Literature for the People - Sarah Harkness
A fascinating, evocative history of Daniel and Alexander Macmillan, two poor but idealistic young men who created a Victorian publishing empire.
Cítíte, jak vás leporelo v ruce pálí jako oheň? Jak je mokré, a hned zas suché, jak se třese a soptí, a vlní se jako moře a zebe jako mráz a barvy jsou v něm jako duha a mezi jeho stránkami vítr hvízdá? Živly oživly!
A fascinating, evocative history of Daniel and Alexander Macmillan, two poor but idealistic young men who created a Victorian publishing empire.
His dream was to build magnificent steamboats to ply the rivers of the American frontier. But when Jean Talon began his journey westward, he stumbled upon a deadly conspiracy involving a young womanÂ’s search to…
Audiokniha: Franz Kafka Dopisy Mileně Čtou Radovan Lukavský, Jaroslava Adamová a Martin Růžek Překlad Dagmar Eisnerová Hudba Petr Eben Režie Petr Adler Tři základní pocity prolínají Kafkovým životem a dílem: pocit úzkosti, provázený vědomím neznámé…
Anthony Burgess was an energetic writer and composer, whose workfor the stage is widely admired. In Two Plays, we see him tacklingmajor monuments of French and Russian theatre: The Miser byMolière and Chatsky by Alexander Griboyedov.Miser, Miser! is a bold reworking…
Havana je jedinečná. Je příliš troufalá, příliš rozporuplná a – navzdory šedesátiletému zanedbávání – proklatě krásná. Jak to jen dělá, je ve hvězdách...
An in-depth celebration of the romantic comedy’s modern golden era and its role in our culture, tracking the genre from its heyday in the ’80s and the ’90s, its unfortunate decline in the 2000s, and…
A culminating work on the American Founding by one of its leading historians, The Cause rethinks the American Revolution as we have known it.
Edson Arantes do Nascimento, better known as Pelé, scored over 1,000 goals throughout his career, won the World Cup three times and inspired thousands to play the beautiful game. An accurate and powerful player, he…