Hnědá od nakladatelství Vintage - strana 5 z 5

The year is 1327. Franciscans in a wealthy Italian abbey are suspected of heresy, and Brother William of Baskerville arrives to investigate. When his delicate mission is suddenly overshadowed by seven bizarre deaths, Brother William turns detective....

• Knihabrožovaná vazba
  Vyprodané

Taut, brooding and densely atmospheric, these stories show us the ways in which murder can arise out of boredom, perversity can result from adolescent curiosity, and sheer evil might be the solution to unbearable loneliness...

• Knihabrožovaná vazba
  Vyprodané

Hailed as a masterpiece from the moment of its first publication, "Revolutionary Road" is the story of Frank and April Wheeler, a bright, beautiful, and talented couple whose empty suburban life is held together by the dream...

• Knihabrožovaná vazba
  Vyprodané

Three Americans converge in an Italian village shortly after World War II. One is a naive Southern lawyer. One is a rough-edged artist with a fatal penchant for alcohol. And one is a charming and priapic aristocrat...

• Knihabrožovaná vazba
  Vyprodané

This is the story of Jeanette, adopted and brought up by her mother as one of God's elect. zealous and passionate, she seems destined for life as a missionary, but then she falls for one of her converts...

• Knihabrožovaná vazba
  Vyprodané

Rant is the oral history of one Buster ‘Rant’ Casey, in which an assortment of friends, enemies, detractors, lovers and relations have their say on the man who may or may not be the most efficient serial killer of our time...

• Knihabrožovaná vazba
  Vyprodané

On the hottest day of the summer of 1934, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her sister Cecilia strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country hosue...

• Knihabrožovaná vazba
  Vyprodané

From the master of literary mayhem and provocation, this is a full-frontal Triple-X novel that goes where no work of fiction has gone before. 'Six hundred dudes. One porn queen. A world record for the ages...

• Knihabrožovaná vazba
  Vyprodané

The narrator, a teacher, is in love with the beguiling, odd Sumire. As his best friend, she is not adverse to phoning at three or four in the morning to ask a pointless question or share a strange thought...

• Knihabrožovaná vazba
  Vyprodané

One freezing night in Oslo Christmas shoppers gather to listen to a Salvation Army street concert. An explosion cuts through the music, and a man in uniform falls to the ground, shot in the head at point-blank range...

• Knihabrožovaná vazba
  Vyprodané

Widely regarded as the world’s first modern novel, and one of the funniest and most tragic books ever written, Don Quixote chronicles the adventures of a noble knight and his faithful squire as they travel through sixteenth-century Spain...

• Knihapevná vazba
  Vyprodané

Presents the story of Karl Rossman who, after an embarrassing sexual misadventure with a servant girl, is banished to America by his parents. Expected to redeem himself in the magical land of opportunity, he instead gets swept up...

• Knihabrožovaná vazba
  Vyprodané

The First World War is over. Eric Vernon is on the cusp of adulthood. Tall, bony and awkward he finds...

• Knihabrožovaná vazba
  Vyprodané

The first word of this haunting novel is 'no'. It is how the narrator, a middle-aged Hungarian Jewish writer, answers an acquaintance who asks if he has a child and it is how he answered his, now ex-, wife when she told him she wanted a baby...

• Knihabrožovaná vazba
  Vyprodané

From a prison cell in an unnamed country run by a totalitarian government Rubashov reflects. Once a powerful player in the regime, mercilessly dispensing with anyone who got in the way of his party's aims, Rubashov has had the tables turned on him...

• Knihapevná vazba
  Vyprodané

One of the world's most influential economists sets out the basis for a new social contract fit for the 21st century. This landmark study by Minouche Shafik, Director of the LSE, draws on evidence from across the globe to show...

• Knihabrožovaná vazba
  Vyprodané

How thin is the line between good and evil? Dr Jekyll has been experimenting with his identity. He has developed a drug which separates the two sides of his nature and allows him occasionally to abandon himself to his most corrupt inclinations as the...

• Knihabrožovaná vazba
  Vyprodané