Beletrie - strana 5 z 20

'The facts of life took on a fiercer aspect and, while he faced that aspect uncowed, he faced it with all the latent cunning of his nature aroused...

• Knihabrožovaná vazba
  187 Kč

  Skladem 3 ks

It's 1919 and Jane and her cousin Lucilla leave school to find that their guardian has gambled away their money, leaving them with only a small cottage in the English countryside. In an attempt to earn their living, ...

• Knihabrožovaná vazba
  247 Kč

  Více než 30 dní

Effia and Esi: two sisters with two very different destinies. One sold into slavery; one a slave trader's wife. The consequences of their fate reverberate through the generations that follow...

• Knihabrožovaná vazba
  248 Kč

  Více než 30 dní

1813, and Horatio Hornblower is propelled toward the heart of the French Empire and his old enemy, Napoleon. Sir Horatio Hornblower has received strict and highly confidential orders from the highest rank: he must embark upon a grave and ...

• Knihabrožovaná vazba
  279 Kč

  Více než 30 dní

A humiliated and shipless captive of the French, Horatio Hornblower faces execution unless he can escape and make a triumphant return to England ...Forced to surrender his ship, HMS Sutherland, after a long and bloody battle, Captain Horatio ...

• Knihabrožovaná vazba
  308 Kč

  Více než 30 dní

1805, and Hornblower is both humbled and honoured in quick succession. After near disaster on board a canal barge, Horatio Hornblower is given his first assignment as Captain, taking charge of the Atropos, a 22-gun sloop that will act as flagship...

• Knihabrožovaná vazba
  279 Kč

  Skladem 1 ks

Including an introduction from writer and feminist activist Scarlett Curtis, curator of Sunday Times Bestseller Feminists Don't Wear Pink. When Father is taken away unexpectedly, Roberta, Peter, Phyllis and their mother have to leave their comfortable ...

• Knihabrožovaná vazba
  211 Kč

  Skladem 1 ks
• Přečtenámírně opotřebovaná
  104 Kč

  Skladem

From the best-selling and award-winning author of The Devil's Arithmetic, Jane Yolen, comes her first Holocaust novel in nearly thirty years. Influenced by Dr. Mengele's sadistic experimentations, this story ...

• Knihabrožovaná vazba
  349 Kč

  Skladem 1 ks

The Years is the story of the Pargiter family - their intimacies and estrangements, anxieties and triumphs - mapped out against the bustling rhythms of London's streets during the first decades of the twentieth century, ...

• Knihabrožovaná vazba
  258 Kč

  Více než 30 dní

It's 1964 and twenty-three-year-old Katy Speed is fascinated by Gloria and the goings-on at the house over the road. Who are the mysterious women arriving in a black car most Saturdays?

• Knihabrožovaná vazba
  221 Kč

  Skladem 1 ks

Henry James's great masterpiece, now in a stunning Penguin clothbound edition designed by the acclaimed Coralie Bickford-Smith. When Isabel Archer, a beautiful, spirited American, is brought to Europe by her wealthy aunt Touchett, ...

• Knihapevná vazba
  462 Kč

  Více než 30 dní

A book to read and reread, this reissue brings back to print an unforgettable romance and a timeless masterpiece. Abandoned pregnant and penniless on the teeming streets of London, sixteen-year-old Amber St. Clare uses her wits...

• Knihabrožovaná vazba
  477 Kč

  Více než 30 dní

Emma Bovary is beautiful and bored, trapped in her marriage to a mediocre doctor and stifled by the banality of provincial life...

• Knihabrožovaná vazba
  477 Kč

  Více než 30 dní
• Přečtenávýborný stav
  493 Kč

  Skladem

In The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald brilliantly captures both the disillusion of post-war America and the moral failure of a society obsessed with wealth and status. But he does more than render the essence of a particular time and place, for in...

• Knihabrožovaná vazba
  172 Kč

  Více než 30 dní

The simplest thing would be to describe Everything is Illuminated, Jonathan Safran Foer's accomplished debut, as a novel about the Holocaust...

• Přečtenávýborný stav
  290 Kč

  Skladem
• Knihabrožovaná vazba
  267 Kč

  Více než 30 dní

Charles Dickens's Great Expectations charts the course of orphan Pip Pirrip's life as it is transformed by a vast, mysterious inheritance. A terrifying encounter with the escaped convict Abel Magwitch in a graveyard on the wild Kent marshes...

• Knihabrožovaná vazba
  201 Kč

  Více než 30 dní
• Přečtenávýborný stav
  48 Kč

  Skladem

The modern classic of contemporary war fiction from Women's Prize-shortlisted author of The Silence of the Girls, Regeneration is a powerfully moving portrait of the deep legacy of human trauma in the First World War...

• Knihabrožovaná vazba
  267 Kč

  Více než 30 dní

Do you know your desert-island, all-time, top five most memorable split-ups? Rob does. He keeps a list, in fact. But Laura isn't on it - even though she's just become his latest ex. He's got his life back, you see. He can just do what he wants when he...

• Knihabrožovaná vazba
  220 Kč

  Skladem 1 ks

They tell of Kino, the fisherman, and of his wife, Juana, and of the baby, Coyotito. And because the story has been told so often, it has taken root in every man's mind. ...

• Knihabrožovaná vazba
  239 Kč

  Více než 30 dní