Tommaso Pisanti Knihy

Explore the transcendent world of unity and ultimate beauty in Edgar Allan Poe’s verse in this complete poetry collection. Although best known for his short stories, Edgar Allan Poe was by nature and choice a poet. From his exquisite lyric “To Helen,” to his immortal masterpieces, “Annabel Lee,” “The Bells,” and “The Raven,” Poe stands beside the celebrated English romantic poets Shelley, Byron, and Keats, and his haunting, sensuous poetic vision profoundly influenced the Victorian giants Swinburne, Tennyson, and Rossetti. Today his dark side speaks eloquently to contemporary readers in poems such as “The Haunted Palace” and “The Conqueror Worm,” with their powerful images of madness and the macabre. But even at the end of his life, Poe reached out to his art for comfort and courage, giving us in “Eldorado” a talisman to hold during our darkest moments—a timeless gift from a great American writer. Includes an Introduction by Jay Parini and an Afterword by April Bernard

Vázaná řada česko-anglického vydání díla Williama Shakespeara v překladu Martina Hilského.

A bestseller when it was first published, The Children is a comic, bittersweet novel about the misadventures of a bachelor and a band of precocious children. The seven Wheater children, stepbrothers and stepsisters grown weary of being shuttled from parent to parent are eager for their parents' latest reconciliation to last. A chance meeting between the children and the solitary 46-year old Martin Boyne leads to a series of unforgettable encounters.

Hlavní postavou tří povídek obsažených v této knize (Vraždy v ulici Morgue, Záhada Marie Rogetové a Odcizený dopis) je Auguste Dupin, první detektiv v dějinách literatury. Je velice důležitý, protože se jeho geniální postavou inspiroval Arthur Conan Doyle a vytvořil největšího detektiva všech dob: Sherlocka Holmese.

Ve zkratkovité podobě se nám zde podávají hluboce filosofické názory na svět, umění, lásku, přátelství, smrt - prostě na život se všemi jeho aspekty, a čtenář v nich často může najít řešení svého problému. Je to moudrost nadčasová, která osloví každého, kdo má zájem o hlubšípoznání života a jeho projevů.

The Virgin and the Gipsy was discovered in France after D. H. Lawrence's death in 1930. Immediately recognized as a masterpiece in which Lawrence had distilled and purified his ideas about sexuality and morality, The Virgin and the Gipsy has become a classic and is one of Lawrence's most electrifying short novels. Set in a small village in the English countryside, this is the story of a secluded, sensitive rector's daughter who yearns for meaning beyond the life to which she seems doomed. When she meets a handsome young gipsy whose life appears different from hers in every way, she is immediately smitten and yet still paralyzed by her own fear and social convention. Not until a natural catastrophe suddenly, miraculously sweeps away the world as she knew it does a new world of passion open for her. Lawrence's spirit is infused by all his tenderness, passion, and knowledge of the human soul.

Massime spirituali è un'opera piuttosto singolare, che a una prima ampia raccolta di aforismi, tipica espressione del pensiero denso e immediato di Gibran, fa seguire alcuni brevi scritti di argomento filosofico, etico e politico, che conferiscono maggiore respiro alle riflessioni dell'autore sulla vita, la morte, la religione. Particolare importanza riveste l'ultima prosa raccolta in questo volume, Il tuo pensiero e il mio, che contiene in nuce tutta la straordinaria visione umana, religiosa e sociale di Gibran. L'unitarietà e la coerenza dell'intero testo vanno rintracciate nel proposito ideale dell'autore di creare un ponte spirituale tra la cultura occidentale e il mondo islamico, superando e risolvendo in un'unica dimensione sovraculturale tutte le differenze concettuali, ideologiche e storiche: è qui la chiave di lettura di tutta la scrittura di Gibran.

Sabbia e Spuma raccoglie aforismi, massime, meditazioni sul difficile tentativo dell'autore di fondere Oriente ed Occidente. Il Vagabondo è una storia acuta ed incisiva, ricca di metafore.

Natura, storia, fiducia in se stessi, amore, cerchi, il poeta, esperienza, doni, politica.