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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in magazines and story collections; those published posthumously; and, here for the first time, five previously unpublished stories as well as a handful of others that were published online only and read by few.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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''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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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Including a previously-unpublished story ''The Bargain'', Truman Capote''s The Complete Stories is the first ever complete collection stories from one of the masters of American literature, and the author of Breakfast at Tiffany''s. This Penguin Classics edition includes an introduction by Reynolds Price.Passionate, perceptive and eloquent, the short stories of Truman Capote are amon the greatest works of twentieth-century American fiction. This new collection gathers them all together for the first time: from early, eerie Southern Gothic tales such as ''Miriam'' and ''The Headless Hawk'', to the brilliantly evocative ''Children On Their Birth-days'' and the tenderly autobiographical ''A Christmas Memory'' - an affectionate portrayal of Capote''s own Alabama upbringing. Whether describing the Deep South of his childhood, or considering city life with the penetrating gaze of an outsider - as in ''Among the Paths to Eden'' and the hitherto unpublished ''The Bargain'' - these stories rank among Capote''s finest work: acutely observed tales from a unique and brilliant mind.Truman Capote (1924-84) was born in New Orleans. He left school when he was fifteen and subsequently worked for The New Yorker, which provided his first - and last - regular job. He wrote both fiction and non-fiction - short stories, novels ... Unknown localization key: "more"

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The complete stories of one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century, the author of The Metamorphosis and The Trial. "An important book, valuable in itself and absolutely fascinating. The stories are dreamlike, allegorical, symbolic, parabolic, grotesque, ritualistic, nasty, lucent, extremely personal, ghoulishly detached, exquisitely comic, numinous, and prophetic.” -The New York Times The Complete Stories brings together all of Kafka's stories, from the classic tales such as "The Metamorphosis,” "In the Penal Colony,” and "A Hunger Artist” to shorter pieces and fragments that Max Brod, Kafka's literary executor, released after Kafka's death. With the exception of his three novels, the whole of Kafka's narrative work is included in this volume. "[Kafka] spoke for millions in their new unease; a century after his birth, he seems the last holy writer, and the supreme fabulist of modern man's cosmic predicament.” -from the Foreword by John Updike

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For the first time, the complete stories of a Pulitzer Prize-winning master of the form, plus her fascinating portrait of the mother one of the world''s most infamous assassinsThis volume collects for the first time the complete stories of a Pulitzer Prize–winning master of the form, a writer acclaimed for her acute psychological insight, exacting eye for detail, and mordant sensibility. Set in New England, Colorado, New York, and Europe, Jean Stafford’s stories intimately examine the lives of women and men beset by restlessness, dislocation, and isolation. “The Interior Castle” takes us inside an accident victim’s physical and mental pain; “A Country Love Story” chillingly depicts marital estrangement and mental breakdown amidst the solitude of a Maine winter; “Bad Characters” is the exuberant story of a young girl led into mischief by an incorrigible friend; and “An Influx of Poets” is a haunting story of a marriage wrecked by literary ambition and egotism. The volume also includes A Mother in History, Stafford’s controversial journalistic profile of Lee Harvey Oswald’s mother, Marguerite, and three revealing literary essays.

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The publication of Clarice Lispector''s Complete Stories, eighty-five in all, is a major literary event. Now, for the first time in English, are all the stories that made her a Brazilian legend: from teenagers coming into awareness of their sexual and artistic powers to humdrum housewives whose lives are shattered by unexpected epiphanies to old people who don''t know what to do with themselves. Lispector''s stories take us through their lives - and ours. From one of the greatest modern writers, these 85 stories, gathered from the nine collections published during her lifetime, follow Clarice Lispector throughout her life.

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This is the complete collection of stories from one of the most original and powerful American writers of the twentieth century. Including A Good Man is Hard to Find and Everything That Rises Must Converge, this collection also contains several stories only available in this volume.

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It was in 1887 that the ascetic, gaunt and enigmatic detective, Sherlock Holmes, made his first appearance in A Study in Scarlet. From 1891, beginning with The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, the legendary and pioneering Strand Magazine began serialising Arthur Conan Doyle’s matchless tales of detection, featuring the incomparable sleuth patiently assisted by his doggedly loyal and lovably pedantic friend and companion, Dr Watson. The stories in this edition are illustrated by the remarkable Sydney Paget from whom our images of Sherlock Holmes and his world derive and who first equipped Holmes with his famous deerstalker hat.The literary cult of Sherlock Holmes shows no sign of fading with time as each new generation comes to love and revere the penetrating mind and ruthless logic which were the undoing of so many Victorian master criminals. Our Library Collection hardback series has been completely redesigned, for launch in November 2024. The books are now finished in black, soft-touch linen, cloth bound with metallic gold and matt coloured foil blocking.They come complete with co-ordinated head and tail bands, a silk ribbon marker and coloured spray edges. The pages are sewn, and the end papers are in two colours featuring an exclusive design by ... Unknown localization key: "more"

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The Complete Stories gathers together Anita Desai''s short story collections Diamond Dust and Games at Twilight and the novellas of The Artist of Disappearance, with a new preface from the author. From the icy suburbs of Canada to the overcrowded B&Bs of Cornwall, via the hill towns and cities of India, Anita Desai observes human behaviour unflinchingly but not unkindly, recognising our ordinariness and our strangeness, and capturing both with quiet precision.

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The short stories of Kingsley Amis - the great master of post-war comic prose - are dark, playful, moving, surprising and extremely funny. This definitive collection gathers all Amis''s short fiction in a single volume for the first time and encompasses five decades of storytelling. In ''The 2003 Claret'', written in 1958, a time machine is invented for the weighty task of sending a man to 2010 to discover what the booze will taste like. In ''Boris and the Colonel'' a Cambridge spy is unearthed in the sleepy English countryside with the help of a plucky horse, while In ''Mason''s Life'' two men meet inside their respective dreams. The collection spans many genres, offering ingenious alternative histories, mystery and horror, satirical reflections and a devilishly funny attacks. Amis''s stories reveal the scope of his imagination and the warmth beneath his acerbic humour, and they all share the unmistakable style and wit of one of Britain''s best loved writers.Kingsley Amis'' (1922-1995) works take a humorous yet highly critical look at British society, especially of the period following the end of World War II. Born in London, Amis explored his disillusionment with British society in novels such as THAT UNCERTAIN FEELING (1955). ... Unknown localization key: "more"

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Tato kniha je určena především pro: všechny, kdo se cítí unavení, vyčerpaní nebo bez energie, i když lékařské výsledky vypadají v pořádku, lidi s nadváhou, vysokým krevním tlakem, zvýšeným cholesterolem nebo cukrem v krvi, čtenáře, kteří chtějí podpořit zdraví svých jater bez léků a invazivních metod, ty, kteří trpí trávicími potížemi, nadýmáním, nespavostí nebo tzv. mozkovou mlhou, zájemce o celostní přístup ke zdraví, propojující moderní medicínu, výživu, tradiční čínskou medicínu a vědomý pohyb, všechny, kdo chtějí udělat konkrétní první krok k hlubší změně životního stylu – a ocení jednoduchý, přehledný a praktický návod krok za krokem. Je ideální i jako prevence civilizačních onemocnění pro každého, kdo chce žít lehčeji, zdravěji a vědoměji. Proč si tuto knihu přečíst Játra jsou ústředním řídicím orgánem metabolismu a výkonným zdrojem energie v těle. Jsou skutečně všestranným pomocníkem, bez něhož nemůžeme žít. Údajně vykonávají více než pět set životně důležitých funkcí včetně řízení životní energie v celém organismu. Jsou zásobárnou živin, továrnou na hormony, tělesnou lékárnou, čističkou a recyklačním zařízením. Hrají klíčovou roli ve všech civilizačních chorobách a jsou naprosto zásadní pro naše zdraví a celkovou pohodu. Nahlédnout do knihy Co v knize najdete Program je rozdělen do tří fází s různým zaměřením: 1. až ... Unknown localization key: "more"

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Edgar Allan Poe's gift for the macabre influenced Baudelaire and French symbolism, Freudian analysis, the detective novel and the Hollywood film. His psychologically profound stories, which comprise this book, represent the darker side of the 19th-century American sensibility.

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The exhibited works of Kurt Jackson (b.1961) do not necessarily reveal his day-to-day working practice. Behind his finished canvases are hundreds of sketchbooks borne out of his continual routine of making drawings, marks, notes, poems and scribbles. This book, newly available in paperback, examines the importance of the sketchbook to Jackson. For Jackson, sketchbooks are vital to the development and completion of his paintings. Often sketching while a painting evolves, the artist values each medium equally—the pages of his sketchbooks reveal how the hastily executed images can help him to work out what he wants to achieve on canvas, or simply capture a spontaneous image when there is not enough time to paint or draw properly. Illustrating mundane daily events and happenings as well as key moments, journeys and the overlapping ongoing project work, Jackson''s sketchbooks are key to understanding his inspirations as an artist. Drawing on a selection of 20 sketchbooks, of differing sizes and a variety of media, this fascinating publication provides a rare insight in to the mind of a highly creative and original artist.

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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 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

Objev podobné jako Phlat Ball Chameleon JR Měnící barvu oranžovo-fialový

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
• Skladný a snadno přenosný design
• Podporuje rozvoj postřehu a rychlosti

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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.

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

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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.

• Odolný vnější materiál 400d polyester pro dlouhou životnost
• Nastavitelný pás s tkaničkou a popruhem pro individuální pohodlí
• Možnost prodloužení délky o 2,5 cm pro větší variabilitu
• Konstrukce neomezující pohyb při rychlých změnách směru

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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.

• Nebarvící podrážka vhodná do tělocvičen
• Klasické zavazování na tkaničky pro bezpečný střevíc
• Kvalitní materiál a zpracování značky Umbro
• Vhodné pro různé halové sportovní aktivity

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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
• Anatomicky tvarovaná kolena pro maximální volnost pohybu
• Nastavitelný pas na gumu a šňůrku + regulovatelné spodní okraje nohavic
• Praktické kapsy: dvě přední a jedna na stehně se zipem

Objev podobné jako Hannah LUIGI JR Dětské softshellové kalhoty, černá, velikost

Dětské softshellové kalhoty Trimm JURRA JR jsou určeny pro sportovní aktivity. Disponují membránou chránící před nepřízní počasí a vyztuženými koleny pro vyšší odolnost. Kalhoty jsou tvarovány pro pohodlné nošení.

• Membrána chránící před nepřízní počasí
• Vyztužená kolena a dolní část pro vyšší odolnost
• Vhodné pro všechny sportovní aktivity
• Tvarovaný střih pro pohodlí při pohybu

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