Ford Knihy

In this joyful and impactful picture book, a transgender boy prepares for the first day of school and introduces himself to his family and friends for the first time. Calvin has always been a boy, even if the world sees him as a girl. He knows who he is in his heart and in his mind but he hasn't yet told his family. Finally, he can wait no longer: "I'm not a girl," he tells his family. "I'm a boy--a boy in my heart and in my brain." Quick to support him, his loving family takes Calvin shopping for the swim trunks he's always wanted and back-to-school clothes and a new haircut that helps him look and feel like the boy he's always known himself to be. As the first day of school approaches, he's nervous and the "what-ifs" gather up inside him. But as his friends and teachers rally around him and he tells them his name, all his "what-ifs" begin to melt away. Inspired by the authors' own transgender child and accompanied by warm and triumphant illustrations, this authentic and personal text promotes kindness and empathy, offering a poignant and inclusive back-to-school message: all should feel safe, respected, and welcomed.

'A tour de force of writing and intelligence' A.S. Byatt Discover one of the greatest first world war novels. Christopher Tietjens has long loved the beautiful young suffragette Valentine, but the pair are held apart by Christopher's loyalty to his wife Sylvia, and to a set of principles which belong to an old world, and which are about to be swallowed up in the mud and chaos of the Western Front.

Anglického spisovatele Forda Madoxe Forda znají u nás jen čtenáři Hemingwayova Pohyblivého svátku jako člena mezinárodní kolonie umělců v Paříži po první světové válce. Jako šéfredaktor dvou význačným časopisů, v nichž pomáhal razit cestu moderní literatuře, vydával Ford E. Pounda, D. H. Lawrence, T. S. Eliota, E. Hemingwaye, J. Joyce a jiné později slavné autory. Z jeho objemného díla, obsahujícího více než sedmdesát svazků, získal punc klasičnosti román Nejsmutnější příběh, poprvé vydaný v roce 1915. Vypravěčem je podvedený manžel, Američan John Dowell, který retrospěktivně líčí zkázu způsobenou jeho anglickým přítelem a milencem jeho ženy Edwardem Ashburnhamem, mužem oplývajícím všemi ctnostmi kromě zdrženlivosti. Dowellovýma očima sledujeme složitosti a nesnáze, jež plodí Ashburnhamova nemorální slepá touha po uspokojení vlastních vášní a citů. Dowellovo vyprávění nerespektuje přirozenou chronologii dějů a neustálým střídáním časů se snaží hlouběji proniknout k pravdě o lidských vztazích, o „nejsmutnějším příběhu“, jehož tragickou bilancí jsou dvě sebevraždy, dva zničené životy, jedna smrt a jedna dívka, která zešílí. Fordův román bývá kritikou označován za průkopnické dílo moderní literatury. Podle grafické osnovy Františka Muziky připravila Hana Keslová. Náklad 27 500 výtisků.

The classic survey of English literature in a vibrant new edition, with Stephen Greenblatt as general editor. A legendary bestseller for more than forty years, The Norton Anthology of English Literature is the classic survey to the field from the Middle Ages to the twenty-first century. With more than ninety authors, the Major Authors Edition deepens its representation of essential works in all genres, ranging from Seamus Heaney's award-winning translation of Beowulf and Shakespeare's Twelfth Night to the greats of the nineteenth century—Blake and Wordsworth, Tennyson and Barrett Browning—to twentieth-century classics of a truly global English literature—Conrad's Heart of Darkness , Woolf's A Room of One's Own , poetry by Derek Walcott, and prose by Nadine Gordimer and Salman Rushdie, to name but a few. Color plates—over seventy-five in all—bring to life the cultural concerns of each period. Concise glosses and annotations, period introductions, biographical headnotes, timelines, and selected bibliographies help readers understand and enjoy the rich diversity of English literature.