Knihy alma classics, 254 – 327
- Burmese Days
Burmese Days
- George Orwell
- anglické
- beletrie
- Alma Classics
- 279
- 2022
In the provincial Burmese town of Kyauktada, the world-weary John Flory – a thirty-something English teak dealer – leads a life of quiet disillusionment, hardly mixing with the...
- Picture Of Dorian Gray
Picture Of Dorian Gray
- Oscar Wilde
- anglické
- beletrie
- Alma Classics
- 288
- 2015
Dorian Gray is having his picture painted by Basil Hallward, who is charmed by his looks. But when Sir Henry Wotton visits and seduces Dorian into the worship of youthful...
- Keep the Aspidistra Flying
Keep the Aspidistra Flying
- George Orwell
- anglické
- beletrie
- Alma Classics
- 288
- 2021
Despite hailing from a comfortable family background, budding poet Gordon Comstock decides to declare war on money and all the middle-class trappings that wealth can buy....
- Pantagruel and Gargantua - Francois Rabelais
Pantagruel and Gargantua - Francois Rabelais
- Francois Rabelais
- anglické
- beletrie
- Alma Classics
- 256
- 2018
With his birth itself a monumental exploit in itself, it is clear that the giant Pantagruel is destined to great things, and the novel that bears his name chronicles his the...
- Leaves of Grass
Leaves of Grass
- Walt Whitman
- anglické
- Alma Classics
- 256
- 2018
First published in 1855 and extended by the author over the course of more than three decades, Leaves of Grass embodies Walt Whitman's lifetime ambition to create a new voice...
- Tales of Horror
Tales of Horror
- Edgar Allan Poe
- anglické
- beletrie
- Alma Classics
- 314
- 2017
A murderer is forced to reveal his crime by the sound of a beating heart, a mysterious figure wreaks havoc among a party of noblemen during the time of the plague, a grieving...
- 1984 Nineteen-Eighty Four
1984 Nineteen-Eighty Four
- George Orwell
- anglické
- beletrie
- Alma Classics
- 284
- 2021
Ravaged by years of war and civil conflict, Britain has changed its name to Airstrip One and become part of Oceania one of the three totalitarian blocks dominating the world...
- Homage to Catalonia
Homage to Catalonia
- George Orwell
- anglické
- beletrie
- Alma Classics
- 272
- 2022
After travelling to Spain at the end of 1936 with the intention of working as a correspondent for a British socialist newspaper, thirty-three-year-old George Orwell decided to...
- The New Dress and Other Stories - Virginia Woolf
The New Dress and Other Stories - Virginia Woolf
- Virginia Woolf
- anglické
- beletrie
- Alma Classics
- 320
- 2024
As Mabel Waring takes off her cloak and steps into the drawing room of Clarissa Dalloway, she immediately realizes that something is not right: her pale-yellow silk dress,...
- Sonnets
Sonnets
- William Shakespeare
- anglické
- beletrie
- Alma Classics
- 256
- 2016
Shakespeare's Sonnets are among the most lyrical and moving pieces of poetry in any language, abounding with examples of his genius for wordplay, rhythm and metaphor and...
- Sense and Sensibility
Sense and Sensibility
- Jane Austen
- anglické
- beletrie
- Alma Classics
- 320
- 2024
Sense and Sensibility is famously characterised as the story of two Dashwood sisters who embody the conflict between the oppressive nature of 'civilised' society and the human...
- Tender is the Night
Tender is the Night
- Francis Scott Fitzgerald
- anglické
- beletrie
- Alma Classics
- 319
- 2018
While holidaying at a villa on the French Riviera, Dick and Nicole Diver, a wealthy American couple, meet the young film star Rosemary Hoyt. Her arrival causes a stir in their...
- Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë
Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë
- Emily Brönte
- anglické
- beletrie
- Alma Classics
- 320
- 2013
The tale of Heathcliff and Cathy's ungovernable love and suffering, and the havoc that their passion wreaks on the families of the Earnshaws and the Lintons, shocked the book's...
- Tobermory and Other Stories - Saki
Tobermory and Other Stories - Saki
- Saki
- anglické
- beletrie
- Alma Classics
- 320
- 2018
`Tobermory' - the title story of this collection - is widely considered one of Saki's finest pieces, in which a short-sighted dinner-party guest introduces a talking cat to the...
- 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...
- Praise of Folly
Praise of Folly
- Erasmus Rotterdamský
- anglické
- beletrie
- Alma Classics
- 320
- 2015
The goddess Folly gives a speech, praising herself and explaining how much humanity benefits from her services, from politicians to philosophers, aristocrats, schoolteachers,...
- Image on the Heart and Other Stories
Image on the Heart and Other Stories
- Francis Scott Fitzgerald
- anglické
- naučné
- Alma Classics
- 288
- 2015
When Tudy's first husband tragically dies, she takes up the offer of Tom, a family friend, to pay for her to go study in France. As she and her benefactor become close, she...
- Selfish Giant and Other Stories
Selfish Giant and Other Stories
- Oscar Wilde
- anglické
- beletrie
- Alma Classics
- 256
- 2015
When the Selfish Giant decides to build a wall around his garden to prevent the children from playing in it, it becomes barren and stuck in perpertual winter. It takes a...
- Metamorphosis and Other Stories
Metamorphosis and Other Stories
- Franz Kafka
- anglické
- beletrie
- Alma Classics
- 282
- 2014
When the young salesman Gregor Samsa wakes up one morning transformed into a monstrous insect, his shock and incomprehension are coupled with the panic of being late for work...
- More, Thomas - The Utopia
More, Thomas - The Utopia
- Thomas More
- anglické
- beletrie
- Alma Classics
- 288
- 2017
In Thomas More’s hugely influential Utopia, a traveller recounts his discovery of an island nation in which the inhabitants enjoy unprecedented social cohesion and justice. The...
- Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
- Arthur Conan Doyle
- anglické
- dětské
- Alma Classics
- 288
- 2018
“I know every move of your game… It has been a duel between you and me, Mr Holmes… If you are clever enough to bring destruction upon me, rest assured that I shall do as much...
- White Fang
White Fang
- Jack London
- anglické
- dětské
- Alma Classics
- 288
- 2019
Part wolf, part dog, White Fang learns to survive in the freezing wilderness. As well as being forced to confront the harsh realities of nature, the young cub experiences the...
- Utopia - Saint Thomas More
Utopia - Saint Thomas More
- Thomas Moore
- anglické
- naučné
- Alma Classics
- 256
- 2020
In Utopia, Thomas More gives us a traveller's account of a newly discovered island where the inhabitants enjoy a social order based on natural reason and justice, and human...