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Dnes už klasická povídka Eduarda Basse z roku 1922 (Karolinum 2008) vychází nyní i v anglickém překladu.

Aktuální, správné a snadno zapamatovatelné obraty běžné anglické konverzace poslouží každému, kdo si v angličtině není příliš jistý i tomu, kdo by si konverzaci potřeboval rychle zopakovat.

Low life writer and alcoholic Henry Chinaski was born to survive.

Harvard professor Robert Langdon receives an urgent late-night phone call while on business in Paris: the elderly curator of the Louvre has been brutally murdered inside the museum.

An attack on war which broadens into a satire on the ANCIEN REGIME of the Austro-Hungarian empire, THE GOOD SOLDIER SVEJK recreates the age-old figure of the simple soldier whose sheer determination …

The third book in the New York Times bestselling vampire romance series that has developed a cult following among teens

I stuck my finger under the edge of the paper and jerked it under the tape. 'Shoot,' I muttered when the paper sliced my finger.

The events of 9/11 changed Jack Reacher's drifter life in a practical way.

These stories cover the whole span of Kafka's writing career, from "Looking to See" written in his twenties, to his last work, "Josephine", and culminating in "The …

Reissue of this immortal, hilarious, and heartwarming classic about working a chicken farm in the Northwest.

Features such characters as: High-class call girls billed to Mastercard; a psychic 13-year-old dropout with a passion for Talking Heads; a hunky matinee idol doomed to play dentists and teachers; and, …

Two old friends - Cline Linley and Vernon Halliday - meet at the funeral of Molly Lane.

A young man accompanies his cousin to the hospital to check an unusual hearing complaint and recalls a story of a woman put to sleep by tiny flies crawling inside her ear; a mirror appears out of nowhere …

Born at the stroke of midnight, at the precise moment of India's independence, Saleem Sinai is destined from birth to be special.

In 1982, having sold his jazz bar to devote himself to writing, Murakami began running to keep fit.

Reveals one of the greatest horrors of the 20th century: the system of Soviet camps that are responsible for the deaths of countless millions.

How can your name affect how well you do in life?

Why are people successful? For centuries, humankind has grappled with this question, searching for the secret to accomplishing great things.

In 1945, in Kostelec, Danny is playing saxophone for the best jazz band in Czechoslovakia.

The ordinary folk of New Orleans seem to think he is unhinged as well.

Presenting an account of the author's childhood in Czechoslovakia, this title features the tales of the his father's battle to provide for his family both in wealthy freedom and in terrifying …

It's a brand-new year and a brand-new journal and Greg is keen to put the humiliating (and secret!) events of last summer firmly behind him.

Jack Burns' mother, Alice, is a tattoo artist in search of the boy's father, a virtuoso organist named William who has fled America to Europe.

Charles Darwin's masterpiece, "On the Origin of Species", shook society to its core on publication in 1859.

John Berry is a son of a hapless dreamer, brother to a cadre of eccentric siblings, and chronicler of the lives lived, the loves experienced, the deaths met, and the myriad strange and wonderful times …

he story of Forrest Gump, a lovable simpleton who manages to be at the centre of American events over the course of 30 years.

In the novel, Siddhartha, a young man, leaves his family for a contemplative life, then, restless, discards it for one of the flesh.

Laughable Loves is a collection of stories that first appeared in print in Prague before 1968, but was then banned.