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Értelem és érzelem - Éldekorált kiadás
Az 1800-as évek Angliájában játszódó romantikus történet középpontjában a két Dashwood nővér, Elinor és Marianne áll, a regény címe kettejük tökéletesen ellentétes természetére utal.
Az értelmet Elinor testesíti meg, akinek tetteit a józan ítélőképesség és a megfontoltság irányítja, érzésein minden körülmények között uralkodni képes. Húgát ezzel szemben a túláradó érzelmek és a szenvedélyesség jellemzik. Nem ismeri a mértékletességet, akár örömről, akár bánatról van szó. Noha a két nővér jelleme nem is lehetne különbözőbb, őszinte, támogató szeretet fűzi össze őket, és miközben úgy tűnik, hogy boldogságkeresésük közben az események szálai végzetesen összekuszálódnak, tudják, hogy egymásra minden körülmények között számíthatnak.
Jane Austen jellegzetes, finom iróniával fűszerezett írói stílusa, a kiválóan kidolgozott alakok, a fordulatokban gazdag cselekmény és a sziporkázó párbeszédek garanciái a tökéletes olvasói élménynek.
Cesta lesem. O houbách, zármutku a naději
Long Litt Woon se přestěhovala do Norska z Malajsie jako devatenáctiletá studentka na výměnném pobytu. Krátce po svém příjezdu se seznámila s Eiolfem. Po dvaatřiceti letech společného života ji Eiolfova náhlá smrt zanechala v hlubokém smutku a bez představy o tom, jak dál. V této těžké době se Woon přihlásí do kurzu houbaření. K jejímu překvapení v ní „lov“ hub a sbírání znalostí o nich probudí ztracenou chuť do života, zostří smysly a stane se pro ni zdrojem radosti.
Kniha Cesta lesem vypráví příběh dvou paralelních cest: vnitřní cestu, která prochází krajinou truchlení, a vnější cestu do fascinujícího světa hub – houby jsou odolné, přizpůsobivé, neuvěřitelně rozmanité a zásadní pro koloběh smrti a znovuzrození v přírodě. Woon, antropoložka a certifikovaná mykoložka, se s otevřenýma očima a neutuchající zvědavostí vrhá do přírodního světa a vede čtenáře od prastarých norských lesů po skryté stezky v newyorském Central Parku. Navíc představuje nezapomenutelnou partu podivínů posedlých houbami. Její bádání o propojení lidí, přírody, smutku a uzdravení je univerzální a hluboce lidské.
A Little Trickerie
Born a vagabond, Tibb Ingleby has never had a roof of her own. Her mother has taught her that if you're not too bound by the Big Man's rules, there are many ways a woman can find shelter in this world. But now her ma is gone.
As she journeys through the fields and forests of medieval England, Tibb discovers that there are people who will care for her, as well as those who mean her harm. And there are a great many others who are prepared to believe just about anything…
So, when the opportunity presents itself to escape the shackles society has placed on them, Tibb and her new friends conjure an audacious plan: her greatest trickerie yet. But before they know it, their hoax takes on a life of its own, drawing crowds - and vengeful enemies - to their door.
A tale of belief and superstition, kinship and courage, A Little Trickerie introduces a ragtag cast of characters and an unforgettable, endearing and distinctly unangelic heroine.
The Passengers on the Hankyu Line
The contents of each traveller's heart is a mystery known only to themselves
Trundling through the scenic countryside of Kyoto and Osaka is the Hankyu line, a burgundy-coloured electric train that has been carrying its commuters to their destinations for decades.
Over the course of a single journey in springtime, and the return journey six months later just as the leaves begin to fall:
- a young man meets the woman who happens to take out the last copy of the library book he was about to borrow;
- an angry wedding guest dresses in a white gown to upstage the bride;
- a university student leaves home for the first time;
- a twenty-something finally grows the courage to walk away from an abusive partner
- a widow learns independence, as she and her granddaughter meet their new dog.
As the seasons and the landscapes change, passengers jostle and connect, as this gentle timeless train carries each one forward towards the person they intend to become.
The Hazelbourne Ladies Motorcycle and Flying Club
Summer, 1919: Constance Haverhill is forced to relinquish her beloved job - and cottage - at the estate she helped to run during the war.
Instead, she's sent as an old lady's companion to Hazelbourne-on-Sea, where she meets Poppy, a trouser-wearing local who runs a ladies' motorcycle (and, hopefully soon, flying) club, and Harris, her recalcitrant but handsome brother - a pilot wounded in battle - who warms in Constance's presence, among the other colourful inhabitants of this sunny pocket of high society.
But things are increasingly complicated. As the country prepares to celebrate peace, the women of the club are forced to confront the fact that the freedoms gained during the war are being revoked.
In a timeless comedy of manners, with sharp humour, biting wit and a warm heart, Simonson captures the mood of a generation facing the seismic changes brought on by war.
Welcome to Glorious Tuga - Tuga Trilogy 1
Welcome to glorious Tuga – the world’s most remote island and Charlotte Walker’s new home.
Charlotte has swapped her grey life in London for a year in this tropical paradise. Officially, she’s there for conservation but the reality is far more complicated.
For somewhere on Tuga lies the answer to a truth she’s waited her whole life to learn. If she finds it, then perhaps she might finally find herself too.
The Group
When Hanna moves to Spain for an internship at the prestigious Prado gallery, she finds herself spending her days buried in the museum's stifling archives, and her nights alone in a tiny rented flat.
Then one day she sees them; Tom, Samuel, and Leah. Glamorous and elegant, they are also foreigners in the city. But unlike her they are fabulously wealthy, their lives an endless whirl of creativity and hedonism. And when Hanna discovers an uncatalogued 17th century etching in the archive, she makes a decision which changes everything . . .
Taking us from the sultry streets of Madrid to the gleaming world of Mediterranean luxury villas and exclusive art world parties, The Group is a timeless story of hidden identity and obsession. (Translated by Rachel Willson-Broyles).
Heart, Be at Peace
Some things can send a heart spinning; others will crack it in two...
In a small town in rural Ireland, the local people have weathered the storms of economic collapse and are looking towards the future. The jobs are back, the dramas of the past seemingly lulled, and although the town bears the marks of its history, new stories are unfolding.
But a fresh menace is creeping around the lakeshore and the lanes of the town, and the peace of the community is about to be shattered in an unimaginable way. Young people are being drawn towards the promise of fast money whilst the generation above them tries to push back the tide of an enemy no one can touch…
Told in twenty-one voices, Heart, be at Peace is a heartfelt, lyrical novel that can be read independently, or as a companion to Donal Ryan's multi-award-winning novel, The Spinning Heart, voted 'The Irish Book of the Decade'.
By Any Other Name
They Never Met. But Their Lives Are Bound by a Secret, a Sacrifice, and a Story That Demands to Be Told…
New York playwright Melina Green has never seen her work on stage. In a man's world, only through a lie can she get the recognition she yearns for.
But Melina is not the first woman in her family to discover this.
Her ancestor Emilia Bassano, mistress to one of Elizabeth I's most valued noblemen, was no stranger to being silenced.
She decided to do something about it. But her daring act of deception has consequences that will reverberate down the centuries.
Yet to change a world can mean terrible sacrifices - your name, your family's future, and your legacy.
These two women will never meet. But together can they rewrite history?
Dancer from the Dance
Young, divinely beautiful and tired of living a lie, Anthony Malone trades life as a seemingly straight, small town lawyer for the disco-lit decadence of New York's 1970's gay scene. Joining an unbridled world of dance parties, saunas, deserted parks and orgies - at its centre Malone befriends the flamboyant queen, Sutherland, who takes this new arrival under his preened wing.
But for Malone, the endless city nights and Fire Island days, are close to burning out. It is love that Malone is longing for, and soon he will have to set himself free.
First published in 1978, Dancer from the Dance is widely considered the greatest, most exciting novel of the post-Stonewall generation. Told with wit, eroticism and unashamed lyricism, it remains a heart-breaking love letter to New York's hedonistic past, and a testament to the brilliance of our passions as they burn brightest.
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ALAN HOLLINGHURST
Tiananmen Square
Beijing in the 1970s. Lai lives with her parents, grandmother and youngerbrother in a small flat in a working-class area. Her grandmother is a formidable figure, while her ageing beauty of a mother snipes at her father, a sunken figure haunted by the Cultural Revolution.
As she grows up, Lai comes to discern the realities of the country she lives in. But she also goes through the ebbs and flows of friendships; troubles and rewards at home and at school; and the first steps and missteps in love. A gifted student, she attends the prestigious Peking University; while there she becomes involved in the student protests that have been gathering speed. It is the late 1980s, and change is in the air . . .
Spojenci
6. červen 1944: Němečtí nacisté drží Evropu v železném sevření a Spojenci zahajují největší a nejpřísněji utajovanou vojenskou operaci všech dob – invazi do okupované Francie. Na pláže v Normandii míří tisíce vojáků s jediným cílem: prolomit německou obranu, zvrátit průběh války a zastavit Hitlerovu krutovládu.
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Dogs and Monsters
The bestselling author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time weaves ancient fables into fresh, unexpected forms and forges new unforgettable legends.
The myth of the Minotaur in his labyrinth is turned into a wrenching parable of maternal love - and of the monstrosities of patriarchy.
The lover of a goddess, Tithonus, is gifted eternal life but without eternal youth.
Actaeon, changed into a stag after glimpsing the naked Diana and torn to pieces by his hunting dogs, becomes a visceral metaphor about how humans use and misuse animals.
From genetic engineering to the eternal complications of family, Haddon showcases how we are subject to the same elemental forces that obsessed the Greeks, as he reimagines stories from Laika the Soviet space dog on her fateful orbit to St Anthony wrestling with loneliness in the desert.
Tell Me Everything
It’s autumn in Maine, and the town lawyer Bob Burgess has become enmeshed in an unfolding murder investigation, defending a lonely, isolated man accused of killing his mother. He has also fallen into a deep and abiding friendship with the acclaimed writer, Lucy Barton, who lives nearby in a house next to the sea. Together, Lucy and Bob talk about their lives, their hopes and regrets, and what might have been.
Lucy, meanwhile, befriends one of Crosby’s longest inhabitants, Olive Kitteridge, now living in a retirement community on the edge of town. They spend afternoons together in Olive’s apartment, telling each other stories. Stories about people they have known – “unrecorded lives,” Olive calls them – reanimating them, and, in the process, imbuing their lives with meaning.
Brimming with empathy and pathos, TELL ME EVERYTHING is Elizabeth Strout operating at the height of her powers, illuminating the ways in which our relationships keep us afloat. As Lucy says, “Love comes in so many different forms, but it is always love.”
Mazeltov
At a banquet hall, at the onset of war, Adam Weizmann's bar mitzvah party turns into a glorious disaster. On the cusp of manhood - and the verge of a nervous breakdown - Adam has been bracing for his special day, mired in family neuroses and national dysfunction.
In a chorus of voices, a fractious cast of well-wishers narrates Adam's coming-of-age in Israel: his newly devout father and the mystic rituals he practiced on his young son; his best friend, Abbie, who points the way to joyful transgression; Khalil, a Palestinian poet, who offers a glimpse of a different way to be; and Adam himself, filled with shame and desire as he faces the brokenness of his world.
At once tender and lustful, a work of scathing satire and piercing insight, MAZELTOV is a truly original vision of a young man's quest to know his own heart.
Private Rites
From the bestselling author of Our Wives Under the Sea, a haunting, heart wrenching novel of three sisters navigating queer love and faith at the end of the world.
There's no way to bury a body in earth which is flooded
It's been raining for a long time now, for so long that the lands have reshaped themselves. Old places have been lost. Arcane rituals and religions have crept back into practice.
Sisters Isla, Irene and Agnes have not spoken in some time when their estranged father dies. A famous architect revered for making the new world navigable, he had long cut himself off from public life. They find themselves uncertain of how to grieve his passing when everything around them seems to be ending anyway.
As the sisters come together to clear the grand glass house that is the pinnacle of his legacy, they begin to sense that the magnetic influence of their father lives on through it. Something sinister seems to be unfolding, something related to their mother's long-ago disappearance and the strangers who have always been unusually interested in their lives. Soon, it becomes clear that the sisters have been chosen for a very particular purpose, one with shattering implications for their family and their imperilled world.
Deep House
It’s 1996, and Jeremy, a young American, has met the British boy of his dreams ? just as, amid a media frenzy, US Congress prepares the Defense of Marriage Act, denying same-sex couples rights including immigration. The pair snatch time in forests and deserts, London fashion shows, and East Village hotel rooms; eventually, finding no other way to stay together, they shack up illicitly among unlikely allies in San Francisco.
What emerges is an unexpected romantic comedy haunted by centuries of gay ghosts. Deep House moves through the couple’s various domiciles while unlocking doors to a lineage of outsiders who came before them: hapless criminals, sexpot bartenders, friars, pirates, government workers who subvert the system and activists who go all the way to the Supreme Court to fight for their freedoms. Combining cultural history with radically intimate memoir, Deep House is at once a romp through the queer archives and the innermost tale of two boyfriends who made a home in the shadows of a turbulent civil rights battle.
Dubliners
New to Penguin Clothbound Classics, Joyce's seminal story collection about ordinary Dublin lives
'Joyce's early short stories remain undimmed in their brilliance' Sunday Times
James Joyce's earliest major work, written when he was only twenty-five, brought his city to the world for the first time.
The stories within Dubliners are rooted in the rich detail of Dublin life, portraying ordinary, often defeated lives with unflinching realism. Joyce writes of social decline, sexual desire and exploitation, corruption and personal failure, yet creates a brilliantly compelling, unique vision of the world and human experience.
'Joyce redeems his Dubliners, assures their identity, and makes their social existence appear permanent and immortal, like the streets they walk' Tom Paulin
With a new introduction by Anne Fogarty
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The Life Impossible
'What looks like magic is simply a part of life we don't understand yet . . .'
When retired Maths teacher Grace Winters is left a run-down house on a Mediterranean island by a long-lost friend, curiosity gets the better of her. She arrives in Ibiza with a one-way ticket, no guidebook and no plan.
Among the rugged hills and golden beaches Grace searches for answers about her friend's life, and how it ended. What she uncovers is stranger than she could have dreamed. But to dive into this impossible truth, Grace must first come to terms with her past.
Filled with wonder and wild adventure, this is a story of hope and the life-changing power of a new beginning.
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