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Winner of the 2010 Non-Fiction National Book Award Patti Smith's evocative, honest and moving coming-of-age story of her extraordinary relationship with the artist Robert Mapplethorpe

Stingo, an inexperienced 22 year old Southerner, takes us back to the summer of 1947 and a boarding house in a leafy Brooklyn suburb.

Humbert Humbert - scholar, aesthete and romantic - has fallen completely and utterly in love with Lolita Haze, his landlady's gum-snapping, silky skinned twelve-year-old daughter.

A collection that features such stories as: When a man's favourite elephant vanishes, the balance of his whole life is subtly upset; a couple's midnight hunger pangs drive them to hold up a …

Hrabal's postwar classic about a young man's coming of age in German-occupied Czechoslovakia is among his most beloved and accessible works.

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, …

Presents a narrative particle accelerator that zooms between Wild Turkey Whiskey and Bob Dylan, unicorn skulls and voracious librarians, John Coltrane and Lord Jim.

Written in 1914 but not published until 1925, a year after Kafka’s death, The Trial is the terrifying tale of Josef K., a respectable bank officer who is suddenly and inexplicably arrested and must defend …

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 …

Includes novels which are intended to be read as allegories of totalitarian government in whatever guise it appears.

From the Velvet Revolution to the disturbing world of Franz Kafka, from the devestation of the Thirty Years War to the musical elegance of Mozart and Dvorak, Prague is steeped in a wealth of history …

When the downtrodden animals of Manor Farm overthrow their master Mr Jones and take over the farm themselves, they imagine it is the beginning of a life of freedom and equality.

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 …

A Timely Gift From the Author of Who Moved My Cheese?

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

'This book is a novel in the form of variations.

A collection of all Kafka's shorter fiction, from fragments, parables and sketches, to longer, complete tales.

I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me.

Just before dawn one winter’s morning, a hijacked aeroplane blows apart high above the English Channel and two figures tumble, clutched in an embrace, towards the sea: Gibreel Farishta, India’s legendary …

Charm, persuasion, the ability to create illusions: these are some of the many dazzling gifts of the Seducer, the compelling figure who is able to manipulate, mislead and give pleasure all at once.

novovaný učební soubor Raduga je určen k výuce ruštiny na středních školách a úroveň A1 také pro výuku ruštiny jako druhého jazyka na základních školách.

Teilen zusammen. Im ersten Teil wurden die Veränderungen der Schreibweise, die die ersten Jahre der Integration Schlesiens mit der Böhmischen Krone betrifft, detailliert geschildert.

This popular volume was compiled from thousands of pages of Sri Chinmoy's prolific output.

Monografie podává přehled o současných moderních postupech diagnostického zobrazování a postupů terapie vedené zobrazovacími metodami.

Science's most intriguing questions answered by the web's favourite writer, the genius behind xkcd.com.

Set in small-town Bohemia between the wars, the two narratives of The Little Town Where Time Stood Still are delightful and witty evocations of the passing of an age, and its effects upon a close-knit …

'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 diners, …

OVER ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES AND TOP FIVE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A BBC ONE DRAMA COMING SOON WINNER OF THE COSTA NOVEL AWARD 2018 WINNER OF THE AN POST IRISH BOOK AWARDS …

The sequel to the international bestseller One of Us is Lying Welcome back to Bayview High . . .