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    Hard Times

    podle Charles Dickens ...

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    11 hodin/y 29 min

    Originally written for Dickens’ weekly magazine, Household Words, this short novel follows the fate of Sissy Jupe, a warm-hearted circus child, and the family that adopts her. Deserted by her ailing father, Sissy is taken into the cold household of the Gradgrind family, which operates a school. The “eminently practical” Thomas Gradgrind believes only in facts and figures and has raised his ... Přečtěte si více

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    Citizens

    A Chronicle of the French Revolution

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    36 hodin/y 49 min

    From one of the truly preeminent historians of our time, this is a landmark book chronicling the French Revolution. Simon Schama deftly refutes the contemporary notion that the French Revolution represented an uprising of the oppressed poor against a decadent aristocracy and corrupt court. He argues instead that the revolution was born of a rift among the elite over the speed of progress toward ... Přečtěte si více

    833,56 Kč

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    The Search for Modern China

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    36 hodin/y 49 min

    The history of China is as rich and strange as that of any country on earth. Yet for many, China’s history remains unknown, or known only through the stylized images that generations in the West have cherished or reviled as truth.With his command of character and event––the product of thirty years of research and reflection in the field––Spence dispels those myths in a powerful narrative. Over ... Přečtěte si více

    624,91 Kč

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    Admiral of the Ocean Sea

    A Life of Christopher Columbus

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    25 hodin/y 58 min

    Admiral of the Ocean Sea is Admiral Samuel Eliot Morison’s classic biography of the greatest sailor of them all, Christopher Columbus. It is written with the insight, energy, and authority that only someone who had himself sailed in Columbus’ path to the New World could muster. Morison undertook this expedition in a 147-foot schooner and a 47-foot ketch, the dimensions of these craft roughly ... Přečtěte si více

    729,24 Kč nebo zdarma s Kobo Plus

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    The Way of All Flesh

    podle Samuel Butler ...

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    15 hodin/y 23 min

    This brilliant satirical novel traces the life and loves of Ernest Pontifex, a young man who survives the baleful influence of a hateful, hypocritical father, a doting mother, and a debauched wife to emerge as a decent, happy human being. A fascinating character study, it is also a stinging satire of the Victorian gentry's pomposity, sentimentality, pseudo-respectability, and refined cruelty—one ... Přečtěte si více

    583,18 Kč nebo zdarma s Kobo Plus

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    The Great Explorers

    The European Discovery of America

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    25 hodin/y 22 min

    The great voyages of discovery to the New World are here brought to life by one of the twentieth century's most eminent historians, two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Samuel Morison. A master seaman himself, Morison personally retraced the voyages of the early explorers, charting his travels in maps and photographs and comparing these to the maps and travelogues of the early sailors. The resulting two ... Přečtěte si více

    729,24 Kč nebo zdarma s Kobo Plus

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    The Light of Day

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    7 hodin/y 25 min

    Alfred Hitchcock said, "Mr. Ambler is phenomenal," and Graham Greene referred to him as "our greatest thriller writer." This is an ideal title for introducing listeners to this master. Ambler brilliantly paints realistic portraits of his characters and the foreign landscape, mixing suspense with a subtle twist for added color.When Arthur Abdel Simpson first spots Harper in the Athens airport, he ... Přečtěte si více

    416,26 Kč nebo zdarma s Kobo Plus

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    Rudyard Kipling

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    29 hodin/y 35 min

    This gripping biography mixes intimate detail with a thorough understanding of the social, intellectual, artistic, and political climate of the time to unravel the intricate story of the misunderstood genius who wrote Kim, The Jungle Books, and the poem “If.”Growing up in both England and India, this descendant of a high-achieving family crossed India’s established divide between ruler and subject ... Přečtěte si více

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    Vanity Fair

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    29 hodin/y 52 min

    “Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?”Generally considered to be Thackeray’s masterpiece, Vanity Fair is a resplendent social satire that exposes the greed and corruption raging in England during the turmoil of the Napoleonic wars. Subtitled A Novel without a Hero, it traces the changing fortunes of two unforgettable women: the scheming ... Přečtěte si více

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    The Princess and the Goblin

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    4 hodin/y 56 min

    Admired by J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis and considered by W. H. Auden to be “the only English children’s book in the same class as the Alice books,” The Princess and the Goblin is a classic example of nineteenth-century children’s literary fairy tales. This is an ageless tale of courage and loyalty, beauty and mystery, and above all, good and evil.The discovery of a secret stairway running to ... Přečtěte si více

    291,07 Kč nebo zdarma s Kobo Plus

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    Titanic

    A Survivor’s Story

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    7 hodin/y 2 min

    Archibald Gracie was probably among the last to leave the sinking Titanic on that cold April night in 1912, one of the most traumatic events in maritime history. In this unique account, he describes his personal experiences and remarkable escape from death in the icy waters of the Atlantic, painting a vivid picture of what it was like on board the Titanic in its final hours.Tracking down other ... Přečtěte si více

    353,66 Kč nebo zdarma s Kobo Plus

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    The Kingdom

    Arabia and the House of Saud

    podle Robert Lacey ...

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    22 hodin/y 47 min

    The Kingdom is the story of a country—a country of astonishing contrasts, where routine computer printouts open with the words “In the name of God,” where men who grew up in goat-hair tents now dominate the money markets of the world, and where murderers and adulterers are publicly executed in the street. By its own reckoning, this country is just entering the fifteenth century.The Kingdom is also ... Přečtěte si více

    666,64 Kč nebo zdarma s Kobo Plus