Portrait of the writer
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Conversations with Colum McCann
Brings together eighteen interviews with a world-renowned fiction writer. Ranging from his 1994 literary debut, Fishing the Sloe-Black River, to a pre
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The Messenger - Silva Daniel
Anotace: Gabriel Allon, art restorer and spy, is about to face the greatest challenge of his life. An al-Qaeda suspect is killed in London, and photographs are found on his computer - photographs that lead Israeli intelligence to suspect that al-Qaeda is planning one of its most audacious attacks ever, straight at the heart of the Vatican. Allon warns the Pope`s private ...
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ASUS ExpertCenter D7 SFF D700SE i5-13400/16GB/512GB SSD/DVD writer 8X/300W/3yr Pick up & Return/Win11 Pro/Černá (D700SEES-513400048X)
Size 9L Color Black Form Factor Small form factor Operating System Windows 11 Pro - ASUS recommends Windows 11 Pro for business Office 1-month trial for new Microsoft 365 customers. Credit card required. Processor Intel® Core™ i5-13400 Processor 2.5GHz (20M Cache, up to 4.6GHz, 10 cores) CPU Cooler Air Cooler Chipset Intel® B760 Chipset DIMM Memory 16GB DDR4 U-DIMM Memor...
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ASUS ExpertCenter D7 Mini Tower D700ME i3-13100/16GB/512GB SSD/DVD writer 8X/300W/3yr Pick up & Return/Bez OS/Černá (D700ME-3131000450)
Size 15L Color Black Form Factor Mini tower Processor Intel® Core™ i3-13100 Processor 3.4GHz (12M Cache, up to 4.5GHz, 4 cores) Chipset Intel® B760 Chipset DIMM Memory 16GB DDR4 U-DIMM Memory Max. 128GB Graphic N/A Storage 512GB M.2 2280 NVMe™ PCIe® 4.0 SSD Optical Drive DVD writer 8X LAN Intel WGI219V 10/100/1000 Mbps, non-vPro Audio High Definition 7.1 Channel Audio Wir...
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ASUS ExpertCenter D7 Mini Tower D700ME i5-13400/16GB/512GB SSD/DVD writer 8X/300W/3yr Pick up & Return/Win11 Pro/Černá (D700ME-513400130X)
Size 15L Color Black Form Factor Mini tower Operating System Windows 11 Pro - ASUS recommends Windows 11 Pro for business Office 1-month trial for new Microsoft 365 customers. Credit card required. Processor Intel® Core™ i5-13400 Processor 2.5GHz (20M Cache, up to 4.6GHz, 10 cores) Chipset Intel® B760 Chipset DIMM Memory 16GB DDR4 U-DIMM Memory Max. 128GB Graphic N/A Stor...
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ASUS ExpertCenter D7 SFF D700SD i5-12400/8GB/256GB SSD/DVD writer 8X/300W/3yr Pick up & Return/W11P/Černá (D700SDES-512400005X)
Size 9L Color Black Form Factor Small form factor Processor Intel® Core™ i5-12400 Processor 2.5 GHz (18M Cache, up to 4.4 GHz, 6 cores) Operating System Windows 11 Pro - ASUS recommends Windows 11 Pro for business Office 1-month trial for new Microsoft 365 customers. Credit card required. Chipset Intel® B660 Chipset DIMM Memory 8GB DDR4 U-DIMM Memory Max. 128GB Storage 25...
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The Master And Margarita - Bulgakov Michail Afanasjevič
Anotace: Mikhail Bulgakov's devilish salute to artistic freedom, now in a beautiful clothbound edition 'Bulgakov is one of the greatest Russian writers, perhaps the greatest' Independent Written in secret during the darkest days of Stalin's reign, The Master and Margarita became an overnight literary phenomenon when it was finally published it, sign...
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Conversations with Dorothy Allison
Often called a ""writer-rock star"" and a ""cult icon"", Dorothy Allison is a true performer of the written word. In the absence of a biography of All
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The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human - Siddhartha Mukherjee
<p>The Song of the Cell is the vivid, thrilling and suspenseful story of the fundamental unit of life. It describes how scientists discovered cells, began to understand them, and are now using that knowledge to create new humans. Both panoramic and intimate, it is Siddhartha Mukherjee's most spectacular book yet.In the late 1600s, a distinguished English polymath, R...
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The Romantic - Pelz Monika, Boyd William, Boyd William
Anotace: From one of Britain`s best-loved and bestselling writers comes an intimate yet panoramic novel about the tumult and unexpected nature of life, set in the 19th centuryA new "whole life" novel from William Boyd, the author of Any Human Heart. Set in the 19th century, the novel follows the roller-coaster fortunes of a man as he tries to negotiate the random stages,...
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City of Gangs: Glasgow and the Rise of the British Gangster
Andrew Davies, author of the acclaimed Gangs of Manchester, paints a portrait of Britain's gangland between the wars - a period when Glasgow was known
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The Wisdom of Wallace D. Wattles: Including: The Science of Getting Rich, The Science of Being Great & The Science of Being Well
The Science of Getting Rich is a book written by the New Thought Movement writer Wallace D. Wattles. The book is still in print after 100 years. It was a major inspiration for Rhonda Byrne's bestselling book and film The Secret. According to USA Today, the
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The Fraud: The Instant Sunday Times Bestseller - Smithová Zadie
Anotace: Book of the Year 2023 according to New York Times, New Yorker, Guardian, Economist, Observer, The Spectator, Financial Times, Vogue, The Times, The Oldie, i Paper, The Standard, Washington Post, Independent, Daily ExpressSHORTLISTED FOR WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023SHORTLISTED FOR THE WRITERS` PRIZE FOR FICTION 2024ONE OF SARAH JESSICA PARKER`S BEST BOOKS OF...
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Damaged
Offers the first book-length portrait of punk as a musical style with an emphasis on how punk developed in relation to changing ideas of race in Ameri
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The Death of Bunny Munro - Cave Nick
Anotace: The world is a hard place to be good in ... Struggling to keep a grip on reality after his wife`s death, Bunny Munro does the only thing he can think of: with his young son in tow, he hits the road. An epic chronicle of one man`s judgement, The Death of Bunny Munro is also an achingly tender portrait of the relationship between father and son.
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The Picture of Dorian Gray - Wilde Oscar
Anotace: Part of Penguin`s beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design.Enthralled by his own exquisite portrait, Dorian Gray exchanges his soul for eternal youth and beauty. Influenced by h...
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The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY IRVINE WELSH Dorian is a good-natured young man until he discovers the power of his own exceptional beauty. As he gradually sinks deep into a frivolous, glamorous world of selfish luxury, he apparently remains physically unchanged by the stresses of his corrupt lifestyle and untouched by age. But up in his attic, hidden behind a curtain, his portra...
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The Picture of Dorian Gray (0141439572)
Kniha - autor Oscar Wilde, 320 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná Dorian Gray has just had his portrait painted. It is a perfect likeness of the quite extraordinary beautiful young man, and it prompts him to make a mad wish for eternal youth. In the years to come, he devotes his public life to and aestheticism-and his private one to decadence and debauchery....
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Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters; Seymour - an Introduction - Salinger Jerome David
Anotace: A haunting portrait of family tragedy from the acclaimed author of The Catcher in the Rye`He was a great many things to a great many people while he lived, and virtually all things to his brothers and sisters in our somewhat outsized family. Surely he was all real things to us: our blue-striped unicorn, our double-lensed burning glass, our consultant genius, our...
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The Sands of Mars - Clarke Arthur C.
Anotace: It is the twenty-first century. On Mars a dedicated group of pioneers - among them some of Earth`s finest brains - struggle to change the face of the planet . . .Science fiction writer Martin Gibson finally gets a chance to visit the research colony on the Red Planet. It`s a dream come true - until he discovers the difficulties and perils of survival on another ...
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The Ballad of the Sad Cafe - Carson McCullers
<p>Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, from haunted New England to a sun-drenched Mediterranean isl...
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Case of the Chocolate Cream Killer: The Poisonous Passion of Christiana Edmunds
Writer and historian Kaye Jones has investigated the case of Christiana Edmunds, a seemingly demure middle-class young lady who suddenly started sendi
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The Declarations of Havana - Fidel Castro
<p>In response to the American administration's attempt to isolate Cuba, Fidel Castro delivered a series of speeches designed to radicalize Latin American society. As Latin America experiences more revolutions in Venezuela and Bolivia, and continues to upset America's plans for neo-liberal imperialism, renowned radical writer and activist Tariq Ali provides a searin...
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Create Anyway – The Joy of Pursuing Creativity in the Margins of Motherhood
Writer and mother Ashlee Gadd helps you discover the sacred connection between creating and mothering. One-part commissioning, one-part pep talk, Crea
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A Death in Vienna - Silva Daniel
Anotace: Art restorer and spy Gabriel Allon is sent to Vienna to discover the truth behind a bombing which killed an old friend - a Nazi hunter. While there he encounters something that turns his whole life upside down. Each fact he uncovers only leads to more questions until finally a picture emerges which is more terrible than he could have ever imagined - a portrait o...
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Quicksand - Larsen Nella
Anotace: `The overlooked American writer who blows apart modern thinking on race` TelegraphBorn to a Danish mother and a West Indian father, Helga Crane has long had to fend for herself as a mixed-race woman in the Deep South of 1920`s America. She moves to Harlem and then to Copenhagen in her search for a sense of belonging and acceptance, but wherever she goes, she can...
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The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
Anotace: On its first publication The Picture of Dorian Gray was regarded as dangerously modern in its depiction of fin-de-siecle decadence. In this updated version of the Faust story, the tempter is Lord Henry Wotton, who lives selfishly for amoral pleasure; Dorian's good angel is the portrait painter Basil Hallward, whom Dorian murders. The book highlights the ten...
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The Little Paris Kitchen : Classic French recipes with a fresh and fun approach - Khoo Rachel
Anotace: Rachel Khoo was determined to get to grips with French cooking, so to learn more she moved to Paris, not speaking a word of French, and enrolled at Le Cordon Bleu, the world-famous cookery school. From a Croque Madame muffin and the classic Boeuf bourguignon, to a deliciously fragrant Provencal lavender and lemon roast chicken, Rachel celebrates the culinary lan...
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Mathematics of the Breath and the Way - Charles Bukowski
Anotace: In The Mathematics of the Breath and the Way, Charles Bukowski considers the art of writing, and the art of living as writer. Bringing together a variety of previously uncollected stories, columns, reviews, introductions, and interviews, this book finds him approaching the dynamics of his chosen profession with cynical aplomb, deflating pretensions and tearing d...
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The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
Anotace: Dorian Gray is having his picture painted by Basil Hallward, who is charmed by his looks. But when Sir Henry Wotton visits and seduces Dorian into the worship of youthful beauty with an intoxicating speech, Dorian makes a wish he will live to regret: that all the marks of age will now be reflected in the portrait rather than on Dorian´s own face. The stage is no...
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The Year of Magical Thinking (0007216858)
Kniha - autor Joan Didion, anglicky, Brožovaná bez přebalu matná - autor Joan Didion, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná Just before Christmas 2003, John Gregory Dunne's and Joan Didion's only daughter, Quintana, fell ill. At first they thought it was flu, then pneumonia, then complete sceptic shock. She was put into a coma and placed on life support. Days later - th...
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The Story Of Disney: 100 Years Of Wonder - Baxter John
Anotace: On October 16, 1923, Walt Disney and his brother Roy founded what we now know to be The Walt Disney Company. Walt´s passion and vision continues to inspire creative development across the company. As a result, Disney characters?and their stories?have touched the lives of generations of fans. They encourage a belief that dreams really can come true.As the officia...
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Richard Rolle and the Invention of Authority
This 1991 book is a literary study of the career of Richard Rolle (d.1349), a Yorkshire hermit and mystic who was one of the most widely read English writers of the late Middle Ages. Nicholas Watson proposes a chronology of Rolle's writings, and offers a literary analyses of a number of his works. He shows how Rolle's career, as a writer of passionate religious works in L...
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The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life (0553384619)
Kniha - autor Alice Schroeder, anglicky, Brožovaná bez přebalu matná - autor Alice Schroeder, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná Never before has Buffett spent countless hours responding to a writer's questions, talking, giving complete access to his wife, children, friends, and business associates-opening his files, recalling his childhood. It was an act of courage,...
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Greek Lessons - Kang Han
Anotace: Book of the Year 2023 according to New Yorker, TIME magazine, Kirkus A powerful novel of the saving grace of language and human connection, from the celebrated author of The Vegetarian.`Breathtaking . . . She is simply my favourite living writer to read, and think with, and see the world with` Max PorterIn a classroom in Seoul, a young woman watches her Greek la...
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Applied Psychology of - The secret world of architects - Karel Smejkal
<p>The first book on the psychology of architecture.</p><p>During ten years, the author met architects from more than 140 countries, but there was not one among them who could answer the question of what is the psychology of architecture. So he decided to return to university, assemble a research team in Applied Psychology of Architecture, and define and...
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Piers of the Homeless Night - Jack Kerouac
<p>'See my hand up-tipped, learn the secret of my human heart...'Soaring, freewheeling snapshots of life on the road across America, from the Beat writer who inspired a generation.Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international...
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The Complete Poetry Of Edgar Allan Poe
Explore the transcendent world of unity and ultimate beauty in Edgar Allan Poe's verse in this complete poetry collection. Although best known for his short stories, Edgar Allan Poe was by nature and choice a poet. From his exquisite lyric "To Helen," to his immortal masterpieces, "Annabel Lee," "The Bells," and "The Raven," Poe stands beside the celebrated English romant...
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The Book of Longings - Monk Kidd Sue
Anotace: Ana is born in Galilee at a time when women are seen as possessions, only leaving their fathers` homes to marry.Ana longs to control her destiny. Taught to read despite her mother`s misgivings, she wants to be a writer and to find her own voice. A voice that will speak for the silenced women around her.Betrothed to an elderly widower, Ana almost despairs. But an...
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The Book of Longings - Kidd Sue Monk
<p>Ana is born in Galilee at a time when women are seen as possessions, only leaving their fathers' homes to marry. Ana longs to control her destiny. Taught to read despite her mother's misgivings, she wants to be a writer and to find her own voice. A voice that will speak for the silenced women around her. Betrothed to an elderly widower, Ana almost despairs. But ...
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The Secret Life of Writers - Musso Guillaume
Anotace: In 1999, after publishing three cult novels, celebrated author Nathan Fawles announces the end of his writing career and withdraws to Beaumont, a wild and beautiful island off the Mediterranean coast.Autumn 2018. As Fawles` novels continue to captivate readers, Mathilde Monney, a young Swiss journalist, arrives on the island, determined to unlock the writer`s se...
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Tales of the Supernatural Level 3
Award-winning original fiction for learners of English. At seven levels, from Starter to Advanced, this impressive selection of carefully graded readers offers exciting reading for every student's capabilities. Six stories about a world we cannot explain. A film star discovers the dangers of dancing with a stranger. A man comes face-to-face with his father's history. An ...
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The Sense of an Ending (0099570335)
Kniha - autor Julian Barnes, 150 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná Winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction in 2011 - a brilliant short novel from a writer at the very height of his powers. Tony Webster and his clique first met Adrian Finn at school. Sex-hungry and book-hungry, they would navigate the girl-less sixth form together, trading in affectations, ...
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The Mathematics of the Breath and the Way: The Writing Life - Charles Bukowski
<p>In The Mathematics of the Breath and the Way, Charles Bukowski considers the art of writing, and the art of living as writer. Bringing together a variety of previously uncollected stories, columns, reviews, introductions, and interviews, this book finds him approaching the dynamics of his chosen profession with cynical aplomb, deflating pretentions and tearing do...
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Again, Rachel: The No 1 Bestseller That Everyone Is Talking About - Keyesová Marian
Anotace: THE NO. 1 BESTSELLING BOOK THAT EVERYONE IS TALKING ABOUT!EVERY GENERATION HAS ONE GREAT LOVE STORY.THIS IS OURS.`Beautifully written. Clever, lively, funny, compelling` NINA STIBBE`Funny, heartbreaking, achingly real. Gorgeous. I absolutely loved it` JANE FALLON`Beautifully written, funny, heart-breaking and always wise. A proper treat` DAILY MAIL`An entertaini...
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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - Gryffindor Edition
Let the magic of J.K. Rowling's classic Harry Potter series transport you to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. This Gryffindor House Edition of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix celebrates the noble character of the Hogwarts house famed for its courage, bravery and determination. Harry's fifth year at Hogwarts is packed with more great Gryffindor moments...
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Metamorphosis - Kafka Franz
Anotace: Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, from haunted New England to a sun-drenched Mediterrane...
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Speak of the Devil - Wilding Rose
Anotace: `A mesmerising, moving story that is impossible to look away from` Gytha Lodge, author of Little Sister`Crafted with unflinching empathy, Speak of the Devil is twisted in the best way` Clemence Michallon, author of The Quiet TenantAll of us knew him. One of us killed him...Seven women stand in shock in a seedy hotel room; a man`s severed head sits in the centre...
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Moonlight - Miles Sian
Anotace: Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, from haunted New England to a sun-drenched Mediterrane...
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The Prince of the Skies - Antonio González Iturbe
<p>From the bestselling author of The Librarian of Auschwitz, Antonio Iturbe, comes a captivating historical novel based on a true story – the extraordinary life and mysterious death of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, author of The Little Prince. Writer. Romantic. Pilot. Hero. All Antoine de Saint Exupéry wants to do is be a pilot. But flying is a dangerous dream and one ...
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Dream Story - Schnitzler Arthur
Anotace: Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, from haunted New England to a sun-drenched Mediterrane...
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The Bazaar of Bad Dreams - Stephen King
<p>The master storyteller at his best delivers a generous, thrilling new collection of stories featuring revelatory autobiographical comments on when, why and how he came to write each story. A generous collection of thrilling stories - some brand new, some published in magazines, all entirely brilliant and assembled in one book for the first time - with a wonderful...
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The War of the Worlds, 1. vydání - Herbert George Wells
<p>When an army of invading Martians lands in England, panic and terror seize the population. As the aliens traverse the country in huge three-legged machines, incinerating all in their path with a heat ray and spreading noxious toxic gases, the people of the Earth must come to terms with the prospect of the end of human civilization and the beginning of Martian rul...
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The Masque of the Red Death - Edgar Allan Poe
<p>Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, from haunted New England to a sun-drenched Mediterranean isl...
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The Bazaar of Bad Dreams - King Stephen
Anotace: The master storyteller at his best delivers a generous, thrilling new collection of stories featuring revelatory autobiographical comments on when, why and how he came to write each story. <br> A generous collection of thrilling stories - some brand new, some published in magazines, all entirely brilliant and assembled in one book for the first time - with...
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Recollections of My Non-Existence
From the author of Men Explain Things to Me: an electric portrait of the artist as a young woman that asks how a young writer finds her voice in a soc
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The Physics of Sorrow - Gospodinov Georgi
Anotace: From the International Booker Prize-winning author of Time Shelter, this kaleidoscopic 'novel of beginnings' offers a portrait of a man who can wander uninvited into other people's memories. In the small and the insignificant - that's where life hides, that's where it builds its nest. Our unnamed narrator is not well. He suffers from ...
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The Physics of Sorrow - Georgi Gospodinov
<p>From the International Booker Prize-winning author of Time Shelter, this kaleidoscopic 'novel of beginnings' offers a portrait of a man who can wander uninvited into other people's memories</p> <p>In the small and the insignificant - that's where life hides, that's where it builds its nest.Our unnamed narrator is not well. He suffers from attacks of '...
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The Song Of Names - Howard Shore
Anotace: Soundtrack k filmu The Song Of Names (Píseň jmen) oskarového skladatele filmové hudby Howarda Shorea. <br><br> Obsah alba:<br> 1. The Song of Names for Violin and Cantor<br> 2. London Debut<br> 3. They Have To Be Told<br> 4. Play for the Ashes<br> 5. For His Father<br> 6. Bieyeling<br> 7. Paganini: Capriee f...
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The Architecture of Modern Empire - Arundhati Roy
From the bestselling author of Azadi and My Seditious Heart, a piercing exploration of modern empire, nationalism and rising fascism that gives us the tools to resist and fight backâ€~I try to create links, to join the dots, to tell politics like a story, to make it real…’Over a lifetime spent at the frontline of solidarity and resistance, Arundhati Roy’s words have...
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