Creating the twentieth century
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The Wonder, 1. vydání - Emma Donoghue
<p>Eleven-year-old Anna O'Donnell stops eating, but remains miraculously alive and well. A nurse, sent to investigate whether she is a fraud, meets a journalist hungry for a story . . . Set in the Irish Midlands in the 1850s, Emma Donoghue's The Wonder - inspired by numerous European and North American cases of 'fasting girls' between the sixteenth century and the ...
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Rats in the Walls and Other Stories
When the descendant of an ancient aristocratic family moves from Massachusetts to Exham Priory, his ancestral home in the south of England, he is plagued by the constant noise of rats scurrying within its walls. As the sound begins to haunt his dreams, he investigates the house and discovers a horrific secret underneath, which will bring him to the point of madness. Cons...
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For Whom the Bell Tolls - Hemingway Ernest
Anotace: Inspired by his experiences as a reporter during the Spanish Civil War, Ernest Hemingway`s For Whom the Bell Tolls tells the story of Robert Jordan, an American volunteer in the International Brigades fighting to defend the Spanish Republic against Franco. After being ordered to work with guerrilla fighters to destroy a bridge, Jordan finds himself falling in lo...
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Night Train to the Stars - Mijazawa Kendži
Anotace: Japanese fairy tales - enchanting, enigmatic stories of animals, human beings and the great natural world.Dark and innocent, sublime and whimsical, Miyazawa`s stories have the ageless feel of the best fairy tales. There are animal allegories such as `The Ungrateful Rat` where a rude rodent insults all the objects he meets - until he meets the Rat Trap/ There are...
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The Hobbit - Tolkien J. R. R.
Anotace: This definitive paperback edition features nine illustrations and two maps drawn by J.R.R. Tolkien, and a preface by Christopher Tolkien.Bilbo Baggins is a hobbit who enjoys a comfortable, unambitious life, rarely travelling further than the pantry of his hobbit-hole in Bag End. But his contentment is disturbed when the wizard, Gandalf, and a company of thirteen...
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The Last Bell (Pushkin Collection) - Urzidil Johannes
Anotace: The first ever English collection of stories by Johannes Urzidil - a friend of Kafka and an unjustly overlooked writerA maid who is unexpectedly bequeathed her employers` worldly possessions when they flee the Nazi occupation; a loyal bank clerk, who falls into troublesome love with a portrait; a middle-aged travel agent, who is perhaps the least well-travelled ...
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Amerika: The Missing Person - Franz Kafka
From the author of The Metamorphosis and The Trial and one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century, his first--and funniest--novel.Amerika tells the story of the young Karl Rossmann who, after an incident involving a housemaid, is banished by his parents to America. Expected to redeem himself in this magical land of opportunity, young Karl is swept up instead in ...
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The Last Bell (Pushkin Collection) - Johannes Urzidil
<p>The first ever English collection of stories by Johannes Urzidil - a friend of Kafka and an unjustly overlooked writerA maid who is unexpectedly bequeathed her employers' worldly possessions when they flee the Nazi occupation; a loyal bank clerk, who falls into troublesome love with a portrait; a middle-aged travel agent, who is perhaps the least well-travelled m...
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The Metamorphosis and Other Stories - Franz Kafka
Anotace: When the young salesman Gregor Samsa wakes up one morning transformed into a monstrous insect, his shock and incomprehension are coupled with the panic of being late for work and having to reveal his appearance to family and colleagues. Although over the following weeks he gradually becomes used to this new existence confined within the bounds of the apartment, ...
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The Metamorphosis and Other Stories - Franz Kafka
<p>When the young salesman Gregor Samsa wakes up one morning transformed into a monstrous insect, his shock and incomprehension are coupled with the panic of being late for work and having to reveal his appearance to family and colleagues. Although over the following weeks he gradually becomes used to this new existence confined within the bounds of the apartment, a...
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The Great Gatsby - Francis Scott Fitzgerald
<p>The Great American Novel of love and betrayal in the Jazz Age is now a major film. 'I believe that on the first night I went to Gatsby's house I was one of the few guests who had actually been invited. People were not invited - they went there.' Jay Gatsby's opulent Long Island mansion throngs with the bright young things of the Roaring Twenties. But Gatsby h...
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The Prophet, 1. vydání - Kahlil Gibran
<p>One of the most beloved spiritual classics of our time, Gibran's masterpiece, The Prophet, has sold millions of copies in more than forty languages since it was first published in 1923. The Prophet contains powerful words of wisdom on such essential subjects as marriage, children, friendship, work, and pleasure--words that readers from around the world have found...
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The Interpretation of Dreams - Sigmund Freud
<p>HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics.</p> <p>The virtuous man contents himself with dreaming that which the wicked man does in actual life.</p> <p>At the turn of the twentieth century, Sigmund Freud published a controversial and groundbreaking theory. Our dreams, he proposed, are as complex and mult...
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The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money : with The Economic Consequences of the Peace - John Maynard Keynes
<p>John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946) is perhaps the foremost economic thinker of the twentieth century. On economic theory, he ranks with Adam Smith and Karl Marx; and his impact on how economics was practiced, from the Great Depression to the 1970s, was unmatched. The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money was first published in 1936. But its ideas had b...
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Rambling On: An Apprentice's Guide to the Gift of the Gab - Bohumil Hrabal
Anotace: Bohumil Hrabal (1914-97) has been ranked with Jaroslav Hašek, Karel Čapek, and Milan Kundera as among the greatest twentieth-century Czech writers. Hrabal's fiction blends tragedy with humor and explores the anguish of intellectuals and ordinary people alike from a slightly surreal perspective. Rambling On is a collection of stories set in Hrabal's Ker...
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The Complete Stories: Franz Kafka - Kafka Franz
Anotace: The complete stories of one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century, the author of The Metamorphosis and The Trial. "An important book, valuable in itself and absolutely fascinating. The stories are dreamlike, allegorical, symbolic, parabolic, grotesque, ritualistic, nasty, lucent, extremely personal, ghoulishly detached, exquisitely comic, numino...
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Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Du Bois, and the Struggle for Racial Uplift
The beginning of the twentieth century was an important time in African-American history. Segregation and discrimination were on the rise. Two seminal
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Chinese May Fourth Generation and the Irish Literary Revival: Writers and Fighters
This book examines how the early twentieth-century Irish Renaissance (Irish Literary Revival) inspired the Chinese Renaissance (the May Fourth generat
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The Secret Lives of Numbers - Kate Kitagawa
<p>A revisionist, completely accessible and radically inclusive history of maths'Lively, satisfying, good at explaining difficult concepts' The Sunday TimesMathematics shapes almost everything we do. But despite its reputation as the study of fundamental truths, the stories we have been told about it are wrong. In The Secret Lives of Numbers, historian Kate Kitagawa...
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The Eighth Life: (for Brilka) (1913348296)
Kniha - autor Nino Haratischvili, 944 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná Six romances, one revolution, the story of the century. "That night Stasia took an oath, swearing to learn the recipe by heart and destroy the paper. And when she was lying in her bed again, recalling the taste with all her senses, she was sure that this secret recipe could heal wounds, ...
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Life and Opinions of Maf the Dog, and of his friend Marilyn Monroe
An utterly unique take on the most extraordinary period of the twentieth century, from one of Britain's most exciting literary writers. In November
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The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories - Howard Phillips Lovecraft
A definitive collection of stories from the unrivaled master of twentieth-century horror in a Penguin Classics Deluxe edition with cover art by Travis Louie
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The Émigré Analysts and American Psychoanalysis Taylor & Francis Ltd
This book explores the impact of migration, including its causes, upon the key ideas and directions of psychoanalytic theory and practice from the 20th Century until today. As an engaging and thoroughly detailed account of the influence of exile upon American psychoanalysis, this book will be of as much interest to scholars of history and twentieth-century culture as to p...
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The Émigré Analysts and American Psychoanalysis Taylor & Francis Ltd
This book explores the impact of migration, including its causes, upon the key ideas and directions of psychoanalytic theory and practice from the 20th Century until today. As an engaging and thoroughly detailed account of the influence of exile upon American psychoanalysis, this book will be of as much interest to scholars of history and twentieth-century culture as to p...
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Metamorphosis, in the Penal Colony, and Other Stories - Franz Kafka
<p>The best-known novellas and stories of one of the seminal writers of the twentieth century. Included are "The Judgment, " "A Country Doctor, " and "A Hunger Artist." New Foreword by Anne Rice.</p>
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The Freedom Writers Diary - Erin Gruwell
<p>Now a public television documentary, Freedom Writers: Stories from the Heart In 1994, an idealistic first-year teacher in Long Beach, California, named Erin Gruwell confronted a room of "unteachable, at-risk" students. She had intercepted a note with an ugly racial caricature and angrily declared that this was precisely the sort of thing that led to th...
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State and Society in Communist Czechoslovakia : Transforming the Everyday from WWII to the Fall of the Berlin Wall - Krakovsky Roman
Anotace: Across central and eastern Europe after World War II, the newly established communist regimes promised a drastic social revolution that would transform the world at great pace and pave the way to a socialist future. Although many aspects of this utopian project are well known - such as fast-paced industrialisation, collectivisation and urbanisation - the regimes...
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State and Society in Communist Czechoslovakia : Transforming the Everyday from WWII to the Fall of the Berlin Wall - Roman Krakovský
<p>Across central and eastern Europe after World War II, the newly established communist regimes promised a drastic social revolution that would transform the world at great pace and pave the way to a socialist future. Although many aspects of this utopian project are well known - such as fast-paced industrialisation, collectivisation and urbanisation - the regimes ...
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The English Gardener's Garden - Tania Compton
<p>The ultimate celebration of England’s most gorgeous gardens, showcasing their enduring appeal from historic masterpieces to individual creations of today</p> <p>The English Gardener’s Garden spans seven centuries to spotlight over 60 of England’s finest gardens. Adapted from Phaidon’s bestselling The Gardener’s Garden, updated, and organized geographi...
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Winter of the World - Ken Follett
Anotace: Five linked families live out their destinies as the world is shaken by tyranny and war in the mid-twentieth century Berlin in 1933 is in upheaval. Eleven-year-old Carla von Ulrich struggles to understand the tensions disrupting her family as Hitler strengthens his grip on Germany. Into this turmoil steps her mother’s formidable friend and former British M...
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Feast of the Goat - Llosa Mario Vargas
Anotace: `The Feast of the Goat will stand out as the great emblematic novel of Latin America`s twentieth century and removes One Hundred Years of Solitude of that title.` Times Literary Supplement Urania Cabral, a New York lawyer, returns to the Dominican Republic after a lifelong self-imposed exile. Once she is back in her homeland, the elusive feeling of terror that h...
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The Philosophy of Andy Warhol - Warhol Andy
Anotace: The autobiography of an American icon, Andy Warhol`s The Philosophy of Andy Warhol is published in Penguin Modern Classics.`I never think that people die. They just go to department stores`Andy Warhol - American painter, filmmaker, publisher, actor and major figure in the Pop Art movement - was in many ways a reluctant celebrity. Here, in his autobiography, he s...
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The Hobbit - Tolkien J. R. R.
Anotace: Special collector`s film tie-in hardback of the best-selling classic, featuring the complete story with a sumptuous cover design inspired by THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY and brand new reproductions of all the drawings and maps by J.R.R. Tolkien.Bilbo Baggins is a hobbit who enjoys a comfortable, unambitious life, rarely travelling further than the pantry of...
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An Echo in the Bone - Diana Gabaldon
<p>THE TRIUMPHANT SEVENTH NOVEL IN THE MULTI-MILLION BESTSELLING OUTLANDER SERIES.The year is 1777. The place, North Carolina. And as the American rebellion grows in intensity, Highlander Jamie Fraser and his wife Claire need to decide which side their family is going to be on.The choice should be an easy one, given that Claire was born in the twentieth century and ...
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Letter to the Father - Franz Kafka
<p>A son's poignant letter to his father--from the author of The Metamorphosis and The Trial, and one of the most important writers of the twentieth century. - "One of the great confessions of literature." --The New York Times Book Review Franz Kafka wrote this letter to his father, Hermann Kafka, in November 1919. Max Brod, Kafka's literary executor, rel...
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Dancing Lessons For The Advanced - Hrabal Bohumil
Anotace: Rake, drunkard, aesthete, gossip, raconteur extraordinaire: the narrator of Bohumil Hrabal`s rambling, rambunctious masterpiece Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age is all these and more. Speaking to a group of sunbathing women who remind him of lovers past, this elderly roué tells the story of his life--or at least unburdens himself of a lifetime`s worth of ...
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Dancing Lessons For The Advanced - Bohumil Hrabal
<p>Rake, drunkard, aesthete, gossip, raconteur extraordinaire: the narrator of Bohumil Hrabal's rambling, rambunctious masterpiece Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age is all these and more. Speaking to a group of sunbathing women who remind him of lovers past, this elderly roué tells the story of his life--or at least unburdens himself of a lifetime's worth of s...
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The Diaries of Franz Kafka - Franz Kafka
<p>An essential new translation of the author's complete, uncensored diaries--a revelation of the idiosyncrasies and rough edges of one of the twentieth century's most influential writers.</p> <p> </p> <p>Dating from 1909 to 1923, the handwritten diaries contain various kinds of writing: accounts of daily events, reflections, observations, li...
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Concerning the Spiritual in Art - Wassily Kandinsky
<p>A seminal text in the history of modern art, from one of the most famous artists of the twentieth century In Concerning the Spiritual in Art Wassily Kandinsky, one of the most famous abstract painters of all time, urges the reader to free themselves from art's traditional bonds to material reality. In this radical theoretical work, he calls for a spiritual revol...
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The Trial: A New Translation Based on the Restored Text - Franz Kafka
<p>A brilliant translation of one of the most important novels of the twentieth century, revealing a tale that is as full of energy and power as it was when it was first written. From the author of The Metamorphosis.Written in 1914, The Trial is the terrifying tale of Josef K., a respectable bank officer who is suddenly and inexplicably arrested and must defend hims...
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The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared (9780349141800)
Kniha – autor Jonas Jonasson, 400 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu lesklá - autor Jonas Jonasson, 400 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu lesklá The international bestselling sensation. Sitting quietly in his room in an old people's home, Allan Karlsson is waiting for a party he doesn't want to begin. His one-hundredth birthday party to be precise. The Mayor...
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The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed out of the Window and Disappeared - Jonas Jonasson
Anotace: Stoletý stařík v angličtině. The international bestselling sensation.Sitting quietly in his room in an old people`s home, Allan Karlsson is waiting for a party he doesn`t want to begin. His one-hundredth birthday party to be precise. The Mayor will be there. The press will be there. But, as it turns out, Allan will not . . .Escaping (in his slipper...
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Tender Is the Night - Fitzgerald Francis Scott
Anotace: F. Scott Fitzgerald`s last completed novel, Tender is the Night is edited by Arnold Goldman with an introduction and notes by Richard Godden in Penguin Modern Classics.Between the First World War and the Wall Street Crash the French Riviera was the stylish place for wealthy Americans to visit. Among the most fashionable are psychoanalyst Dick Diver and his wife ...
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Amerika: The Missing Person - Franz Kafka
Anotace: From the author of The Metamorphosis and The Trial and one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century, his first--and funniest--novel. Amerika tells the story of the young Karl Rossmann who, after an incident involving a housemaid, is banished by his parents to America. Expected to redeem himself in this magical land of opportunity, young Karl is swept up...
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The Common Reader: First Series - Virginia Woolfová
Anotace: HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. `A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in not out' In the first volume of her critical essays, Virginia Woolf discusses the greatest authors of the literary canon - Jane Auste...
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The Poppy War - Rebecca F. Kuang
<p>A brilliantly imaginative epic fantasy debut, inspired by the bloody history of China's twentieth century and filled with treachery and magic. When Rin aced the Keju - the test to find the most talented students in the Empire - it was a shock to everyone: to the test officials, who couldn't believe a war orphan from Rooster Province could pass without cheating;...
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Political Faultlines in the Middle East Taylor & Francis Ltd
The whole region of the Middle East is beset with a structural crisis of which particular crises confronting the component countries happen to be merely subsets. The real questions revolve round the issue of how long can the present dispensations of power and social structures in the region forged in the twentieth century (first half or second) can last in the twenty-firs...
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The Routledge Global Haiku Reader Taylor & Francis Ltd
The Routledge Global Haiku Reader provides a historical overview and comprehensive examination of haiku across the world in numerous languages, poetic movements, and cultural contexts. Offering an extensive critical perspective, this volume provides leading essays by poets and scholars who explore haiku’s various global developments, demonstrating the form’s complex and s...
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The Routledge Global Haiku Reader Taylor & Francis Ltd
The Routledge Global Haiku Reader provides a historical overview and comprehensive examination of haiku across the world in numerous languages, poetic movements, and cultural contexts. Offering an extensive critical perspective, this volume provides leading essays by poets and scholars who explore haiku’s various global developments, demonstrating the form’s complex and s...
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The Rise and Fall of Communism - Archie Brown
<p>The relentless rise of Communism was the most momentous political development of the first half of the twentieth century. This book explains how and why Communists came to power; how they were able, in a variety of countries on different continents to hold on to power for so long; and, what brought about the downfall of so many Communist systems.</p>
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The Vanishing of Ethan Carter (PC) DIGITAL
GOOD NEWS EVERYONE: By purchasing the game, you actually get two games now: 1) The original The Vanishing of Ethan Carter, 2) The Unreal Engine 4 remaster called The Vanishing of Ethan Carter Redux. Please see this link for details. The Vanishing of Ethan Carter is a first-person story-driven mystery game that focuses entirely on exploration and discovery. It co...
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Cypria. A Journey to the Heart of the Mediterranean - Alex Christofi
<p>An evocative and lyrical history of Cyprus and the Mediterranean.Think of a place where you can stand at the intersection of Christian and Arab cultures, at the crossroads of the British, Ottoman, Byzantine, Roman and Egyptian empires; a place marked by the struggle between fascism and communism and where the capital city is divided in half as a result of bloody ...
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The House of Doors: Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2023 - Eng Tan Twan
Anotace: LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2023A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERA FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEARA NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEARA NEW YORKER BOOK OF THE YEARA WASHINGTON POST BOOK OF THE YEARWillie Somerset Maugham is one of the greatest writers of the early twentieth century. But in 1921 he is beleaguered by an unhappy marriage, ill-health and business interests...
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The House of Doors: Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2023 - Tan Twan Eng
<p>LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2023A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERA FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEARA NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEARA NEW YORKER BOOK OF THE YEARA WASHINGTON POST BOOK OF THE YEARWillie Somerset Maugham is one of the greatest writers of the early twentieth century. But in 1921 he is beleaguered by an unhappy marriage, ill-health and business interests ...
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The Courage to be Happy : True Contentment Is Within Your Power, 1. vydání - Ichiro Kishimi
<p>The sequel to the global bestseller The Courage To Be Disliked, the Japanese phenomenon in applying twentieth-century psychology to contemporary dilemmas continues with life-changing advice on finding happiness.</p>
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The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories - Lovecraft Howard Phillips
This is a definitive collection of stories from the unrivaled master of twentieth-century horror in a Penguin Classics Deluxe edition with cover art by Travis Louie. Frequently imitated and widely inf
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The Master and Margarita, 1. vydání - Michail Afanasjevič Bulgakov
<p>A literary sensation from its first publication, The Master and Margarita is considered a masterpiece of twentieth-century Russian literature. Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library, a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket-sized classics with gold-foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. This edi...
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The Poems of W.B. Yeats Taylor & Francis Ltd
In this multi-volume edition, the poetry of W.B. Yeats (1865-1939) is presented in full, with newly-established texts and detailed, wide-ranging commentary. In this third volume, Yeats’s poetry of the first decade on the twentieth century is brought into sharp focus, revealing the extent of his efforts to re-fashion a style that had already made him a well-known poet. The...
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The Myth Of Sisyphus, 1. vydání - Albert Camus
<p>NOBEL PRIZE WINNER - An internationally acclaimed author delivers one of the most influential works of the twentieth century, showing a way out of despair and reaffirming the value of existence. Influenced by works such as Don Juan and the novels of Kafka, these essays begin with a meditation on suicide--the question of living or not living in a universe devoid ...
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Rambling on : An Apprentice´s Guide to the Gift of the Gab, 1. vydání - Bohumil Hrabal
<p>Bohumil Hrabal (1914–97) has been ranked with Jaroslav Hašek, Karel Čapek, and Milan Kundera as among the greatest twentieth-century Czech writers. Hrabal's fiction blends tragedy with humor and explores the anguish of intellectuals and ordinary people alike from a slightly surreal perspective. Rambling On is a collection of stories set in Hrabal's Kersko that de...
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