Z nepochopitelných důvodů dosud opomíjená kniha autora Mechanického pomeranče. V první části autor podrobuje důkladné analýze Orwellův román 1984, v druhé části pak nabízí vlastní beletristické zpracování Orwellova tématu.
Posílená moc prezidenta, dočasné rozpuštění kongresu. Cenzura. Hlasy disidentů umlčeny. Vše v zájmu bezpečnosti. Válka sama není nutná, stačí její hrozba a, ve starém dobrém orwellovském stylu, z povědomí, že nepřítel je nablízku, ať již potenciální či skutečný, se stane nástroj ospravedlňující tyranii. Tady...
Z nepochopitelných důvodů dosud opomíjená kniha autora Mechanického pomeranče. V první části autor podrobuje důkladné analýze Orwellův r...
Kenneth Toomey is an eminent novelist of dubious talent; Don Carlo Campanati is a man of God, a shrewd manipulator who rises through the Vatican to become the architect of church revolution and a candidate for sainthood. In this book, the author plumbs the depths of the essence of power and the lengths men will go for it.
Kenneth Toomey is an eminent novelist of dubious talent; Don Carlo Campanati is a man of God, a shrewd manipulator who rises through the Vatican to be...
'A Dead Man in Deptford' re-imagines the riotous life and suspicious death of Christopher Marlowe. Poet, lover and spy, Marlowe must negotiate the pressures placed upon him by theatre, Queen and country. Burgess brings this dazzling figure to life and pungently evokes Elizabethan England.
'A Dead Man in Deptford' re-imagines the riotous life and suspicious death of Christopher Marlowe. Poet, lover and spy, Marlowe must negotiate the pre...
Michael Byrne is a minor modern composer with greater talent in bed than in the concert hall. A bigamist, a charmer and a thug, Byrne sells his talents as a composer and painter, ending up in Hitler's Third Reich. He moves opportunistically from country to country and from bed to bed, leaving a small tribe of children across the globe.
Michael Byrne is a minor modern composer with greater talent in bed than in the concert hall. A bigamist, a charmer and a thug, Byrne sells his talent...
Enderby - poet, social critic, comrade and Catholic - is endlessly hounded by women. He may be found hiding in the lavatory where much of his best work is composed, or perhaps in Rome, brainwashed into respectability by a glamorous wife, aftershave and the dolce vita.
Enderby - poet, social critic, comrade and Catholic - is endlessly hounded by women. He may be found hiding in the lavatory where much of his best wor...
A new critical edition to celebrate the 50th anniversary of A Clockwork Orange -- one of the most influential books of the twentieth century. First published by William Heinemann in 1962, A Clockwork Orange is the best known of Anthony Burgess's thirty-three remarkable novels, and is widely acknowledged as one of the most influential books of the twentieth century. For more than twenty years A Clockwork Orange circulated in two distinct editions with two different endings. This special edition to mark the 50th Anniversary of first publication restores the text of the novel as Burgess...
A new critical edition to celebrate the 50th anniversary of A Clockwork Orange -- one of the most influential books of the twentieth century. Firs...
From the beginning, Laurens van der Post has been aware of a dimension in life far larger and more significant than the outer eventfulness of everyday living. His perception of life's mysterious power began with the Bushmen, the first people of his native Africa, and grew in the universal imagery of dreams, the fertile legends and stories of ancient civilization, the intuitive teaching of prophets, poets and other pioneers of human awareness.
From the beginning, Laurens van der Post has been aware of a dimension in life far larger and more significant than the outer eventfulness of everyday...
A sharp analysis: through dialogues, parodies and essays, the author sheds light on what he called 'an apocalyptic codex of our worst fears', creating a critique that is literature in its own right.
A sharp analysis: through dialogues, parodies and essays, the author sheds light on what he called 'an apocalyptic codex of our worst fears', creating...
Sometimes when I'm at work and waiting for customers I think about the two of us living like kings and not bothering about the future. Because there may not be any future to bother about, you know. Not for anybody, one of these days. And it's a wicked world.
Average couple Janet and Howard's lives begin to unravel when Howard's photographic memory helps win him a gameshow fortune.
Janet doesn't want their lives to change that much. She's quite happy working at the supermarket, cooking for her husband three times a day and watching quiz shows in the evening.
But...
Sometimes when I'm at work and waiting for customers I think about the two of us living like kings and not bothering about the future. Because t...
