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Antarctica
A stunning new hardback edition of Claire Keegan''s debut story collection.‘A beautiful, tender work of great clarity.’ SEBASTIAN BARRY''Simply put, Claire Keegan is one of the greatest fiction writers in the world.'' GEORGE SAUNDERS‘Among the finest contemporary stories written recently in English.’ OBSERVERA secret one-night tryst in the city. A sister’s revenge. A love-struck doctor. A missing girl. In Antarctica, an astonishing sequence of stories, one of our most gifted writers illuminates human longing and fallibility in all its variety.-------Readers love Antarctica:⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ''This is the best short story collection I have ever read. Trust me she is a real find!''''⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ''A skilled writer who immerses us seamlessly in the lives of her characters.''⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ''I have now read every word Claire Keegan has written. That''s how much I love her writing.''⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ''With her keen eye and lucid prose, Keegan beguiles, jolts and haunts us beyond the pages.''⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ''The writing is both tender, poetic and authentic ... the stories stay with you long after you have finished reading.''
Selected Nonfiction, 1962–2007
J. G. Ballard''s collected nonfiction from 1962 to 2007, mapping the cultural obsessions, experiences, and insights of one of the most original minds of his generation.J. G. Ballard was a colossal figure in English literature and an imaginative force of the twentieth century. Alongside seminal novels?from the notorious Crash (1973) to the semi-autobiographical Empire of the Sun (1984)?Ballard was a sought-after reviewer and commentator, publishing journalism, memoir, and cultural criticism in a variety of forms. This volume collects the most significant short nonfiction of Ballard''s fifty-year career, extending the range of the only previous collection of his nonfiction, A User''s Guide to the Millennium (1996), which selected essays and reviews published between 1962 and 1995.A decade on from Ballard''s death in 2009, a new generation of readers needs a new collection. In the period following A User''s Guide, Ballard''s writing addressed 9/11, British politics from New Labour onward, and what he termed ?the rise of soft fascism??a diagnosis that maintains its relevance amid a shift toward right populism in European and US politics. Beautifully edited by Ballard scholar and novelist Mark Blacklock, this volume includes Ballard''s editorials and manifestos; commentaries on his own work; commentaries on the work of others; reviews; and more. Above all, it makes the case for the currency of Ballard''s work at a contemporary juncture at which so many of his diagnoses concerning the media and politics have become apparent.
Men in the Sun
Three Palestinian men embark on a brutal and treacherous odyssey across the Iraqi desert to Kuwait, not for liberation but material betterment. Under the indifferent brutality of border bureaucracy and the blank aggression of the sun, things grow increasingly oppressive. Breezily conversational and disarmingly lyrical, this short novel delivers a shuddering dose of horror.
O. Henry for the Holidays
Complete with helpful notes about each short story''s biographical and cultural contexts. ''There are just as many real Christmas stories as ever, if we would only dig ''em up,'' wrote William Sydney Porter. The first short story he published under the pen name O. Henry was a holiday tale (''Whistling Dick''s Christmas Stocking''), while his best-known work, ''The Gift of the Magi,'' has inspired countless Yuletide movies and television episodes. Library of America presents all seven of his seasonal offerings-including two about Thanksgiving, the ''one day that is purely American'': The Purple Dress; Two Thanksgiving Day Gentlemen; Whistling Dick''s Christmas Stocking; A Chaparral Christmas Gift; Christmas by Injunction; The Gift of the Magi; Compliments of the Season. You''ll meet characters only O. Henry could have imagined: Maida, a shop clerk who scrimps and saves for a new dress to wear to the employee holiday party. Stuffy Pete, a homeless man who suffers through the generosity of back-to-back Thanksgiving dinners. The Frio Kid, a murderous outlaw who unexpectedly commits a single act of generosity. Whistling Dick, a tramp who stumbles upon a potentially lethal act of arson and robbery. Cherokee, a gold prospector who strikes it rich and decides to play Santa Claus. And Fuzzy, an alcoholic ''soldier of misfortune,'' who stumbles upon the lost rag doll belonging to a millionaire''s five-year-old daughter. Always witty, often outrageously funny, and filled with O. Henry''s famous plot twists, these stories take readers from New Mexico and Texas, through New Orleans, and to New York City to find the holiday spirit all across America.
Töredékek
A szerző tépelődő kisesszéi szellemi és erkölcsi, értelmi és érzelmi megközelítései keletközép-európai indulatainknak és hiteinknek, hiedelmeinknek és sérelmeinknek. Mítoszrombolás. Magyar és szlovák, cseh és német, zsidó és jaj ki ne mondd: migráns cserepekből, népi és elit kultúrából szedi és rakja össze, finom régész ösztönnel és kézzel, kifinomult néprajzos hallással és érzékkel a sosem volt, de mégis valahol a mélyben rejtező keletközép-európai civilizációt.
Lifeform
From actor, comedian, co-creator of Marcel the Shell, and New York Times bestselling author of Little Weirds Jenny Slate, a wild, soulful, hilarious collection of genre-bending essays depicting the journey into motherhood as you've never seen it before. What happened was this: Jenny Slate was a human mammal who sniffed the air every morning hoping to find another person to love who would love her, and in that period there was a deep dark loneliness that she had to face and befriend, and then we are pleased to report that she did fall in love, and in that period she was like chimes, or a flock of clean breaths, and her spine lying flat was the many-colored planks on the xylophone, but also she was rabid with fear of losing this love, because of past injury. And then what happened was that she became a wild-pregnant-mammal-thing and then she exploded herself by having a whole baby blast through her vagina during a global plague and then she was expected to carry on like everything was normal-but was this normal, and had she or anything ever been norma? erein lies an account of this journey, told in five phases-Single, True Love, Pregnancy, Baby, and Ongoing-through luminous, laugh-out-loud funny, unclassifiable essays that take the form of letters to a doctor, dreams of a stork, fantasy therapy sessions, gossip between racoons, excerpts from an imaginary olden timey play, obituaries, theories about post-partum hair loss, graduation speeches, and more. No one writes like Jenny Slate.
My Book of Treasures
''I welcome you with open arms to my book of treasures. It''s a book for all seasons and for all occasions; and it comes to you from me, with armfuls of effusive greetings and salutations, trailing clouds of glory and affection, this offering of treasures made specially for you.'' Joanna LumleyOver the years Joanna Lumley has kept private notebooks, filled with her favourite writings, thoughts and quotes. Now, for the first time, she opens her Book of Treasures to share some of her many and varied jottings with readers.This collection of chosen writings, interspersed with narration from Joanna, features the lines of her best-loved authors, from Shakespeare to Emily Dickinson, pearls of wisdom that she has heard or read, and nuggets of trivia and miscellanea that have made her happy.The book is full of surprise and variety: the wistful keeps company with the acerbic, the sincere slips in besides the absurd. And the result is a jewel box of delights, filled with fabulous titbits.
Is Free Speech Under Threat?
In a book that can be read from either end, two leading thinkers present alternative answers to one of the most difficult and divisive questions of our times Suzanne Nossel, CEO of PEN America, argues that alongside the necessary and long-overdue elevation of minority voices in recent years, there has also arisen an uncompromising intolerance – most notably on university campuses and online – that wrongly equates a wide range of offensive speech with violence and seeks to shut it down. This has led to an escalating free speech arms race, from which everyone loses. Charlotte Lydia Riley, historian of empire and editor of The Free Speech Wars, argues that accusations of cancel culture and defences of free speech are too often disingenuous attempts to fuel a culture war and so inhibit an important realignment in which hateful speech is at last being called out for what it is and the right to free expression is being extended to more people than ever before. Published in conjunction with Intelligence Squared, the world’s leading curator of debate, this book is part of the THINK AGAIN series: short books that present two expert, contrasting but equally persuasive views in a single volume that can be read from either end.
You Glow In The Dark
''Do you glow in the dark?'' In 1987, an unsecured source of radiotherapy was stolen from an abandoned hospital in Goiania, Brazil, resulting in four deaths and 249 contaminations. Liliana Colanzi''s debut collection is inspired by this radiological disaster, where each story seizes the reader''s attention through her unpredictable and original storytelling. Colanzi transgresses the distinction between reality and fiction, time and genre, to create a striking exploration of toxic waste and its impact on local lives and the environment. Where a harmless object or place holds an invisible threat and the reader is left wondering what is real. You Glow in the Dark is an impactful and experimental collection that exemplifies the genius of Colanzi''s writing.
The Cambridge Introduction to Ernest Hemingway
One hundred years after the publication of his first major work, Ernest Hemingway remains an important author. His work addressed the search for meaning in the wake of a 'Great War' and amid the challenges of rapidly changing social conventions, and his prose style has influenced generations of journalists and writers. Hemingway was wounded on the battlefield and caught up throughout his life in conflicting desires. He was also a deeply committed artist, a restless experimenter with the elements of narrative form and prose style. This book's detailed discussions, informed both by close formal analysis and by contemporary critical frameworks, tease out the complexity with which Hemingway depicted disabled characters and romantic relationships in changing historical and cultural contexts. This introduction is especially useful for students and teachers in literary studies and modernism.
Something Quite Beautiful
Seven powerful, gripping short stories from bestselling author, Amanda Prowse.''If you have not discovered Amanda Prowse yet you are in for a real treat... Full of incident and real characters'' Rascals of LondonCollection includes:Something Quite Beautiful, The Game, Ten Pound Ticket, Imogen''s Baby, Miss Potterton''s Birthday Tea, A Christmas Wish and Mr Portobollo''s Morning Paper.Susie has just arrived in Australia. She is clutching a newborn baby, but she has no wedding ring on her left hand. With no money, and no hope, how can she turn her life around?Gemma Peters, a happy-go-lucky teenager has disappeared without trace. Where has she gone? Why has she been lying to her family? And, most importantly, will she ever come home?Twenty-four-year-old Imogen longs for a baby. She knows it''s hard to raise a child alone, but Imogen is also blind. Can she overcome life''s challenges and have the baby she longs for?Funny, heart-warming and moving, these seven short stories are the perfect excuse for a bit of me-time.
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Alvók futása
Gyerekek és idősek: emberek útjuk kezdetén és végén. Emberek, akikről az út közepén járók, a szüntelenül dolguk után futók gyakran alig vesznek tudomást. Akik szeretetre és törődésre vágynak, de nemegyszer hiába - ők Szabó Magda első novelláskötetének főszereplői.
Akik olyan szerényen élnek, akiknek még az elmúlása is olyan tapintatos, hogy csak a hiányukból derül ki: nélkülük az élet kizökken medréből, sőt megáll. Akik még nem bizonyíthattak, és nincs is módjuk bizonyítani. És a többiek, akik mindezt csak akkor veszik észre, amikor már késő. Mi, olvasók elszorult torokkal döbbenünk rá, hogy valamennyien úgy cselekedtek, ahogy cselekedhettek, legjobb tudásuk és szándékuk szerint, hiszen ahány élet, annyiféle igazság.
Kevés könyv mesél oly érzékletesen és hátborzongatóan, mégis meghatóan és elgondolkodtatóan eszmélésről-elmúlásról, mint az Alvók futása.
Relearning to Read
Relearning to Read: Adventures in Not-Knowing invites you to turn the way you read upside down and see what falls out. Drawing on an approach to reading developed over more than a decade of interactions with stories and booklovers around the world through the author’s hit blog ayearofreadingtheworld.com, the book puts not-knowing centre stage and plays with what examining the gaps in our understanding and the assumptions we use to plug them can teach us about ourselves and our world.Many books about books celebrate the cosiness and consolation of reading; Relearning to Read does the opposite. Built on the realisation that to read widely we must make friends with incomprehension – because no one can be an expert in all the world’s literatures – it explores how getting comfortable with discomfort and owning our limitations can take us further and deepen our appreciation of the world’s complexity and richness.
Erősebb nálam
A szerelemről és a biztonság vágyáról szól az Erősebb nálam, Szabó T. Anna új novelláskötete. Hosszabb-rövidebb történetei sokféleképpen beszélnek a hirtelen feltörő vagy éppen élethosszig tartó szenvedélyekről. Minden szereplője sóvárog valamire, testi egyesülésre, hitbeli bizonyosságra, függésre, otthonosságra, anyai szeretetre vagy apai figyelemre. Tere a mi terünk, ideje a most és az elmúlt évszázad. A szereplők gondjai ismerősek, de a gyújtópontba azok a pillanatok kerülnek, amikor váratlanul és érthetetlenül mégiscsak felizzik az öröm és a feloldódás fényessége: az időn kívüli perc, amiért érdemes élni. A vágy az, ami éltet, és ha kell, összetöri a világ szigorú kereteit.
Přeháňky
Když jsem se na konci léta v roce 1969 vracel z Francie do Čech, tušil jsem, že se vracím do nejistot. Ale také jsem už věděl, že psát mohu jen česky a já psát chtěl. Psát, nic jiného mně tenkrát nezbývalo, naděje na vydání nebyla žádná. Až samizdat mně hodil záchranné lano a psaní dostalo hlubší smysl. Ani dnes, kdy literatuře zdánlivě nestojí nic v cestě, kdy literatura vstoupila na volný knižní trh, se nepovažuji za "profesionálního" autora. Píši, abych obhájil svou existenci, nic víc, předal zprávu, abych podal ruku čtenáři… Pěstuji přechodné žánry - užitou lyriku, eseje, píši cestopisy, monografie, literární a výtvarné glosy a tvořím také drobnou prózu. Hledám souvislosti, rovnováhu mezi poznáním a osobní zkušeností…
Still Brimming Twilit River, The
The Still Brimming Twilit Rive? s volume 7 of Nicholas Hagge? Collected Storie? nd follows The First Dazzling Chill of Winter/ (2016), which dealt with impending old age. The 1,202 short stories in the previous six volumes cover six decades (from the 1960s to the 2010s) in the life of Philip Rawley. This seventh volume covers a seventh decade and contains 220 more stories and deals with his defiance of growing old. Philip Rawle? attitude is akin to Tennyso? Ulysses who, despite the infirmities of old age, is ready to 'sail beyond the sunset and the baths/Of all the western stars'?in search of new experience and new adventures. These mini-stories present a range of characters from a stable society. A number of these characters reappear in other stories, and are presented with their strengths, follies and flaws in different situations. The stories offer a complete literary experience in a page or two, and their brevity is innovatory. The combination of opposites in their vivid titles derives inspiration from the 17th century: Dr Johnso? definition of the wit of the Metaphysical poets as 'a combination of dissimilar images'?in which 'the most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together'?(?Life of Cowley?). These stories are verbal paintings and present an image in action with a poe? eye for significant detail. Hagge? stories are imagistic, economical and vivid in clean prose and reflect the Age. They contain memorable images and studies of character. They are ideal for short concentration spans, reading on journeys or in bed. They drop into the consciousness like stones and leave the mind to reflect on the spreading ripples. ?
Kistigris
Történetek a szívről
Be mersz lépni a szeretet dzsungelébe?
Milyen egy igazi anyatigris? Vajon tényleg van a Balatonban krokodil? Mit tehet egy kórház onkológiai osztályán egy vezérszurkoló? Miért fontos párválasztásnál, hogy a másik feláll-e a lelátón már félpályánál szurkoláskor? Mi a teendő, ha egy elefánt nem tudja abbahagyni a sírást? Mit csináljunk, ha beszorulunk a vízibiciklibe, vagy Latinovits Zoltánnal és Ruttkai Évával találkozunk? Hogyan lehet a zsebünkbe rejteni a hullócsillagokat, és miként lehet levágni a füvet, ami mindig visszanő, sőt virágos mezőként burjánzik másnapra?
Ahogy a szerelemnek, úgy a szeretetnek is megvannak a saját démonai. A magányban, a gyűlöletben, a gyászban vagy a közönyben elárvult szív bizony gyönyörű szörnyetegeket képes alkotni magának. De a boldogság bestiáriumában sem lakozik sokkal kevesebb furcsa lény.
Finy Petra novelláskötete mágikus abszurditással mutatja be, hogyan tudnak saját érzelmeink csapdát állítani nekünk ebben a mindig mohó dzsungelben, amit életnek nevezünk.
The Riverside Chaucer
The third edition of the definitive collection of Chaucer''s Complete Works, reissued with a new foreword by Christopher Cannon.Since F. N. Robinson''s second edition of the The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer was published in 1957, there has been a dramatic increase in Chaucer scholarship. This has not only enriched our understanding of Chaucer''s art, but has also enabled scholars, working for the first time with all the source-material, to recreate Chaucer''s authentic texts.For the third edition, an international team of experts completely re-edited all the works, added glosses to appear on the page with the text, and greatly expanded the introductory material, explanatory notes, textual notes, bibliography, and glossary.In short, the Riverside Chaucer is the fruit of many years'' study - the most authentic and exciting edition available of Chaucer''s Complete Works.
Duchomorna
Antologie Duchomorna přináší více než tři desítky strašidelných příběhů z české literatury 19. století.
První část knihy je zaměřena na černou magii, druhá pak na nejrůznější démony: čerty, vodníky, divoženky, duchy, revenanty včetně upírů, vlkodlaky, polednici i démonická zvířata. Texty jsou vybrány tak, aby představily široké spektrum autorů od známých až po zcela zapomenuté a aby ukázaly nejrůznější podoby příběhů: od pohádek, přes pověsti a povídky až k etnografickým studiím, od čisté hrůzy až po rozmarně nebo černohumorně laděné texty. Nechybí medailonky autorů a obecné výklady týkající se tématu knihy.
Neváhejte! Vstupte do Duchomorny a nechte se opájet panoptikem hrůz v oparu dávno zašlých časů.
Kniha obsahuje povídky těchto autorek a autorů: Pavel Albieri, František Bayer, Václav Beneš Třebízský, Jan Dunovský, Tobiáš Eliáš Tisovský, Josef Václav Frič, František Herites, Ignát Herrmann, Ignát Hořica, Jan Hýbl, Karel Chalupa, Gustav Jaroš, Alois Jirásek, Františka Klejslová-Krákorová, Josef Jiří Kolár, Josef Deograt Konrád, Martin Kozák, Václav Rodomil Kramerius, Karel Leger, Jakub Malý, Karel Mašek, František Ladislav Menhard, Josef Müldner, Anna Popelková, František Poštulka, Henrietta Ritterová z Rittersberku, František Řehoř, Václav Říha, Rudolf Secký, Polykarp Starý, Josef Karel Šlejhar, Julius Zeyer.
Radi siahnete po kvalitnej literatúre no dlhé knihy nie sú to čo hľadáte? Všetci poznajú známe svetové romány. Skúsme si však na moment odpočinúť od veľkej literatúry. Objavte s nami čaro kratších žánrov a vychutnajte si novely z pera Williama Saroyana, (ne)nechajte sa zastrašiť poviedkami Edgara Allana Poea alebo sa pobavte na irónii a sarkazme Roalda Dahla.
Čo spája známe české filmy Postřižiny, Slavnosti sněženek či Něžný barbar? Všetky majú námet v pôvodnej literárnej predlohe spisovateľa Bohumila Hrabala. Ak sú i vaše obľúbené, príjemné čítanie vás čaká aj pri listovaní iných jeho diel. Skúste napríklad novelu Příliš hlučná samota, kritikou označovanú za jeden z najvýraznejších literárnych počinov 20. storočia. Nadšencov filmu oslovia tiež Filmové příběhy od Zdeněka Svěráka či kniha Bez peria neopakovateľného Woodyho Allena.
A čo slovenská tvorba? Vo svete noviel a poviedok sa, samozrejme, nedajú zahanbiť ani naši majstri slova. Pavel Vilikovský, Pavol Rankov alebo úspešné spisovateľky približujúce ženský svet Zuzana Šedá či Viera Švenková sú toho dôkazom.
Nezabúdame ani na študentov. Čo pri písaní seminárnej práce pomôže viac ako kvalitná antológia? Potrebujete pohľad odborníkov zo sféry filozofie, politológie, hudby? Nájdite všetko čo potrebujete na jednom mieste.
Novely, poviedky a antológie sú dôležité literárne kategórie, ktoré prinášajú rôznorodé a kompaktné diela, vhodné na krátke čítanie. Každá z týchto kategórií má svoje vlastné charakteristiky a prínosy.
Novela je kratšie prozaické dielo, ktoré je zvyčajne dlhšie ako poviedka, ale kratšie ako román. Novely sa zameriavajú na konkrétny príbeh, ktorý je vyrozprávaný s dôrazom na charakterizáciu postáv a atmosféru.
Poviedka je krátke prozaické dielo, ktoré sa zameriava na jednoduchý príbeh s obmedzeným rozsahom a počtom postáv. V poviedkach sa často uplatňuje umelecký prístup, kde autor dokáže v krátkom texte vykresliť významné momenty, konflikty alebo emócie.
Antológia je zbierka literárnych diel rôznych autorov. Môže obsahovať novely, poviedky, básne alebo iné literárne formy. Antológie majú často určitú tematickú alebo žánrovú zameranie, a ich cieľom je ponúknuť čitateľovi širokú škálu diel od rôznych autorov na jednom mieste.
