Featuring over twenty-five essays, this collection showcases Virginia Woolf's influential thoughts on modern literature and the art of the essay. Key pieces like "Modern Fiction" and "The Modern Essay" highlight her innovative perspectives and literary insights. Edited by Andrew McNeillie, the volume includes an introduction and an index, making it a vital resource for understanding Woolf's contributions to literary criticism and modernist thought.
Nakladatelství Odeon v spolupráci s nakladatelstvím Argo. Vydání první.
The last person Landon thought he would fall for was Jamie Sullivan, daughter of the town's Baptist minister. A quiet girl, Jamie seemed content living in a world apart from the other teens. She took care of her widowed father, rescued hurt animals and volunteered at the local orphanage. Landon would never have dreamed of asking her out, but a twist of fate threw them together when he found himself without a partner for the school dance. In the months that followed, Landon discovered truths that most people take a lifetime to learn - about the joy of giving, the pain of loss and, most of all, the transforming nature of love. Being with Jamie would show him the depths of the human heart and lead him to a decision so stunning it would send him irrevocably on the road to manhood . . .
A young boy, abandoned by his parents during World War II, wanders alone from one village to another in Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe.
Ironický román z židovského prostředí Ameriky 70. let. Po letech milostných úspěchů jeho sebevědomí stále častěji narušují dívky s opačnou představou o svém životním údělu. Hrdina, jehož životní školou je časopis Playboy, se tak dostává do neskutečných situací a trapných dobrodružství, až se konečně zbaví svých šovinistických představ.
Jeremy Dyson's collection of twelve tall tales are linked by the writer's surreal slant on everyday occurrences, sensibilites and desires.Set throughout the world, from Leeds to Eastern Europe and the Orient, we meet a flatmate who is born to save all mankind, and an 18th century automaton so beautiful men have killed in order to possess her. We are taken for a ride on London Underground's lost line which has a dark secret all of its own, and to a seemingly harmless auction of electrical goods with a devastating, hidden cost.The metaphysical meets the mundane in a Cornish resort where the tide goes out never to return, revealing something truly extraordinary on the seabed, and in an art class where an unpromising student produces an astonishing painting, which years later proves to have a dreadful significance for his bullying teacher.
Poslední část volné trilogie o životě současného českého šlechtice vypovídá o jeho duševní a mystické obrodě.
