Hľadanie: Selected Fairy Tales EN
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Three Robbers
Hailed by the "New York Times Book Review" as 'one of the most brilliant illustrators at work today', Tomi Ungerer has been making beautiful, anarchic and unique books for children for more than 40 years. He has been described by the "Guardian" as 'the direct natural descendant of the Brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Andersen' and, like all the best fairy tales, his classic story of "The Three Robbers" is by turns scary, charming and surprising.The book tells the story of three fierce black-clad robbers who terrorize the countryside, scaring everyone they meet. One robber stops carriage horses with his pepper spray, the second destroys the wheels of the carriage with his axe, and the third robs the passengers by holding them up with his blunderbuss. One day the robbers stop a carriage only to find a small orphan girl called Tiffany inside. On her way to live with a strange aunt, Tiffany is delighted to meet the robbers, who take her back to their cave instead of their usual haul of money, gold and jewels. The next day, Tiffany sees the treasures the robbers have amassed and asks what they plan to do with their riches.The men are baffled, as they had never thought about spending their money. So they decide to buy a castle and welcome all the lost, unhappy and abandoned children they can find. The robbers dress them in tall hats and long capes, just like the ones they wear themselves, only in red instead of black. Years later, when they are grown up, the children build a village near the castle, full of people wearing red hats and red capes. They also build three tall towers, in honour of the three robbers. First published in 1962, "The Three Robbers" has been translated into 16 languages, but has been unavailable in English for years. Now, this beautifully woven sequence of entertaining text and colourful eye-catching illustrations is back to delight children aged 4-8 and above.
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Christmas at the Palace
The royal chef to The Prince & Princess of Wales, Prince William, and Prince Harry shares 50 of her best-loved holiday dishes so everyone can celebrate like royalty. Inspired by England's classic Christmastime dishes and 10 of the most popular and luxurious palaces, royal chef Carolyn Robb presents 50 festive recipes to ring in the holiday season. Featuring favorite baked treats, from the nation's classic figgy pudding and Christmas cake to more contemporary fare, this beautiful collection offers a taste of the history and timeless tradition of a royal British Christmas.
Full Metal Panic! Short Stories Volume 1: Intriguing One-Man Band?
Sagara Sousuke isn't your typical high school student. He reads military enthusiast magazines; he responds to questions with "affirmative;" he brings grenades to school in his bag. Though everyone at school takes him for a hopeless military geek, Chidori Kaname thinks there might be something more to him. When their plane is hijacked in the middle of a field trip, Kaname's instincts will prove correct: Sousuke is an elite, mech-piloting mercenary... and he's here to protect her!
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Sněhulení
Stripová série Sněhulení je nevlastním bratříčkem komiksu O Sněhu. Odehrává se na detašovaném pracovišti v Zemi sněhuláků a svým čtenářům předkládá historii, tradice, současnost i specifické peripetie toho pozoruhodného národa. Kniha je určena "starším dětem" (15+), neboť v ní občas najdete lechtivé scény a sem tam i nějakou nadávku. Jde o humorné i trpké příběhy z krajiny, kde vládne bílá tma, a mnozí obyvatelé mají srdce z ledu.
Jak to ve fantastice bývá, občas se prolnou dva neslučitelné světy a do krajiny sněhu a ledu si najdou cestu vlivy a osobnosti zvenčí, z říše lidí. A popravdě, to není zrovna sněhulákům dvakrát pochuti. Několikrát přímo do děje, zvláště v bonusech připravených výhradně pro tuto knihu, vstoupí i samotní tvůrci Sněhulení, aby se pokusili nastavit křehkou rovnováhu mezi oběma světy.
Autory jsou duchovní otec příběhů O sněhu, kreslíř Pavel "Pata" Talaš a scénárista / spisovatel Roman "BeeSee" Bílek, které můžete znát díky velmi pestré společné (i samostatné) tvorbě.
Příkladem může být dobrodružný epos bez omezení věku O sněhu - Hledání jara nebo sci-fi seriál pro nejmenší Meloun & Sirka, který určitě znáte z populárního dětského časopisu Čtyřlístek. Samotné Sněhulení vycházelo pravidelně na žánrovém serveru Vlčí Bouda od ledna 2014 a počet svých dílů zaokrouhlilo na rovnou stovku.
Where the Deer and the Antelope Play
Going back to his literal roots, Nick Offerman takes a journey to America's frontier to celebrate the people and stories, both historically and today, that have made it great - and, working together, will keep it that way. Nick Offerman has always loved the United States of America - not just the people and the history, but the actual land itself. In his new book, Nick takes a humorous, inspiring, and fascinating trip to America's frontier to celebrate the people, landscape, and stories, both historically and today, that have made it great - and, working together, will keep it that way. In July 2019, Nick took a hiking trip to Glacier National Park with his friends Jeff Tweedy and George Saunders. The trip, and the conversations between the three men, began a study and exploration of both the American West and our National Parks that addresses so many of the important issues that affect America today. This book both maps out the group's travels and dives deeply into subjects such as: the history and geology of the National Parks of the West; farming, animal life, and conservation; the importance of outdoor recreation, including hunting and fishing; and building both local and national communities across party lines - all subjects very close to Nick's heart. With wit, heartwarming stories, and a keen insight into new and exciting ways to see both the past and the future of the country, Nick Offerman is ready to tackle his most important subject yet.
Brick Architecture
An illustrated celebration of architecture with bricks - the most traditional, inexpensive and flexible of building materials - in a series of recent modern projects.
Bricks have been in constant use for a long time. Brick is inexpensive and flexible in its use and today the appreciation for its versatile application, constructive qualities and eco-efficiency remains intact.
This book presents selected designs in detailed descriptions accompanied by beautiful images, site and floor plans, elevations and sections. Focusing on residential and interior architecture, this impressive volume is a celebration of contemporary brick architecture, a great exploration of the most surprising, fascinating and inspiring recent projects.
Cinderella of the Nile
Beautifully retold by the award-winning author Beverley Naidoo, this earliest-known version of Cinderella is brought to life for the modern- day reader. Rhodopis is a Greek girl who is sold into slavery by bandits and taken to Egypt. Along the way she becomes friends with the storyteller Aesop and a host of playful animals.
Her master gives her a pair of beautiful rose-red slippers, making three other servants jealous. But when Horus, the falcon, sweeps in to steal her slipper, Rhodopis has little idea that this act will lead her to the King of Egypt. The first in our `One Story, Many Voices' series, this ancient story of Cinderella finds its echo in fairy tales all over the world.
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The Fall Of Gondolin
Painstakingly restored from Tolkien's manuscripts and presented for the first time as a standalone work, the epic tale of The Fall of Gondolin will reunite fans of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings with Elves and Men, Balrogs, Dragons and Orcs and the rich landscape and creatures unique to Tolkien's Middle-earth. In the Tale of The Fall of Gondolin are two of the greatest powers in the world. There is Morgoth of the uttermost evil, unseen in this story but ruling over a vast military power from his fortress of Angband.
Deeply opposed to Morgoth is Ulmo, second in might only to Manwe, chief of the Valar. Central to this enmity of the gods is the city of Gondolin, beautiful but undiscoverable. It was built and peopled by Noldorin Elves who, when they dwelt in Valinor, the land of the gods, rebelled against their rule and fled to Middle-earth.
Turgon King of Gondolin is hated and feared above all his enemies by Morgoth, who seeks in vain to discover the marvellously hidden city, while the gods in Valinor in heated debate largely refuse to intervene in support of Ulmo's desires and designs. Into this world comes Tuor, cousin of Turin, the instrument of Ulmo's designs. Guided unseen by him Tuor sets out from the land of his birth on the fearful journey to Gondolin, and in one of the most arresting moments in the history of Middle-earth the sea-god himself appears to him, rising out of the ocean in the midst of a storm.
In Gondolin he becomes great; he is wedded to Idril, Turgon's daughter, and their son is Earendel, whose birth and profound importance in days to come is foreseen by Ulmo. At last comes the terrible ending. Morgoth learns through an act of supreme treachery all that he needs to mount a devastating attack on the city, with Balrogs and dragons and numberless Orcs.
After a minutely observed account of the fall of Gondolin, the tale ends with the escape of Tuor and Idril, with the child Earendel, looking back from a cleft in the mountains as they flee southward, at the blazing wreckage of their city. They were journeying into a new story, the Tale of Earendel, which Tolkien never wrote, but which is sketched out in this book from other sources. Following his presentation of Beren and Luthien Christopher Tolkien has used the same 'history in sequence' mode in the writing of this edition of The Fall of Gondolin.
In the words of J.R.R. Tolkien, it was 'the first real story of this imaginary world' and, together with Beren and Luthien and The Children of Hurin, he regarded it as one of the three 'Great Tales' of the Elder Days.
The Land of Stone Flowers
Classic fairytales get a refreshing satirical twist in this collection of illustrated stories in which gnomes, pixies, and other fairy folk share tall tales of the strange and unbelievable human world and its inhabitants. Brimming with keen observations and wild assumptions on human anatomy, customs, languages, rituals, dwellings, and more, The Land of Stone Flowers is as absurd as it is astounding, examining contradictory and nonsensical human behaviors through the lens of the fantastic: from the bewitching paper wizards who live in humans' wallets to their invisible hats, known as "moods," which cloud their view of the world. Bursting with intricate and evocative illustrations, The Land of Stone Flowers will draw readers into a world of fantasy and fable that slyly reveals many hidden truths about human existence.
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Hajnali takarodó
Az ebben a könyvben olvasható tizennyolc elbeszélés a negyedik és az utolsó olyan kötet, melyet Taps at Reveille (Hajnali takarodó) címmel F. Scott Fitzgerald még életében állított össze és küldött el kiadójának. Hogy biztos legyen a dolgában (szüksége volt a pénzre, mint mindig, nagyon), irodalmi ügynökének, Harold Obernek ajánlotta, akinek jóvoltából 1935. március 10-én a kötet napvilágot is látott. Ő, mármint Fitzgerald, személyesen ezeket az írásokat tartotta a legjobbaknak a talán 1száznyolcvannál is több novellája közül. Hogy azok-e, mármint a legjobbak, azon már megoszlottak az olvasói, és a kritikusi, vélemények. A New York Times-ban Edith Walton például fanyalogva fogadta. Egyetlen „görbe éjszakának” tartotta, melyre Fitzgerald fölöslegesen pazarolta „ragyogó tehetségét.” A Basil Lee-vel kapcsolatos „kis remekművek” mellett a Vissza Babilonba (Babylon Revisited) azonban neki is nagyon tetszett, melyet „a legérettebb és legértékesebb” műnek tartott ebben a kötetben. Az írójának szomorú, ám aligha végleges búcsúja Párizstól és a nem éppen vidám hangulat, vagy inkább férfiúi mélabú, mely az egész elbeszélést körüllengi, talán azt mutatja, hogy a szerző szakított, vagy legalább is minden áron megpróbál szakítani a dzsesszkorszak idején, az üvöltő húszas években művelt őrültségeivel. Mi olvasók, nagyjából talán osztani is tudjuk a jó szemű kritikusnak ezt a véleményét. Azzal viszont ma már nehezen tudnánk egyetérteni, amit a továbbiakban mond ezekről a hol kisebb, hol pedig nagyobb lélegzetű történetekről. Azt állítja, ami szinte közhely, hogy az, amiről Fitzgerald idejét és tehetségét nem kímélve ír, nem méltó tollára. Mert ezek a témák, mondja Walton, egészen triviálisak. Bár igaz, teszi hozzá, hogy ennek ellenére írásainak fénye: az eredeti, csak a Fitzgeraldra jellemző, magával ragadó sodrású stílus és profizmus mégis mindenkit elbűvöl. Szerencsére a későbbi korok kritikusai sem értenek egyet e nagy, ha nem az egyik legnagyobb, amerikai író ilyen szubjektív leminősítésével, mert jól látták, hogy amihez Fitzgerald hozzányúlt „magával ragadó sodrású stílusával és profizmusával,” az első szerelemtől a valóra nem vált amerikai álomig, az igenis mind méltó nemcsak az ő, hanem minden valamirevaló író tollára. Nem triviálisak a témái, semmiképpen sem azok. Vajon annak nevezhetjük azt, ha, mondjuk, egy, a maga körül lévő világra rácsodálkozó felnövekvő kamasz fiúnak, vagy nyiladozó szemű nagylánynak (a Basil és Josephine történetekben például) a lelkivilága tárul elénk, amint értelmezni kezdi a
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Yorran: Born in the Dust of Path
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He, who never finds the courage to leave the native home, never finds who he truly is. This applied in the past and will apply in the future, and thus it‘s no surprise that it applies to the world created by the author of the Yorran saga, too. Only the obstacles and trials which the heroes of this fantasy story need to face are different from ours.
There are people who set out on such journey voluntarily, and some will be forced to take it by the ruthless power of their destiny. And the story of our hero isn‘t any different. Abarhil is not a boy anymore. The question, however, is whether he really is the man who can face up to the trials which the fate lays before him.
The author of the saga has created a complex world which he populated with unknown nations and curious animals. He created a history of the world in which he planted the seeds of events which just now begin to sprout. The features of future events are not very clear, yet, but not even our hero is ready to face them. Thus, a long journey awaits him. Far away sail to the southern seas, return journey full of hardships through the wilderness, unexpected adventures, and above all, unusual encounters which indicate his disturbing future. Can he handle the traps of love to which his heart will be exposed? Will he stand the test of the war hardships which his destiny lays before him? Will he understand what his destiny asks of him?
Let‘s set out on this long and dangerous journey across the unknown world. Set your foot on a dusty path from which a new hero will be born.
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CZ:
Kdo nenajde odvahu opustit rodný dům, nikdy nezjistí, kdo doopravdy je. To platilo včera, bude to platit zítra, a tak není divu, že to platí i ve světě stvořeném autorem ságy Yorrân. Jen překážky a zkoušky, kterým musí čelit hrdinové fantasy, jsou jiné než ty naše.
Někdo se na takovou cestu vydá dobrovolně, jiného na ní postrčí nemilosrdná ruka osudu. A stejné je to i s hrdinou tohoto příběhu. Abarhil už není chlapcem. Otázka však zní, zda už je skutečně mužem, který se dokáže postavit čelem zkouškám, které mu osud přichystal?
Autor epické ságy vytvořil kompletní svět, který osídlil neznámými národy a zvláštními zvířaty. Stvořil dějiny světa, do kterých zasadil semena událostí, která právě nyní začínají klíčit. Obrysy budoucích událostí ještě nejsou příliš zřetelné, ale ani hrdina, tohoto příběhu, ještě není připraven jim čelit. Proto jej čeká dlouhá pouť. Daleká plavba do jižních moří, strastiplný návrat divočinou, nečekaná dobrodružství, a hlavně neobvyklá setkání, která mu naznačí jeho znepokojivou budoucnost. Dokáže zvládnout úklady lásky, kterým bude vystaveno jeho srdce? Obstojí ve válečných útrapách, které mu přichystal osud? Pochopí, co po něm osud žádá?
Pojďte se vydat na dlouhou a nebezpečnou cestu neznámým světem. Vstupte na stezku z jejíhož prachu se zrodí nový hrdina.
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Growing Up
Were the 1960s really a great time of liberation and joyful experimentation? Growing Up takes an unflinching look at the dark underbelly of the sexual revolution.
No era in recent history has been both more celebrated and vilified than the 1960s. And at the heart of all that controversy - the music, drugs, fashion, hopes, dreams and political movements - is sex.
In this wide-ranging and eye-opening survey of the sexual landscape of the 1960s, Peter Doggett has assembled a dozen little-known stories that reveal how the sexual revolution transformed people's lives - for better or worse.
Someone Like You
These eighteen tales of the macabre show Dahls dark brilliance as a short-story writer. They are wicked (as an old man attracts the attentions of those more interested in his skin than his wellbeing), shocking (as distasteful bets are made a daughters
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Orwell na steroidech
Kniha přináší rozhovory s předními českými a zahraničními ekonomy, akademiky, byznysmeny a intelektuály o přeměnách světa v příštích třiceti letech. Jaké scénáře a trendy převládnou v budoucnosti? Kdo uspěje v digitální a nejisté době a jaké vzdělání, dovednosti a vlastnosti budou pro mladou generaci klíčové?
„V těchto dnech se píše historie,“ podotýká špičková manažerka Marian Salzmanová v rozhovoru s investičním stratégem Štěpánem Uheríkem k turbulentní současnosti, a globální chaos představuje jako „nový normál“.
Dvojice, které vedly rozhovory: Martin Kupka – Ondřej Neff / Michael Romancov – Jan Kofroň / Michal Skořepa – Raffaella Tenconiová / Pavel Hnát – Bublu Thakur-Weigoldová / Miroslav Novák – Jan Lamser / Helena Horská – Petr Knap / Pavel Kysilka – Petr Beneš / Štěpán Uherík – Marian Salzmanová / Lenka Čábelová – Bob Kartous / Ján Lalka – Aleš Špidla / Roman Chlupatý – František Kinský.
Svět zažívá historický zlom, který akcentuje mnohé hrozby, o nichž psal George Orwell ve slavných dílech 1984 a Zvířecí farma. Naše současnost je nicméně mnohem překotnější, než si dokázal představit. Podle McKinsey Global Institute zažíváme změnu 10x rychlejší a 300x razantnější než přinesla průmyslová revoluce. Negativa jsou tak větší, silnější, rychlejší, jakoby by byla na steroidech. Stejně je to pak s příležitostmi, které „průvodce chaosem“ rovněž rozebírá. Je na každém z nás, jak se k zásadním proměnám světa postaví.
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Whoever controls our memories controls the future.
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