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Karel Kyncl

    6 januari 1927 – 1 april 1997
    Karel Kyncl
    Dvojí domov Karla Kyncla
    Die Rückkehr des Baumeisters
    Moje Británie : příběhy, fejetony a poznámky z let 1990-1992
    V Buckinghamu otevřeno
    King Rat
    After the spring came winter
    • 2018

      Cakes and Ale

      • 208bladzijden
      • 8 uur lezen
      3,8(5951)Tarief

      Cakes and Ale is a delicious satire of London literary society between the Wars. Social climber Alroy Kear is flattered when he is selected by Edward Driffield's wife to pen the official biography of her lionized novelist husband, and determined to write a bestseller. But then Kear discovers the great novelist's voluptuous muse (and unlikely first wife), Rosie. The lively, loving heroine once gave Driffield enough material to last a lifetime, but now her memory casts an embarrissing shadow over his career and respectable image. Wise, witty, deeply satisfying, Cakes and Ale is Maugham at his best.

      Cakes and Ale
    • 2014

      In search of the unpublished manuscript of a martyred Yiddish writer, American novelist Nathan Zuckerman travels to Soviet-occupied Prague in the mid-1970s. There, in a nation straightjacketed by totalitarian Communism, he discovers a literary predicament marked by an institutionalised oppression that is rather different from his own. He also discovers, among the subjugated writers with whom he quickly becomes embroiled in a series of bizarre and poignant adventures, an appealingly perverse kind of heroism.The Prague Orgy, consisting of entries from Zuckerman's notebooks recording his sojourn among these outcast artists, completes the trilogy and epilogue Zuckerman Bound. It provides a startling ending to Roth's intricately designed magnum opus on the unforeseen consequences of art.

      The Prague orgy
    • 2004

      Marking the thirtieth anniversary of Theophilus North, this beautiful new edition features Wilder's unpublished notes for the novel and other illuminating documentary material, all of which is included in a new Afterword by Tappan Wilder. The last of Wilder's works published during his lifetime, this novel is part autobiographical and part the imagined adventure of his twin brother who died at birth. Setting out to see the world in the summer of 1926, Theophilus North gets as far as Newport, Rhode Island, before his car breaks down. To support himself, Theophilus takes jobs in the elegant mansions along Ocean Drive, just as Wilder himself did in the same decade. Soon the young man finds himself playing the roles of tutor, spy, confidant, lover, friend, and enemy as he becomes entangled in the intrigues of both upstairs and downstairs in a glittering society dominated by leisure. Narrated by the elderly North from a distance of fifty years, Theophilus North is a fascinating commentary on youth and education from the vantage point of age, and deftly displays Wilder's trademark wit juxtaposed with his lively and timeless ruminations on what really matters about life, love, and work at the end of the day -- even after a visit to Newport.

      Theophilus North
    • 2003

      King Rat

      • 416bladzijden
      • 15 uur lezen
      4,7(11617)Tarief

      Set in Changi, the most notorious prisoner of war camp in Asia, King Rat is an heroic story of survival told by a master story-teller who lived through those years as a young soldier. Only one man in fifteen had the strength, the luck, and the cleverness simply to survive Changi. And then there was King.

      King Rat
    • 1999

      Sbírka reportáží a fejetonů na různá témata z let 1975 až 1996. V publikaci jsou otištěny samizdatové reportáže a fejetony z let 1975-1983, dále jeho příspěvky do vysílání BBC a Svobodné Evropy a do deníku The Independent z let 1983-1990 a rozhlasová a televizní publicistika po návratu do vlasti z let 1990-1996.

      Dvojí domov Karla Kyncla
    • 1997
    • 1996
    • 1995

      V Manchesteru nemají manšestr

      A jiné reportáže, fejetony a poznámky z Británie

      • 208bladzijden
      • 8 uur lezen
      4,5(66)Tarief

      Soubor reportáží, fejetonů a krátkých postřehů z Velké Británie. Významný český novinář Karel Kyncl ze svých příspěvků pro úspěšné Okénko zahraničních zpravodajů Českého rozhlasu pravidelně sestavoval knížky. Kniha V Manchesteru nemají manšestr obsahuje příspěvky odvysílané v letech 1994-1995 a je milou vzpomínkou na velkou osobnost české žurnalistiky. Karel Kyncl se dokázal dívat na svět kolem sebe se zdravým rozumem a jeho fejetony jsou nejen vtipné, ale leckdy i moudré a poučné.... celý text

      V Manchesteru nemají manšestr
    • 1994

      Auf dem Felsen von Parfois soll Burgherr Isambard nicht mehr lange residieren. Als selbst sein Sohn gegen ihn intrigiert, steht ihm ausgerechnet sein Gefangener, der Baumeister Harry Talvace, zur Seite. Zu spät erkennt Isambard, wer seine wahren Freunde sind. Und die Tage der unglücklichen Benedetta sind gezählt. Mit dem dritten Band der großen Mittelalter-Trilogie über den Baumeister Harry Talvace krönt Edith Pargeter das Glanzstück ihres Schaffens und liefert das eindrucksvolle und lebendige Bild einer sagenumwobenen Zeit.

      Die Rückkehr des Baumeisters