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  • Augustus

    A historical epic set in ancient Rome from the bestselling author of Stoner

    podle John Williams ...
    Octavian, nineteen and newly orphaned by Julius Caesar’s murder, becomes the heir to Rome and begins the fight to remake the republic into an empire.Set in ancient Rome from 44 B.C. to A.D. 14, Augustus follows Octavian as he becomes Augustus Caesar, the first Roman Emperor.After the murder of Julius Caesar, Augustus moves through power struggles, bloody wars, and family strife as Rome is ... Přečtěte si více

    261,69 Kč

  • Stoner

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    Discover an American masterpiece. This unassuming story about the life of a quiet English professor has earned the admiration of readers all over the globe.William Stoner is born at the end of the nineteenth century into a dirt-poor Missouri farming family. Sent to the state university to study agronomy, he instead falls in love with English literature and embraces a scholar’s life, so different ... Přečtěte si více

    240,99 Kč

  • Stoner

    A Novel

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    'It's the most marvellous discovery for everyone who loves literature' Ian McEwan, BBC Radio 4Colum McCann once called Stoner one of the great forgotten novels of the past century, but it seems it is forgotten no longer - in 2013 translations of Stoner began appearing on bestseller lists across Europe. Forty-eight years after its first, quiet publication in the US, Stoner is finally finding the ... Přečtěte si více

    237,89 Kč

  • Butcher's Crossing

    Now a Major Film

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    **NOW A MAJOR FILM**BY THE AUTHOR OF STONERWill Andrews is no academic. He longs for wildness, freedom, hope and vigour. He leaves Harvard and sets out for the West to discover a new way of living.In a small town called Butcher's Crossing he meets a hunter with a story of a lost herd of buffalo in a remote Colorado valley, just waiting to be taken by a team of men brave and crazy enough to find ... Přečtěte si více

    237,89 Kč

  • Butcher's Crossing

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    In his National Book Award–winning novel Augustus, John Williams uncovered the secrets of ancient Rome. With Butcher’s Crossing, his fiercely intelligent, beautifully written western, Williams dismantles the myths of modern America.It is the 1870s, and Will Andrews, fired up by Emerson to seek “an original relation to nature,” drops out of Harvard and heads west. He washes up in Butcher’s Crossing, ... Přečtěte si více

    240,99 Kč

  • Augustus

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    WINNER OF THE 1973 NATIONAL BOOK AWARDBy the Author of StonerIn Augustus, his third great novel, John Williams took on an entirely new challenge, a historical narrative set in classical Rome, exploring the life of the founder of the Roman Empire. To tell the story, Williams turned to the epistolary novel, a genre that was new to him, transforming and transcending it just as he did the western in ... Přečtěte si více

    257,09 Kč

  • Sam Houston

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    Sam Houston was one of the most extraordinary figures in American history. During his life, he held an astonishing range of positions: governor of two states (Tennessee and Texas), congressman (Tennessee), senator (Texas), and president of the Republic of Texas during its independence. He was an ardent expansionist who helped make Manifest Destiny a reality, and more than any other individual, he ... Přečtěte si více

    208,44 Kč nebo zdarma s Kobo Plus

  • Stoner

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    John Williams ha construido un personaje sólidamente humano, tan humano que cualquiera podría contemplarse en su reflejo. Stoner es una novela sobre la integridad y la renuncia; una historia que consigue que te impliques, que comprendas, que disculpes y admires en la misma medida el estoicismo y las debilidades de este profesor al que es muy probable que ya me sienta vinculada para siempre. Stoner ... Přečtěte si více

    90,95 Kč

  • Butcher's Crossing

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    Překlad: Luis Murillo Fort ...
    CENTENARIO DEL NACIMIENTO DE JOHN WILLIAMSCon su fulgurante Stoner , John Williams fue, junto a Lucia Berlin, el gran redescubrimiento de la literatura estadounidense y fascinó a millones de lectores.Lumen recupera su grandiosa y conmovedora primera novela.Corren los años setenta del siglo XIX y el joven Will Andrews, recién graduado en la Universidad de Harvard, decide de... ... Přečtěte si více

    329,00 Kč

  • Butcher's crossing

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    Překlad: Eva Johansson ...
    Det är inte varje år man läser en bok som är så perfekt genomförd att man själv nästan försvinner, glömmer sin omgivning … Butcher’s Crossing är en sådan bok.NRC HandelsbladKärv och obarmhärtig, men samtidigt dämpad i tonen, banade den väg för Cormac McCarthy. Det var kanske den första och bästa romanen som skrev västerns historia på ett nytt sättThe New York Times Book ReviewDet är 1870-tal, och ... Přečtěte si více

    333,07 Kč

  • Nothing But the Night

    A dark psychological novel by the writer behind Stoner

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    Arthur Maxley is young, tense and adrift. A letter from his estranged father unsettles the fragile order of his day, drawing him toward a meeting he both fears and cannot refuse.After lunch, a charged dinner and a night of drinking, Arthur drifts into a nightclub and then into the company of Claire Hegsic. What begins as the possibility of intimacy becomes overtaken by old terror. Fragmented ... Přečtěte si více

    221,59 Kč

  • The Transcontinental Railroad

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    On May 10, 1869, the Golden Spike linked the Central Pacific Railroad with the Union Pacific Railroad at Promontory Point, Utah. The dream of a railroad across America had at last come true. This book tells the story of swaggering men with big plans, of an America emerging from the Civil War and reaching its manifest destiny. The men who imagined the transcontinental railroad were impassioned ... Přečtěte si více

    208,44 Kč nebo zdarma s Kobo Plus