Madame Bovary
Emma Rouault leaves her father to marry Charles Bovary, an insignificant local doctor, and to live among the bourgeoisie of ‚Yonville‘. An ardent devourer of sentimental novels, Emma fills her head with fantastic…
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How to be both
5,80€ Pridať do košíkaHow to be both is a novel all about art’s versatility. Borrowing from painting’s fresco technique to make an original literary double-take, it’s a fast-moving genre-bending conversation between forms, times, truths and fictions.
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The Other Woman’s Shoes
4,50€ Pridať do košíkaEliza and Martha are sisters. But that’s where the similarity ends. Martha appears to have the perfect life: two lovely children and plenty of money. Eliza lives in a one-bedroom flat with her musician boyfriend Greg. When Eliza ditches Greg and turns up on her sister’s doorstep, she expects to be swallowed into the sanctuary of Martha’s warm loving home.
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The Professor
2,50€ Pridať do košíkaThe Professor was the first novel by Charlotte Brontë. It was originally written before Jane Eyre and rejected by many publishing houses, but was eventually published posthumously in 1857 by approval of Charlotte’s husband, Arthur Bell Nicholls, who accepted the task of reviewing and editing of the novel.
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Keep the Aspidistra Flying
2,10€ Pridať do košíkaGordon Comstock loathes dull, middle-class respectability and worship of money. He gives up a ‚good job‘ in advertising to work part-time in a bookshop, giving him more time to write. But he slides instead into a self-induced poverty that destroys his creativity and his spirit.
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The Destiny of Nathalie ‚X‘
0,50€ Pridať do košíkaKniha je v anglickom jazyku. The Destiny of Nathalie ‚X‘ je druhá poviedková zbierka Williama Boyda, ktorá vyšla v roku 1995, asi štrnásť rokov po jeho prvej zbierke On the Yankee Station.
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Pedigree
1,60€ Pridať do košíkaKniha je v anglickom jazyku. Rodokmeň je autobiografický román belgického autora Georgesa Simenona, ktorý prvýkrát vyšiel v roku 1948. Simenon opísal dielo ako „knihu, v ktorej je všetko pravdivé, ale nič nie je presné“. Predstavuje beletrizovaný popis autorovho detstva v Belgicku od začiatku 20. storočia.
