Anglická beletrie pro dospělé

Five decades after it was first published, Jack Kerouac's seminal Beat novel On the Road finally finds its way to the big screen, in a production from award-winning director Walter Salles (Motorcycle …

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

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 …

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

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

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.

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

The twenty-five years' worth of essays, letters, interviews and reportage colected in this volume portay Vaclav Havel's evolution from a modestly known playwright with the courage to criticize …

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

Nicky Belane, private detective and career alcoholic, is a troubled man.

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.

'You're a firestarter honey...just one big zippo lighter'A year ago, he was an upstanding instructor of English at Harrison State College.

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.

If the past is prologue, then George R.R. Martin’s masterwork—the most inventive and entertaining fantasy saga of our time—warrants one hell of an introduction.

An ill-timed storm on Christmas Eve buries the residents of Gracetown under multiple feet of snow and causes quite a bit of chaos.

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