Beletrie - strana 3 z 13

Philip Roth’s brilliant conclusion to his eloquent trilogy of post-war America – a magnificent successor to American Pastoral and I Married a Communist...

• Knihabrožovaná vazba
  260 Kč

  Do 12 – 13 dnů

Tracing his ancestry through six generations - slaves and freedmen, farmers and blacksmiths, lawyers and architects - back to Africa, Alex Haley discovered a sixteen-year-old youth, Kunta Kinte...

• Knihabrožovaná vazba
  357 Kč

  Do 12 – 13 dnů

Roland Barthes is knocked down in a Paris street by a laundry van. It’s February 1980 and he has just come from lunch with Francois Mitterrand. Barthes dies soon afterwards. History tells us it was an accident...

• Knihabrožovaná vazba
  272 Kč

  Více než 30 dní

An exhilarating satire of Eighties excess that captures the effervescent spirit of New York, from one of the greatest writers of modern American prose. Sherman McCoy is a WASP, bond trader and self-appointed 'Master of the Universe'...

• Knihabrožovaná vazba
  319 Kč

  Více než 30 dní

In 1941, Irène Némirovsky sat down to write a book that would convey the magnitude of what she was living through by evoking the domestic lives and personal trials of the ordinary citizens of France...

• Knihabrožovaná vazba
  268 Kč

  Skladem 1 ks

Eighteen-year old orphan Andrea moves to battle-scarred Barcelona to take up a scholarship at the university. But staying with relatives in their crumbling apartment, her dreams of independence are dashed among the eccentric...

• Knihabrožovaná vazba
  248 Kč

  Skladem 1 ks

They were not railway children to begin with. When their Father mysteriously leaves home Roberta (everyone calls her Bobbie), Phyllis and Peter must move to a small cottage in the countryside with Mother...

• Knihabrožovaná vazba
  98 Kč

  Více než 30 dní

Emerence is a domestic servant - strong, fierce, eccentric, and with a reputation for being a first-rate housekeeper. When Magda, a young Hungarian writer, takes her on she never imagines how important this woman will become to her...

• Knihabrožovaná vazba
  276 Kč

  Více než 30 dní

Michael Beard is a Nobel prize-winning physicist whose best work is behind him. He now spends his days speaking for enormous fees and half-heartedly heading a government-backed initiative tackling global warming...

• Knihabrožovaná vazba
  278 Kč

  Více než 30 dní

In the city of Bath, in the year 1865 Jane Adeane, renowned for her restorative skills, is convinced that some other destiny will one day show itself to her. But when she finds herself torn between a dangerous...

• Knihabrožovaná vazba
  239 Kč

  Skladem 1 ks

On a quiet day, near the Caribbean island of Black Conch, a mermaid raises her barnacled head from the flat grey sea. She is attracted by David, a fisherman waiting for a catch, singing to himself with his guitar...

• Knihabrožovaná vazba
  274 Kč

  Skladem 1 ks

One of Amos Oz's earliest and most famous novels, My Michael was a sensation upon its initial publication in 1968 and it has an enduring power to surprise and mesmerize...

• Knihabrožovaná vazba
  232 Kč

  Skladem 1 ks

As an orphan, Jane’s childhood is not an easy one, but her independence and strength of character sustain her through the miseries inflicted by cruel relatives and a brutal education system. However, her biggest challenge is yet to come...

• Knihabrožovaná vazba
  172 Kč

  Skladem 1 ks

As an unloved foster child on a farm in rural Iceland, Olaf Karason has only one consolation: the belief that one day he will be a great poet. The indifference and contempt of most of the people around him only reinforces his sense of destiny, for...

• Knihabrožovaná vazba
  563 Kč

  Do 21 – 23 dnů

Discover Thomas Savage's dark poetic tale of a small town in early 20th century American that inspired the new Jane Campion film...

• Přečtenávýborný stav
  215 Kč

  Skladem
• Knihabrožovaná vazba
  216 Kč

  Skladem 1 ks

In the summer of 1885, three Frenchmen arrived in London for a few days' shopping. One was a Prince, one was a Count, and the third was a commoner, who four years earlier had been the subject of one of John Singer Sargent's greatest portraits...

• Knihabrožovaná vazba
  345 Kč

  Skladem 1 ks

He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes. These words provided generations of American Christians with the justification for physically disciplining their children, in ways that range from spankings to...

• Knihabrožovaná vazba
  504 Kč

  Skladem 1 ks

The tale of K’s arrival in the village below the castle that seems to rule it is Kafka’s Magnum Opus. The study of relationships, particularly between...

• Knihabrožovaná vazba
  276 Kč

  Více než 30 dní

As his tale begins, Orlando is a passionate young nobleman whose days are spent in rowdy revelry, filled with the colourful delights of Queen Elizabeth's court. By the close, he will have transformed into a modern, 36-year-old woman and three centuries...

• Knihabrožovaná vazba
  245 Kč

  Do 12 – 13 dnů

The London winter of 1947 is as cold as St Petersburg during the Revolution. Albertine, the wife of a British army officer often abroad on covert government business, finds herself increasingly lonely....

• Knihabrožovaná vazba
  276 Kč

  Více než 30 dní