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Роман "Крестьяне" был создан Бальзаком в последний период его творчества. Роман строится на показе широких социальных явлений, на драматическом столкновении массовых материальных интересов. Ни в одном другом своем произведении не ставил с такой мужественной правдивостью и прямотой вопрос о существовании двух наций внутри одного общества - нации господ и рабов, имущих и неимущих, хозяев жизни и обездоленных.

"1984", dnes již klasické dílo antiutopického žánru, je bezesporu jedním z nejpozoruhodnějších románů 20. století a brilantní analýzou totalitních systémů. Britská společnost žije v roce 1984 pod nadvládou všemocné Strany. Hlavní hrdina Winston Smith, zaměstnanec Ministerstva pravdy, roboticky přežívá pod stálým dohledem Velkého bratra. Nepřetržité války a nedostatek základních potravin ještě přispívají k všeobecné duševní prázdnotě a mizérii. Winston Smith se zmůže na jedinou formu odporu: vede si tajný deník.

On 12 March 2034, US Navy Commodore Sarah Hunt is conducting routine freedom of navigation patrol in the South China Sea. On that same day, US Marine aviator Major Chris ‘Wedge’ Mitchell is flying an F-35E Lightning, testing a new stealth technology as he flirts with Iranian airspace. By the end of that day, Wedge will be an Iranian prisoner, and Sarah Hunt’s destroyer will lie at the bottom of the ocean. A terrifying new era is at hand.

Chinese commandos in a lightning raid have seized the vast, under-populated, resource-rich lands of Northern Australia. Thousands of Australian soldiers are held hostage. International realpolitik has left Australia abandoned by its supposed allies and its brittle social fabric is rapidly unwinding as the people panic.

Nichts möchten wir lieber ausblenden als die Unbeständigkeit der Welt. Dennoch werden wir immer wieder damit konfrontiert. Wie gehen wir um mit dem Bewusstsein, dass etwas unwiederbringlich verloren ist? In seinem neuen Essay nimmt Daniel Schreiber so hellsichtig und wahrhaftig, wie nur er es kann, eine zentrale menschliche Erfahrung in den Blick, die unsere Gegenwart maßgeblich prägt und uns wie kaum eine andere an unsere Grenzen bringt: den Verlust von Gewissheiten und lange unumstößlich wirkenden Sicherheiten.

Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel, often published as 1984, is a dystopian social science fiction novel by English novelist George Orwell. It was published on 8 June 1949 by Secker & Warburg as Orwell's ninth and final book completed in his lifetime. Thematically, Nineteen Eighty-Four centres on the consequences of totalitarianism, mass surveillance, and repressive regimentation of persons and behaviours within society. Orwell, himself a democratic socialist, modelled the authoritarian government in the novel after Stalinist Russia.

Francis Urquhart, Chief Whip of the Conservative Party, wants to get to Number 10 and will stop at nothing in his pursuit of power. This full-cast dramatisation packs a powerful punch in the fast-paced political thriller based on Micheal Dobbs bestselling novel of the same name.

Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel, often published as 1984, is a dystopian social science fiction novel by English novelist George Orwell. It was published on 8 June 1949 by Secker & Warburg as Orwell's ninth and final book completed in his lifetime. Thematically, Nineteen Eighty-Four centres on the consequences of totalitarianism, mass surveillance, and repressive regimentation of persons and behaviours within society. Orwell, himself a democratic socialist, modelled the authoritarian government in the novel after Stalinist Russia.

Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel, often published as 1984, is a dystopian social science fiction novel by English novelist George Orwell. It was published on 8 June 1949 by Secker & Warburg as Orwell's ninth and final book completed in his lifetime. Thematically, Nineteen Eighty-Four centres on the consequences of totalitarianism, mass surveillance, and repressive regimentation of persons and behaviours within society. Orwell, himself a democratic socialist, modelled the authoritarian government in the novel after Stalinist Russia.

Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel, often published as 1984, is a dystopian social science fiction novel by English novelist George Orwell. It was published on 8 June 1949 by Secker & Warburg as Orwell's ninth and final book completed in his lifetime. Thematically, Nineteen Eighty-Four centres on the consequences of totalitarianism, mass surveillance, and repressive regimentation of persons and behaviours within society. Orwell, himself a democratic socialist, modelled the authoritarian government in the novel after Stalinist Russia.

Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel, often published as 1984, is a dystopian social science fiction novel by English novelist George Orwell. It was published on 8 June 1949 by Secker & Warburg as Orwell's ninth and final book completed in his lifetime. Thematically, Nineteen Eighty-Four centres on the consequences of totalitarianism, mass surveillance, and repressive regimentation of persons and behaviours within society. Orwell, himself a democratic socialist, modelled the authoritarian government in the novel after Stalinist Russia.

Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel, often published as 1984, is a dystopian social science fiction novel by English novelist George Orwell. It was published on 8 June 1949 by Secker & Warburg as Orwell's ninth and final book completed in his lifetime. Thematically, Nineteen Eighty-Four centres on the consequences of totalitarianism, mass surveillance, and repressive regimentation of persons and behaviours within society. Orwell, himself a democratic socialist, modelled the authoritarian government in the novel after Stalinist Russia.

"Animal Farm" is Orwell’s classic satire of the Russian Revolution - an account of the bold struggle, initiated by the animals, that transforms Mr. Jones’s Manor Farm into Animal Farm - a wholly democratic society built on the credo that All Animals Are Created Equal. But are they?

"Animal Farm" is Orwell’s classic satire of the Russian Revolution - an account of the bold struggle, initiated by the animals, that transforms Mr. Jones’s Manor Farm into Animal Farm - a wholly democratic society built on the credo that All Animals Are Created Equal. But are they?

Eine Beerdigung führt 2016 den Rostocker Kay und seine Clique aus Schulzeiten wieder zusammen. Erinnerungen werden wach: an die unbeschwerte Jugend Anfang der 80er Jahre, aber auch an geplatzte Träume und die Enge des DDR-Systems. Die acht Freunde galten als unzertrennlich, vertrauen einander zutiefst – bis der erste aus der Clique wegen versuchter Republikflucht verhaftet wird.

Step into the world of intrigue and revolution with "The Princess Casamassima" by Henry James. This audiobook takes you on a thrilling journey through the labyrinthine streets of 19th-century London, where the worlds of the aristocracy and the working class collide. With James' exquisite prose and keen social commentary, the narrative explores themes of class struggle, political activism, and the search for identity. The story offers a captivating portrayal of the characters' moral dilemmas and their quest for purpose in a rapidly changing world.

What does it take to make a domestic terrorist out of your average law-abiding citizen? For Adam Johnston, it didn't happen overnight, but ask yourself how you would react if your father was accused of treason when his only crime was advocating anti-war policy? How would you handle being arrested knowing that you were innocent and that you were only being used by the government as leverage against your own family?

Found alive after the massacre at Wounded Knee, twelve-year-old John Iron Horse is determined not to end up like so many others of his people. Then he learns the motto of the school he's required to attend: "Kill the Indian, save the man." Carter Heath teaches in the government-run educational system and knows there's more to his position than what's happening in his classroom. He'll soon learn that in bureaucracy, politics, money, and ulterior motives are always intertwined.

COMING SOON! The Revenge of Odessa: The long-awaited sequel to the genre-defining classic thriller The Odessa File, written by Frederick Forsyth in collaboration with Tony Kent. ‘an absolute belter’ IAN RANKIN ‘The British Jack Reacher’ The Sunday Times ‘Packed with deception and...

When Óttar Karlsson, a wealthy and respected government official and businessman, is found murdered, after failing to turn up at his own surprise birthday party, the police are at a loss. It isn't until young police officer Sigurdís finds a well-hidden safe in his impersonal luxury apartment that clues start emerging. As Óttar's shady business dealings become clear, a second unexpected line of enquiry emerges, when Sigurdís finds a US phone number in the safe, along with papers showing regular money transfers to an American account.

“A superb entertainment that is a work of power, distinction and high seriousness.” – Washington Post From #1 New York Times bestselling author Greg Iles come the widely acclaimed Natchez Burning trilogy, featuring Penn Cage Natchez Burning Raised in Natchez, Mississippi, Penn Cage learned...

Discover the runaway #1 international bestseller that has captured readers the world over―and reminds us all why we remember the name Julius Caesar. “Posteguillo shows just how thrilling a historical novel can be.”―El País Every legend has a beginning . . . Rome, 77 B.C. The corrupt...

Brought to you by Penguin. Paris, 2018. Diégane Latyr Faye, a young Senegalese writer, discovers a legendary book titled The Maze of Inhumanity. It has an immediate hold over him. No one knows what happened to the author, T.C. Elimane, who was accused of plagiarism, his reputation destroyed by...

Thomas Bertram is an American living in San Salvador with his fiancée Cecilia. They own a popular neighborhood restaurant and plan to wed soon. Thomas's dream is to obtain a resident visa for Cecilia and return to the United States.

She was a business hotshot back in the day. Decades later, can this empty nester return with a vengeance to save her beautiful town? Durango, Colorado. Sue Cleary worries she’s lost her mojo. Leaving the workforce as a high-powered forensic accountant to raise her four boys, the now 50-year-old fears all she has to look forward to is boredom. But when she discovers her idyllic community is about to be sullied by a New York developer with big plans for a tasteless tourist trap, she leaps into the fray to defend her picturesque hometown.

Cliff Hock, an intergalactic bounty hunter, is plunged into a treacherous journey toward the newly-constructed Dyson Sphere megastructure encompassing the Sun. His hunt for Nexus Tobbs, an elusive target, steers him through pocket dimensions across the land once known as the United States. But when a sudden bout of amnesia leaves him questioning his own reality, Cliff struggles to confront dangerous adversaries and figure out who his allies really are. Unraveling the puzzle behind the Dyson Sphere, Cliff must navigate this strange new world while solving a mind-bending "whodunnit" mystery....

Cuando el agente del FBI, Richard Clark, se involucra en la persecución del líder de un grupo terrorista que se hace llamar ARC, Anarquistas por un Cambio Real, se encuentra en un camino desconcertante donde «nada es lo que parece ser». Mientras intenta lidiar con sus propios demonios, lucha por encontrar un motivo que conecte todos los crímenes brutales del ARC. A medida que se adentra más en el misterio del ARC, descubre una verdad aterradora.

Einer der Größten des Kinos, vielleicht der größte Regisseur seiner Epoche: Zur Machtergreifung dreht G.W. Pabst in Frankreich; vor den Gräueln des neuen Deutschlands flieht er nach Hollywood. Aber unter der blendenden Sonne Kaliforniens sieht der weltberühmte Regisseur mit einem Mal aus wie ein Zwerg. Nicht einmal Greta Garbo, die er unsterblich gemacht hat, kann ihm helfen. Und so findet Pabst sich, fast wie ohne eigenes Zutun, in seiner Heimat Österreich wieder, die nun Ostmark heißt.

"Krähen im Park" ist das große, messerscharfe, wimmelnde Porträt des Lebens in unserer Gegenwart – von einer verunsicherten Gesellschaft, die sich auf ihre alten Formen nicht mehr verlassen kann, die neuen aber noch nicht gefunden hat.

Congresswoman Emma St. Claire of New Jersey ventures into deep water, when she attends a campaign fundraiser beyond the Florida Keys, where some of the country's most influential business leaders are in attendance. Things quickly go overboard, when one of those attendees is found dead in the turbulent waters of the Straits of Florida, the intersection of the Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico. Everybody aboard the mega yacht becomes a suspect, and Emma must fight upstream to navigate a public relations nightmare.

Assigned to write an exposé on Richmond Hew, one of the most elusive and corrupt figures in the conservation world, a journalist finds himself on a plane to the Congo, a country he thinks he understands. But when he meets Sola, a woman searching for a rootless white orphan girl who believes herself possessed by a skin-stealing demon, he slowly uncovers a tapestry of corruption and racial tensions generations in the making.

Leonora Brito was a writer of exceptional stories. In Dat's Love, she soaks up the sights, sounds and colours of Cardiff to boldly explore race and history. With each electric story, Brito introduces a unique cast of characters, vibrantly elevating their everyday lives. From 59-year-old Dorothy taking up nude modelling to black aristocrat Dido Elizabeth Belle, from the assassination of JFK to what's going down at the Blue Bayou, Brito blends the surreal and the mundane to redress history and immerse the reader in a vibrantly painted world.

Rok 1948. Siermiężne czasy stalinizmu w Polsce Ludowej. Komisarz Jan Wolak, oskarżony o kolaborację z gestapo, teraz ukrywa się wśród poszukiwanych przez Urząd Bezpieczeństwa żołnierzy antykomunistycznego podziemia. Mężczyzna pogodził się z myślą, że już nigdy nie uda mu się wrócić do ukochanej Warszawy. Resztę życia będzie musiał spędzić, ukrywając się w lesie i uciekając przed kolejnymi obławami żołnierzy Korpusu Bezpieczeństwa Wewnętrznego oraz funkcjonariuszy Milicji Obywatelskiej.

Meet Rachel Grossman. She'll stop at nothing to protect her daughter, Aviva, even if it ends up costing her everything. Meet Jane Young. She's disrupting a quiet life with her daughter, Ruby, to seek political office for the first time. Meet Ruby Young. She thinks her mom has a secret. She's right. Meet Embeth Levin. She has made a career of cleaning up her congressman husband's messes. Meet Aviva Grossman. The Internet won't let her or anyone else forget her past transgressions. This is the story of five women...and the scandal that binds them together.

"Dizem que o dinheiro não muda ninguém, apenas desmascara; e é num mundo sem máscaras que as predileções humanas ficam mais claras." Esta é a síntese de um romance em que dois narradores privilegiados se alternam para contar cada um a sua história.

Com a morte de seu Presidente, a população de Novamazônia, uma jovem nação, situada no coração da floresta amazônica, se vê numa inédita situação: pela primeira vez, em trinta anos, escolheriam um novo Presidente, através de eleições diretas. Dois candidatos disputam o cargo: Júnior Pedrosa, conservador; e Ophelia Marabaixo, progressista. Para vencer, um dos candidatos precisa conquistar os votos dos eleitores de Pouso Alegre, uma ilha fluvial, na qual o lixo da capital, Londonésia, é despejado.

Em um momento no qual a corrupção parece nos rondar em todas as esferas, a única pergunta que resta é: como este mal se instala na mente humana? Cada ser humano tem vampiros mentais capazes de deixá-lo sem ar—o orgulho, a ira, o ciúme, a dissimulação, a ambição e a necessidade neurótica de ser o centro das atenções. Embora destruidores, esses parasitas são imperceptíveis a seus hospedeiros. Neste impactante romance, Augusto Cury fala de um político adoecido pelos vampiros da corrupção.

Tunde, the man at the centre of this novel, reflects on the places and times of his life, from his West African upbringing to his current work as a teacher of photography on a renowned New England campus. He is a reader, a listener, and a traveller drawn to many different kinds of stories: from history and the epic; of friends, family, and strangers; those found in books and films. One man's personal lens refracts entire worlds, and back again.

Lieutenant Commander Crystal Wolf's hatred of politics has never been a secret through her spotless military career. So why is she being sent to Earth to speak at a military hearing on behalf of The Lands and Waters of Neophia Organization? When Crystal's team is tasked with convincing the US military to continue the officer exchange program that first brought Lieutenant Desiree Flint and Ensign Justin Anderson to Neophia to serve on Journey’s first tour, the stakes are already high: If they fail their mission, Flint and Anderson won’t be able to return for the second tour.

"Jahrestage" ist ein Jahrhundertbuch. Es gibt keinen zweiten deutschen Roman dieser Art. Gesine Cresspahl lebt mit ihrer zehnjährigen Tochter Marie in New York. Ein Jahr lang, 1967/68, erzählt sie ihr täglich aus der Familiengeschichte. Jeden Tag wird so mitten im amerikanischen Alltag ein Stück deutscher Geschichte lebendig, werden die Schicksale einfacher Leute mit dem Weltgeschehen verwoben.

Colonel James Donovan finds himself again knee-deep in another conspiracy, with a plot hatched in the Bahamas that takes him back to Havana. This time, Dono and Maggie battle Russian oligarchs and rogue Congressmen in a deadly plot to kidnap an American ambassador and steal her inheritance of $1.2 billion dollars.