V. Černý Libri

Druhá část monumentálního románu z polských dějin, pojednávající o jedné z nejdivočejších epoch polského království. Velkolepý román polského spisovatele, nositele Nobelovy ceny, je prostředním, dějově zcela samostatným dílem Sienkiewiczovy slavné historické trilogie. Potopa se odehrává na počátku druhé poloviny sedmnáctého století, za polsko-švédské války. Jedinečně zachycený obraz této bouřlivé doby se před námi promítá jako na širokém plátně: napínavé zápletky, barvité a věrohodné boje a bitvy, i život na šlechtických dvorech. Do popředí však zřetelně vystupují soukromé osudy hlavních hrdinů, plné nenadálých zvratů, bloudění, pochybností, ale i upřímných nadějí, statečnosti a velké lásky.

Románek o knížecí dceři, kterou shodou okolností vychovává v sibiřské tajze chudý lovec.

Often compared to Byron, Keats, Shelley, and Poe, called Lautreamont's "elder brother" by the Czech Surrealists, Karel Hynek Mácha (1810-1836) was the greatest Czech Romantic poet, and arguably the most influential of any poet in the language. May, his epic masterpiece, was published in April 1836, just seven months before his death. Considered the "pearl" of Czech poetry, it is a tale of seduction, revenge, and patricide. A paean as well to nature, the beauty of its music and its innovative use of language, expertly captured in this new translation by Marcela Sulak, has ensured the poem's lasting popularity. Scorned at first by the national revivalists of the 19th century for being "un-Czech," Mácha was held up as a "national" poet by later generations, a fate which the interwar Czech avant-garde, who considered him a precursor, took it upon themselves to reverse.Unlike the other seminal 19th-century European poets, Mácha's work has been largely ignored in English translation. The present volume, the only available in English, provides the original Czech text in parallel and includes a series of illustrations by Jindřich Štyrský specifically created for the poem.

Set at the foot of the Giant mountains- is a grandmother, who embodies the ideal of motherliness with her plain wisdom, goodness and love. The father of the Prosek family living in the country idyll is compelled to spend a large part of the year in the imperial town of Vienna due to his work. Thus, the grandmother is brought home to tend to the children and the property. With this background, the author evolves the most significant work of pros in Czech literature and creates "one of the most beautiful female figures in world literature.