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- Art of War
Art of War
- Sun Tzu
- anglické
- 96
- 2020
For two and a half thousand years The Art of War has been the core text of military strategy and planning, providing leaders with enduring insights into tactics, psychology,...
- Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
- Robert Louis Stevenson
- anglické
- 256
- 2014
One of Stevenson's most famous and enduringly popular works, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde describes the mysterious relationship between a respectable and affable...
- Crime and Punishment
Crime and Punishment
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
- anglické
- 720
- 2022
Poverty-stricken and cut off from society, former law student Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov leads a desolate life in a dreary little room in St Petersburg. Having abandoned all...
- Middlemarch
Middlemarch
- George Eliot
- anglické
- beletrie
- Alma Classics
- 752
- 2017
The most ambitious narrative of nineteenth-century realism, Middlemarch tells the story of an entire town in the years leading up to the Reform Bill of 1832, a time when modern...
- The Last of the Mohicans - James Fenimore, James Fenimore Cooper
The Last of the Mohicans - James Fenimore, James Fenimore Cooper
- James Fenimore Cooper
- anglické
- 424
- 2019
After doubts are raised concerning the trustworthiness of Magua, Cora and Alice Munro's Native American guide, the warrior slips away into the wilderness, and the vulnerable...
- Black Snow - Bulgakov Mikhail
Black Snow - Bulgakov Mikhail
- Bulgakov, Mikhail
- anglické
- 224
- 2014
After being saved from a suicide attempt by a literary editor, the journalist and failed novelist Sergei Maxudov has a book suddenly accepted for stage adaptation at a...
- Three Men in a Boat
Three Men in a Boat
- Jerome Klapka Jerome
- anglické
- beletrie
- Alma Classics
- 348
- 2018
What could be better during the golden age of boating on the Thames than a relaxing row up the river? So think J., George and Harris - not forgetting Montmorency the dog - but...
- Island of Dr Moreau
Island of Dr Moreau
- Herbert George Wells
- anglické
- Alma Classics
- 160
- 2018
After the Lady Vain is shipwrecked, Edward Prendick is plucked from the waves by a passing ship and deposited on a remote island. Here he is the guest of Dr Moreau, whose...
- Years
Years
- Virginia Woolf
- anglické
- 384
- 2021
It is 1880: after visiting his mistress in the suburbs, Colonel Pargiter returns home to his children and his dying wife. In a series of snapshots we meet all the Pargiter...
- Last Year at Marienbad
Last Year at Marienbad
- Alain Robbe-Grillet
- anglické
- 156
- 2022
A man tells a woman that they have met before - that they became lovers but then agreed to separate for a year. The year is now up, and he has come back for her. At first, she...
- Babbitt
Babbitt
- Sinclair Lewis
- anglické
- 384
- 2022
In the Midwestern city of Zenith, the middle-aged estate agent George F. Babbitt appears to have achieved the American dream to its fullest: he is successful at work,...
- Selected Poetry
Selected Poetry
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
- anglické
- beletrie
- Alma Classics
- 288
- 2022
During his short and restless life, Percy Bysshe Shelley produced a great number of poems, three verse plays and numerous prose works, as well as many essays in which he...
- House of Mirth
House of Mirth
- Edith Wharton
- anglické
- 320
- 2022
Publikace: The House of Mirth - Whartonová Edith. An impoverished member of the privileged high society of old New York, Lily Bart is beautiful and socially agreeable, but she...
- Last Letters of Jacopo Ortis
Last Letters of Jacopo Ortis
- Ugo Foscolo
- anglické
- 160
- 2022
A unique edition of a masterly prose work by one of Italy's most celebrated poets, and perhaps the greatest Italian novel of the Romantic movement. Saddened with his country's...
- Bleak House
Bleak House
- Charles Dickens
- anglické
- 992
- 2021
The interminable case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce has gone on for so long that it has become a subject of mirth in legal circles and a source of great profit to those...
- Transformation
Transformation
- Mary Shelley
- anglické
- 128
- 2019
Having frittered away his family's fortune in Paris, the profligate Guido, driven by his ungovernable passions, is forced out of his native Genoa and harbours plans for...
- The Haunted Hotel
The Haunted Hotel
- Wilkie Collins
- anglické
- 256
- 2022
The Haunted Hotel is a disturbing novella set in Venice which cleverly combines detective and ghost story genre. This edition is based on the most authoritative text and...
- The Great Survivors - P. Conradi
The Great Survivors - P. Conradi
- Conradi, Peter J
- 400
- 2012
At a time when Western society appears to be demanding more equality and democracy, people's fascination with monarchies shows no signs of waning. Taking the reader on a journey...
- Babylon Revisited and Other Stories Fitzgerald F. ScottPaperback
Babylon Revisited and Other Stories Fitzgerald F. ScottPaperback
Set in the year after the 1929 crash and incorporating many autobiographical elements, 'Babylon Revisited' tells the story of the widower Charlie Wales, a reformed alcoholic...
- Regicide Robbe-Grillet AlainPaperback
Regicide Robbe-Grillet AlainPaperback
- Robbe-Grillet, Alain
- anglické
- 224
- 2018
Written in 1949 but only published in 1979, Robbe-Grillet's first novel is a disquieting and satirical avant-garde political thriller which bridges the gap between traditional...
- Sakhalin Island Chekhov AntonPaperback
Sakhalin Island Chekhov AntonPaperback
In 1890, the thirty-year-old Chekhov, already knowing that he was ill with tuberculosis, undertook an arduous eleven-week journey from Moscow across Siberia to the penal colony...
- His Last Bow
His Last Bow
- Arthur Conan Doyle
- anglické
- 256
- 2023
A mysterious murder near Esher, a gruesome delivery of two human ears packed in coarse salt, the disappearance of secret submarine plans, the sudden descent into madness of two...
- Casebook of Sherlock Holmes
Casebook of Sherlock Holmes
- Arthur Conan Doyle
- anglické
- 320
- 2023
Once again the eminent detective is presented with a series of seemingly impenetrable cases: an illustrious client begs him to unmask the nefarious past of a roguish...
- Uncommon Story
Uncommon Story
- Goncharov, Ivan
- anglické
- 256
- 2023
Popis : Goncharov was the leading Russian writer of the 1850s and, as the author of The Same Old Story, was regarded as the real heir to Nikolai Gogol. But the publication of...