Luba Pellarová Volgorde van de boeken (chronologisch)

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof first heated up Broadway in 1955 with its gothic American story of brothers vying for their dying father’s inheritance amid a whirlwind of sexuality, untethered in the person of Maggie the Cat. The play also daringly showcased the burden of sexuality repressed in the agony of her husband, Brick Pollitt. In spite of the public controversy Cat stirred up, it was awarded the Pulitzer Prize and the Drama Critics Circle Award for that year. Williams, as he so often did with his plays, rewrote Cat on a Hot Tin Roof for many years—the present version was originally produced at the American Shakespeare Festival in 1974 with all the changes that made Williams finally declare the text to be definitive, and was most recently produced on Broadway in the 2003–2004 season. This definitive edition also includes Williams&rsquoi; essay “Person-to-Person,” Williams’ notes on the various endings, and a short chronology of the author’s life. One of America’s greatest living playwrights, as well as a friend and colleague of Williams, Edward Albee has written a concise introduction to the play from a playwright’s perspective, examining the candor, sensuality, power, and impact of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof then and now.

Wat een afschuw! Wie stopt het hebzuchtige reuzenkrokodil? Het reuzenkrokodil heeft honger, onbedwingbare, enorme honger! Wat zou hem beter uitkomen dan een paar knapperige, sappige, heerlijk smakelijke kinderen? Maar die zijn niet zo gemakkelijk te vangen, daarvoor zijn slimme trucjes nodig! In het begin verloopt alles volgens plan voor het krokodil en zijn gemene vallen, totdat de andere dieren in de jungle de kinderen onvermoeibaar te hulp schieten. Uiteindelijk krijgt het krokodil de straf die het verdient, en moed en behulpzaamheid zegevieren! Onverschrokken helden vol kracht en fantasie maken de kinderen sterk: ongeacht wie je bent of waar je bent, ongeacht wie je klein wil maken, met fantasie, vastberadenheid en moed kun je je eigen gekke verhaal in handen nemen en alles zijn wat je wilt! Een prentenboek om te bekijken en voor te lezen voor slimme, sterke kinderen vanaf 4 jaar en alle Roald Dahl-fans.

Librarian's note: There is an Alternate Cover Edition for this edition of this book here.Paris in the twenties: Pernod, parties and expatriate Americans, loose-living on money from home. Jake is wildly in love with Brett Ashley, aristocratic and irresistibly beautiful, but with an abandoned, sensuous nature that she cannot change. When the couple drifts to Spain to the dazzle of the fiesta and the heady atmosphere of the bullfight, their affair is strained by new passions, new jealousies, and Jake must finally learn that he will never possess the woman he loves.

Ernest Hemingway's classic portrait of the pageantry of bullfighting. 'I was trying to learn to write, commencing with the simplest things, and one of the simplest things of all and the most fundamental is violent death' This is Hemingway's classic portrait of the pageantry of bullfighting. Here are the sights, the sounds, the excitement, and above all, the knowledge, that fuelled Hemingway's passion for Spain and the bullfight. This remarkable book contains some of his finest writing, inspired by the intense life, as well as the inevitable death, of those hot, violent afternoons. 'Hemingway's style, at its best, is a superb vehicle for revealing tenderness of feeling beneath descriptions of brutality' Guardian

Green Hills of Africa is Ernest Hemingway's lyrical journal of a month on safari in the great game country of East Africa, where he and his wife Pauline journeyed in December 1933. Hemingway's well-known interest in - and fascination with - big-game hunting is magnificently captured in this evocative account of his trip. It is an examination of the lure of the hunt and an impassioned portrait of the glory of the African landscape and of the beauty of a wilderness that was, even then, being threatened by the incursions of man.

Set in St. Louis during the Depression of the 1930s, this work is a personal account of the author's family and its gradual disintegration as it succumbed to external and internal pressures.

"Seymour 'Swede' Levov - a legendary high school athlete, a devoted family man, a hard worker, the prosperous inheritor of his father's Newark glove factory - comes of age in thriving, triumphant post-war America. But everything he loves is lost when the country begins to run amok in the turbulent 1960s. American Pastoral is the story of a fortunate American's rise and fall - of a strong, confident master of social equilibrium overwhelmed by the forces of social disorder."--Publisher's website.

"George, a disillusioned academic, and Martha, his caustic wife, have just come home from a faculty party. When a handsome young professor and his mousy wife stop by for a nightcap, an innocent night of fun and games quickly turns dark and dangerous. Long-buried resentment and rage are unleashed as George and Martha turn their rapier-sharp wits against each other, using their guests as pawns in their verbal sparring. By night's end, the secrets of both couples are uncovered and the lies they cling to are exposed."--Jacket

Williams' play about drifter Chance Wayne who returns to his hometown with a faded movie star hoping to find the girl of his youth is a classic study of the dream of recapturing youth and finding fame. This edition features an extensive critical commentary and questions aimed at students of the play.

Indhold: A perfect day for bananafish ; Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut ; The laughing man ; Down at the Dinghy ; Just before the war with the Eskimos ; For Esmé - with love and squalor ; Pretty mouth and green my eyes ; De Daumier-Smith's blue period ; Teddy.

»Wenn du deinem Paßbild ähnlich zu sehen beginnst, ist es höchste Zeit wegzufahren.« Dieses Motto stellt Kishon seiner Weltreise des Humors in 13 Länder von Holland bis Griechenland, von Deutschland bis in die Türkei voran und charakterisiert damit den Traum jedes Alltagsmenschen nach der lockenden Ferne, in der er sich in sein anderes Ich verwandelt. Höchstes Lesevergnügen für Weltenbummler und Reise-Profis, für alle, die von fremden Ländern träumen oder in Gedanken die Fahrt in das Land ihrer Sehnsucht antreten wollen: die besten Satiren um Reisen und Reisende in einem Band.

Published in 1983 to phenomenal reviews, Blue Highways: A Journey into America became a cult classic on par with Jack Kerouac's On the Road and John Steinbeck's Travels with Charley. In this highly acclaimed, bestselling memoir, a 38-year-old laid-off college professor of Sioux and white blood drives around the U.S. on the "blue highways, " the rural back made that are colored blue on old maps. The places he discovers during his 13,000-mile journey are unexpected, sometimes mysterious, and often full of simply the wonder of the ordinary.-- Blue Highways received extraordinary reviews when it was first published.

Sebrané humoresky o druhé nejkrásnější činnosti na světě.

Volně spojený cyklus dvanácti elegických povídek amerického autora českého původu tvoří jakýsi skupinový portrét tří generací mužů a žen obývajících podmanivé okolí jezera ve státě New York. Výjimečná schopnost zachytit ducha krajiny, jenž jako by spoluutvářel životní osudy jednotlivých postav, přitom není jediným pozoruhodným rysem této neobyčejně vyzrálé prvotiny: autorovo umění ponoru do skutečných i domnělých hlubin vnitřních životů jeho hrdinů je tu ukázkovým příkladem zdánlivě paradoxní schopnosti imaginativní prózy překonat v živosti a autenticitě samu skutečnost.

In this rich and compelling novel, written in language of astonishing poise and resonance, one of Australia's greatest living writers gives and immensely powerful vision of human differences and eternal divisions. In the mid-1840s a thirteen-year-old British cabin boy, Gemmy Fairley, is cast ashore in the far north of Australia and taken in by aborigines. Sixteen years later he moves back into the world of Europeans, among hopeful yet terrified settlers who are staking out their small patch of home in an alien place. To them, Gemmy stands as a different kind of challenge: he is a force that at once fascinates and repels. His own identity in this new world is as unsettling to him as the knowledge he brings to others of the savage, the aboriginal. "Breathtaking...To read this remarkable book is to remember Babylon well, whether you think you've been there or not." -- The New York Times Book Review

Ein köstliche Sammlung zahlreicher neuer und einiger klassischer Satiren über all die Fragen, die sich der Menschheit stellen, seit Eva ihren Adam in den Apfel beissen liess.

Both a satire on the idle rich and a brutally realistic depiction of the desperate plight of the unemployed. Contrasts the underdogs of Key West with decadent socialites down for the winter season.

J.D. Salinger, author of the classic Catcher in the Rye (1951), wrote the stories Franny and Zooey for publication in the New Yorker magazine in 1955 and 1957 respectively. Both stories were part of a series centred around a family of settlers in New York, the Glasses, particularly the children of Les and Bessie Glass, a Jewish-Irish theatrical act. All are brilliant former radio actors. Their eldest child, Seymour, a genius, commits suicide in his thirties. The repercussions to the family of this act provide the unifying theme to the stories. In Franny and Zooey the youngest member of the family, Franny, has a religious and nervous breakdown. She attempts to ward off the meaninglessness of college life by the obsessive repetition of a Jesus prayer. Her brother Zachary (Zooey) rests at nothing in his attempts to restore her sanity. J.D. Salinger wrote the Glass stories, 'It is a long-term project, patently an ambitious one, and there is a real-enough danger, I suppose, that sooner or later I'll bog down, perhaps disappear entirely, in ly own methods, locutions and mannerisms. On the whole, though, I'm very hopeful.I love working on these Glass stories, I've been waiting for them most of my life, and I think I have fairly decent, monomaniacal plans to finish them with due care and all-available skill.'

WINNER OF THE PEN/FAULKNER AWARD • From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of American Pastoral—a fiendishly imaginative book that features Israeli intelligence agents, Palestinian exiles, an accused war criminal, and an enticing charter member of an organization called Anti-Semites Anonymous "One of Roth's grand inventions.... [He is] a comic genius." —The New York Review of Books In this book (which may or may not be fiction), Philip Roth meets a man who may or may not be Philip Roth. Because someone with that name has been touring Israel, promoting a bizarre reverse exodus of the Jews. Roth is intent on stopping him, even if that means impersonating his own impersonator. With excruciating suspense, unfettered philosophical speculation, and a wild cast of characters, Operation Shylock barrels across the frontier between fact and fiction, seriousness and high comedy, history and nightmare.

"Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters" and "Seymour" are now reissued in a trade paper edition.

Englische Literatur in Reclams Roter Reihe: das ist der englische Originaltext – ungekürzt und unbearbeitet mit Worterklärungen am Fuß jeder Seite, Nachwort und Literaturhinweisen. Millers berühmtestes Drama: die Geschichte des Handelsvertreters Willy Loman und seiner beiden Söhne Biff und Happy ist die Geschichte des amerikanischen Traums vom Erfolg – und seines Scheiterns. Englische Lektüre: Niveau B2–C1 (GER) Sprachen: Englisch, Deutsch

Commander Dalgliesh of Scotland Yard is taking a brief respite from publicity on the Norfolk coast, in a converted windmill left him by his aunt. But he cannot easily escape murder - a psychopathic strangler is at large in Norfolk.

Hlavní hrdinka, dívka, která si rozhodně žádné životní problémy nepřipouští, líčí otevřeně ve svém fingovaném deníčku poněkud neromantickou cestu za „svým místem na slunci“. Nešetří při tom ani své okolí a s humorem a nadhledem vypráví nejen o vyšších společenských, ale též o uměleckých – literárních a filmových kruzích i o jiném atraktivním prostředí. Zajímavý je také hrdinčin pohled na mužské protějšky – to si už však jistě rádi přečtete v této milé knížce.

For Spenser, that most unorthodox of private detectives, no case is ever straightforward and the theft of a 14th-century illuminated manuscript proves no exception. His investigation soon leads him into organized crime, dope-pushing, theft, radical politics, adultery and murder.

Bratři Machalovi cestovali po místech, kde žil E. Hemingway, hovořili s těmi, kdo velkého amerického spisovatele poznali. Rekonstruují jeho pohnutý život - neukázněné mládí, osobní vztahy k rodičům, čtyřem manželkám, přátelům a konečně i dramatický závěr spisovatelova bytí.

2. část trilogie, která navazuje na 1. část Vesnice a bude pokračovat 3. částí Panské sídlo. Doslov: Eva Masnerová Druhý díl Faulknerovy volné trilogie začíná ve chvíli, kdy Flem Snopes, reprezentant nastupujících dravých ekonomických sil na americkém Jihu počátku 20. století, přijíždí do Jeffersonu...

2. část trilogie, která navazuje na 1. část Vesnice a bude pokračovat 3. částí Panské sídlo. Doslov: Eva Masnerová Druhý díl Faulknerovy volné trilogie začíná ve chvíli, kdy Flem Snopes, reprezentant nastupujících dravých ekonomických sil na americkém Jihu počátku 20. století, přijíždí do Jeffersonu...

The publishing house Megali focuses on making historical works accessible by reproducing them in large print, catering specifically to individuals with impaired vision. This initiative emphasizes the importance of inclusivity in literature, allowing a broader audience to engage with historical texts.

Ben Roselli, president of First Mercantile American Bank and grandson of the founder, makes the shocking announcement that he's dying. With no offspring to inherit the company, Roselli knows that executive VPs Roscoe Heyward and Alex Vandervoort are the obvious candidates to succeed him. Heyward, who has been with First Mercantile for two decades, will do whatever it takes to bring in new clients and win the coveted presidency. Vandervoort, a newcomer from the Federal Reserve with a left-wing girlfriend, advocates for a socially responsible plan of growth. And now the discovery of counterfeit cash and credit card fraud threatens the future of the bank itself.From the day-to-day business dealings to the inner sanctums of the money trading center and the boardroom, Hailey s novel is a riveting tale of ambition, greed, and the US banking system.

Čtyři povídky umístěné do exotických zemí Indonésie: Karain, Úsměv štěstěny, Tajný souputník, Freya ze Sedmi ostrovů.

Dobrodružné až detektivní povídky, jejich námětem je oslava mužnosti, statečnosti a spravedlnosti: Plantážník z Malaty, Společník, Hostinec u dvou čarodějnic, Kvůli dolarům.

Frank Alpine, a drifter fleeing from his past, runs straight into struggling Brooklyn grocer Morris Bober. Seeing a chance to atone for past sins, Frank becomes Bober's assistant and keeps shop when the owner takes ill. But it is Bober's daughter, Helen, who gives Frank a real reason to stay around, even as he begins to steal from the store. Widely considered as one of the great American-Jewish novels, 'The Assistant' is a classic look at the social and racial divides of a country still in its infancy, and a stunning evocation of the immigrant experience - of cramped circumstances and great expectations.

Sylvia Barrett arrives at New York City’s Calvin Coolidge High fresh from earning literature degrees at Hunter College and eager to shape young minds. Instead she encounters broken windows, a lack of supplies, a stifling bureaucracy, and students with no interest in Chaucer. Her bumpy yet ultimately rewarding journey is narrated through an extraordinary collection of correspondence—sternly worded yet nonsensical administrative memos, furtive notes of wisdom from teacher to teacher, “polio consent slips,” and student homework assignments that unwittingly speak from the heart. An instant bestseller when it was first published in 1964, Up the Down Staircase remains as poignant, devastating, laugh-out-loud funny, and relevant today as ever. It timelessly depicts a beleaguered public school system redeemed by teachers who love to teach and students who long to be recognized.

Nová, do značné míry autobiografická hra, děj se odehrává v mysli ústřední postavy, v jejích myšlenkách. Na scénu staví asi čtyřicetiletého právníka, jenž se rozborem nejvýznamnějších skutečností svého života snaží dopátrat se pravdy o své vině na tom, co udělal on i společnostkolem něho. Přeložili Luba a Rudolf Pellarovi za jazykové spolupráce Hildy Lassové.

A 16-year old American boy relates in his own words the experiences he goes through at school and after, and reveals with unusual candour the workings of his own mind. What does a boy in his teens think and feel about his teachers, parents, friends and acquaintances?

Written in 1915, The Shadow-Line is based upon events and experiences from twenty-seven years earlier to which Conrad returned obsessively in his fiction. A young sea captain's first command brings with it a succession of crises: his sea is becalmed, the crew laid low by fever, and his deranged first mate is convinced that the ship is haunted by the malignant spirit of a previous captain. This is indeed a work full of "sudden passions," in which Conrad is able to show how the full intensity of existence can be experienced by the man who, in the words of the older Captain Giles, is prepared to "stand up to his bad luck, to his mistakes, to his conscience." A subtle and penetrating analysis of the nature of manhood, The Shadow-Line investigates varieties of masculinity and desire in a subtext that counters the tale's seemingly conventional surface.