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NEJPROSLULEJŠÍ PRAŽSKÉ PAMĚTIHODNOSTI OPŘEDENÉ LEGENDAMI Půvaby Prahy tkví hluboko v její historii a nezaměnitelné atmosféře.

One of the masterpieces of twentieth-century world literature, 'The Metamorphosis' is accompanied in this volume by a selection of other classic tales and sketches by Kafka - such as 'The …

A thrilling new fantasy series for fans of Divergent and The Hunger Games.

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

A brand new omnibus of 55 short stories, presented for the first time in chronological order.

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.

Three book editors, jaded by reading far too many crackpot manuscripts on the mystic and the occult, are inspired by an extraordinary conspiracy story told to them by a strange colonel to have some …

Jednojazyčná kniha reálií Spojeného království, jejímiž autory jsou manželé žijící ve Velké Británii, odborníci v této oblasti.

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

A collection of short stories gives an insight into the dark, dangerous lowlife of Los Angeles that the inhabited.

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 …

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 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER ADAPTED INTO A FEATURE FILM WITH TOM HANKS From the critically acclaimed author of Here I Am, Everything is Illuminated and We are the Weather - a heartrending and unforgettable …

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, …

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 …

Centring on the infamous fire-bombing of Dresden in the Second World War, Billy Pilgrim's odyssey through time reflects the journey of our own fractured lives as we search for meaning in what we …

Presents Hemingway stories, in which men and women of passion live, fight, love and die in scenes of dramatic intensity.

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 …

Leonard Cohen made his name as a poet before he came to worldwide attention as a singer and songwriter.

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

Alexandra Potter makes dreams come true in this fun, feel-good fairy-tale about life, love and dating literatures most eligible bachelor

Here between two covers you will find an inexhaustible source of delight for children and adults alike: the world's best folktales, chosen by the internationally known storyteller Jane Yolen.

Published in 1957, Atlas Shrugged was Ayn Rand's greatest achievement and last work of fiction.

Bill Bryson describes himself as a reluctant traveller: but even when he stays safely in his own study at home, he can't contain his curiosity about the world around him.

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.