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Deadeye Dick - Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Rudy Waltz hasn''t had it easy. After accidentally committing manslaughter at the age of twelve, the traumas life continued to throw at him seemed almost inconsequential.Now fifty-four, an expat living in Haiti, he''s reliving the harrowing moments of his life that have left him in his current disillusioned state. But perhaps his ancestors, among them a father who was an unwitting patron of Adolf Hitler, have predestined him for the mad life he''s lead.In Deadeye Dick Vonnegut expertly probes the ties between generations, and questions the conventional notions of morality.‘Vonnegut is George Orwell, Dr Caligari and Flash Gordon compounded into one writer … a zany but moral mad scientist’ Time‘The master at his quirky, provocative best’ Cosmopolitan

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Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Kurt Vonnegut''s Cat''s Cradle is an irreverent and highly entertaining fantasy about the playful irresponsibility of nuclear scientists, beautifully repackaged as part of the Penguin Essentials range.''All of the true things I am about to tell you are shameless lies.''Dr Felix Hoenikker, one of the founding fathers of the atomic bomb, has left a deadly legacy to the world. For he is the inventor of Ice-nine, a lethal chemical capable of freezing the entire planet. The search for its whereabouts leads to Hoenikker''s three eccentric children, to a crazed dictator in the Caribbean, to madness. Will Felix Hoenikker''s death wish come true? Will his last, fatal gift to humankind bring about the end that, for all of us, is nigh?Told with deadpan humour and bitter irony, Kurt Vonnegut''s cult tale of global apocalypse preys on our deepest fears of witnessing the end and, worse still, surviving it . . .''The time to read Vonnegut is just when you begin to suspect that the world is not what it appears to be. He is not only entertaining, he is electrocuting. You read him with enormous pleasure because he makes your hair stand on end'' New York Times''One of the warmest, wisest, ... Unknown localization key: "more"

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No není to krása ? - Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Kurt Vonnegut nebyl jen přední americký prozaik, ale též vyhledávaný a oblíbený veřejný řečník. Výbor z jeho projevů nyní vychází pod názvem No není to krása? Najdeme zde devět autorových proslovů; jeden z nich byl pronesen u příležitosti přebírání prestižní ceny Carla Sandburga, jeden na shromáždění Indianské unie občanských svobod a sedm zbylých na různých univerzitních promocích (což je přímo vonnegutovsky paradoxní, vzhledem k tomu, že sám Vonnegut nikdy univerzitu nedostudoval). Netřeba se však bát nějaké mravokárné suchařiny - Vonnegutovy projevy si co do výstavby, čtivosti a vtipnosti s ničím nezadají s jeho prózami. I v nich autor předvádí svou typickou ironii a sarkasmus, i v nich dokáže mezi drsné špílce nenápadně propašovat svůj humanismus a empatii, i v nich vyslovuje nejednu základní pravdu a přitom na čtenáře - či posluchače - spiklenecky pomrkává. No není to krása? Kurt Vonnegut jr. (1922-2007) patřil k nejoceňovanějším a nejoblíbenějším americkým spisovatelům druhé poloviny 20. století a od 60. let, kdy si ho přisvojili studenti amerických univerzit, požíval pověsti autora kultovního. Jeho romány lze považovat za společenské prózy (on sám je tak označoval), ale z běžně chápaných hranic tohoto žánru se od začátku tvrdošíjně přesouvají do sfér literatury humorné, groteskní, protiválečné, antiutopické či ... Unknown localization key: "more"

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Welcome to the Monkey House - Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

A MASTERFUL COLLECTION OF TWENTY-FIVE SHORT STORIES FROM THE INIMITABLE AUTHOR OF SLAUGHTERHOUSE 5, KURT VONNEGUT'Vonnegut is George Orwell, Dr Caligari and Flash Gordon compounded into one writer...a zany but moral mad scientist' TimeA diabolical government asserts control by eliminating orgasms. A scientist discovers the secret to unlocking instant happiness, with unexpected consequences. In an America where everyone is equal every which way, a tennage boy plans to overthrow the system.Welcome to the Monkey House gathers together twenty-five of Kurt Vonnegut's short stories from the 1950s and 1960s. Shot through with Vonnegut's singular humour, wit and bewilderment at humanity, this is a collection that celebrates a true master of short-form fiction.

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Palm Sunday - Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

FROM THE ONE-OF-A-KIND IMAGINATION THAT BROUGHT US SLAUGHTERHOUSE 5 AND CAT'S CRADLE'Kurt Vonnegut is either the funniest serious writer around or the most serious funny writer' Los Angeles Times Book ReviewAn 'autobiographical collage' of speeches, stories and essays, in Palm Sunday, Kurt Vonnegut writes beguilingly about everything from country music to George Bush, his favourite comedians to his mother's midnight mania, and bittersweet tributes to a dead best friend and a dead marriage.Resonating with his singular voice, this is a self-portrait in writing that showcases why Kurt Vonnegut is as genius an essayist and commentator on American society as he is a novelist.

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Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Ryan North

The first-ever, critically acclaimed graphic novel adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five now available in softcover!Centering on the infamous firebombing of Dresden, Billy Pilgrim’s odyssey through time reflects the mythic journey of our own fractured lives as we search for meaning in what we fear most. Billy Pilgrim’s journey is at once a farcical look at the horror and tragedy of war where children are placed on the frontlines and die (so it goes), and a moving examination of what it means to be fallibly human. An American classic and one of the world’s seminal antiwar books, Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five is faithfully presented in graphic novel form for the first time from Eisner Award-winning writer Ryan North (How to Invent Everything: A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler) and Eisner Award-nominated artist Albert Monteys (Universe!).

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If This Isn't Nice, What Is? - Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Selected and introduced by fellow novelist and friend Dan Wakefield, the speeches in If This Isn''t Nice, What Is? capture a different side of Kurt Vonnegut for the first time in book form. There are nine speeches, seven given at colleges, one to the Indiana Civil Liberties Union, one on the occasion of Vonnegut receiving the Carl Sandburg Award. In each of these talks Vonnegut takes pains to find the few things worth saying and a conversational voice to say them in that isn''t heavy-handed or pretentious or glib, but funny and serious and joyful even if sometimes without seeming so.

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Slaughterhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Read Kurt Vonnegut''s powerful masterpiece, which is as timely now as when it was first published.‘An extraordinary success. A book to read and reread. He is a true artist’ New York Times Book ReviewBilly Pilgrim – hapless barber''s assistant, successful optometrist, alien abductee, senile widower and soldier – has become unstuck in time. Hiding in the basement of a slaughterhouse in Dresden, with the city and its inhabitants burning above him, he finds himself a survivor of one of the most deadly and destructive battles of the Second World War. But when, exactly? How did he get here? And how does he get out?Travel through time and space on the shoulders of Vonnegut himself. This is a book about war. Listen to what he has to say: it is of the utmost urgency.‘The great, urgent, passionate American writer of our century, who offers us a model of the kind of compassionate thinking that might yet save us from ourselves.’ George Saunders

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Slaughterhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Read Kurt Vonnegut's powerful masterpiece, which is as timely now as when it was first published. Billy Pilgrim – hapless barber's assistant, successful optometrist, alien abductee, senile widower and soldier – has become unstuck in time. Hiding in the basement of a slaughterhouse in Dresden, with the city and its inhabitants burning above him, he finds himself a survivor of one of the most deadly and destructive battles of the Second World War.But when, exactly? How did he get here? And how does he get out?Travel through time and space on the shoulders of Vonnegut himself. This is a book about war. Listen to what he has to say: it is of the utmost urgency.‘An extraordinary success. A book to read and reread. He is a true artist’ New York Times Book ReviewThis series of war novels from Vintage Classics presents eight powerful stories about the horror and waste of war - each a passionate plea to prevent its repetition.

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Bagombo Snuff Box - Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

New York, 1950. A young PR man working at General Electric sold his first magazine piece. By the time he''d sold his third, he decided to quit his job and join the likes of Salinger, Hemingway, Fitzgerald and Faulkner, and make a living as a full-time writer. That young man was Kurt Vonnegut.Bagombo Snuff Box collects Vonnegut’s favourite stories from the postwar years that sharpened his dark, vaudevillian and quietly subversive voice. Here we see the mind-bending wit and central themes of his masterpiece, Slaughterhouse-Five. A must-read for Vonnegut aficionados new and old.

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Slaughterhouse 5 (poškozená) - Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Read Kurt Vonnegut's powerful masterpiece, which is as timely now as when it was first published. Billy Pilgrim – hapless barber's assistant, successful optometrist, alien abductee, senile widower and soldier – has become unstuck in time. Hiding in the basement of a slaughterhouse in Dresden, with the city and its inhabitants burning above him, he finds himself a survivor of one of the most deadly and destructive battles of the Second World War.But when, exactly? How did he get here? And how does he get out?Travel through time and space on the shoulders of Vonnegut himself. This is a book about war. Listen to what he has to say: it is of the utmost urgency.‘An extraordinary success. A book to read and reread. He is a true artist’ New York Times Book ReviewThis series of war novels from Vintage Classics presents eight powerful stories about the horror and waste of war - each a passionate plea to prevent its repetition.

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Kolíbka - Kurt Vonnegut Jr. - audiokniha

Audiokniha: „Někdy si myslím, že zrovna v tomhletom je malér světa: moc vystydlejch mrtvol na těch nejvyšších místech.“ Sci-fi román o lidské zaslepenosti, který dlouho nepustíte z hlavy. Kolíbku, která vyšla v roce 1963, považoval Kurt Vonnegut za jeden ze svých nejlepších románů. Ironicky v něm komentuje stav Spojených států v šedesátých letech 20. století, kdy na Západě rostla obliba hippies, východního náboženství i konzumace drog, studená válka byla v plném proudu a vzrůstala vojenská podpora USA ve válce ve Vietnamu. Vonnegutův vypravěč pracuje na knize o tom, co dělali význační Američané v den svržení první atomové bomby. Pátrá i po fiktivním otci jaderné zbraně a při tom narazí na další ničivý objev – tzv. led typu 9, který mrzne při pokojové teplotě. Další stopy ho zavedou do fiktivního karibského státu, kde nečekaně dosáhne vysokého postavení, schyluje se ale k apokalypse… Vonnegutova kniha je ironickou sondou do lidského nitra, kde se skrývá touha po moci i po něčem vyšším.

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Kriminálník - Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Kriminálník je ideální knihou pro čtenáře, kteří s Kurtem Vonnegutem ještě nemají žádnou zkušenost, ale chtějí s ním začít. Tento román totiž neodkazuje k jiným autorovým dílům, jako řada z těch ostatních, ale soustředí se přísně na vyprávění hlavního hrdiny Waltera Starbucka, který byl po letech propuštěn z vězení a hodlá radikálně změnit svůj život. Jeho vyprávění přeskakuje v čase z minula do budoucna a stává se originální, vtipnou a satirickou kritikou amerického kapitalismu.

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Armagedon - Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Kurt Vonnegut zastával celý život pozici důrazného odpůrce válek a jakéhokoli násilí a ve svých textech často zpracovával, s humorem a ironií sobě vlastní, neutuchající a nezvladatelnou lidskou náklonnost ke zlu. V knize je text vracející se znovu k tématu amerického bombardování Drážďan na konci druhé světové války, text o třech vojácích, kteří si představují své milované jídlo, jež si dají, až se vrátí z války domů, text o tom, jak je nemožné uchránit své děti před svody násilí, a další. Dvanáct dosud nepublikovaných textů dovoluje nahlédnout do úvah muže, který byl vojákem, spisovatelem, umělcem, rodičem i člověkem usilujícím neúnavně o nápravu světa.

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Modrovous - Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Fiktivní autobiografie Rabo Karabekiana, jednookého malíře a válečného veterána, který do dějin amerického umění vstoupil coby poznámka pod čarou a jehož prostřednictvím se Kurt Vonnegut zamýšlí nad některými groteskními jevy v americké společnosti dvacátého století.

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Vyletí ptáček - Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Nechcete si koupit naslouchátko, které vám mohutně pozvedne sebevědomí? Je soused odvedle prachsprostý sňatkový podvodník, nebo geniální hypnotizér ohýbající hranice časoprostoru? Existovala v druhohorách vyvinutá mravenčí civilizace? Šlápli jste na kuří oko Edu Lubymu a bojíte se o holý krk? Pokud zjistíte, že se vaše město hemží vražednými paranoidními psychopaty, znamená to, že jste taky paranoidní? Kurt Vonnegut opět vstává z hrobu a také v druhé posmrtně vydané sbírce doposud nevydaných povídek ohromuje srdečným humorem, kuriózními nápady, výstředními postavami a naprosto nečekanými pointami.

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Breakfast of Champions - Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

In a frolic of cartoon and comic outbursts against rule and reason, a miraculous weaving of science fiction, memoir, parable, fairy tale and farce, Kurt Vonnegut attacks the whole spectrum of American society, releasing some of his best-loved literary creations on the scene.

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Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Experiment. Told with deadpan humour and bitter irony, Kurt Vonnegut's cult tale of global destruction preys on our deepest fears of witnessing Armageddon and, worse still, surviving it. Solution. Dr Felix Hoenikker, one of the founding fathers of the atomic bomb, has left a deadly legacy to the world. For he is the inventor of ice-nine, a lethal chemical capable of freezing the entire planet. The search for its whereabouts leads to Hoenikker's three eccentric children, to a crazed dictator in the Caribbean, to madness. Felix Hoenikker's death-wish comes true when his last, fatal, gift to mankind brings about an end that, for all of us, is nigh.

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Player Piano - Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Player Piano is the debut novel from one of history's most innovative authors, published on Vonnegut's 100th birthday. In Player Piano, the first of Vonnegut's wildly funny and deadly serious novels, automata have dramatically reduced the need for America's work force. Ten years after the introduction of these robot labourers, the only people still working are the engineers and their managers, who live in Ilium; everyone else lives in Homestead, an impoverished part of town characterised by purposelessness and mass produced houses.Paul Proteus is the manager of Ilium Works. While grateful to be held in high regard, Paul begins to feel uneasy about his position - especially after a trip to Homestead. Eventually, Paul makes the decision to rebel against all he's been given, inciting seismic repercussions...

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Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

''Vonnegut looked the world straight in the eye and never flinched'' J. G. BallardThis bitterly funny Cold War satire on the end of the world expresses our deepest fears of Armageddon, and has become a counter-culture classic.''A satirist with a heart, a moralist with a whoopee cushion'' Jay McInerney''The closest thing we had to a Voltaire'' Tom Wolfe''The time to read Vonnegut is just when you begin to suspect that the world is not what it appears to be. He is not only entertaining, he is electrocuting'' The New York Times

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Bluebeard - Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

From the author of Slaughterhouse 5.In Rabo Karabekian’s fictional autobiography, Vonnegut creates an impeccably funny satirical piece, through the reflections of a seventy-one-year-old man.

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Když smrtelníci spí - Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Třetí posmrtně vydaná sbírka Kurta Vonneguta nám předkládá další originální povídky z počátku autorovy kariéry. S působivou jasnozřivostí v nich autor pitvá soudobou honbu za penězi, láskou a věhlasem, která svérázně formuje osudy jeho postav. Brilantní technik George se tak rozhodne pro dráhu obchodního cestujícího, která mu umožní žít se svou mluvící lednicí Jenny, mladá, idealistická sekretářka Amy se zamiluje do bankovního lupiče na útěku, štědré životní pojistky vyvolají epidemii sebevražd, ambiciózní a sebevědomý stavitel silnic si doma hraje s vláčky, dokud mu jeho fantazijní říši nezničí nemilosrdný ženský element, zapšklý novinář je přinucen předsedat výboru soutěže o nejlepší vánoční osvětlení, čímž mu do života zasáhne nejprve podezřele rozhazovačný kriminálník a poté i vánoční zázrak, postarší vdova po chovateli prasat dostává dojemné milostné dopisy od tajemného muže a rozhodne se čelit realitě tím, že se za ním vypraví osobně… V souboru Když smrtelníci spí Vonnegut se sobě vlastní obrazotvorností, pozorovatelským nadáním i humorem výstižně zachycuje, jak vypadá nebo by mohl vypadat svět kolem nás.

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Timequake - Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

According to science-fiction writer Kilgore Trout, a global timequake will occur in New York City on 13th February 2001. It is the moment when the universe suffers a crisis of conscience. Should it expand or make a great big bang? It decides to wind the clock back a decade to 1991, making everyone in the world endure ten years of deja-vu and a total loss of free will - not to mention the torture of reliving every nanosecond of one of the tawdiest and most hollow decades.With his trademark wicked wit, Vonnegut addresses memory, suicide, the Great Depression, the loss of American eloquence, and the obsolescent thrill of reading books.

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The Sirens Of Titan - Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Welcome to the Best of the Masterworks: a selection of the finest in science fictionWhen Winston Niles Rumfoord flies his spaceship into a chrono-synclastic infundibulum he is converted into pure energy and only materializes when his waveforms intercept Earth or some other planet. As a result, he only gets home to Newport, Rhode Island, once every fifty-nine days and then only for an hour. But at least, as a consolation, he now knows everything that has ever happened and everything that ever will be.He knows, for instance, that his wife is going to Mars to mate with Malachi Constant, the richest man in the world. He also knows that on Titan - one of Saturn's moons - is an alien from the planet Tralfamadore, who has been waiting 200,000 years for a spare part for his grounded spacecraft . .. A finalist for the 1960 Hugo Award, The Sirens of Titan was Vonnegut's second novel. It received wide acclaim, and played with ideas of free will and predestination, themes he continued to explore in his later works.In 2015, he was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame. -'The Sirens of Titan is marvellous. It's so funny it made me ... Unknown localization key: "more"

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Slaughterhouse 5: Vintage Quarterbound Classics - Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

A beautiful hardback edition of one of the most funny, moving and brilliant novels of the twentieth century.'A book to read and reread. He is a true artist' New York TimesBilly Pilgrim - hapless barber's assistant, successful optometrist, alien abductee, senile widower and soldier - has become unstuck in time.Hiding in the basement of a slaughterhouse in Dresden, with the city and its inhabitants burning above him, he finds himself a survivor of one of the most deadly and destructive battles of the Second World War.But when, exactly?How did he get here?And how does he get out?Travel through time and space on the shoulders of Vonnegut himself.This is a book about war.Listen to what he has to say: it is of the utmost urgency.'The great, urgent, passionate American writer of our century, who offers us a model of the kind of compassionate thinking that might yet save us from ourselves' George Saunders'A rare accomplishment... it is a graceful, ferociously humorous, sarcastic and ultimately compassionate parable about man's power for evil and his capacity for grace' Sunday TimesVintage Quarterbound Classics: Bound to be beautiful

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Look at the Birdie - Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Look at the Birdie evokes a world in which squabbling couples, high school geniuses, misfit office workers, and small-town Lotharios struggle to adapt to changing technology, moral ambiguity, and unprecedented affluence. In "Confido," a family learns the downside of confiding their deepest secrets into a magical invention. In "Ed Luby''s Key Club," a man finds himself in a Kafkaesque world of trouble after he runs afoul of the shady underworld boss who calls the shots in an upstate New York town. In "Look at the Birdie," a quack psychiatrist turned "murder counsellor" concocts a novel new outlet for his paranoid patients. The stories are cautionary they also brim with his trademark humour.Wry, ironic, satirical and poignant Look at the Birdie reflects the anxieties of the postwar era in which they were written and provides an insight into the development of Vonnegut''s early style

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Fates Worse Than Death - Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

This is the second volume of Vonnegut’s autobiographical writings – a collage of his own life story, snipped up and stuck down alongside his views on everything from suicidal depression to the future of the planet and Andrew Lloyd Webber. Honest, dark, rambling, funny; this rare glimpse of Vonnegut''s soul is a dagger to the heart of Western complacency.

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God Bless You, Mr Rosewater - Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

With the satirical eye of his science fiction author alter ego Kilgore Trout, the author of Slaughterhouse-Five delivers a classic of modern American literature.Eliot Rosewater, President of the fabulously rich Rosewater Foundation and volunteer firefighter, is tortured by an inheritance he doesn’t feel that he deserves. After (unfortunately) developing a social conscience, he sets out on a drunken tour of America, unravelling a little more at every stop until his path crosses with the science-fiction writer Kilgore Trout. God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater is one of Kurt Vonnegut’s funniest satires, about the pleasures, pains and perversions of people and money, the obsessions of a famous family and the collective madness of a nation.

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Mother Night - Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

From ratty attic to Auschwitz and back again, Mother Night is the confessions of Howard W Campbell Jr - an American, a notorious Nazi propagandist, and a US counter-spy - not a moral man. This mournful, macabre and diabolically funny tale of unsung heroism uses acrid humour to underline the horror of its themes. It is one of the blackest comedies ever.

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Kurt Vonnegut: Letters - Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

This collection of Vonnegut's letters is the autobiography he never wrote - from the letter he posted home upon being freed from a German POW camp, to notes of advice to his children: 'Don't let anybody tell you that smoking and boozing are bad for you. Here I am fifty-five years old, and I never felt better in my life'. Peppered with insights, one-liners and missives to the likes of Norman Mailer, Gunter Grass and Bernard Malamud, Vonnegut is funny, wise and modest. As he himself said: 'I am an American fad-of a slightly higher order than the hula hoop'.Like Vonnegut's books, his letters make you think, they make you outraged and they make you laugh. Written over a sixty-year period, and never published before, these letters are alive with the unique point of view that made Vonnegut one of the most original writers in American fiction.

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Kurt Vonnegut Complete Stories - Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Here for the first time is the complete short fiction of one of the 20th century''s greatest writers. More than half of Vonnegut''s output was short fiction, and never before has the world had occasion to wrestle with it all together. These 97 stories were written over a lifetime, from 1941 to 2007, and include those published during Vonnegut''s lifetime in magazines and story collections; those published posthumously; and, here for the first time, five previously unpublished stories as well as a handful of others that were published online only and read by few.

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SHERWOOD REKKER LEGEND 1 JR Lokty, černá, velikost

Sherwood REKKER LEGEND 1 JR jsou loketní chrániče určené pro juniory. Poskytují ochranu pro mladé hokejisty a patří do legendární řady výstroje. Jsou dostupné v černé barvě.

  • Chrániče loktů pro juniory z řady Rekker Legend 1
  • Černá barva pro univerzální vzhled
  • Navrženy pro ochranu mladých hokejistů
  • Součást legendární řady Sherwood

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Phlat Ball Chameleon JR Měnící barvu oranžovo-fialový

Phlat Ball Chameleon JR je hračka, která se během letu mění z disku na kulatý míč a reaguje změnou barvy na teplo. Je vyrobena z plastu a kovu, s průměrem míče 8,5 cm a disku 15 cm. Vhodná je pro děti od 5 let a nabízí několik herních možností.

  • Dynamická transformace z disku na míč během letu
  • Interaktivní změna barvy vlivem tepla
  • Skladný design vhodný k přenášení
  • Více herních variant pro rozvoj postřehu a rychlosti

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Phlat Ball Chameleon JR je hračka, která se během hodu promění z plochého disku na kulatý míč. Vlivem tepla mění barvu, čímž přidává vizuální prvek zábavy. Je vhodná pro děti od 5 let a lze ji použít pro různé hry venku i uvnitř.

  • Dynamická proměna z disku na míč během letu
  • Mění barvu vlivem tepla pro vizuální efekt
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Phlat Ball Chameleon JR Měnící barvu fialovo-khaki

Phlat Ball Chameleon JR je interaktivní hračka, která se během letu transformuje z plochého disku na kulatý míč. Je vyrobena z plastu a kovu, mění barvu v závislosti na teplotě a je vhodná pro děti od 5 let. Díky kompaktním rozměrům je ideální pro hraní venku, na párty nebo během přestávek.

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WINNWELL AMP500 JR Hokejové kalhoty, , velikost

Hokejové kalhoty Winnwell AMP500 JR jsou určeny pro amatérské hokejisty s důrazem na ochranu a volnost pohybu. Vyráběny z odolného 400d polyesteru s nastavitelným pásem a možností prodloužení délky. Model je vhodný pro všechny hráče hledající kvalitní hokejové kalhoty.

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Umbro FORMATION III IC JR Dětské sálovky, modrá, velikost 37.5

Dětské sálovky Umbro FORMATION III IC JR jsou určeny pro halové sportovní aktivity. Boty mají nebarvící podrážku, která je vhodná do tělocvičen. Zavazování na tkaničky zajišťuje bezpečné uchycení na noze.

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Hannah LUIGI JR Dětské softshellové kalhoty, černá, velikost

Dětské softshellové kalhoty Hannah LUIGI JR jsou vyrobeny z pružného, prodyšného a vodoodpudivého materiálu. Jsou vhodné pro outdoorové aktivity jako trekking, ferraty a cestování. Kalhoty mají anatomicky tvarovaná kolena, nastavitelný pas a spodní okraje nohavic a tři praktické kapsy.

  • Pružný a prodyšný softshellový materiál s vodoodpudivou úpravou
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100 Rules for Living to 100 - Dick Van Dyke

On the eve of his 100th birthday, national treasure Dick Van Dyke brings us this autobiographical collection of life advice, stories, and reflections on how he's maintained good health and a zest for life as he enters his tenth decade.Dick Van Dyke danced his way into our hearts with iconic roles in Mary Poppins, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, and The Dick Van Dyke Show. Now, as he's about to turn 100 years old, Dick is still dancing, still approaching life with the twinkle in his eye that we've come to know and love. In 100 RULES FOR LIVING TO 100, he reveals his secrets for maintaining your joie de vivre, staying physically healthy, and making the most out of the life you've been given. Through stories from his past and present-the pivotal moments from childhood to film sets to his expansive family and finding love late in life-Dick reflects on both the joyful times and the challenges that shaped him. His indefatigable spirit and positive attitude will surely inspire readers to count the blessings in their own lives, persevere through the hard times, and appreciate the beauty and complexity of being human.PRAISE FOR KEEP MOVING"Dick Van Dyke has been in ... Unknown localization key: "more"

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Odds Against - Dick Francis

Discover the classic mystery from Dick Francis, one of the greatest thriller writers of all time''Such clever writing, engaging flawed characters. Dick Francis never disappoints'' 5***** Reader Review''A great read . . . Dick Francis pulls out all the stops'' 5***** Reader Review''No one does mystery better than Francis. You just can''t put the book down'' 5***** Reader Review______Champion jockey Sid Halley retired from racing when his hand was smashed in a fall. Now he works as a private detective - which is proving to be no less dangerous to life and limb. Recuperating from a bullet wound, Sid is asked by his father-in-law to investigate some potentially shady activity involving Seabury racecourse and a ruthless property dealer. But the closer Sid gets to those determined to get their hands on Seabury, the more he finds himself in harm''s way.The odds are against him - but that''s exactly when Sid is at his best . . .Packed with intrigue and hair-raising suspense, Odds Against is just one of the many blockbuster thrillers from legendary crime writer Dick Francis.Praise for Dick Francis:''As a jockey, Dick Francis was unbeatable when he got into his stride. The same is true of his crime ... Unknown localization key: "more"

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Dick and Dom's Big Fat and Very Silly Joke Book - Dominic Wood, Richard McCourt

Dick and Dom are pan-generational household names who have been delighting television audiences for well over a decade. Dick and Dom’s Big Fat and Very Silly Joke Book is a hilarious mishmash of Dick and Dom’s very own bonkers yet brilliant breed of humour. Feast your eyes on over five hundred brilliant gags, japes, jokes and puns; be amazed at Dick and Dom’s Titbits, a selection of fascinating yet fact-free facts; settle in to Dick and Dom’s Poetry Corner for some slightly naughty but very silly poems, and never be bored again with Dick and Dom’s brilliantly baffling Boredom Busters. Most importantly of all, laugh until you do a Vom Goblin.* (*A burp with a small surprise serving of sick. See their first book, Dick and Dom’s Slightly Naughty but Very Silly Words, for more details!) With hilarious illustrations on every page, you’re bound to find something to tickle your funny-bone! Who is old, wise and green all over? Bogey-Wan Kenobi

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Comeback - Dick Francis

Discover the classic mystery from Dick Francis, one of the greatest thriller writers of all time''Gripping from start to finish, a brilliant plot and fast paced'' 5***** Reader Review''Another brilliant adventure story from the inimitable Dick Francis. This story keeps you turning the pages eagerly'' 5***** Reader Review______Foreign Office diplomat Peter Darwin is returning to England, back to his childhood home of Gloucestershire. But instead of a pleasant trip down memory lane, Peter finds himself coming to the aid of a veterinary surgeon whose operating theatre is rapidly turning into an abattoir.A string of valuable racehorses have suffered unexplained deaths, and the police are baffled. When Darwin looks into the mystery, he finds that his connections - and memories - help him uncover criminal activities that stretch back all the way to his childhood.But the more Darwin uncovers, the closer he gets to a killer who just can''t stop . . .Packed with intrigue and hair-raising suspense, Comeback is just one of the many blockbuster thrillers from legendary crime writer Dick Francis.Praise for Dick Francis:''As a jockey, Dick Francis was unbeatable when he got into his stride. The same is true of his crime writing'' Daily Mirror''The narrative is brisk ... Unknown localization key: "more"

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Proof - Dick Francis

Discover the classic mystery from Dick Francis, one of the greatest thriller writers of all time''A brilliant read with lots of exciting twists and turns. Couldn''t put it down'' 5***** Reader Review''An excellent thriller that keeps you on the edge. Dick Francis at his best'' 5***** Reader Review______Wine merchant Tony Beach will do anything for a quiet life. But when a party to celebrate the end of the racing season ends in eight violent deaths, he is drawn reluctantly into the subsequent investigation. Meanwhile, the police, having evidence of the sale of illicit alcohol at a local club, ask for Tony''s help in closing it down. Thanks to his intervention, Tony comes to the attention of the criminal underworld.And that''s when he reluctantly realizes that the deaths and the illicit alcohol are connected. Tony doesn''t want to be a hero. But if the choice is that or dying . . .Packed with intrigue and hair-raising suspense, Proof is just one of the many blockbuster thrillers from legendary crime writer Dick Francis.Praise for Dick Francis:''As a jockey, Dick Francis was unbeatable when he got into his stride. The same is true of his crime writing'' Daily Mirror''The narrative is brisk and ... Unknown localization key: "more"

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Reflex - Dick Francis

Discover the classic mystery from Dick Francis, one of the greatest thriller writers of all time''A fast-paced, exciting, gripping thriller'' 5***** Reader Review''One of Dick Francis''s best . . . A real page-turner'' 5***** Reader Review''Deeply satisfying from beginning to end'' 5***** Reader Review______Jockey and amateur photographer Philip Nore knows all too well how it feels to take a tumble from a horse. He also knows what it''s like to feel the wrath of furious owners and trainers. You can''t always be a winner. George Millace hated winners. As a photographer he specialized in taking pictures that exposed the failings of riders. But now he''s dead - and no one seems very sorry. But when Millace''s home is broken into during his funeral and Nore finds himself helping clear up, he finds something unexpected. Millace had other pictures - ones people will go to desperate lengths to possess. Now he must find out who wants them - and fast.Because if George Millace''s death was no accident, then his killers are getting closer . . .Packed with intrigue and hair-raising suspense, Reflex is just one of the many blockbuster thrillers from legendary crime writer Dick Francis.Praise for Dick Francis:''As a jockey, ... Unknown localization key: "more"

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Dead Cert - Dick Francis

Discover the classic mystery from Dick Francis, one of the greatest thriller writers of all time''A classic. If you like a rattling good yarn, then Dick Francis is your man!'' 5***** Reader Review''Brilliant, the pace keeps on racing through the whole book'' 5***** Reader Review''Gallops along and keeps you enthralled throughout. Riveting'' 5***** Reader Review______''Admiral met the fence perfectly. He rose to it as if flight were not only for birds. And he fell . . .''Alan York''s friend, jockey Bill Davidson, was killed in Admiral''s fall. After the race, York visits the fence and discovers a coil of wire lying beside the fence post and signs of where the wire had been attached.The fall was no accident - but murder. Unable to convince the police of this, York is forced to turn amateur sleuth and is soon on the trail of a ruthless gang of race-fixers operating out of Brighton.Now Alan''s caught in a new race: find the gang''s leaders before the gang catches up with him . . .Packed with intrigue and hair-raising suspense, Dead Cert is just one of the many blockbuster thrillers from legendary crime writer Dick Francis.Praise for Dick Francis:''As a jockey, Dick Francis was ... Unknown localization key: "more"

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For Kicks - Dick Francis

Discover the classic mystery from Dick Francis, one of the greatest thriller writers of all time''Incredibly enjoyable and will deliver its kicks again and again'' 5***** Reader Review''You can always depend on Dick Francis for an engrossing adventure'' 5***** Reader Review''Edge-of-seat stuff, a real page turner'' 5***** Reader Review______Daniel Roke owns a stud farm in Australia. He''s young, smart, hard-working and desperate for some excitement - all of which makes him the ideal candidate for the Earl of October, who has come visiting. The Earl is concerned about a horse-doping scandal that is destroying English racing. He wants to pay Daniel to come back with him, pose as a highly corruptible stable lad and discover who is behind it. But when Daniel agrees, he doesn''t realise just how close he''ll have to get to find the truth.Nor how determined the criminals will be to prevent him living long enough to tell anyone . . .Packed with intrigue and hair-raising suspense, For Kicks is just one of the many blockbuster thrillers from legendary crime writer Dick Francis.Praise for Dick Francis:''As a jockey, Dick Francis was unbeatable when he got into his stride. The same is true of his crime writing'' Daily ... Unknown localization key: "more"

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Crossfire - Felix Francis, Dick Francis

Discover the classic mystery from Dick Francis, one of the greatest thriller writers of all time''Another excellent book from the Francis stable'' 5***** Reader Review''An excellent gripping story in true Francis fashion'' 5***** Reader Review''Usual Dick Francis excellence. Gripping from beginning to end'' 5***** Reader Review______Captain Thomas Forsyth''s tour of Afghanistan is cut brutally short when he is badly wounded by a roadside bomb.Returning home to his mother - a racehorse trainer and the ''First Lady'' of racing - Tom discovers the training business is on the edge, and facing a threat far more dangerous than a run of bad form.Soon he finds himself on a very different, but just as deadly, battlefield where his military skills are put to the ultimate test . . . kill or be killed?Packed with intrigue and hair-raising suspense, Crossfire is just one of the many blockbuster thrillers from legendary crime writer Dick Francis.Praise for Dick Francis:''As a jockey, Dick Francis was unbeatable when he got into his stride. The same is true of his crime writing'' Daily Mirror''The narrative is brisk and gripping and the background researched with care . . . the entire story is a pleasure to relish'' Scotsman''Dick Francis''s fiction ... Unknown localization key: "more"

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Enquiry - Dick Francis

Discover the classic mystery from Dick Francis, one of the greatest thriller writers of all time''A real cracker of a story, fast-paced and extremely well written'' 5***** Reader Review''Gripping . . . Dick Francis holds you to the final chapter'' 5***** Reader Review''Excellent gripping story with a lot of twists'' 5***** Reader Review______When Kelly Hughes rides the favourite into second place, he gets penalised. Not only has he lost the race, but also his licence, as the Jockey Club suspends him - believing he threw the race. Only he knows that the problem lay with the horse''s performance, not his own. Suspecting he was framed, Kelly sets about finding out how it was done, and then who might have done it. But the closer he gets to the perpetrators, the more danger he finds himself in. Now there''s more than his reputation and career at stake. There''s also his life . . .Packed with intrigue and hair-raising suspense, Enquiry is just one of the many blockbuster thrillers from legendary crime writer Dick Francis.Praise for Dick Francis:''As a jockey, Dick Francis was unbeatable when he got into his stride. The same is true of his crime writing'' Daily Mirror''The narrative is ... Unknown localization key: "more"

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Longshot - Dick Francis

Discover the classic mystery from Dick Francis, one of the greatest thriller writers of all time''Fast-paced, full of twists and turns, absolutely marvellous!'' 5***** Reader Review''Dick Francis never fails to keep you in suspense . . . A cracking story as always'' 5***** Reader Review______Life as a writer is colder, hungrier work than John Kendall had bargained for. Not even the survival guides he''s written can help him.So when notorious racehorse trainer Tremayne Vickers approaches Kendall to write his biography, it''s an offer the impoverished writer can''t turn down. Moving into Vickers'' country home, Kendall quickly becomes immersed in his host''s lifestyle: riding racehorses, making friends, and getting to know the family.But then a local stable girl is found dead - and the party''s over. A killer is lurking in the shadows.And Kendall''s own survival tips are about to become more useful - and more deadly - than he could ever have imagined . . .Packed with intrigue and hair-raising suspense, Longshot is just one of the many blockbuster thrillers from legendary crime writer Dick Francis.Praise for Dick Francis:''As a jockey, Dick Francis was unbeatable when he got into his stride. The same is true of his crime writing'' Daily ... Unknown localization key: "more"

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