Reportáž amerického novináře o událostech v Československu od podzimu 1967 do zimy 1970. Exilové vydání. Obálku s použitím obrazu Jaroslava Hovadíka navrhl a grafickou úpravu knihy provedl Mikuláš Kravjanský. Fotografické práce Pavel Řehuřek.
In Spark of Life, a powerful classic from the renowned author of All Quiet on the Western Front, one man’s dream of freedom inspires a valiant resistance against the Nazi war machine. For ten years, 509 has been a political prisoner in a German concentration camp, persevering in the most hellish conditions. Deathly weak, he still has his wits about him and he senses that the end of the war is near. If he and the other living corpses in his barracks can hold on for liberation—or force their own—then their suffering will not have been in vain. Now the SS who run the camp are ratcheting up the terror. But their expectations are jaded and their defenses are down. It is possible that the courageous yet terribly weak prisoners have just enough left in them to resist. And if they die fighting, they will die on their own terms, cheating the Nazis out of their devil’s contract. “The world has a great writer in Erich Maria Remarque. He is a craftsman of unquestionably first rank, a man who can bend language to his will. Whether he writes of men or of inanimate nature, his touch is sensitive, firm, and sure.”— The New York Times Book Review
Mit einer Einführung v. Schelsky, Helmut. N.-A.
Dans une petite ville d'Alabama, à l'époque de la Grande Dépression, Atticus Finch élève seul ses deux enfants, Jem et Scout. Avocat intègre et rigoureux, il est commis d'office pour défendre un Noir accusé d'avoir violé une Blanche. Racontée par Scout avec beaucoup de drôlerie, cette histoire tient du conte, de la court story américaine et du roman initiatique.
The hero-narrator is a sixteen-year-old native New Yorker named Holden Caulfield. He leaves his prep school in Pennsylvania and spends three days underground in New York City. Holden is both simple and complex, making it difficult to draw definitive conclusions about him or his story. He is captivated by beauty, almost to the point of being overwhelmed by it. The novel features various voices—children's, adults', and underground—but Holden's voice stands out as the most eloquent. He expresses a poignant blend of pain and pleasure, transcending his vernacular while remaining true to it. Most of his pain is kept to himself, while he shares the pleasure with the reader who can appreciate it. J.D. Salinger's classic tale of teenage angst and rebellion was published in 1951 and has been recognized as one of the best English-language novels of the 20th century. It has faced challenges for its use of profanity and depiction of sexuality, becoming a must-read for teenage boys in the 1950s and 60s.
In a small Pennsylvania town in the late 1940s, schoolteacher George Caldwell yearns to find some meaning in his life. Alone with his teenage son for three days in a blizzard, Caldwell sees his son grow and change as he himself begins to lost touch with his life. Interwoven with the myth of Chiron, the noblest centaur, and his own relationship to Prometheus, The Centaur is one of John Updike's most brilliant and unusual novels.
Jouant de sa lame comme d'un levier, il le fit céder et le coquillage s'ouvrit. Les lèvres de chair se crispèrent puis se détendirent. Kino souleva le repli et la perle était là, la grosse perle, parfaite comme une lune. Elle accrochait la lumière, la purifiait et la renvoyait dans une incandescence argentée. Elle était aussi grosse qu'un œuf de mouette. C'était plus la grosse perle du monde.
Americký román je odezvou na události v jižních státech USA, které nastaly po zrušení segregace bílých a černých studentů na středních školách. Autor svůj příběh zasazuje do malého jižanského městečka, jehož poklidnou hladinu zčeří příchod mladého fašistického agitátora, kterýse snaží ..
