F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote in a friend's copy of Tender Is the Night, "If you liked The Great Gatsby, for God's sake read this. Gatsby was a tour de force but this is a confession of faith."
Denník zo slovenského pracoviska, ktorému nebudete veriť, že je pravdivý a ľudia skutoční. „Keď sa ti nepáči, za dverami čaká zástup ďalších, ktorí čakajú na tvoje miesto.“ Hovorievajú direktívne riaditelia.
Kniha přináší životní příběhy významné německo-židovské rodiny Semlerů, majitelů plzeňské železárny a drátovny produkující od svého založení široký sortiment výrobků pro každodenní použití a to včetně gramofonových jehel.
Tanec sněhové vločky je laskavým zimním příběhem o chlapci, který je ohromen krásou sněhových vloček. Velmi pečlivě je pozoruje. Objevuje nekonečnou pestrost a různorodost světa, který nás obklopuje a jehož jsme nedílnou součástí.
In The Outsider (1942), his classic existentialist novel, Camus explores the predicament of the individual who refuses to pretend and is prepared to face the indifference of the universe.
Author- writer, philosopher and strategic economist, Barnabas Bartl, whose ambition is to answer the pressing themes of today’s very hectic age, so full of uncertainties.
The stories collected in What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours are linked by more than the exquisitely winding prose of their creator: Helen Oyeyemi's ensemble cast of characters slip from the pages of their own stories only to surface in another.
Sparný letný deň. New York 1969. Štyria malí súrodenci Goldovci sa tajne vyberú na Hesterinu ulicu k jasnovidke. Povráva sa o nej, že vie každému človeku povedať kedy zomrie. Dnu vchádzajú po jednom. Vychádzajú otrasení tým, čo sa dozvedeli.
Having defeated the monstrous threat that nearly destroyed the peculiar world, Jacob Portman is back where his story began, in Florida. Except now Miss Peregrine, Emma, and their peculiar friends are with him, and doing their best to blend in.
Björk, Dr Seuss, Whoopi Goldberg, Andy Warhol, Ellen MacArthur, Greta Gerwig, Andrea Bocelli, Hua Mulan ... these are men and women who all dared to be different.
The stunning and urgent new novel from the Number One bestselling author of Small Great Things.
The Center for women's reproductive health offers a last chance at hope - but nobody ends up there by choice.
High on the cliffs near Dover, the Silver family is reeling from the loss of Lily, mother of twins Eliot and Miranda, and beloved wife of Luc. Miranda misses her with particular intensity.
Mr Fox, by award-winning author Helen Oyeyemi, is an beautiful and immersive exploration of the labyrinthine world of imagination, storytelling and love.
The fifth novel from award-winning author Helen Oyeyemi, who was named in 2013 as one of Granta's best of young British novelists. A retelling of the Snow White myth, Boy, Snow, Bird is a deeply moving novel about an unbreakable bond . . .
Set during the doomed splendour of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, The Radetzky March tells the story of the celebrated Trotta family, tracing their rise and fall over three generations.