thorgala – ale kromě této série má na svědomí i několik „vážnějších“ komiksů, ve kterých mohl naplno popustit uzdu svému talentu. V dalším svazku z řady Mistrovská díla evropského komiksu najdete Pomstu hraběte Skarbeka, která vychází z romantických příběhů ve stylu hraběte Monte Christa, ozvláštněných světem pirátů a malířů... a pak komiks, nazvaný prostě Western. V obojím Rosinski tvoří svou dokonalou malbou ikonicky romantické světy, aby pak provedl jejich nelítostnou destrukci. I díky tomu jsou tyto díla nejen to nejlepší z Rosinského tvorby, ale i to nejlepší z evropského komiksu.
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Temnými cestami
Grzegorz Rosinski je známý především jako tvůrce Thorgala – ale kromě této série má na svědomí i několik „vážnějších“ komiksů, ve kterých mohl naplno popustit uzdu svému talentu. V dalším svazku z řady Mistrovská díla evropského komiksu najdete Pomstu hraběte Skarbeka, která vychází z romantických příběhů ve stylu hraběte Monte Christa, ozvláštněných světem pirátů a malířů... a pak komiks, nazvaný prostě Western. V obojím Rosinski tvoří svou dokonalou malbou ikonicky romantické světy, aby pak provedl jejich nelítostnou destrukci. I díky tomu jsou tyto díla nejen to nejlepší z Rosinského tvorby, ale i to nejlepší z evropského komiksu
Learned By Heart
Adding to the already moving, richly told and gripping collection of historical fiction from Emma Donoghue, Learned By Heart is the breathtaking story of two young girls on the margins of life, forging a connection that will last forever.
Eliza and Lister have never been this wide-awake in their lives, and the Slope, with its curtains drawn wide, is bright with starlight. The question Eliza’s been needing to ask swells like a great berry in her mouth, and all at once she’s not scared to let it out, not scared at all, not scared of anything . . .
In 1805 fourteen-year-old Eliza Raine is a schoolgirl at the Manor School for Young Ladies in York. The daughter of an Indian mother and a British father, Eliza was banished from Madras to this unfamiliar country at the age of six. At the Manor School she keeps her head down and follows all the rules, until the arrival of a charismatic and fearless new student, Anne Lister. The two outsiders are thrown together and soon Eliza's life is turned upside down by this remarkable young woman.
Learned by Heart, Emma Donoghue’s mesmerising new novel, tells the heartbreaking true story of two women whose unlikely relationship will change them for ever.
Baumgartner
A tender masterpiece of love, memory and loss from one of the world's great writers.
The life of Sy Baumgartner - noted author, and soon-to-be retired philosophy professor - has been defined by his deep, abiding love for his wife, Anna. Now Anna is gone, and Baumgartner is embarking on his seventies whilst trying to live with her absence. But Anna's voice is everywhere still, in every spiral of memory and reminiscence, in each recalled episode of the passionate forty years they shared.
Rich with compassion, wit and an eye for beauty in the smallest, most transient episodes of ordinary life, Baumgartner is one of Auster's most luminous works - a tender late masterpiece of the ache of memory.
My Friends
An intensely moving novel about three friends living in political exile and the emotional homeland that deep friendships can provide - from the Booker-shortlisted, Pulitzer prize-winning author of THE RETURN
Khaled and Mustafa meet at university in Edinburgh: two Libyan eighteen-year-olds expecting to return home after their studies. In a moment of recklessness and courage, they travel to London to join a demonstration in front of the Libyan embassy. When government officials open fire on protestors in broad daylight, both friends are wounded, and their lives forever changed.
Over the years that follow, Khaled, Mustafa and their friend Hosam, a writer, are bound together by their shared history. If friendship is a space to inhabit, theirs becomes small and inhospitable when a revolution in Libya forces them to choose between the lives they have created in London and the lives they left behind.
Frontieres
Explore the food of France's borderlands with acclaimed chef Alex Jackson in his second cookbook Fronti?res.
This is a book about the cooking of France’s borderlands: from the geographical to the historical, linguistic and metaphorical. In it, Alex Jackson sets out to investigate the cooking of these borderland areas with a view to exploring the similarities between the food on either side of the borders. From the Riviera, where the border has shifted many times but the cooking remains of a delicious whole, to the Occitan valleys of the Italian Alps, the Franco-German cooking of Alsace, and Marseille, one of the most important ports of the Mediterranean, and its historic (and current) links with North Africa.
Alex explores how French cuisine has been influenced through history and that many of these dishes are part of a shared tradition of western European and Mediterranean cookery.
With over 80 mouth-watering recipes and fascinating introductions to each region, Frontieres will take you on a delicious gastronomic journey through France's varied borderlands, adding many interesting dishes to your repertoire along the way.
Stuffed
In times of plenty, we stuff ourselves. When the food runs out, we're stuffed too. How have people in the British Isles shared the riches from our fields, dairies, kitchens and seas, as well as those from around the world? And when the cupboard is bare, who steps up to the plate to feed the nation's hungry children, soldiers at war or families in crisis?
Stuffed tells the stories of the food and drink at the centre of social upheavals from prehistory to the present: the medieval inns boosted by the plague; the Enclosures that finished off the celebratory roast goose; the Victorian chemist searching for unadulterated mustard; the post-war supermarkets luring customers with strawberries. Drawing on cookbooks, literature and social records, Pen Vogler reveals how these turning points have led to today's extremes of plenty and want: roast beef and food banks; allotment-fresh vegetables and ultra-processed fillers.
It is a tale of feast and famine, and of the traditions, the ideas and the laws which have fed - or starved - the nation, but also of the yeasty magic of bread and ale, the thrill of sugary treats, the pies and puddings that punctuate the year, and why the British would give anything - even North America - for a nice cup of tea.
Look No Further
The Parent Trap meets The Vanishing Half in Rioghnach Robinson and Siofra Robinson’s Look No Further, a gripping YA novel about estranged siblings who meet for the first time at art camp and confront their differing experiences of race and identity.
When 17-year-old Niko and 15-year-old Ali meet at Ogilvy Summer Art Institute, a selective camp for art students in New York City, they seem like complete opposites. Ali comes across as standoffish to laid-back Niko, who feels like a fish out of water surrounded by so many type-A peers. So when a teacher assigns them as pairs for a genealogy project, Ali and Niko are shocked to find they have a lot more in common than they bargained for.
As the pair embark on a quest to uncover their shared history, Ali finds herself falling for her roommate—who may have already fallen for another girl at Ogilvy—and surfer-bro Niko struggles to find his footing in the glamorous NYC art scene. Soon they’re both questioning their preconceptions about the world and each other. But only when they face real heartbreak can they accept the most transformative revelation of all: the best art is what you make, not just what you see.
The Co-op
A steamy second chance romance about restoration and renovation, and uncovering all the things that build character within ourselves, from the popular TikTok author, perfect for fans of Lucy Score, B.K. Borison and Sarah Adams.
They say love and construction don't mix. By that logic, hate and construction may as well be condemned.
LaRynn Lavigne and Deacon Leeds had one short and contentious summer fling when they were teens - certainly nothing to build a foundation on. But a decade later, when their grandmothers have left them with shared ownership of their dilapidated Santa Cruz building, they're thrust back together and have to figure out how to brace up the pieces.
LaRynn has the money, but in order to access her trust, she has to be married. Deacon has the construction expertise, but lacks the funds. A deal is struck: Marry for however long it takes to fix up the property, collect a profit, and cut ties.
Thrust into a home without walls, LaRynn and Deacon quickly learn that it's easy to hide behind emotional ones, even in a marriage. But with all the exposure and pitfalls that come with living with the opposite sex (and none of the perks, much to their growing mutual frustration) they'll also have to learn what it means to truly cooperate as a team.