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Gregor Samsa is a travelling salesman who wakes up one morning to realize that he been transformed from a human being to a "monstrous vermin". He reflects back on his life, his work, his relationship with his family and his employer, and he realizes that each...
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Youth' is an autobiographical short story by Joseph Conrad. It was written in 1898, first published in Blackwood's Magazine, and included as the first story in the 1902 volume Youth, a Narrative, and Two Other Stories. The volume also included Heart of Darkness...
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The Death of Ivan Ilyich, first published in 1886, is a novella by Leo Tolstoy, one of the masterpieces of his late fiction, written shortly after his religious conversion of the late 1870s. The novel tells the story of the death, at age 45, of a high court...
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The story begins with the childhood and exceptional and accomplished youth of Prince Stepan Kasatsky. The young man is destined for great things. He discovers on the eve of his wedding that his fiancée Countess Mary Korotkova has had an affair with his beloved...
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The Idiot is anything but, yet his fellow boarders at Mrs. Smithers Pedagog's home for single gentlemen see him as such. His brand of creative thought is dismissed as foolishness yet it continues to get under their skin, because when you're beneath contempt...
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Three trees, known as the Peacock trees, are blamed by the peasants for the fever that has killed many. Squire Vane scoffs at this legend as superstition. To prove them wrong, once and for all, he takes a bet to spend the night in the trees. In the morning...
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Milton is an epic poem by William Blake, written and illustrated between 1804 and 1810. Its hero is John Milton, who returns from Heaven and unites with Blake to explore the relationship between living writers and their predecessors, and to undergo a mystical...
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"Kathleen" is a 1920 novel by Christopher Morley. It tells the story of a group of eight Oxford undergrads who call themselves "The Scorpions. " One day, they find a letter that a certain Kathleen wrote to Joe, and they build an idea of who she might be in...
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In Henrik Ibsen's play "Little Eyolf" we meet Alfred Allmer and his wife Rita, whose marriage and relationship has been strained ever since their son, Eyolf, fell from a table as an infant and became lame. Alfred has been burying himself in work, writing his...
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Master Builder Halvard Solness is an ageing architect who has not achieved what he wanted, neither in art nor in love. He fears and bullies his juniors, and thinks he is going mad. His wife and mistress try to care for him as best they can, without themselves...
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Ali Baba and Cassim are two Persian brothers. Ali Baba barely manages to put food on the table for his family, while his brother lives an easy life thanks to his rich wife. One day, while chopping wood in the forest, Ali Baba sees a band of thieves laden with...
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After their father’s death, the two brothers, Nur al-Din and Shams al-Din, agree to marry two sisters on the same day. The main idea is that Nur wants to have a son, while Shams wants to have a daughter. And so it happens. Shams al-Din has a daughter and Nur...
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A Midsummer Night’s Dream must be one of the most enduringly popular of Shakespeare’s plays, and it is not difficult to see why: the work blends several kinds of comedy with a powerful atmosphere of magic and mystery and a satisfying set of contrasts – between...
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Audiokniha První parta, kterou napsal Karel Čapek. V tomto románu Čapek nepopisuje vizi budoucnosti, ani nevaruje před neuváženými činy lidstva. Prostřednictvím hlavního hrdiny velice přesně zachycuje pocity mladého člověka naplněného sny, touhami a nejistotou....
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Jiří Adamíra, Jan Přeučil, Ladislav Mrkvička, Viktor Vrabec a další ve vynikající dramatizaci příběhu, označovaného za první klasickou detektivku a další detektivní povídka v podání Otakara Brouska st.
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Audiokniha Sága rodu Forsytů, kterou napsal John Galsworthy. Sága rodu Forsytů (The Forsyte Saga) je románová trilogie a zároveň nejznámější dílo anglického spisovatele Johna Galsworthyho, nositele Nobelovy ceny za literaturu za rok 1932.
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Tématem Hrabalova slavného románu je životní dráha číšníka, později hoteliéra a nakonec cestáře v době politických zvratů první půle dvacátého století.
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Audiokniha Věc Makropulos, kterou napsal Karel Čapek. Slavná divadelní hra s tématem dlouhověkosti Věc Makropulos byla poprvé uvedena na jevišti vinohradského Městského divadla v roce 1922.
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