Jordi Fibla Knihy

Mr Noon is a sardonic tale about the amorous adventures of Gilbert Noon, a young schoolmaster in Lawrence's home county of Nottinghamshire who gets entangled with a girl, loses his job, and decides to leave the country to escape the narrow provincial middle-class morality. It was first known as a long story posthumously published in A Modern Lover (1934) and collected in the volume called Phoenix II (1968). Lawrence in fact wrote a long continuation of the novel, but the manuscript disappeared for many years. The Cambridge edition brought the two parts together for the first time. It is like a sequel to Sons and Lovers, but much more straightforwardly autobiographical. The publication of the complete work added a new work of major importance to the canon of a great writer, and was widely hailed as a major literary event.

Winnie and Helen have kept each other's worst secrets for more than fifty years. Now, because she believes she is dying, Helen wants to expose everything. And Winnie angrily determines that she must be the one to tell her daughter, Pearl, about the past—including the terrible truth even Helen does not know. And so begins Winnie's story of her life on a small island outside Shanghai in the 1920s, and other places in China during World War II, and traces the happy and desperate events that led to Winnie's coming to America in 1949.

Bucky Cantor, dvadsaťtriročný židovský chlapec z Newarku, vyštudoval univerzitu a stal sa učiteľom telocviku. Píše sa rok 1944, Buckyho nevzali do armády, lebo je silne krátkozraký, a tak si cez prázdniny privyrába ako vedúci a športový organizátor detského ihriska. Pokojnú atmosféru dní naruší ochorenie jedného z detí a čoskoro sa ukáže, že mesto je postihnuté epidémiou detskej obrny, pomerne často so smrteľnými dôsledkami. Bucky situáciu ťažko znáša, lebo sa s deťmi medzičasom zžil, a okrem toho mnohé z nich pozná zo svojho jednoročného pôsobenia na škole. Nevie pochopiť ľudskú bezmocnosť zoči-voči zákernej chorobe, a búri sa aj proti Bohu, ktorý čosi podobné dopúšťa.

Our narrator's days are numbered. Estranged from his family, living alone with only his cat Cabbage for company, he was unprepared for the doctor's diagnosis that he has only months to live. But before he can set about tackling his bucket list, the Devil appears with a special offer: in exchange for making one thing in the world disappear, he can have one extra day of life. And so begins a very bizarre week ... Because how do you decide what makes life worth living? How do you separate out what you can do without from what you hold dear? In dealing with the Devil our narrator will take himself - and his beloved cat - to the brink -- Source other than Library of Congress

David, white-haired & over 60, is a TV culture critic & lecturer at a New York college. He meets Consuela, a 24-year-old student, daughter of wealthy Cuban exiles, who puts his life into erotic disorder & haunts him for the next eight years.