Beletrie

A moving portrayal of the struggle between desire and duty in nineteenth-century New York high society...

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  239 Kč

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A spellbinding novel looking at the harshness of life in the northern wilds, through nature's ruthless eyes...

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  271 Kč

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Spirited Jo March, now Mrs Bhaer, has settled into living and teaching at Plumfield boarding school, also home to a lively band of orphan boys. Jo's many pupils include Nat, a shy but talented musician, Dan, an ill-mannered troublemaker...

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  235 Kč

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Composed in the twelfth century in north-eastern Iran, Attar's great mystical poem is among the most significant of all works of Persian literature. A marvellous, allegorical rendering of the Islamic doctrine of Sufism ...

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  277 Kč

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A captivating selection of short stories in the original Japanese alongside their English translations...

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  266 Kč

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Roubaud is consumed by a jealous rage when he discovers a sordid secret about his young wife's past. The only way he can rest is by forcing her to help him murder the man involved, but there is a witness - Jacques Lantier, a fellow railway employee...

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  282 Kč

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The sensational bestselling story of Little Nell, the beautiful child thrown into a shadowy, terrifying world, seems to belong less to the history of the Victorian novel than to folklore, fairy tale, or myth...

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In the only novel Conrad set in London, The Secret Agent communicates a profoundly ironic view of human affairs. The story is woven around an attack on the Greenwich Observatory in 1894 masterminded by Verloc, a Russian spy working for the police, ...

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  294 Kč

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Returning home after years away at university, Arkady is proud to introduce his clever friend Bazarov to his father and uncle. But their guest soon stirs up unrest on the quiet country estate - his outspoken nihilist views and his scathing ...

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  294 Kč

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In 1851, at the age of twenty-two, Tolstoy joined the Russian army and travelled to the Caucasus as a soldier. The four years that followed were among the most significant in his life, and deeply influenced the stories collected here...

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  294 Kč

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While his old furniture rots in storage, Malte Laurids Brigge lives in a cheap room in Paris, with little but a library reader's card to distinguish him from the city's untouchables. Every person he sees seems to carry their death with them, ...

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  294 Kč

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The quarter century between 1890 and the outbreak of the First World War saw an extraordinary boom in the popularity and quality of short stories in Britain, fuelled by a large, eager new magazine readership...

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As children, Charles and Mary Lamb took great delight in exploring their benefactor's extensive library; as adults they began writing children's books together that also appealed to all generations. In Tales of Shakespeare they wished to bring their...

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  207 Kč

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Chekhov's genius left an indelible impact on every literary form in which he wrote, but none more so than short fiction. Now, renowned translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky give us their superb renderings of fifty-two Chekhov stories...

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  356 Kč

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One of the greatest epics in Western literature, THE ILIAD recounts the story of the Trojan wars. This timeless poem still vividly conveys the horror and heroism of men and gods battling amidst devastation and destruction...

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  414 Kč

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Acclaimed translator Dick Davis breathes new life into the timeless works of three masters of fourteenth-century Persian literature...

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  360 Kč

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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...

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  206 Kč

  Do 17 – 22 dnů

One of English literature's classic masterpieces—a gripping novel of love, propriety, and tragedy...

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  223 Kč

  Do 17 – 22 dnů

An astonishingly frank and deeply autobiographical account of homosexual relationships in an era when love between men was not only stigmatised...

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  236 Kč

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Wells’s genre-defining novel of time travel...

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  222 Kč

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