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The Age of Innocence
'We can't behave like people in novels, though, can we?'
Newland Archer and May Welland are the perfect couple. He is a wealthy young lawyer and she is a lovely and sweet-natured girl. All seems set for success until the arrival of May's unconventional cousin Ellen Olenska, who returns from Europe without her husband and proceeds to shake up polite New York society. To Newland, she is a breath of fresh air and a free spirit, but the bond that develops between them throws his values into confusion and threatens his relationship with May.
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Bewilderment
A father. A son. A bewildering world.
Discover the breath-taking new novel from the million-copy bestselling author of The Overstory.
'The love between son and father has an emotional truth that wrings the heart' Guardian
Theo Byrne is a promising young scientist who has found a way to search for life on other planets dozens of light years away. He is also the widowed father of a most unusual nine-year-old. His son Robin is funny, loving and filled with plans. He thinks and feels deeply, adores animals and can spend hours painting elaborate pictures. But after a violent outburst from Robin at school, the strength of their close bond will be tested to its limits...
What can a father do, when those around him refuse to understand his rare and troubled child? And how can he reveal to his boy the truth about our beautiful, bewildered world?
Az aranykor fénykora
Au! Ezt nem hiszed el. Gondolom, igazából te nem hiszed el. Bejelölt. Ki? B... B... Beckham. Mi?! Bejelölt. Ki? Beckham. Ne. De. Nem. De.
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Save Me The Waltz
'We couldn't go on indefinitely being swept off our feet'
One of the great literary curios of the twentieth century Save Me the Waltz is the first and only novel by the wife of F. Scott Fitzgerald. During the years when Fitzgerald was working on Tender is the Night, Zelda Fitzgerald was preparing her own story, which strangely parallels the narrative of her husband, throwing a fascinating light on Scott Fitzgerald's life and work. In its own right, it is a vivid and moving story: the confessional of a famous glamour girl of the affluent 1920s and an aspiring ballerina which captures the spirit of an era.
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Fiesta
'This is a hell of dull talk...How about some of that champagne?'
Paris in the twenties: Pernod, parties and expatriate Americans, loose-living on money from home. Jake is wildly in love with Brett Ashley, aristocratic and irresistibly beautiful, with an abandoned, sensuous nature that she cannot change. When the couple drift to Spain to the dazzle of the fiesta and the heady atmosphere of the Bullfight, their affair is strained by new passions, new jealousies, and Jake must finally learn that he will never possess the woman that he loves.
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Jazz
'What's the world for you if you can't make it up the way you want it?'
Joe Trace - in his fifties, door-to-door salesman of Cleopatra beauty products, erstwhile devoted husband - shoots dead his lover of three months, the impetuous, eighteen-year-old Dorcas.
At the funeral, his determined, hard-working wife, Violet, who is given to stumbling into dark mental cracks, tries with a knife to disfigure the corpse. Passionate and profound, Jazz brings us back and forth in time, in a narrative assembled from the hopes, fears and realities of black urban life.
VINTAGE DECO: Nine blazing, daring novels to celebrate the 1920s - 100 years on.
Goodbye to Berlin
'I'm the type which every man imagines he wants, until he gets me; and then he finds he doesn't really, after all'
Goodbye to Berlin is the novella that inspired Cabaret, evoking the glamour and sleaze, excess and repression of Berlin society. Isherwood shows the lives of people under threat from the rise of the Nazis: a wealthy Jewish heiress, Natalia Landauer, a gay couple, Peter and Otto, and an English upper-class waif, the divinely decadent Sally Bowles.
VINTAGE DECO: Nine blazing, daring novels to celebrate the 1920s - 100 years on.
Mágia
Mágián a köznyelv leginkább varázslatot ért, míg az antropológia afféle ősi, a tudományos logikától eltérő szervezőelveket követő gondolkodási formát.
Márai könyvére ezek egyike sem igaz maradéktalanul.
Hőseinek életében persze rendre előfordulnak váratlan események, a szereplőkkel nemegyszer játszik a sors szeszélye, vagy éppen megigézi őket egy-egy különleges történés, magával ragadja őket valami ritka élmény - ám szigorúan vett csoda, tudományosan nem magyarázható varázslat csak elvétve fordul elő a kötet novelláiban. A szereplők gyakran visszatérő tapasztalata, hogy nem értik a körülöttük történő események összejátszását, mások tetteinek mozgatórugóit vagy akár saját reakcióikat s érzéseiket - ennek ellenére nem rajzolódik ki a világot vezérlő rejtett, észszerűen nem megokolható hatóerők egységes rendszere, azaz nem ölt alakot valamiféle mágikus világmagyarázat sem. Mindettől azonban Márai írásai nem lesznek kevesebbek, nem lesznek szegényebbek. Azért nem lelni bennük varázslatos világra, mert e novellák nem eltávolítanak az élettől, hanem visszafordítanak hozzá.
Nem a vigasz csalóka reményével hitegetnek, hanem az élet eleven valóságával való szembenézésre hívnak.
Bengi László
Mrs Dalloway
'The world wavered and quivered and threatened to burst into flames'
In this vivid portrait of one day in a woman's life, Clarissa Dalloway is preoccupied with the last-minute details of a party she is to give that evening. As she readies her house she is flooded with memories and re-examines the choices she has made over the course of her life.
VINTAGE DECO: Nine blazing, daring novels to celebrate the 1920s - 100 years on.
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The Enchanted April
'Now she had taken off her goodness and left it behind her like a heap of rain-sodden clothes, and she only felt joy'
Mrs Wilkins and Mrs Arbuthnot, cowed and neglected by their husbands, make a daring plan: they will have a holiday. Leaving a drab and rainy London one April and arriving on the shores of the Mediterranean, they discover a flower-filled paradise of beauty, warmth and leisure. Joined by the beautiful Lady Caroline and domineering Mrs Fisher, also in flight from the burdens of their daily lives, the four women proceed to transform themselves and their prospects.
VINTAGE DECO: Nine blazing, daring novels to celebrate the 1920s - 100 years on.
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Vánoční koleda, 2. vydání
Příběh o hamižném obchodníkovi, který má rád jen svoje peníze a ani o Vánocích neumí být štědrý. Na Štedrý den se mu zjeví tři duchové, kteří mu mají pomoct stát se lepším člověkem. Po tom, co mu ukážou, se pak má rozhodnout, zda svůj život změní…
The Great Gatsby
'In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars'
The world and his mistress are at Jay Gatsby's party. But Gatsby stands apart from the crowd, isolated by a secret longing. In between sips of champagne his guests speculate about their mysterious host. Some say he's a bootlegger. Others swear he was a German spy during the war. They lean in and whisper 'he killed a man once'. Just where is Gatsby from and what is the obsession that drives him?
VINTAGE DECO: Nine blazing, daring novels to celebrate the 1920s - 100 years on.
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Remembrance of Things Past: Volume 1
One of the greatest translations of all time: Scott Moncrieff's classic version of Proust, published in three volumes
Proust's masterpiece is one of the seminal works of the twentieth century, recording its narrator's experiences as he grows up, falls in love and lives through the First World War. A profound reflection on art, time, memory, self and loss, it is often viewed as the definitive modern novel. C. K. Scott Moncrieff's famous translation from the 1920s is today regarded as a classic in its own right and is now available in three volumes in Penguin Classics.
This first volume includes Swann's Way and Within a Budding Grove.
Remembrance of Things Past: Volume 2
One of the greatest translations of all time: Scott Moncrieff's classic version of Proust, published in three volumes
Proust's masterpiece is one of the seminal works of the twentieth century, recording its narrator's experiences as he grows up, falls in love and lives through the First World War. A profound reflection on art, time, memory, self and loss, it is often viewed as the definitive modern novel. C. K. Scott Moncrieff's famous translation from the 1920s is today regarded as a classic in its own right and is now available in three volumes in Penguin Classics.
This second volume includes The Guermantes Way and Cities of the Plain.
Remembrance of Things Past: Volume 3
Proust's masterpiece is one of the seminal works of the twentieth century, recording its narrator's experiences as he grows up, falls in love and lives through the First World War. A profound reflection on art, time, memory, self and loss, it is often viewed as the definitive modern novel. C. K. Scott Moncrieff's famous translation from the 1920s is today regarded as a classic in its own right and is now available in three volumes in Penguin Classics.
This third volume includes The Captive, The Sweet Cheat Gone and Time Regained.
Az ötödik pecsét
A nyilas-uralom idején játszódó történetben - amelyből Fábri Zoltán rendezésében nagyszerű film is készült - egy négyfős baráti társaság szokásához híven összegyűlik egy kis esti borozgatásra, eszmecserére.
Aznap a társaság ötfősre bővül, és az apró-cseprő napi ügyek megbeszélése mellett egy komoly filozofikus kérdés is terítékre kerül: ha maguk dönthetnének arról, hogy haláluk után egy gazdag, ám kegyetlen és zsarnoki uralkodó vagy egy megalázott, megnyomorított, de tiszta lelkiismeretű rabszolga testében születhetnének újra, vajon melyik mellett tennék le a voksukat? A kérdés még hazatérésük után is foglalkoztatja őket, és sorsuk úgy alakul, hogy hamarosan valóban választaniuk kell a tiszta lelkiismeret és a szabadság között, méghozzá úgy, hogy az előbbi a halált, utóbbi pedig a megalázottságot jelenti. Vajon tiszta szívvel meghalni, vagy - a mások iránt már korábban vállalt felelősség miatt - megtörten tovább élni a nehezebb vállalás?
Vajon mi hasonló helyzetben hogyan cselekednénk? Hiszen "mindannyian oda vagyunk kötözve más emberek életéhez, és nem dönthetünk szívünk szerint!"
"Amikor feltörte az ötödik pecsétet, az oltár alatt azoknak a lelkét láttam, akiket az Isten szaváért és tanúságtételükért öltek meg."
Jel 6.9
Persuasion
Captain Wentworth's letter to Anne Elliot remains one of the literature's most unforgettable confessions. It is the jewel at the heart of PERSUASION, Jane Austen's captivating story of second chances and enduring love. Throughout the story, letters, newspapers, maps, and other paper ephemera reveal the characters' deepest motivations and shape their destinies. Anne's snobbish father obsesses over a written history of their noble family, and a page from the Bath Chronicle reveals the elaborate social scene of the town where the lovers are finally reunited.
This deluxe edition brings all of this and more to life. As you read the novel, you will find pockets throughout containing replicas of thirteen items from the story, re-created with exquisite calligraphy and painstaking attention to historical detail. For anyone who loves Jane Austen or still cherishes the joy of letter writing, this book deepens the experience of a favorite story in an entirely new way.
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Beasts of a Little Land
FINALIST FOR THE 2022 DAYTON LITERARY PEACE PRIZE · FINALIST FOR THE BALCONES FICTION PRIZE · LONGLISTED FOR THE HWA DEBUT CROWN AWARD
An epic story of love, war, and redemption set against the backdrop of the Korean independence movement, following the intertwined fates of a young girl sold to a courtesan school and the penniless son of a hunter
In 1917, deep in the snowy mountains of occupied Korea, an impoverished local hunter on the brink of starvation saves a young Japanese officer from an attacking tiger. In an instant, their fates are connected—and from this encounter unfolds a saga that spans half a century.
In the aftermath, a young girl named Jade is sold by her family to Miss Silver’s courtesan school, an act of desperation that will cement her place in the lowest social status. When she befriends an orphan boy named JungHo, who scrapes together a living begging on the streets of Seoul, they form a deep friendship. As they come of age, JungHo is swept up in the revolutionary fight for independence, and Jade becomes a sought-after performer with a new romantic prospect of noble birth. Soon Jade must decide whether she will risk everything for the one who would do the same for her.
From the perfumed chambers of a courtesan school in Pyongyang to the glamorous cafes of a modernizing Seoul and the boreal forests of Manchuria, where battles rage, Juhea Kim’s unforgettable characters forge their own destinies as they wager their nation’s. Immersive and elegant, Beasts of a Little Land unveils a world where friends become enemies, enemies become saviors, heroes are persecuted, and beasts take many shapes.
Dokonalá sedmička
Trinásťročná Abby Hubbleová žije nešťastná v dome na úpätí Sierra Nevady, kde jej otec strpčuje život. Jedného dňa sa Abby stane svedkom toho, ako neznámy muž vyhodí do neďalekej rieky veľké trepotajúce sa vrece. Okamžite ho pribehne vytiahnuť a objaví v ňom sedem dokonalých šteniatok. Nezaváha ani sekundu, pokúsi sa ich zachrániť a ukryje ich do opustenej chatky. Pre smútiaceho vdovca Elliota Colvina stratil život zmysel. Útechu hľadá v lone prírody a utiahne sa do opustenej chatky, ktorú naposledy navštívil ešte pred zákernou chorobou svojej manželky. To, čo v nej nájde, ho šokuje. Za dverami na neho čaká sedem šteniatok a jedno odhodlané dievča s veľkým srdcom. Priateľstvo Abby a Elliota sa zo dňa na deň prehlbuje. Abby si predstavuje, o koľko lepší by bol jej život, keby sa jej matka vydala za dobrosrdečného Elliota namiesto jej otca. Keď však Abbin otec presťahuje rodinu stovky kilometrov ďaleko, Abby a jej matka sa musia rozhodnúť, ako dlho sú ochotné odkladať svoje šťastie.
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