František Fröhlich Ordine dei libri

Výbor povídek od slavného otce americké literatury Mark Twain (1835–1910) byl především průkopníkem humoristické literatury v Americe. Sám se zdráhal jím být, neboť humor byl vnímán jako nižší forma psaní. Tomuto žánru se však svým temperamentem nemohl vyhnout. Jeho styl nemá obdoby. William Faulkner ho právem označil za otce americké literatury.

Výbor slavných i méně známých pohádek Hanse Christiana Andersena v překladech Františka Fröhlicha, doplněný kouzelnými ilustracemi Artuše Scheinera.

August Strindberg's best-known and most performed play (1889): the story of a torrid affair between a manservant and his mistress.

Raven is an ugly man dedicated to ugly deeds. His cold-blooded killing of a European Minister of War is an act of violence with chilling repercussions, not just for Raven himself but for the nation as a whole. The money he receives in payment for the murder is made up of stolen notes and when the first of these is traced, Raven becomes a man on the run. As he tracks down the agent who has been double-crossing him and attempts to elude the police, he becomes both hunter and hunted: an unwitting weapon of a strange kind of social justice. In doing so, he sets the stage for Greene’s next novel, Brighton Rock. This Penguin Classics edition features an introduction by Samuel Hynes. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Kenneth Trachtenberg, the witty and eccentric narrator of More Die of Heartbreak, has left his native Paris for the Midwest. He has come to be near his beloved uncle, the world-renowned botanist Benn Crader, self-described "plant visionary." While his studies take him around the world, Benn, a restless spirit, has not been able to satisfy his longings after his first marriage and lives from affair to affair and from "bliss to breakdown." Imagining that a settled existence will end his anguish, Benn ties the knot again, opening the door to a flood of new torments. As Kenneth grapples with his own problems involving his unusual lady-friend Treckie, the two men try to figure out why gifted and intelligent people invariably find themselves "knee-deep in the garbage of a personal life."

V třetím dílu malý prevít, který v předchozích svazcích šikanoval a zcela zotročil své rodiče a domácí kočku, musí čelit nové výzvě, jež ohrožuje jeho dosud výsadní postavení: nyní proti němu nestojí jen On a Ona, ale také nový sourozenec. Jak se náš malý hrdina vyrovná s novými protivenstvími? Nepochybně jako pravý prevít! Někdo bude škaredě litovat, ale to už bude pozdě! Vyd. v bilingvní podobě.

Accolta gelidamente alla prima assoluta di Monaco (1891), poco amata in Scandinavia per la sua estraneità culturale e di costume, in Italia Hedda Gabler , pur non divenendo mai popolare, fu comunque assunta tra i cavalli di battaglia delle primedonne, a cominciare dalla Duse, né mancò di turbare la critica contemporanea: «simbolica e realista», «pallida elegante, fredda», disse Giovanni Pozza; e Scipio Slataper, nella sua tesi di laurea su Ibsen , parlò di «isterica passione», di «qualche cosa che ci fa star zitti e meravigliati». Nel riproporre questa figura di donna gelida e asessuata, amante della vita come eroina dell'estetismo, Franco Quadri ne percorre e analizza, nella sua nota introduttiva, la vicenda ormai secolare sulle scene italiane.

In this chilling installment of “the first great series of police thrillers” (Michael Ondaatje, national bestselling author of Warlight) by an internationally renowned crime duo, superintendent Martin Beck investigates a string of child murders. In the once peaceful parks of Stockholm, a killer is stalking young girls and disposing their bodies. The city is on edge, and an undercurrent of fear has gripped its residents. Martin Beck, now a superintendent, has two possible witnesses: a silent, stone-cold mugger and a mute three year old boy. With the likelihood of another murder growing as each day passes, the police force work night and day. But their efforts have offered little insight into the methodology of the killer. Then a distant memory resurfaces in Beck's mind, and he may just have the break he needs.