Knihy 2000, penguin
- Silent Spring - Rachel Carson
Silent Spring - Rachel Carson
- Rachel Carson
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- 336
- 2000
Rachel Carson's Silent Spring alerted a large audience to the environmental and human dangers of indiscriminate use of pesticides, spurring revolutionary changes in the laws...
- A Year in Provence - Peter Mayle
A Year in Provence - Peter Mayle
- Peter Mayle
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- 224
- 2000
Enjoy an irresistible feast of humour and discover the joys of French rural living with Peter Mayle's bestselling, much-loved account of "A Year In Provence". Peter Mayle and...
- Homage to Catalonia - George Orwell
Homage to Catalonia - George Orwell
- George Orwell
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- 272
- 2000
firsthand account of the brutal conditions of the Spanish Civil War, George Orwell's Homage to Catalonia includes an introduction by Julian Symons in Penguin Modern Classics....
- Dubliners
Dubliners
- James Joyce
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- 318
- 2000
Autor : James Joyce, , Druh sortimentu : Kniha, Název : Dubliners, Jazyk : Angličtina, Rok vydania : 2000, Počet strán : neuvedeno
- One Hundred Years of Solitude - García Márquez Gabriel
One Hundred Years of Solitude - García Márquez Gabriel
- Gabriel García Márquez
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- 432
- 2000
Magický realizmus samoty v priamom prenose... Famously associated with the term magical realism, Marquez is probably South Americas most famous literary export. Equally tragic,...
- Tortilla Flat
Tortilla Flat
- John Steinbeck
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- 166
- 2000
Autor : John Steinbeck, , Druh sortimentu : Kniha, Název : Tortilla Flat, Jazyk : Angličtina, Rok vydania : 2000, Počet strán : neuvedeno
- Wind, Sand and Stars - Penguin Modern Classics... - Antoine Saint-Exupery
Wind, Sand and Stars - Penguin Modern Classics... - Antoine Saint-Exupery
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
- 144
- 2000
In 1926, de Saint-Exupery began flying for the pioneering airline Latecoere - later known as Aeropostale - opening up the first mail routes across the Sahara and the Andes....
- English Passengers
English Passengers
- slovenské
- 2000
Published to rave reviews all round, this novel is set in 1857, with the Reverend Geoffrey Wilson setting out for Tasmania, in the hope of locating the Garden of Eden....
- Under the Volcano
Under the Volcano
- Malcolm Lowry
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- 400
- 2000
One of the twentieth century's great undisputed masterpieces, Malcolm Lowry's Under the Volcano includes an introduction by Michael Schmidt in Penguin Modern Classics. It is...
- East of Eden - John Steinbeck
East of Eden - John Steinbeck
- John Steinbeck
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- beletria
- Penguin Group UK
- 640
- 2000
There is only one book to a man' Steinbeck wrote of East of Eden, his most ambitious novel. Set in the rich farmland of Salinas Valley, California, this powerful, often brutal...
- Bookends - Jane Green
Bookends - Jane Green
- Jane Green
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- 400
- 2000
Frothy, commercial, women's fiction, from the bestselling author of Straight Talking and Mr Maybe. This is a story of "friendship, trust and real life" recounting the...
- Molesworth - Willans Geoffrey
Molesworth - Willans Geoffrey
- Geoffrey Willans
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- 432
- 2000
School is 'wet and weedy', according to Nigel Molesworth, the 'goriller of 3B', 'curse of St Custard's' and superb chronicler of fifties English life. Nothing escapes his...
- Town and the City
Town and the City
- Jack Kerouac
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- 499
- 2000
It is the sum of myself, as far as the written word can go' - Kerouac on "The Town and the City". Kerouac's debut novel is a great coming of age story which can be read as the...
- Let it Come Down
Let it Come Down
- Paul Bowles
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- 336
- 2000
Let It Come Down, with its title from Macbeth, tells the story of Dyar, a New York bank clerk who throws up his secure, humdrum job to find a reality abroad with which to...
- Bridge of San Luis Rey - Wilder Thornton
Bridge of San Luis Rey - Wilder Thornton
- Thornton Wilder
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- 124
- 2000
An ancient bridge collapses over a gorge in Peru, hurling five people into the abyss. It seems a meaningless human tragedy. But one witness, a Franciscan monk, believes the...
- Big Sleep and Other Novels - Chandler, R.
Big Sleep and Other Novels - Chandler, R.
- Raymond Chandler
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- 672
- 2000
Raymond Chandler was America's preeminent writer of detective fiction, and this Penguin Modern Classics edition of The Big Sleep and Other Novels collects three of the best...
- Speak, Memory: An Autobiog.Re
Speak, Memory: An Autobiog.Re
- Vladimír Nabokov
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- 288
- 2000
'Speak, memory', said Vladimir Nabokov. And immediately there came flooding back to him a host of enchanting recollections - of his comfortable childhood and adolescence, of...
- Travels with Charley - John Steinbeck
Travels with Charley - John Steinbeck
- John Steinbeck
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- 210
- 2000
In 1960, John Steinbeck set out to rediscover and document his native land; accompanied only by his dog, he travelled all across the United States in a pick-up truck. This...
- Rebel - Albert Camus
Rebel - Albert Camus
- Albert Camus
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- 272
- 2000
A philosophical exploration of the idea of 'rebellion' by one of the leading existentialist thinkers, Albert Camus' The Rebel looks at artistic and political rebels throughout...
- Keep the Aspidistra Flying
Keep the Aspidistra Flying
- George Orwell
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- 304
- 2000
Gordon Comstock loathes dull, middle-class respectability and worship of money. He gives up a 'good job' in advertising to work part-time in a bookshop, giving him more time to...
- On the Road Penguin Modern Classics - J. Kerouac
On the Road Penguin Modern Classics - J. Kerouac
- Jack Kerouac
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- beletria
- Penguin Books Ltd.
- 280
- 2000
Five decades after it was first published, Jack Kerouac's seminal Beat novel On the Road finally finds its way to the big screen, in a production from award-winning director...
- Ten Short Stories - Roald Dahl
Ten Short Stories - Roald Dahl
- Roald Dahl
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- 208
- 2000
Penguin Student Editions have been specifically designed for readers who are studying a text in detail. They include a helpful introduction and explanatory notes, character...
- Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell
Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell
- George Orwell
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- beletria
- Penguin Books
- 330
- 2000
Penguin Student Editions are complete unabridged texts of Penguin Classics, Modern Classics and some more recent titles, packaged with reading help for the student in the form...
- The Luzhin Defense - Vladimir Nabokov
The Luzhin Defense - Vladimir Nabokov
- Vladimír Nabokov
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- 272
- 2000
Nabokov said of his chess-playing genius Luzhin, that despite his coarseness and grubby plainness, he is a lovable creation. Discovering his prodigious gift in boyhood, rising...