Mariana Stříbrná Libri

One of Daphne Du Maurier's Cornish novels. Dick Young experiments with a new drug and is transported back to the 14th century. After witnessing the vivid life of the manor of Tywardreath, and becoming obsessed with the magnetic Isolda - he resents the time he must spend in the modern world.

Vypráví o osudu talentované sochařky Zuzany Gaylordové, která se pokouší skloubit cestu umělkyně s rolí matky.S tvrdošíjností sobě vlastní jde tato obětavá žena s hrdým srdcem za svým cílem. Spolu s ní čtenář putuje nejen tichým americkým maloměstem, ale i světem umělecké bohémy Paříže a New Yorku.

From intimacy to bitter quarrels under the eyes of Burlegh, Bacon, Raleigh and other members of Court, Elizabeth I and Essex's story unfolds to its last catastrophe - in which Essex lost his head and Elizabeth her heart.

From traffic control to Customs hall, from airport manager's office to the lay-over apartments in "Stewardesses" Row, the rooms are peopled with men and women whose private pressures and passions match the fury of the blizzard which sweeps the airfield... For seven suspense-filled hours, a blocked runway, suicide, pickets, an aerial stowaway, pregnancy, smuggling, mass demonstrations... and a psychotic with a home-made bomb, build to a nail-biting climax..