Najznámejšie dielo slovenskej literatúry o 1. svetovej vojne neobyčajne sugestívne približuje i súčasnému čitateľovi atmosféru tejto tragickej doby. Dozvieme sa, ako ju prežívali obyčajní slovenskí ľu…
Dej románu tvorí príbeh rodiny obyčajného dedinského človeka v období pred prvou svetovou vojnou. Nejde však o osudy postáv na pozadí histórie, autora na prvom mieste „zaujal vnútorný život postáv, ic…
Before succumbing to the insanity that ravaged his later life, Guy de Maupassant established a reputation as France's preeminent short story writer, an artist whose cynical and macabre visions paralle…
Laughable Loves is a collection of stories that first appeared in print in Prague before 1968, but was then was subsequently banned. The seven stories are all concerned with love, or rather with the c…
One of George Bernard Shaw's best-known plays, Pygmalion was a rousing success on the London and New York stages, an entertaining motion picture and a great hit with its musical version, My Fair Lady.…
The last uncompleted novel of Ernest Hemingway, published posthumously in 1986, charts the life of a young American writer and his glamorous wife who fall for the same woman.
A busy young writer struggling to cope with domestic chores, hires a housekeeper recommended by a friend. The housekeeper's reputation is one built on dependable efficiency, though she is something of…
Sumire is in love with a woman seventeen years her senior. But whereas Miu is glamorous and successful, Sumire is an aspiring writer who dresses in an oversized second…
