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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.

Nová, do značné míry autobiografická hra, děj se odehrává v mysli ústřední postavy, v jejích myšlenkách. Na scénu staví asi čtyřicetiletého právníka, jenž se rozborem nejvýznamnějších skutečností svého života snaží dopátrat se pravdy o své vině na tom, co udělal on i společnostkolem něho. Přeložili Luba a Rudolf Pellarovi za jazykové spolupráce Hildy Lassové.

»Wenn du deinem Paßbild ähnlich zu sehen beginnst, ist es höchste Zeit wegzufahren.« Dieses Motto stellt Kishon seiner Weltreise des Humors in 13 Länder von Holland bis Griechenland, von Deutschland bis in die Türkei voran und charakterisiert damit den Traum jedes Alltagsmenschen nach der lockenden Ferne, in der er sich in sein anderes Ich verwandelt. Höchstes Lesevergnügen für Weltenbummler und Reise-Profis, für alle, die von fremden Ländern träumen oder in Gedanken die Fahrt in das Land ihrer Sehnsucht antreten wollen: die besten Satiren um Reisen und Reisende in einem Band.

Lisez ces neuf nouvelles. Vous y découvrirez un écrivain extraordinairement sensible et extraordinairement habile - je voudrais dire: un romancier complet, comme on le dit d'un athlète, parce que, chez lui, l'intuition et le métier s'équilibrent dans une parfaite maîtrise, - et comme on le dit d'un spectacle, parce qu'il sait toucher à la fois notre cœur et notre imagination, et jouer, en virtuose incomparable, de toute la gamme de nos émotions : la tendresse et le rire, le frisson d'horreur, la pitié. Jean-Louis Curtis

Hailed as a masterpiece of American travel writing, Blue Highways is an unforgettable journey along our nation's backroads. William Least Heat-Moon set out with little more than the need to put home behind him and a sense of curiosity about "those little towns that get on the map--if they get on at all--only because some cartographer has a blank space to fill in: Remote, Oregon; Simplicity, Virginia; Whynot, Mississippi." His adventures, his discoveries, and his recollections of the extraordinary people he encountered along the way amout to a revelation of the true American experience.

Dobrodružné až detektivní povídky, jejich námětem je oslava mužnosti, statečnosti a spravedlnosti: Plantážník z Malaty, Společník, Hostinec u dvou čarodějnic, Kvůli dolarům.

The tragic impact of the Vietnam War on a relationship between father and daughter. The father is an upstanding individual who believes in the American Dream, but his daughter has a different dream, to get America out of Vietnam and she kills innocent people to achieve it. For the father it is the end of the world, he has lost his daughter. By the author of Sabbath's Theater

Buddy Glass introduces his older brother and describes the events of Seymour's wedding day

Kishon und die Bibel - das ist eine höchst brisante Konfrontation, die von Kishon mit der gebührenden Ehrfurcht, aber auch mit seinem unverwechselbaren Humor dargeboten wird. Denn Humor, so der bekannte Satiriker, sei Gottes schönste Gabe und bringe die Menschen dem Universum näher. Aber nicht nur um die Ereignisse im Himmel und um Moses' Werk geht es in diesem köstlichen Buch, es geht wie immer bei Kishon vor allem um die unheilbaren Schwächen der „Krone der Schöpfung“.

Volně spojený cyklus dvanácti elegických povídek amerického autora českého původu tvoří jakýsi skupinový portrét tří generací mužů a žen obývajících podmanivé okolí jezera ve státě New York. Výjimečná schopnost zachytit ducha krajiny, jenž jako by spoluutvářel životní osudy jednotlivých postav, přitom není jediným pozoruhodným rysem této neobyčejně vyzrálé prvotiny: autorovo umění ponoru do skutečných i domnělých hlubin vnitřních životů jeho hrdinů je tu ukázkovým příkladem zdánlivě paradoxní schopnosti imaginativní prózy překonat v živosti a autenticitě samu skutečnost.

Hemingway's memories of his life as an unknown writer living in Paris in the 1920s are deeply personal, warmly affectionate and full of wit. He recalls the time when, poor, happy and writing in cafes, he discovered his vocation.

Le bouquiniste Jacob Mendel est un vieil homme érudit au moment du déclenchement de la Première Guerre mondiale. Ne lisant pas les journaux, il ignore la guerre qui fait rage en Europe... ce détachement du monde est-il sans risque dans une époque où l'engagement semble de rigueur ?

Informationen zur Titelgruppe: In diesem Drama über den Familienstreit um eine Plantage im Mississippi-Delta prangert der Autor Habgier und Verlogenheit an und schildert Frustration und Selbstzerstörung eines Menschen. Informationen zur Reihe: Die Textausgaben der Reihe TAGS enthalten Worterklärungen und zum Teil Fragen, Study Helps und Zusatztexte zu verschiedenen Aspekten der Texte. Die Handreichungen für den Unterricht bieten Interpretationsansätze und geben Anregungen für die Textbehandlung im Unterricht und die Eingliederung in Unterrichtsreihen.

"Quatre personnages, dans un salon, vont vivre la plus singulière et la plus normale, la plus burlesque et la plus tragique, la plus atroce et aussi la plus tendre des nuits.

Sebrané humoresky o druhé nejkrásnější činnosti na světě.

J.D. Salinger, author of the classic Catcher in the Rye (1951), wrote the stories Franny and Zooey for publication in the New Yorker magazine in 1955 and 1957 respectively. Both stories were part of a series centred around a family of settlers in New York, the Glasses, particularly the children of Les and Bessie Glass, a Jewish-Irish theatrical act. All are brilliant former radio actors. Their eldest child, Seymour, a genius, commits suicide in his thirties. The repercussions to the family of this act provide the unifying theme to the stories. In Franny and Zooey the youngest member of the family, Franny, has a religious and nervous breakdown. She attempts to ward off the meaninglessness of college life by the obsessive repetition of a Jesus prayer. Her brother Zachary (Zooey) rests at nothing in his attempts to restore her sanity. J.D. Salinger wrote the Glass stories, 'It is a long-term project, patently an ambitious one, and there is a real-enough danger, I suppose, that sooner or later I'll bog down, perhaps disappear entirely, in ly own methods, locutions and mannerisms. On the whole, though, I'm very hopeful.I love working on these Glass stories, I've been waiting for them most of my life, and I think I have fairly decent, monomaniacal plans to finish them with due care and all-available skill.'

The Pulitzer Prize and Drama Critics Circle Award winning play—reissued with an introduction by Arthur Miller (Death of a Salesman and The Crucible), and Williams’ essay “The World I Live In.” It is a very short list of 20th-century American plays that continue to have the same power and impact as when they first appeared—57 years after its Broadway premiere, Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desireis one of those plays. The story famously recounts how the faded and promiscuous Blanche DuBois is pushed over the edge by her sexy and brutal brother-in-law, Stanley Kowalski. Streetcar launched the careers of Marlon Brando, Jessica Tandy, Kim Hunter, and Karl Malden, and solidified the position of Tennessee Williams as one of the most important young playwrights of his generation, as well as that of Elia Kazan as the greatest American stage director of the ’40s and ’50s.

Sylvia Barrett arrives at New York City’s Calvin Coolidge High fresh from earning literature degrees at Hunter College and eager to shape young minds. Instead she encounters broken windows, a lack of supplies, a stifling bureaucracy, and students with no interest in Chaucer. Her bumpy yet ultimately rewarding journey is narrated through an extraordinary collection of correspondence—sternly worded yet nonsensical administrative memos, furtive notes of wisdom from teacher to teacher, “polio consent slips,” and student homework assignments that unwittingly speak from the heart. An instant bestseller when it was first published in 1964, Up the Down Staircase remains as poignant, devastating, laugh-out-loud funny, and relevant today as ever. It timelessly depicts a beleaguered public school system redeemed by teachers who love to teach and students who long to be recognized.

Bratři Machalovi cestovali po místech, kde žil E. Hemingway, hovořili s těmi, kdo velkého amerického spisovatele poznali. Rekonstruují jeho pohnutý život - neukázněné mládí, osobní vztahy k rodičům, čtyřem manželkám, přátelům a konečně i dramatický závěr spisovatelova bytí.

"Rien n'est plus délicieux qu'un enfant !" dit l'énorme crocodile. Heureusement, ce n'est pas facile pour un crocodile de trouver un enfant à manger lorsque les autres animaux de la forêt s'en mêlent. Dès 5 ans

For Spenser, that most unorthodox of private detectives, no case is ever straightforward and the theft of a 14th-century illuminated manuscript proves no exception. His investigation soon leads him into organized crime, dope-pushing, theft, radical politics, adultery and murder.

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Bernard Malamud's second novel, originally published in 1957, is the story of Morris Bober, a grocer in postwar Brooklyn, who "wants better" for himself and his family. First two robbers appear and hold him up; then things take a turn for the better when broken-nosed Frank Alpine becomes his assistant. But there are complications: Frank, whose reaction to Jews is ambivalent, falls in love with Helen Bober; at the same time he begins to steal from the store. Like Malamud's best stories, this novel unerringly evokes an immigrant world of cramped circumstances and great expectations. Malamud defined the immigrant experience in a way that has proven vital for several generations of writers.

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Williams' play about drifter Chance Wayne who returns to his hometown with a faded movie star hoping to find the girl of his youth is a classic study of the dream of recapturing youth and finding fame. This edition features an extensive critical commentary and questions aimed at students of the play.

Written in 1915, The Shadow-Line is based upon events and experiences from twenty-seven years earlier to which Conrad returned obsessively in his fiction. A young sea captain's first command brings with it a succession of crises: his sea is becalmed, the crew laid low by fever, and his deranged first mate is convinced that the ship is haunted by the malignant spirit of a previous captain. This is indeed a work full of "sudden passions", in which Conrad is able to show how the full intensity of existence can be experienced by the man who, in the words of the older Captain Giles, is prepared to "stand up to his bad luck, to his mistakes, to his conscience." A subtle and penetrating analysis of the nature of manhood, The Shadow-Line investigates varieties of masculinity and desire in a subtext that counters the tale's seemingly conventional surface.

'Subtle, funny and furious' Observer. What if a lookalike stranger stole your name, hijacked your biography, and went about the world pretending to be you? Startlingly, Philip Roth meets a man in Jerusalem called Philip Roth who has been touring Israel - riding high on the author's reputation - preaching a bizarre reverse-exodus of the Jews, encouraging them to return to their ancestral homes in Europe. Roth decides to stop him, even if that means impersonating the impersonator. Operation Shylock is at once spy story, political thriller, meditation on identity and unfathomable journey through a volatile, frightening middle-east.

Considéré comme l'un des meilleurs livres jamais écrits sur la tauromachie, "Mort dans l'après-midi" offre un regard passionné sur ce sport par l'un de ses véritables aficionados. Il reflète la conviction de Hemingway que la tauromachie était plus qu'un simple sport et révèle une riche source d'inspiration pour son art. Le drame inégalé de la tauromachie, avec sa combinaison rigoureuse d'athlétisme et d'art, ainsi que son affichage nécessaire de grâce sous pression, a enflammé l'imagination de Hemingway. Il décrit et explique les aspects techniques de ce rituel dangereux et "l'intensité émotionnelle et spirituelle et la pure beauté classique qui peuvent être produites par un homme, un animal et un morceau de serge écarlate drapé sur un bâton." À travers ses yeux, la tauromachie devient un ballet richement chorégraphié, avec des interprètes allant d'amateurs maladroits à des maîtres d'une grande élégance et ruse. Un regard fascinant sur l'histoire et la grandeur de la tauromachie, "Mort dans l'après-midi" est aussi une contemplation plus profonde de la nature de la lâcheté et du courage, du sport et de la tragédie, animée tout au long par le commentaire acéré de Hemingway sur la vie et la littérature.

Englische Literatur in Reclams Roter Reihe: das ist der englische Originaltext – ungekürzt und unbearbeitet mit Worterklärungen am Fuß jeder Seite, Nachwort und Literaturhinweisen. Millers berühmtestes Drama: die Geschichte des Handelsvertreters Willy Loman und seiner beiden Söhne Biff und Happy ist die Geschichte des amerikanischen Traums vom Erfolg – und seines Scheiterns. Englische Lektüre: Niveau B2–C1 (GER) Sprachen: Englisch, Deutsch

Giving an account of Ernest Hemingway's safari in the great game country of East Africa, this book presents Hemingway's well-known interest in - and fascination with - big game hunting. It is an examination of the lure of the hunt and an impassioned portrait of the glory of the African landscape and of the beauty of a wilderness.

Dva půvabné, na sebe navazující romány ironizují snobství americké lepší společnosti. V románu Páni mají radši blondýnky (1925) líčí autorka formou fingovaného deníku, psaného záměrně neumělým, chybujícím jazykem, život naivní, půvabné lehkomyslné ženy, „dámy z povolání“, která ve světě, jemuž vládnou peníze, zpeněžuje své mládí, půvab a zábavnou prostořekou bezprostřednost. Satira na věčné soupeření mezi oběma pohlavími, jejímž terčem jsou bohatí, leč důvěřiví páni z kruhů amerických obchodníků a anglických aristokratů a snobské společnosti kolem literatury a filmu. Román Ale žení se s brunetkami (1927) vypráví o životě její přítelkyně, která byla příliš upřímná a jejíž cesta za úspěšným sňatkem byla proto daleko složitější....

Winner of the IMPAC Award and Booker Prize nominee In this rich and compelling novel, written in language of astonishing poise and resonance, one of Australia's greatest living writers gives an immensely powerful vision of human differences and eternal divisions. In the mid-1840s a thirteen-year-old British cabin boy, Gemmy Fairley, is cast ashore in the far north of Australia and taken in by aborigines. Sixteen years later he moves back into the world of Europeans, among hopeful yet terrified settlers who are staking out their small patch of home in an alien place. To them, Gemmy stands as a different kind of challenge: he is a force that at once fascinates and repels. His own identity in this new world is as unsettling to him as the knowledge he brings to others of the savage, the aboriginal. "Breathtaking...To read this remarkable book is to remember Babylon well, whether you think you've been there or not." --The New York Times Book Review

" Ai été nommé garde-chasse honoraire et à cause des événements (la rébellion mau-mau), fais ici office de garde-chasse suppléant. C'est une vie de première classe ", écrit Hemingway depuis son camp de safari, au Kenya, en janvier 1954. Ecrit au lendemain des deux accidents d'avion survenus au Congo belge, mis en forme par son fils Patrick, ce roman inédit de Hemingway forme le contrepoint des récits africains et du premier safari que fit l'écrivain. Au pied du Kilimandjaro, en compagnie de sa quatrième femme, Mary, qui elle aussi est décidée à tuer son lion, Hemingway, promu gardien de réserve, est chargé de protéger les populations massaï et kamba. Aux descriptions magiques de cette Afrique, où une chose est vérité à l'aube et mensonge à midi, s'ajoute une brève rencontre africaine avec une jeune et ravissante Kamba. Dans ce récit, Hemingway mêle les souvenirs du Montana, du Michigan et du Paris de sa jeunesse avec des réflexions sur les écrivains et l'écriture. L'humour féroce alterne avec une nostalgie poignante.

The publishing house Megali focuses on making historical works accessible by reproducing them in large print, catering specifically to individuals with impaired vision. This initiative emphasizes the importance of inclusivity in literature, allowing a broader audience to engage with historical texts.

2. část trilogie, která navazuje na 1. část Vesnice a bude pokračovat 3. částí Panské sídlo. Doslov: Eva Masnerová Druhý díl Faulknerovy volné trilogie začíná ve chvíli, kdy Flem Snopes, reprezentant nastupujících dravých ekonomických sil na americkém Jihu počátku 20. století, přijíždí do Jeffersonu...

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2. část trilogie, která navazuje na 1. část Vesnice a bude pokračovat 3. částí Panské sídlo. Doslov: Eva Masnerová Druhý díl Faulknerovy volné trilogie začíná ve chvíli, kdy Flem Snopes, reprezentant nastupujících dravých ekonomických sil na americkém Jihu počátku 20. století, přijíždí do Jeffersonu...