Luba Pellarová Volgorde van de boeken (chronologisch)

'Big Daddy' Pollitt, the richest cotton planter in the Mississippi Delta, is about to celebrate his sixty-fifth birthday. His two sons have returned home for the occasion- Gooper, his wife and children, Brick, an ageing football hero who has turned to drink, and his feisty wife Maggie. As the hot summer evening unfolds, the veneer of happy family life and Southern gentility gradually slips away as unpleasant truths emerge and greed, lies, jealousy and suppressed sexuality threaten to reach boiling point. Made into a film starring Elizabeth Taylor and Paul Newman, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is a masterly portrayal of family tensions and individuals trapped in prisons of their own making.

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.

Begun in the autumn of 1957 and published posthumously in 1964, this work captures the essence of being young, poor, and writing in Paris during the 1920s. Arriving in Paris in 1921 as a correspondent for the Toronto Star, Hemingway found himself amidst a cultural transformation following the Great War. The era was marked by the innovations of Braque and Picasso in cubism, Joyce's completion of Ulysses, and Stein's influential gatherings at 27 Rue de Fleurus, where she recognized Hemingway as part of a lost generation. During these formative years, he collected material for his first novel, The Sun Also Rises, and the masterpieces that followed. The narrative features poignant sketches of his eclectic circle of artists and writers, some destined for fame while others faded into obscurity. It also vividly evokes the Paris that shaped him—a map of streets, cafes, and bookshops where he, often battling cold and hunger, refined his craft. This work serves as both an elegy to the vibrant expatriate community of the twenties and a reflection on the trials and triumphs of the writing life.

A fascinating look at the history and grandeur of bullfighting, Death in the Afternoon is also a deeper contemplation on the nature of cowardice and bravery, sport and tragedy, and is enlivened throughout by Hemingway's pungent commentary on life and literature. Seen through his eyes, bullfighting becomes an art, a richly choreographed ballet, with performers who range from awkward amateurs to masters of great grace and cunning.

Englische Literatur in Reclams Roter Reihe: das ist der englische Originaltext – ungekürzt und unbearbeitet mit Worterklärungen am Fuß jeder Seite, Nachwort und Literaturhinweisen. Die neurotische und schöne Blanche lebt bei ihrer schwangeren Schwester Stella und deren grobschlächtigen Mann Stanley. Als sich Blanche in Mitch verliebt, mischt sich Stanley ein und vergewaltigt Blanche, während Stella im Krankenhaus entbindet. Blanche bricht zusammen und wird in eine psychiatrische Klinik eingeliefert. Der Klassiker nach dem Bühnenstück von Tennessee Williams wurde auch verfilmt. In den Rollen: Vivien Leigh alias Blanche, Marlon Brando alias Stanley; Karl Malden alias Mitch. Für 12 Oscars nominiert gewann er vier. Im Jahre 1948 gewann Williams den Pulitzer-Preis für »A Streetcar Named Desire«. Englische Lektüre: Niveau B2–C1 (GER)

Epos over een Amerikaanse familie die in de jaren zestig verdwaasd achterblijft wanneer de zestienjarige dochter een terroriste blijkt te zijn.

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. Considered by many to be Albee's masterpiece.

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.

Ervaringen die de auteur opdeed tijdens een autorit kriskras door de V.S., op zoek naar de erfenis van de Indiaanse cultuur en geschiedenis.

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.

Winner of the IMPAC Award and Booker Prize nominee In this rich and compelling novel, written in language of astonishing poise and resonance, one of Australia's greatest living writers gives an 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

Kishon und die Bibel - das ist eine höchst brisante Konfrontation, die von Kishon mit der gebührenden Ehrfurcht, aber auch mit seinem unverwechselbaren Humor dargeboten wird. Denn Humor, so der bekannte Satiriker, sei Gottes schönste Gabe und bringe die Menschen dem Universum näher. Aber nicht nur um die Ereignisse im Himmel und um Moses' Werk geht es in diesem köstlichen Buch, es geht wie immer bei Kishon vor allem um die unheilbaren Schwächen der „Krone der Schöpfung“.

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.'

'Subtle, funny and furious' Observer. What if a lookalike stranger stole your name, hijacked your biography, and went about the world pretending to be you? Startlingly, Philip Roth meets a man in Jerusalem called Philip Roth who has been touring Israel - riding high on the author's reputation - preaching a bizarre reverse-exodus of the Jews, encouraging them to return to their ancestral homes in Europe. Roth decides to stop him, even if that means impersonating the impersonator. Operation Shylock is at once spy story, political thriller, meditation on identity and unfathomable journey through a volatile, frightening middle-east.

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

When Adam Dalgliesh visits Larksoken, a remote headland community on the Norfolk coast in the shadow of a nuclear power station, he expects to be engaged only in the sad business of tying up his aunt's estate.

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.

Tento svazek obsahuje díla vydaná samostatně: Mrtvá strana mikrofonu, Situační tragédie, Vražda bez nápovědy

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.

"First published in the New Yorker in the 1950s, Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: an Introduction are two novellas narrated by Buddy Glass, a character often said to be a portrait of Salinger himself. In the first, Buddy has taken leave from the army during World War II to attend the wedding of the eldest Glass brother, Seymour, and an atmosphere of portentous suspense sets the scene for the tragedy that will follow. In the second, Buddy reminisces about Seymour and the novella unfolds into a deep and far-reaching exploration of a complex and sad character which displays all the tenderness and subtlety which distinguish the best of Salinger's writing"--Publisher's website

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.

This is the story of the happenings at a major bank. The first of which is that the bank's president announces that he is dying and that with no heir to take his place, he informs the bank's officers that he is letting them choose a successor. The two vice presidents who are the front runners for the job are Alex Vandervoort and Roscoe Heyward. Now Alex is not exactly running around looking for support, Roscoe can only see the benefits the presidency can give him. So he goes around looking for people who would like to do business with the bank. He goes to George Quartermain, who wants the bank to give him more than they are allowed to. While most of the board are excited of the possibility of going into business with Quartermain, Alex is the only one who is weary of it, as it's a big risk. Alex is not popular also because, while his wife is mentally ill and confined to an insane asylum, he is having an affair with a lawyer, who specializes in helping the disadvantaged, the bank was originally suppose to fund a project to help them but has pulled out, and Alex is also asking them not to. Also the bank is plagued with false credit cards being circulated, so the bank's security officer, who was hired by Alex is not having much luck in finding them, which is another reason why Alex is not so popular.

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.

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.

Bernard Malamud's tweede roman vertelt het verhaal van Morris Bober, een kruidenier in het naoorlogse Brooklyn, die "beter" wil voor zichzelf en zijn gezin. Eerst verschijnen er twee overvallers die hem bedreigen; dan neemt de gebroken-neus Frank Alpine als zijn assistent een positieve wending. Maar er zijn complicaties: Frank, wiens reactie op Joden ambivalent is, wordt verliefd op Helen Bober; tegelijkertijd begint hij te stelen uit de winkel. Zoals Malamud's beste verhalen roept deze roman onmiskenbaar een immigrantenwereld op van benarde omstandigheden en grote verwachtingen. Malamud definieerde de immigrantenervaring op een manier die van vitaal belang is gebleken voor verschillende generaties schrijvers.

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.

The hero-narrator is a sixteen-year-old native New Yorker named Holden Caulfield. After leaving his prep school in Pennsylvania, he spends three days navigating New York City. Holden is both simple and complex, making it difficult to draw definitive conclusions about him or his experiences. He is deeply drawn to beauty, almost to the point of being trapped by it. The novel features various voices—children's, adults', and underground—but Holden's voice stands out as the most powerful. His expression transcends his own vernacular while remaining true to it, delivering a poignant mix of pain and pleasure. Like many artistic souls, he internalizes much of his pain, choosing to share his joy with others. This emotional complexity is available for readers who can appreciate it. J.D. Salinger's classic tale of teenage angst and rebellion was first published in 1951 and has been recognized as one of the best English-language novels of the 20th century. It has faced challenges for its candid language and themes of sexuality, becoming a must-read for many teenage boys in the 1950s and 60s.

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.

Bedrängte und Bedrohte, jüdische Minderheiten, Kriegsgegner und -opfer, um ihrer selbst willen Verfolgte. Alle diese Erzählungen sind Beispiele des Kampfes von Sensibilität und Intellekt gegen Brutalität und Ungeist, nicht zuletzt in der Hoffnung geschrieben, auch andere von den Zielen der Menschlichkeit zu überzeugen. Denn: "In der Kunst spielen Mut und Glauben eine enorm wichtige Rolle; diejenigen, die nicht vor Überzeugung brennen, haben nicht die Macht, andere zu begeistern." Die Sammlung enthält Zweigs bedeutendste und meist gelesene Erzählung, die Schachnovelle .