S charakterom historický romány s hnedou obálkou beletria - strana 67 z 69

The rise of Robert Harris as one of the UK's premier novelists has been something of a phenomenon. His breakthrough book was, of course, Fatherland, and even though the premise (Germany had won the Second World War and occupied Britain)...

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1813, and Horatio Hornblower is propelled toward the heart of the French Empire and his old enemy, Napoleon . . . Sir Horatio Hornblower has received strict and highly confidential orders from the highest rank: he must embark upon a ....

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Florentino Ariza has never forgotten his first love. He has waited nearly a lifetime in silence since his beloved Fermina married another man. No woman can replace her in his heart...

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All the Pretty Horses, the first novel of the Border Trilogy, published in 1992, was an international bestseller, winning both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. It tells the tale of John Grady Cole, who at sixteen finds h

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Two families at war. A boy and a girl in love. A secret marriage gone oh-so-wrong. What if those star-crossed lovers Romeo and Juliet had smartphones? The classic Shakespeare play told through its characters texting with emojis, ...

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When Polyanna Whittier goes to live with her sour-tempered aunt after her father's death, things seem bad enough, but then a dreadful accident ensues. However, Pollyanna's sunny nature and good humour prove to have an astonishing effect on...

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In North and South, Elizabeth Gaskell skillfully fused individual feeling with social concern, and in Margaret Hale created one of the most original heroines of Victorian literature...

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It's 1969, and holed up in a grimy tenement building in New York's Lower East Side is a travelling psychic who claims to be able to tell anyone the date they will die. The four Gold children, too young for what they're about to hear, ...

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'she felt herself standing at the game of life with many eyes upon her, daring everything to win...

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This is the story of a man who loved two women, and one of them killed him. Some people have dreams that are so outrageous that if they were to achieve them, their place in history would be guaranteed...

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The sequel to the Man Booker-winning Wolf Hall...

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This sequel to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy finds Arthur Dent, reluctant space adventurer, joining Zaphod Beeblebrox—two-headed former president of the galaxy...

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Im Orwell-Staat wird eine neue Sprache verordnet, das sogenannte Neusprech. Zusammen mit dem sogenannten Zwiedenk soll den Menschen das Denken abgewöhnt werden. Orwell beschriebt eindrucksvoll, wie durch Veränderung der Sprache der Manipulation...

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Äußerlich ist Margaret Macy auf Rosen gebettet. Doch ihr Stiefvater möchte sie mit seinem skrupellosen Neffen Marcus verheiraten. Margaret flieht und nimmt in dem herrschaftlichen Gut Fairbourne Hall eine Anstellung als Dienstmädchen an...

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Banished from her homeland thanks to a prophecy foretelling that her unborn child will one day cause the death of her father, Danae finds herself stranded, pregnant, and alone...

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Hannie Schaft didn't train to be a soldier: she had dreams of her own. But dreams die in wartime, and her friends are no longer safe...

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Již mnoho století patří Praha k nejvýznamnějším městům evropské židovské kultury. Kromě kamenných památek židovského města jsou to zejména pověsti a legendy starého a tajuplného ghetta, které z této kultury zůstaly zachovány...

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In der Apotheke ihres Vaters ist Lilly Haswell glücklich, ist ihr doch jedes Kraut und jede Medizin vertraut. Dort kann sie die Dorfbewohner vergessen, die seit der Flucht ihrer Mutter keine Ruhe geben....

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Winner of the 1999 Pulitzer and Pen/Faulkner prizes, THE HOURS is a daring and deeply affecting novel inspired by the life and work of Virginia Woolf. Now a major motion picture, directed by Stephen Daldry (BILLY ELLIOT) and starring Nicole Kidman, ...

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The first of the defeated kites whirled out of control. They fell from the sky like shooting stars with brilliant, rippling tails, showering the neighbourhood. Amir and Hassan grow up together in Kabul. Amir in the beautiful house his father built, ...

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