Zbirka: Klasični romani (pred l. 1945)
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Everyman Chesterton(2011) CHESTERTON, G KIncluded here are some of the well-loved Father Brown detective stories, surely among the best in the genre, and a range of poetry, serious and light-hearted - Chesterton wrote some of the best nonsense and satirical verse in the language.Vezava: Trda28,04 € -
Love in a Cold Climate(2000) MITFORD, NANCYCaptures the foibles and fancies of the English upper class. Set in the privileged world of the county house party and the London season, this is a comedy of English manners.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Complete Brigadier Gerard Stories(2010) DOYLE, SIR ARTHUR CONANSir Arthur Conan Doyle's brilliant, swashbuckling classic, now reissuedVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Strait is the Gate(2001) GIDE, ANDREJerome Palissier spends many summers at his uncle's house in the Normandy countryside. There he falls in love with his cousin Alissa and she with him. But gradually she becomes convinced that Jerome's love for her is endangering his soul. In the interestsVezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Against Nature(2009) HUYSMANS, JORIS-KARLAgainst Nature is Huysmans's great fin-de-siècle novel anticipating many of the strains of modernism in its appreciation of Baudelaire, Moreau, Redon, Mallarmé and Poe. This new translation is supplemented by a critically up-to-date introduction and indisVezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Prater Violet(2012) ISHERWOOD, CHRISTOPHERPrater Violet resembles episodes in Goodbye to Berlin and keeps up the same high level of excellence' - Edmund WilsonAn impatient phone call from the temperamental Austrian director, Friedrich Bergmann, introduces a young Christopher Isherwood to the filmVezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Oxford Book of Short Stories(2010)V. S. Pritchett, one of our greatest short-story writers, has chosen forty-one stories written in the English language for this volume, producing a collection that successfully displays the wealth and variety of an art that spans some 200 years.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Oxford Book of Scottish Short Stories(2008)From tales of the supernatural to pungent social realism, and from the humorous to the disturbing, whether rural or urban, this anthology shows the vitality of the Scottish short story.Vezava: Mehka22,42 € -
Another Country(2001) BALDWIN, JAMESAfter Rufus Scott, an embittered and unemployed black jazz-musician commits suicide, his sister Ida and old friend Vivaldo become lovers. Yet their feelings for each other are complicated by Rufus's friends, especially the homosexual actor Eric Jones whoVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Painter of Signs(1993) NARAYAN, R. K.In this wry, funny, bittersweet story, love gets in the way of progress when Raman, a sign painter, meets the thrillingly independent Daisy, who wishes to bring birth control to the city of Malgudi.Vezava: Mehka19,62 € -
Under the Volcano(2000) LOWRY, MALCOLMIt is the fiesta 'Day of the Dead' in the small Mexican town of Quauhnahuac. In the shadow of the volcano, ragged children beg coins to buy skulls made of chocolate, ugly pariah dogs roam the streets and Geoffrey Firmin - ex-consul, ex-husband, an alcoholVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
At Swim-two-birds(2000) O'BRIEN, FLANNThe undergraduate narrator lives with his uncle in Dublin, drinks too much with his friends and invents stories peopled with hilarious and unlikely characters, one of whom, creates a means by which women can give birth to full-grown people.Vezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Go-between(2004) HARTLEY, L. P.When one long, hot summer, young Leo is staying with a school-friend at Brandham Hall, he begins to act as a messenger between Ted, the farmer, and Marian, the beautiful young woman up at the hall. He becomes drawn deeper and deeper into their dangerous gVezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Riddle of the Sands(2013) CHILDERS, ERSKINEWhen Carruthers receives a letter from his friend Davies suggesting a Baltic sailing trip the vision of a manned yacht, A1 scenery and excellent duck shooting quickly works its charm. Much to Carruther's disgust, the reality couldn't be more different. WhVezava: Mehka14,01 € -
In a Lonely Place(2010) HUGHES, DOROTHY B.Dix Steele is back in town, and 'town' is post-war LA. His best friend Brub is on the force of the LAPD, and as the two meet in country clubs and beach bars, they discuss the latest case: a strangler is preying on young women in the dark. Dix listens withVezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Cold Spring Harbor(2008) YATES, RICHARDEvan Shepard is a young man with a chequered past when he first meets the Drakes, after his car breaks down outside their house. However, after their swift marriage, things don't work out quite as planned and the stresses of living with Rachel's family, iVezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Loving Spirit(2004) MAURIER, DAPHNE DUA powerful, exuberant romance this is Daphne du Maurier's first novel which shows her beginnings as a great writerVezava: Mehka15,41 €
