Jozef Šimo Livres

Historický román odohrávajúci sa v Amerike v časoch občianskej vojny. Ústrednou témou je láska a vzťah odvážnej Scarlett k Rhettovi ktorá sa vymyká vtedajšej spoločenskej šablóne.

Když se Matthew a Marilla Cuthbertovi rozhodnou adoptovat sirotka, který by jim pomáhal na rodinné farmě, nemají ani tušení jak milé starosti je čekají. When Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert decide to adopt an orphan who can help manage their familz farm, thez have no idea what delightful trouble awaits them.

Anne is half past 16 and she's ready to begin a new life teaching in her old school. She's as feisty as ever and is determined to inspire young hearts with her own ambitions. But some of her pupils are as boisterous and high-spirited as Anne, and so life in her Avonlea classroom becomes a lesson in discovery and adventure.

This novel was placed number 16 in the best novels of the XXth century, and is considered a real american classic. The ambitious but ill-educated and immature Clyde Griffiths is raised by poor and devoutly religious parents who force him to participate in their street missionary work, and on reaching young adulthood takes low-status jobs as a soda jerk and then as a bellhop at a top Kansas City hotel. There, his more sophisticated colleagues introduce him to alcohol and prostitutes, something he starts to enjoy...

Mladý milionár Rex Walton dostane od vydierača Kupieho list, aby vo vlastnom záujme upustil od sobáša s krásnou Donnou Colemanovou, lebo ak nie, pride o svoj milión libier. Pol hodiny pred sobášom Waiton a jeho milión zmizne – a toto je predzvesť mnohých záhadných udalostí, až kým inšpektor Sepping, inak Waltonov priateľ, smutne presláveného Kupieho neodhalí. Celý príbeh, napísaný Wallaceovým nenapodobniteľným štýlom, speje na konci k rozuzleniu, ktoré je pre tohto majstra napätia také príznačné. (www.pitaval.cz)