On the horizon of world literature

On the Horizon of World Literature

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Chinese Literature in the World

This book features a collection of articles on comparative literature from a translational perspective, with a special reference to translation of con

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Hope on the Horizon - Onjali Q. Rauf

The debut non-fiction title from bestselling author of The Boy at the Back of the Class, Onjali Q. Raúf. This is your hope handbook: a guide to being kind, showing empathy and making the world a better place. <p>"No one is too small to make a change."Growing up, there is so much out of our control and so much we can feel helpless about. But together, we ca...

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Art of John Harris: Beyond the Horizon

World-renowned visionary artist John Harris' unique concept paintings capture the Universe on a massive scale, from epic landscapes and towering citie

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Pokemon Horizon: Sun a Moon, Vol. 2

A brand-new Pokémon series based on the world of the bestselling Pokémon Sun a Moon video games!

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Lost Horizon 2

In the shadow of the Cold War, Fenton Paddock is facing the hardest fight of his life. While the tensions between the superpowers threaten to tear the world apart, the British soldier has to save his family that has been caught by powerful enemies. His adventure leads Fenton far beyond the Iron Curtain and finally onwards to mysterious, uncharted territory. He has to fina...

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Lost Horizon 2 (PC)

In the shadow of the Cold War, Fenton Paddock is facing the hardest fight of his life. While the tensions between the superpowers threaten to tear the world apart, the British soldier has to save his family that has been caught by powerful enemies. His adventure leads Fenton far beyond the Iron Curtain and finally onwards to mysterious, uncharted territory. He has to fina...

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Survival Nation: Lost Horizon

Early Access Game The zombie apocalypse happened. What caused it? Who's behind the plague? How do you contract it? All of these trivial questions have gone with the first bite, turning humans from Earth's apex predator to the new predators' most delicious prey. Join the Survival Nation, fight zombies, and keep what remains of the human civilization alive! Survival Nati...

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Origins of the First World War

First published in 2003. There is an enormous literature on the origins of the First World War. This pamphlet focuses on the major issues involved in

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Relevance of Duties in the Contemporary World

This book reflects on the significance of duties in creating an egalitarian society by collating and contextualizing the relevant literature. Gandhian

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Survival Nation: Lost Horizon (PC)

Early Access GameThe zombie apocalypse happened. What caused it? Who's behind the plague? How do you contract it? All of these trivial questions have gone with the first bite, turning humans from Earth's apex predator to the new predators' most delicious prey. Join the Survival Nation, fight zombies, and keep what remains of the human civilization alive!Sur...

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Horizon Forbidden West Complete Edition

Join Aloy as she braves a majestic but dangerous new frontier that holds mysterious new threats. This Complete Edition allows you to enjoy the critically acclaimed Horizon Forbidden West on PC in its entirety with bonus content, including the Burning Shores story expansion that picks up after the main game. Explore distant lands, fight bigger and more awe-inspiring machin...

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Dottie : By the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021 - Abdulrazak Gurnah

<p>By the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021A searing tale of a young woman discovering her troubled family history and cultural pastDottie Badoura Fatma Balfour finds solace amidst the squalor of her childhood by spinning warm tales of affection about her beautiful names. But she knows nothing of their origins, and little of her family history - or the ab...

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Horizon Forbidden West Complete Edition (PC)

Join Aloy as she braves a majestic but dangerous new frontier that holds mysterious new threats. This Complete Edition allows you to enjoy the critically acclaimed Horizon Forbidden West on PC in its entirety with bonus content, including the Burning Shores story expansion that picks up after the main game.Explore distant lands, fight bigger and more awe-inspiring machine...

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The Ring Legends of Tolkien: An Illustrated Exploration of Rings in Tolkien´s World, and the Sources that Inspired his Work from Myth, Literature and History - David Day

<p>An in-depth guide to the rich history of the symbol of the ring, its origin in ancient storytelling tradition, and its influence on Tolkien's work.</p> <p>Tolkien's One Ring, at the centre of one of the greatest fantasy tales ever told, is an undeniably iconic and powerful symbol in literature.</p> <p>Tracing centuries of ancient folklore,...

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100 Novels That Changed the World

A look at 100 inspiring novels that have left a significant mark on the world of literature and popular culture.

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India in the Indian Ocean World

The book integrates the latest scholarly literature on the entire Indian Ocean region, from East Africa to China. The book contributes to the field of

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The Hobbits of Tolkien: An Illustrated Exploration of Tolkien´s Hobbits, and the Sources that Inspired his Work from Myth, Literature and History - David Day

<p>An in-depth guide to the intriguing lives of Tolkien's Hobbits.</p> <p>An entire race was born when J.R.R. Tolkien scrawled on a leaf, 'In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.' From the invention of that single word (hobbit) Tolkien became the explorer and chronicler of the character, their race and their significant role in his fantastical worl...

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New World Symphonies

A study of the influence of American literature, music and mythology on European music. Although the impact of the European tradition on Americans is

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Empire: Book 2 of The Golden Age - Iggulden Conn

Anotace: IN CONN IGGULDEN`S LATEST GOLDEN AGE EPIC, JOIN PERICLES, THE LION OF ATHENS, ON A JOURNEY TO SECURE THE FATE OF THE ATHENIAN EMPIRE----Pericles returns home more than a hero: he`s the leader of Athens, the empire`s beacon of light in the dark.But even during times of peace, the threat of Sparta - Athens`s legendary rival - looms large on the horizon. When a sud...

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Dancing on Ropes

Horizon-expanding tales of how translators altered the course of world events.

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The Return of the Native - Hardy Thomas

Anotace: `To be loved to madness - such was her great desire`Eustacia Vye criss-crosses the wild Egdon Heath, eager to experience life to the full in her quest for `music, poetry, passion, war`. She marries Clym Yeobright, native of the heath, but his idealism frustrates her romantic ambitions and her discontent draws others into a tangled web of deceit and unhappiness.E...

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The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro

Anotace: After all what can we ever gain in forever looking back and blaming ourselves if our lives have not turned out quite as we might have wished?' In the summer of 1956, Stevens, the ageing butler of Darlington Hall, embarks on a leisurely holiday that will take him deep into the English countryside and into his past... A contemporary classic, The Remains of the D...

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Gardners Oficiální soundtrack Horizon Forbidden West - Collector's Vinyl Box Set na 6x LP

Sběratelský box set soundtracku ke hře Horizon Forbidden West od Guerilla Games. Na 6 LP najdete skladby z dlouho očekávaného pokračování hry Horizon Zero Dawn z roku 2017. O hudbu se postarali Niels van der Leest, The Flight, Oleksa Lozowchuk a Joris De Man. SEZNAM SKLADEBDISK 1 1. Whatever Comes (Feat. Julie Elven and Melissa R. Kaplan)2. Aloy's Theme - Forbidden...

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The Good Soldier Svejk : And His Fortunes in the World War - Jaroslav Hašek

<p>About The Good Soldier Svejk and His Fortunes in the World War Jaroslav Hašek’s black satire, the inspiration for such works as Joseph Heller’s Catch-22 Good-natured and garrulous, Švejk becomes the Austro-Hungarian army’s most loyal Czech soldier when he is called up on the outbreak of the First World War – although his bumbling attempts to get to the front ser...

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The Last Gift of the Master Artists - Okri Ben

Anotace: `One of the most beautiful and profound novels I`ve read in ages` Washington Post `A magical take on Africa before the arrival of the Atlantic slave ships` Independent `Takes on the great riddles of existence` New York Times By a riverbank in Africa, two lovers meet for the first time. They make a promise to meet again the next day, same time, same place, but o...

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The Last Gift of the Master Artists - Ben Okri

<p>'One of the most beautiful and profound novels I've read in ages' Washington Post 'A magical take on Africa before the arrival of the Atlantic slave ships' Independent 'Takes on the great riddles of existence' New York Times By a riverbank in Africa, two lovers meet for the first time. They make a promise to meet again the next day, same time, same place, bu...

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The Fraud - Smith Zadie

Anotace: Truth and fiction. Jamaica and Britain. Who gets to tell their story? Zadie Smith returns with her first historical novel. It is 1873. Mrs Eliza Touchet is the Scottish housekeeper - and cousin by marriage - of a once famous novelist, now in decline, William Ainsworth, with whom she has lived for thirty years. Mrs Touchet is a woman of many interests: literatu...

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The Queen Of Spades - Alexandr Sergejevič Puškin

Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, from haunted New England to a sun-drenched Mediterranean island, and f...

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Around the World in 80 Books: A Literary Journey - David Damrosch

<p>A transporting and illuminating voyage around the globe, told through eighty classic and modern books'It is always a pleasure to talk about books with David Damrosch, who has read all of them, and he is so eloquent and understanding about them all' Orhan PamukInspired by Jules Verne's hero Phileas Fogg, David Damrosch, chair of Harvard's Department of Comparative...

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White Nights - Dostojevskij Fjodor Michajlovič

Anotace: Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, from haunted New England to a sun-drenched Mediterrane...

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Promise of Welfare in the Postwar British and Anglophone Novel

A study of the literature of the Second World War and its aftermath, focusing on the welfare state and wartime visions of rebuilding Britain.

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The Book of Symbols - kolektiv autorů

<p>This encyclopedia explores the hidden meanings of visual symbols across time and geography, from the sun to whales and the human hand. Spanning different eras and cultures, over 800 beautiful images combine with expert illuminations of symbol history, meanings, and psychic associations, offering readers a precious and fascinating resource for thoughtful interpret...

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Astrology. The Library of Esoterica - Jessica Hundley

<p>Looking to the sky, the second volume in TASCHEN’s Library of Esoterica series delves into the vibrant visual history of Western astrology. From its birth as astronomy’s sister science, to our current Age of Aquarius, the story of this ancient practice is told through more than 400 images—from Egyptian temples to contemporary art—sequenced to mirror the spin of t...

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A Clockwork Orange : Restored Edition - Burgess Anthony

Anotace: `It is a horrorshow story ...`Fifteen-year-old Alex likes lashings of ultraviolence. He and his gang of friends rob, kill and rape their way through a nightmarish future, until the State puts a stop to his riotous excesses. But what will his re-education mean?A dystopian horror, a black comedy, an exploration of choice, A Clockwork Orange is also a work of exube...

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Sleeping on Jupiter - Anuradha Roy

Anotace: LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2015 AND WINNER OF THE 2016 DSC PRIZE FOR SOUTH ASIAN LITERATURE - A stark and unflinching novel by a spellbinding storyteller, about religion, love and violence in the modern world LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2015 AND WINNER OF THE 2016 DSC PRIZE FOR SOUTH ASIAN LITERATURE A stark and unflinching novel by a spellb...

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The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky (PC) Steam

Modern society owes much to a mystical technology known as “orbal energy.” Fifty years ago, during what’s come to be known as the “Orbal Revolution,” the invention of this technology and the “orbments” developed from it led to a period of rapid human advancement, birthing innovations of all shapes and sizes -- not the least of whi...

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Kay Nielsen: East of the Sun and West of the Moon (abridged edition) - Daniel C. Noel

<p>This abridged edition of East of the Sun and West of the Moon revives a classic collection of 10 Norse folktales illustrated by the beloved Danish artist Kay Nielsen, one of the most famous children’s book illustrators of all time. Based on a precious first edition and including 11 of his extremely rare watercolor originals, the book features an all-new design re...

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Klara and the Sun - Ishiguro Kazuo

Anotace: NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER - A GOOD MORNING AMERICA Book Club Pick - ON PRESIDENT OBAMA'S SUMMER 2021 READING LIST - A Best Book of the Year by Harper's Bazaar, Vulture, and more A magnificent new novel from the Nobel laureate Kazuo Ishiguro-author of Never Let Me Go and the Booker Prize-winning The Remains of the Day-"a masterpiece that will mak...

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Oil and Modern World Dramas Taylor & Francis Ltd

The first to focus on the (re-)presentations of oil in dramatic literature, theatre, and performance, Oil and Modern World Dramas is a pioneering volume in the emerging field of Oil Literatures and Cultures, and the more established field of World Literatures....

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Twilight Cities: Lost Capitals of the Mediterranean - Pangonis Katherine

Anotace: Its name means `centre of the world`, and since the dawn of history the Mediterranean Sea has formed the shared horizon of innumerable cultures. Here, history has blurred with legend. The glittering surface of the sea conceals the remnants of lost civilisations, wrecked treasure ships and the bones of long-drowned sailors, traders and modern refugees.Of the many...

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Empire: Book 2 of The Golden Age - Conn Iggulden

<p>IN CONN IGGULDEN'S LATEST GOLDEN AGE EPIC, JOIN PERICLES, THE LION OF ATHENS, ON A JOURNEY TO SECURE THE FATE OF THE ATHENIAN EMPIRE----Pericles returns home more than a hero: he's the leader of Athens, the empire's beacon of light in the dark.But even during times of peace, the threat of Sparta - Athens's legendary rival - looms large on the horizon. When a sudd...

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The Art of War, 1. vydání - Sun Tzu

<p>Still a source of inspiration for soldiers on the battlefield and managers in the boardroom 2000 years after it was written, Sun-Tzu's The Art of War is the most influential book of strategy in the world, translated from the Chinese by John Minford in Penguin Classics. 'Ultimate excellence lies not in winning every battle, but in defeating the enemy without ever...

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Schadenfreude: The Joy of Another´s Misf - neuveden

Anotace: An entertaining and insightful exploration of schadenfreude: the deliciously dark and complex joy we`ve all felt, from time to time, at news of others` misfortunes. You might feel schadenfreude when... the boss calls himself "Head of Pubic Services" on an important letter.a cool guy swings back on his chair, and it tips over.a Celebrity Vegan is caught in the c...

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A Stroke of the Pen: The Lost Stories, 1. vydání - Terry Pratchett

<p>A truly unmissable set of unearthed stories from the pen of Sir Terry Pratchett: award-winning and bestselling author, and creator of the phenomenally successful Discworld series.An exclusive collection of twenty early short stories by one of the world's best loved authors, these are rediscovered tales that Pratchett wrote under a pseudonym for newspapers during ...

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Displacing Fictions of Orhan Pamuk

This book argues for a rethinking of the role of world literature through new readings of Orhan Pamuk. Drawing on the intrinsic connection between the

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The Call of the Wild and Other Stories, 1. vydání - Jack London

<p>When Buck is smuggled from his beloved home in the Santa Clara Valley and forced to work as a sled-dog in the frozen wilderness of the Yukon, he must forget the long, lazy Californian days and face a life of constant toil and danger under the whip of cruel or inept masters, where survival itself must be fought for. But with his primal instincts stirred, how long ...

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The History of the Hobbit - J. R. R. Tolkien,John D. Rateliff

Anotace: In one volume for the first time, this revised and updated examination of how J.R.R.Tolkien came to write his original masterpiece The Hobbit includes his complete unpublished draft version of the story, together with notes and illustrations by Tolkien himself. The Hobbit was first published on 21 September 1937. Like its sequel, The Lord of the Rings, it is a ...

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The History of the Hobbit: One Volume Edition, 1. vydání - John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

<p>In one volume for the first time, this revised and updated examination of how J.R.R.Tolkien came to write his original masterpiece The Hobbit includes his complete unpublished draft version of the story, together with notes and illustrations by Tolkien himself.</p> <p>The Hobbit was first published on 21 September 1937. Like its sequel, The Lord of th...

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The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky (PC) Steam (PC)

Modern society owes much to a mystical technology known as &ldquo;orbal energy.&rdquo; Fifty years ago, during what&rsquo;s come to be known as the &ldquo;Orbal Revolution,&rdquo; the invention of this technology and the &ldquo;orbments&rdquo; developed from it led to a period of rapid human advancement, birthing innovations of all shapes and s...

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Contemporary Perspectives on Architectural Organicism Taylor & Francis Ltd

The essays collected in this book offer a variety of critiques of the modernist idea of endless growth in the fields of architecture, literature, philosophy, and the history of science. They range in scope from theoretical and speculative to analytic and critical, from studies of the history of modernity to reflections of our contemporary world. This book will be of inter...

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The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner

<p>A complex, intense American novel of family from the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature With an introduction by Richard Hughes Ever since the first furore was created on its publication in 1929, The Sound and the Fury has been considered one of the key novels of this century. Depicting the gradual disintegration of the Compson family through four fracture...

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Economic Growth and Environmental Quality in a Post-Pandemic World Taylor & Francis Ltd

In response to the damage caused by a growth-led global economy, researchers across the world started investigating the association between environmental pollution and its possible determinants using different models and techniques. Most famously, the Environmental Kuznets Curve hypothesises an inverted U-shaped association between environmental quality and GDP. This book...

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Practical Management for the Digital Age

The book places a clear emphasis of the impact of information technology on the business world, drawing on recent literature and examples. Similarly,

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The Decameron - Giovanni Boccaccio

<p>With a new foreword. Written in the fourteenth century by Italian author, poet and scholar Giovanni Boccaccio, the Decameron contains stories told by ten young Florentines who have fled the city to escape the Plague. Presented within the sophisticated structure of a surrounding frame story, the one hundred allegorical tales are shared through the voices of these ...

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The Lake - Bianca Bellová

<p>A dystopian page-turner about the coming of age of a young hero, which won the 2017 EU Prize for Literature. A fishing village at the end of the world. A lake that is drying up and, ominously, pushing out its banks. The men have vodka, the women troubles, the children eczema to scratch at. Born into this unforgiving environment, Nami, a young boy, embarks on a jo...

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The Lake - Bellová Bianca

Anotace: A dystopian page-turner about the coming of age of a younghero, which won the 2017 EU Prize for Literature.A fishing village at the end of the world. A lake that is dryingup and, ominously, pushing out its banks. The men have vodka,the women troubles, the children eczema to scratch at. Born intothis unforgiving environment, Nami, a young boy, embarks on ajourney...

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Emily Windsnap and the Ship of Lost Souls : Book 6 - Liz Kessler

The eagerly awaited new Emily Windsnap adventure from million-copy-selling author, Liz Kessler. Emily spies a mysterious ship and visits the lost city of Atlantis. <p>Welcome back to the world of Emily Windsnap!</p> <p>A school trip to a beautiful island plunges Emily and her friends into a new adventure. What is the secret of the mysterious ship that s...

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The Fraud - Zadie Smith

<p>Truth and fiction. Jamaica and Britain. Who gets to tell their story? Zadie Smith returns with her first historical novel.It is 1873. Mrs Eliza Touchet is the Scottish housekeeper - and cousin by marriage - of a once famous novelist, now in decline, William Ainsworth, with whom she has lived for thirty years.Mrs Touchet is a woman of many interests: literature, j...

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The Choice - Jakub Trpiš

Anotace: A bestseller that can change your life `´I dream of a world in flames: nuclear bombs falling on cities, consuming them like cancer; surviving in underground shelters, where we slowly turn into animals. These dreams are so lifelike. I´m afraid that one day I´m going to want to wake up, only to find it´s too late.´´ Tomáš is a young man in the prime of life. T...

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