Village Life (Gluck Louise)(Paperback / softback)

Village Life (Gluck Louise)(Paperback / softback)

From a fountain where 'all the roads in the village unite', concentric circles expand into the distance: the young and old, fields, a river, a mountain - the fountain's stone counterpart, where the roads end, human time superimposed on geological time. This title evokes a Mediterranean world with

Wild Iris (Gluck Louise)(Paperback / softback)

The poems in this collection are written in the language of flowers. Louise Gluck received the Pulitzer Prize for 'The Wild Iris' in 1993, and has also received the National Book Critics Award for Poetry and the Poetry Society of America's Melville Kane

Seven Ages (Gluck Louise)(Paperback / softback)

In contemplating her own death, Louise Gluck confronts the possible and the inevitable in this, her ninth and boldest

Averno (Gluck Louise)(Paperback / softback)

Averno, a crater lake in southern Italy, was for the Romans the entrance to the underworld, both gateway and impassable barrier between the living and the dead. This collection shows Averno as the only source of heat and light in a world turned to icy winter. Both epic and intimate in scope, it

Zimní recepty, kolektiv autorů - Louise Glücková

Louise Glücková získala v roce 2020 Nobelovu cenu za literaturu mj. za 'nezaměnitelný básnický hlas, který s prostou krásou zobecňuje individuální existenci' - a tohle zdůvodnění poroty výtečně vystihuje i její novou básnickou sbírku: mluví se v ní o něčem, co právě

Meadowlands (Gluck Louise)(Paperback / softback)

Includes 'Penelope's Song' in which the author interweaves in a book-length sequence an account of the dissolution of a contemporary marriage with the story of Homer's 'Odyssey'. This collection of poetry also explores the notion of the 'nostos', the

Faithful and Virtuous Night (Gluck Louise)(Paperback / softback)

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2014 FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST COLLECTION The latest collection by multi-award-winning US poet, Louise

Proofs and Theories (Gluck Louise)(Paperback / softback)

A collection of essays in which the author writes of her own upbringing, her human and literary antecedents, and also dwells on lives and poems. The book includes writings on T.S. Eliot, George Oppen, Sylvia Plath, Robinson Jeffers, Wallace Stevens, and John

It Must Be My Hormones - A Practical Guide to Re-balancing your Body and Getting your Life Back on Track (Gluck Marion)(Paperback / softback)

The Wild Iris (Gluck Louise)(Paperback)

Winner of the Nobel Prize in LiteratureFrom Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Louise Gl ck, a stunningly beautiful collection of poems that encompasses the natural, human, and spiritual realmsBound together by the universal themes of time and mortality and with clarity and sureness of craft, Louise Gl

Notwithstanding - Stories from an English Village (de Bernieres Louis)(Paperback / softback)

Welcome to the village of Notwithstanding, where a lady dresses in plus fours and shoots squirrels, a retired general gives up wearing clothes altogether, a spiritualist lives in a cottage with the ghost of her husband, and people think it quite natural to confide in a spider that lives in a

Life in the Raws - Memories of a Shale Oil Village (Findlay Jock)(Paperback / softback)

I Can Do It - How to Use Affirmations to Change Your Life (Hay Louise)(Paperback / softback)

Trouble in the Village (Shaw Rebecca)(Paperback / softback)

All is not well in the Rectory of Turnham Malpas...Another delightful story of village life by the ever perceptive Rebecca

Averno: Poems (Gluck Louise)(Paperback)

Averno is a small crater lake in southern Italy, regarded by the ancient Romans as the entrance to the underworld. That place gives its name to Louise Gl ck's tenth collection: in a landscape turned irretrievably to winter, it is a gate or passageway that invites traffic between worlds while at the

12 knih poezie z nakladatelství Opus - Jiří Červenka, Durs Grünbein, Wallace Stevens, Petr Halmay, Louise Glücková, Josef Hrdlička, Justin Quinn, Štěp

Soubor dvanácti knih poezie vydaných v letech 2007-2012: Louise Glücková, Jiří Červenka, Petr Halmay, Wallace Stevens, Durs Grünbein, Zsuzsa Takácsová, Justin Quinn, Jean Follain, Josef Hrdlička, Štěpán Nosek, Vona Groarke, Petr Halmay

End of Eddy (Louis Edouard)(Paperback / softback)

The author grew up in Hallencourt, a village in northern France where many live below the poverty line. This novel is about life there. It is an extraordinary portrait of escaping from an unbearable childhood. Written with an openness and compassionate intelligence, ultimately, it asks, how can we

Don't Give Up, Don't Give In - Life Lessons from an Extraordinary Man (Zamperini Louis)(Paperback / softback)

Inspirational stories and life lessons from the Olympic athlete and war hero Louis

Proofs and Theories (Gluck Louise)(Paperback)

Winner of the 1993 PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Non-Fiction, Proofs and Theories is an illuminating collection of essays by Louise Gl ck, whose most recent book of poems, The Wild Iris, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize. Gl ck brings to her prose the same precision of language, the same

Boat (Hartley L. P.)(Paperback / softback)

A complex masterpiece of observation. English village life in war-time Britain is brought to

Medieval Woman: Village Life in the Middle Ages (Baer Ann)(Paperback)

Village life in medieval England is brought vividly to life in this extraordinary portrait of Marion, a carpenter's wife, and her extended family. Based on years of research, Ann Baer evokes the reality of a world that has been

Vintner's Luck (Knox Elizabeth)(Paperback / softback)

Village life goes on, meanwhile, with its affairs and mysteries, marriages and murders, and the vintages keep improving - though the horror of the Napoleonic wars and into the middle of the century, as science marches on, viticulture changes, and gliders fly like angels. Longlisted for the Orange

Passionate Man (Trollope Joanna)(Paperback / softback)

Now bedded firmly into country life - three children, Archie the village doctor, Liza a teacher, everything comfortable, funny, affectionate - they awaited the arrival of Archie's father, the brilliant Sir Andrew Logan, a widower for over thirty

Villages (Updike John)(Paperback / softback)