Elephant (Carver Raymond)(Paperback / softback)

Elephant (Carver Raymond)(Paperback / softback)

Among them is one of his longest, 'Errand', in which he imagines the death of Chekhov, a writer Carver hugely admired and to whose work his own was often compared. This fine story suggests that the greatest of modern short-story writers may, in the year before his untimely death, have been flexing

Cathedral (Carver Raymond)(Paperback / softback)

Raymond Carver said it was possible 'to write about commonplace things and objects using commonplace but precise language and endow these things - a chair, a window curtain, a fork, a stone, a woman's earring - with immense, even startling power'. Nowhere is this alchemy more striking than in the

All Of Us - The Collected Poems (Carver Raymond)(Paperback / softback)

Raymond Carver, who became a master-storyteller of his generation and was hailed in Europe as 'the American Chekhov', wrote of himself: 'I began as a poet. For readers who know Carver's middle period only through his selected poems, In a Marine Light (1988), it includes the windfall of 51 poems not

Call If You Need Me (Carver Raymond)(Paperback / softback)

When he died in August 1988, Raymond Carver had just published what were thought to be his last stories in the collection entitled Elephant and his own collection of stories, Where I'm Calling from. Five previously unpublished stories have recently been discovered, and this new volume brings

Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? (Carver Raymond)(Paperback / softback)

With this, his first collection, Carver breathed new life into the short story. In the pared-down style that has since become his hallmark, Carver showed how humour and tragedy dwell in the hearts of ordinary people, and won a readership that grew with every subsequent brilliant collection of

Beginners (Carver Raymond)(Paperback / softback)

What We Talk About When We Talk About Love is Carver's most famous collection of short stories and remians one of the most influential pieces of modern literature to

Short Cuts (Carver Raymond)(Paperback / softback)

'I look at all of Carver's work as just one story, for his stories are all occurences, all about things that just happen to people and cause their lives to take a

Where I'm Calling From - The Selected Stories (Carver Raymond)(Paperback / softback)

Shortly before he died, America's laureate of the dispossessed made his own selection from his short stories. This edition includes a selection from the full range of the author's work including, Furious Seasons, Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?, What We Talk about When We Talk about Love, and

Začátečníci - Raymond Carver, Jiří Hrubý

Takto by se v roce 1981 jmenovala a takto by vypadala druhá velká Carverova sbírka, kdyby ji redaktor Gordon Lish autorovi neseškrtal, nepřepsal a nepřejmenoval na „O čem mluvíme, když mluvíme o lásce“. Zachovala se korespondence obou pánu, ze které vyplývá, že se Carver velmi

Snow Thief (Carver C.J.)(Paperback / softback)

Winesburg, Ohio (Anderson Sherwood)(Paperback)

Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time Before Raymond Carver, John Cheever, and Richard Ford, there was Sherwood Anderson, who, with Winesburg, Ohio, charted a new direction in American fiction--evoking with lyrical simplicity quiet moments of epiphany in the lives

About Love and Other Stories (Chekhov Anton)(Paperback)

Raymond Carver called Anton Chekhov 'the greatest short story writer who has ever lived.' This unequivocal verdict on Chekhov's genius has been echoed many times by writers as diverse as Katherine Mansfield, Somerset Maugham, John Cheever and Tobias Wolf. While his popularity as a playwright has

Playback (Chandler Raymond)(Paperback / softback)

Bear (Briggs Raymond)(Paperback / softback)

Ultramarín - Raymond Carver

Výbor z poezie s doslovem a básněmi Tess Gallagherové, autorovy druhé manželky. Americký spisovatel R. Carver (1939-1988) proslul především jako autor povídek, s nimiž se už český čtenář měl možnost seznámit. Sám Carver si však více než povídek cenil své básnické

Katedrála - Raymond Carver

Třetím svazkem pětidílného českého vydání všech povídek legendárního amerického spisovatele je sbírka Katedrála, Carverova kniha nejuznávanější, a to nejen díky slavné titulní povídce. Autor se v této sbírce z roku 1983 vymanil z vlivu svého redaktora a vymínil si, že

Slon - Raymond Carver

Jedině tento čtvrtý z pěti Carverových českých svazků neodpovídá žádné z původních anglických sbírek a zároveň má největší časový i tématický rozptyl. Přináší nejstarší autorovy publikované texty - včetne úplné první povídky, která mu vyšla ve 22 letech - a

Elephant (Carnavas Peter)(Paperback / softback)

Locus Solus (Roussel Raymond)(Paperback / softback)

Ottoman Secret (Khoury Raymond)(Paperback / softback)

Count D'Orgel (Radiguet Raymond)(Paperback / softback)

Ride a Cockhorse (Kennedy Raymond)(Paperback / softback)

Called to Greatness (Tomkinson Raymond)(Paperback / softback)

Guide to Coppicing (Tabor Raymond)(Paperback / softback)