J.D. Salinger (33 kníh)
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J.D. Salinger Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction EN
First published in the New Yorker in the 1950s, Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: an Introduction are two novellas narrated by Buddy Glass, a character often said to be a portrait of Salinger himself. In the first, Buddy has taken leave from the army during World War II to attend the wedding of the eldest Glass brother, Seymour, and an atmosphere of portentous suspense sets the scene for the tragedy…
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J.D. Salinger The Catcher in the Rye EN
The Catcher in the Rye is the ultimate novel for disaffected youth, but it's relevant to all ages. The story is told by Holden Caulfield, a seventeen- year-old dropout who has just been kicked out of his fourth school. Throughout, Holden dissects the 'phony' aspects of society, and the 'phonies' themselves: the headmaster whose affability depends on the wealth of the parents, his roommate who scores with girls…
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J.D. Salinger The Catcher in the Rye EN
In J. D. Salinger's brilliant coming-of-age novel, Holden Caulfield, a seventeen year old prep school adolescent relates his lonely, life-changing twenty-four hour stay in New York City as he experiences the phoniness of the adult world while attempting to deal with the death of his younger brother, an overwhelming compulsion to lie and troubling sexual experiences.Salinger, whose characters are among the best and…
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J.D. Salinger The Catcher in the Rye EN
Anyone who has read J.D. Salinger's New Yorker stories, particularly A Perfect Day for Bananafish, Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut, The Laughing Man, and For Esme. With Love and Squalor, will not be surprised by the fact that his first novel is fully of children. The hero-narrator of THE CATCHER IN THE RYE is an ancient child of sixteen, a native New Yorker named Holden Caulfield. Through circumstances that tend to…
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J.D. Salinger The Catcher In The Rye EN
The Catcher in the Rye is the ultimate novel for disaffected youth, but it's relevant to all ages. The story is told by Holden Caulfield, a seventeen- year-old dropout who has just been kicked out of his fourth school. Throughout, Holden dissects the 'phony' aspects of society, and the 'phonies' themselves: the headmaster whose affability depends on the wealth of the parents, his roommate who scores with girls using…
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J.D. Salinger The Catcher in the Rye EN
The Catcher in the Rye is the ultimate novel for disaffected youth, but it's relevant to all ages. The story is told by Holden Caulfield, a seventeen- year-old dropout who has just been kicked out of his fourth school. Throughout, Holden dissects the 'phony' aspects of society, and the 'phonies' themselves: the headmaster whose affability depends on the wealth of the parents, his roommate who scores with girls using…
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J.D. Salinger The Catcher in the Rye
In honour of the centennial of the birth of J.D. Salinger in 1919, Penguin reissues all four of his books in beautiful commemorative hardback editions - with artwork and text based on the very first Salinger editions published in the 1950s and 1960s. The
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J.D. Salinger Vzhůru, tesaři, do výše střechu zvedněte! / Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters! CZ
Dvě psychologicky laděné novely s filozofickým podtextem o sourozencích Glassových. O Seymourovi, nejstarším ze sourozenců, vypráví Buddy, který přijíždí na bratrovu svatbu, jež se nekoná. Druhá novela je improvizovaný esej o smyslu poezie, o psaní a osobnosti spisovatele, který je prokládán a ilustrován historkami a názory rodiny Glassových.
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J.D. Salinger Vzhůru, tesaři, do výše střechu zvedněte!, Seymour: Úvod CZ
Kniha obsahuje dvě psychologicky laděné novely s filozofickým podtextem. Jde o fiktivní autorovu rodinu, která je vřelým společenstvím inteligentních a citlivých lidí s uměleckými sklony. O bratru Seymourovi vypráví Buddy, jakési Salingerovo alter ego. Druhá novela je improvizovaný esej o smyslu poezie, o psaní a osobnosti spisovatele, který je prokládán a ilustrován historkami a názory rodiny Glassů.
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