Zbirka: Klasični romani (pred l. 1945)
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Trial(2001) KAFKA, FRANZThe terrifying tale of Joseph K, a respectable functionary in a bank, who is suddenly arrested and must defend his innocence against a charge about which he can get no information. A nightmare vision of the excesses of modern bureaucracy wedded to the madVezava: Mehka12,61 € -
Buddenbrooks(1996) MANN, THOMASDiscover Mann's Nobel Prizewinning semi-autobiographical and sweeping family epic. The Buddenbrook clan is everything you'd expect of a nineteenth-century German merchant family - wealthy, esteemed, established.Vezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Nils Holgersson's Wonderful Journey Through Sweden: Volume 1(2012) LAGERLOF, SELMANils Holgersson's Wonderful Journey through Sweden (1906–07) is truly unique. Starting life as a commissioned school reader designed to present the geography of Sweden to nine-year-olds, it quickly won the international fame and popularity it still enjoysVezava: Mehka23,09 € -
Stanley And The Women(2004) AMIS, KINGSLEYJust when Stanley Duke thinks it safe to sink into middle age, his son goes insane. As one by one they gnaw away at his composure, Stanley wonders whether insanity is not something with which all women are intimately acquainted.Vezava: Mehka22,42 € -
Ladies' Paradise(2013) ZOLA, EMILERecently adapted for BBC Television, The Ladies' Paradise evokes the giddy pace of Paris's transition into a modern city and the changes in sexual attitudes and class relations taking place at the end of the century.Vezava: Mehka12,61 € -
Sagas of the Icelanders(2005) SMILEY, JANEA collection of stories, which depicts the lives and deeds of the Norse men and women who first settled in Iceland and of their descendants, who ventured farther west to Greenland and, ultimately, North America.Vezava: Mehka30,84 € -
Steppe and Other Stories, 1887-91(2001) CHEKHOV, ANTONTells the tale of a boy's journey to a new school in Kiev, travelling through majestic landscapes towards an unknown destiny. 'Gusev' depicts an ocean voyage, where the sea takes on a terrifying, primeval power.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Pleasures and Days(2013) PROUST, MARCELRich in language and detail, and by turns satirical and moving, Proust's stories - presented here in Andrew Brown's nuanced translation, the only edition currently in print - are layered with imagery and feeling and foreshadow the themes and psychologVezava: Mehka11,20 € -
Speedy Death(2014) MITCHELL, GLADYSA VINTAGE MURDER MYSTERYRediscover Gladys Mitchell – one of the 'Big Three' female crime fiction writers alongside Agatha Christie and Dorothy L.Vezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Oliver Twist(2007) DICKENS, CHARLES‘The image of little Oliver Twist victimised by poverty, almost seduced by the specious excitement of crime, and then offered the possibility of a lucrative career in authorship is always compelling’ GuardianOliver is an orphan living on the dangerous LonVezava: Mehka11,20 € -
Black Prince(2013) MURDOCH, IRISFinding himself surrounded by predatory friends and relations - his ex-wife, her delinquent brother, a younger, deplorably successful writer, Arnold Baffin, Baffin's restless wife and engaging daughter - Bradley attempts to escape.Vezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Voyage in the Dark(2000) RHYS, JEAN'It was as if a curtain had fallen, hiding everything I had ever known,' says Anna Morgan, eighteen years old and catapulted to England from the West Indies after the death of her beloved father. Working as a chorus girl, Anna drifts into the demi-monde oVezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Deceivers(2014) MASTERS, JOHNWe are publishing The Deceivers in our Story-Tellers series in order to introduce John Masters to a new generation of readers.Vezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Iliad, Volume II(1925) HOMERThe Iliad and the Odyssey of Homer (eighth century BC) are the two oldest European epic poems. The former tells of Achilles’ anger over an insult to his honor during the Trojan War, and of its consequences for the Achaeans, the Trojans, and Achilles hiVezava: Trda44,47 € -
Sherlock: The Return of Sherlock Holmes(2013) DOYLE, ARTHUR CONANThe hit BBC series Sherlock has introduced a new generation to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's legendary detective.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
How Much Land Does a Man Need? & Other Stories (Penguin Classics)(1993) TOLSTOY, LEOThese short works, ranging from Tolstoy's earliest tales to the brilliant title story, are rich in the insights and passion that characterize all of his explorations in love, war, courage, and civilization.Vezava: Mehka18,21 €
