Knihy beletrie, vladimír nabokov, anglické
- Vladimír Nabokov - Lance
Vladimír Nabokov - Lance
- Vladimír Nabokov
- anglické
- beletrie
- Penguin Books
- 64
- 2018
'The illegible signature of teetering disaster' Three great stories--The Aurelian, Signs and Symbols and Lance--the last both a derisive attack on science-fiction and an...
- Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
- Vladimír Nabokov
- anglické
- beletrie
- Penguin Books
- 368
- 2020
Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged, fastidious college professor. He also likes little girls. And none more so than Lolita, who he'll do anything to possess. Is he in love or...
- Lolita
Lolita
- Vladimír Nabokov
- anglické
- beletrie
- Penguin Books
- 336
- 2023
'Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of my tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo....
- The Quiet American
The Quiet American
- Graham Greene
- anglické
- beletrie
- 208
- 2004
Reissues of two of Greene's most popular novels, with introductions by J.M. Coetzee and Zadie Smith respectively.
- Glory - V. Nabokov
Glory - V. Nabokov
- Vladimír Nabokov
- anglické
- beletrie
- Penguin Books
- 192
- 2006
'In general Glory is my happiest thing.' 'The fun of Glory is . . . to be sought in the echoing and linking of minor events, in back-and-forth switches, which produce an...
- Pnin anglicky
Pnin anglicky
- Vladimír Nabokov
- anglické
- beletrie
- 168
- 2024
Professor Timofey Pnin, late of Tsarist Russia, is now precariously perched at the heart of an American campus. Battling with American life and language, Pnin must face great...
- Nabokov´s Dozen
Nabokov´s Dozen
- Vladimír Nabokov
- anglické
- beletrie
- Penguin Books
- 240
- 2023
Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning...
- Collected Poems
Collected Poems
- Vladimír Nabokov
- anglické
- beletrie
- Penguin Books
- 214
- 2013
Nabokov's masterly "Collected Poems" span the decades of his career, from "Music", written in 1914, to the short, playful "To Vera", composed in 1974. "The University Poem",...
- The Enchanter - Vladimir Nabokov
The Enchanter - Vladimir Nabokov
- Vladimír Nabokov
- anglické
- beletrie
- Penguin Books
- 83
- 2009
Nabokov described this novella, written in Paris in 1939 but only published twenty years later, as 'the first little throb of Lolita'. The plot is similar: a middle-aged man...
- The Human Factor
The Human Factor
- Graham Greene
- anglické
- beletrie
- Random House
- 267
- 1999
With a new introduction by Colm Toibin. A leak is traced to a small sub-section of SIS, sparking off the inevitable security checks, tensions and suspicions. The sort of...
- Monsignor Quixote
Monsignor Quixote
- Graham Greene
- anglické
- beletrie
- Random House
- 256
- 2000
With Sancho Panza, a deposed Communist mayor, his faithful Rocinate, an antiquated motorcar, Monsignor Quixote roams through modern-day Spain in a brilliant picaresque fable....
- The Heart of the Matter - GREENE, G.
The Heart of the Matter - GREENE, G.
- Graham Greene
- anglické
- beletrie
- Vintage Publishing
- 256
- 2004
Scobie, a police officer serving in a war-time West African state, is distrusted, being scrupulously honest and immune to bribery. But then he falls in love, and in doing so he...
- Gun for Sale - Graham Greene
Gun for Sale - Graham Greene
- Graham Greene
- anglické
- beletrie
- Random House
- 192
- 2001
Raven is an ugly man dedicated to ugly deeds. His cold-blooded killing of the Minister of War is an act of violence with chilling repercussions, not just for Raven himself but...
- Man Within - Graham Greene
Man Within - Graham Greene
- Graham Greene
- anglické
- beletrie
- 224
- 2001
The Man Within tells the story of Andrews, a young man who has betrayed his fellow smugglers and fears their vengeance. Fleeing from them, with no hope of pity or salvation, he...
- Third Man and Other Stories
Third Man and Other Stories
- Graham Greene
- anglické
- beletrie
- 344
- 2017
Rollo Martins, a failing novelist, is invited to Vienna by his best friend, Harry Lime. The city he arrives in is unrecognizable - torn apart by the Second World War and shared...
- Travels With My Aunt - Graham Greene
Travels With My Aunt - Graham Greene
- Graham Greene
- anglické
- beletrie
- Vintage Publishing
- 272
- 2019
Vintage Voyages: A world of journeys, from the tallest mountains to the depths of the mind Henry Pulling, a retired bank manager, meets his septuagenarian Aunt Augusta for...