Pledge (Durrenmatt Friedrich)(Paperback / softback)

Pledge (Durrenmatt Friedrich)(Paperback / softback)

The mysterious and unbearably tense tale of a detective's obsessive pursuit of a child murderer, from one of the post-war era's greatest writers in

The Visit (Durrenmatt)(Paperback)

Drama Friedrich Durrenmatt, adapted by Maurice Valency Characters: 25 male, 5 female, 2 children Drop and wing; frags. The Lunts chose this unforgettable play for their swan song. A wealthy woman returns to her debt ridden home town and offers a sum greater than they have ever imagined to help

Visit (Durrenmatt Friedrich)(Paperback / softback)

In The Visit (original title Der Besuch der alten Dame), Claire Zachanassian, now a multimillion heiress and an older woman, returns to the impoverished town of her youth with a dreadful bargain: in exchange for returning the town to prosperity through her vast wealth, she wants the townspeople to

Frank V. - Friedrich Dürrenmatt

V nové verzi vychází mimořádné Dürrenmattovo dílo, které bývá i díky původnímu podtitulu Opera o jedné soukromé bance přirovnáváno k Brechtově Žebrácké opeře. Tato verze má podtitul Komedie o jedné soukromé bance. Autor v příběhu o pádu banky, která je po pět

Fyzikové - Friedrich Dürrenmatt

Hlavním tématem významného autorova dramatu je otázka odpovědnosti vědce za vynálezy, které mohou zničit svět. Protagonisty hry jsou tři fyzikové, kteří se skrývají v ústavu pro choromyslné a předstíráním duševní choroby chtějí zabránit zneužití plodů své práce. V

Romulus Veliký - Friedrich Dürrenmatt

Ústřední postavou „nehistorické historie“ je poslední císař rozpadající se Římské říše. Tragickou situaci bývalé mocnosti Dürrenmatt ve své hře traktuje jako absurdní komedii. Vladař země ohrožené nájezdem Germánů a zcela zpustošené se věnuje především chovu

Herkules a Augiášův chlív - Friedrich Dürrenmatt

Významný švýcarský autor své vyznání, že „ke šlendriánu tohoto století se pro nás hodí už jen komedie“, uplatňuje i ve svém dramatu o antickém hrdinovi Herkulovi, který vykonal za svého života tucet velikých hrdinských činů. Zavede nás do Elidy, která se za vlády

Návštěva staré dámy - Friedrich Dürrenmatt

Modelová hra, která spojuje prvky komické a tragické, svého autora proslavila. Milionářka Klára Zachanassianová se vrací do svého rodného chudobného městečka a chce se pomstít své lásce z mládí Alfredu Illovi. Přistoupí obyvatelé městečka na její nabídku zabít ho za

Selected Letters of Friedrich Nietzsche (Nietzsche Friedrich)(Paperback / softback)

War Against War! (Friedrich Ernst)(Paperback / softback)

Beyond Good and Evil (Nietzsche Friedrich)(Paperback / softback)

On the Genealogy of Morality - A Polemic (Nietzsche Friedrich)(Paperback / softback)

Friedrich Hoelderlin's Life, Poetry and Madness (Waiblinger Wilhelm)(Paperback / softback)

Sheepshagger (Griffiths Niall)(Paperback / softback)

Robbed of his ancestral home - a near-derelict hovel in the mountains of west Wales - Ianto pledges revenge not only on the English yuppies who have turned his grandmother's cottage into a weekenders' barbecue party but on all those who have violated him and the land that is

I Am Dynamite! - A Life of Friedrich Nietzsche (Prideaux Sue)(Paperback / softback)

Sue Prideaux's award-winning portrait of philosophy's greatest iconoclast, Friedrich

Essays and Letters (Hoelderlin Friedrich)(Paperback / softback)

One of Germany's greatest poets, Johann Christian Friedrich Holderlin (1770-1843) was also a prose writer of intense feeling, intelligence and perception. This title includes translation of selected letters and essays that traces the life and thoughts of this extraordinary

Summer of No Regrets (Mallinder Kate)(Paperback / softback)

After their exams, four sixteen-year-old best friends pledge to live a summer regret-free, doing what they want to do, however much it scares them. But as all these choices become difficult, even dangerous, they need to turn to each other for the strength to face the

Why I am So Wise (Nietzsche Friedrich)(Paperback / softback)

One of the most iconoclastic thinkers of all time, Friedrich Nietzsche continues to challenge the boundaries of conventional religion and morality with his subversive theories of the 'superman', the individual will, the death of God and the triumph of an all-powerful human life

Man Alone with Himself (Nietzsche Friedrich)(Paperback / softback)

Friedrich Nietzsche was one of the most revolutionary thinkers in Western philosophy. Here he sets out his subversive views in a series of aphorisms on subjects ranging from art to arrogance, boredom to passion, science to vanity, rejecting conventional notions of morality to celebrate the

Road to Serfdom (Hayek Friedrich A.)(Paperback / softback)

'Socialism' has particular appeal to intellectuals - the teachers, journalists and other commentators who pass comment on public policy without any special expertise on economic matters. This work explains the enduring appeal of socialist

The Village That Died for England: Tyneham and the Legend of Churchill's Pledge (Wright Patrick)(Paperback)

Communist Manifesto (Engels Friedrich)(Paperback / softback)

The Communist Manifesto changed the face of the twentieth century beyond recognition, inspiring millions to revolution, forming the basis of political systems that still dominate countless lives and continuing to ignite violent debate about class and capitalism

Gateway (Pohl Frederik)(Paperback / softback)

One of the very best must-read SF novels of all

Human, All Too Human (Nietzsche Friedrich)(Paperback / softback)

A series of 638 aphorisms and discourses on subjects ranging from art, arrogance and boredom to passion, science, vanity, women and youth. Nietzsche himself described this work as 'the monument of a crisis', since it was written at a time of major upheaval in his