Zbirka: Klasični romani (pred l. 1945)
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Querelle of Brest(2019) GENET, M. JEANA beautiful new edition of Jean Genet's classic work, which includes a new introduction by Jon Savage. 'One of the great writers of our times.' Sunday TelegraphQuerelle, a young sailor at large in the port of Brest, is an object of illicit desire to hisVezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Childhood, Boyhood, Youth(2012) TOLSTOY, LEOOffers an account of a young person's emerging awareness of the world and of his place within it.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Strange Journey(2022) CAIRNES, MAUDIn this body swap comedy from the 1930s, the minds of two strangers, aristocrat Lady Elizabeth and middle-class Polly Wilkinson, switch places with baffling and hilarious results.Vezava: Mehka14,01 € -
War Among Ladies(2022) SCOTT, ELEANORA quietly devastating novel about the realities of life for single working women in the 1920s and the systems that failed them.Vezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Shooting Party(2004) CHEKHOV, ANTONOlga, the pretty young daughter of a drunken forester on a country estate, and her fateful relationships with the men in her life. Adored by Urbenin, the estate manager, whom she marries to escape the poverty of her home, she is also desired by the dissolVezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Mademoiselle de Maupin(2005) GAUTIER, THEOPHILEChevalier d'Albert fantasizes about his ideal lover, yet every woman he meets falls short of his exacting standards of female perfection. This book draws readers into the bedrooms and boudoirs of a French chateau in an exploration of desire and sexual intVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Comic Sagas and Tales from Iceland(2013)Icelandic literary culture was one of the richest and most important in the medieval world. This title brings together the finest comic stories from medieval Iceland. It examines how the stories satirised old-style sagas while exploiting their classic theVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Against Nature(2003) HUYSMANS, JORIS-KARLDes Esseintes is a decadent, ailing aristocrat who retreats to an isolated villa where her indulges his taste for luxury and excess. Veering between nervous excitability and debilitating ennui, he gluts his aesthetic appetites with classical literature anVezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio(2006) SONGLING, PUAct as miniatures that aim to be regarded as the pinnacle of classical Chinese fiction. These tales with their prose and wordplay, include 104 stories that reveal a world, in which nothing is as it seems. Here a Taoist monk conjures up a pear tree, a schoVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Gargantua and Pantagruel(2006) RABELAIS, FRANCOISPresents the moral stories of Rabelais that expose human follies with their mischievous and often obscene humour, while intertwining the realistic with carnivalesque fantasy.Vezava: Mehka26,62 € -
Manuscript Found in Saragossa(1996) POTOCKI, JANAlphonse, a young Walloon officer, is travelling to join his regiment in Madrid. But he soon finds himself mysteriously detained at a highway inn in the strange and varied company of thieves, brigands, cabbalists, noblemen, coquettes and gypsies, whose stVezava: Mehka28,03 € -
Confidence-man(1991) MELVILLE, HERMANWritten by the author of "Billy Budd, Sailor" and "Moby-Dick", this novel is unfinished, although published in his lifetime. Set on April Fool's Day aboard a Mississippi steamer, the novel is a gloomy satire on American life and the state of distrust thatVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Max Havelaar(1987) MULTATULIRoy Edwards's vibrant translation conveys the satirical and innovative style of Multatuli's autobiographical polemic. In his introduction, R. P. Meijer discusses the author's tempestuous life and career, the controversy the novel aroused and its unusual nVezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Pierre and Jean(1979) MAUPASSANT, GUYThe fraternal love that Pierre Roland feels for his younger brother Jean has always been tinged with jealousy. But when a lawyer arrives at the house, to declare that an old family friend has bequeathed his entire fortune to Jean, this envy rapidly becomeVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
History of the Thirteen(1974) BALZAC, HONORE DEThe three short novels that make up this book are concerned in part with the activities of a rich, powerful, sinister and unscrupulous secret society in nineteenth-century France.Vezava: Mehka18,21 €
