John Drew Poradie kníh

The book is a reprint of a classic work originally published in 1860, preserving the historical context and language of the time. It offers readers a glimpse into the themes and societal issues of the era, reflecting the author's unique perspective and literary style. This edition aims to provide a faithful representation of the original text, allowing both new readers and those familiar with the work to appreciate its significance in literary history.

With the phenomenally popular weekly magazines Household Words and All the Year Round, Charles Dickens effectively re-invented periodical literature in the nineteenth century. Already enjoying huge stature as a world-famous author, Dickens was often the principal contributor of the journals that carried the novels serialized within them. As, by his own term, the“conductor” of the weekly magazines, he was able to direct the gaze of his readership, easily eliding fiction and non-fiction, to those things that most concerned him – poverty, crime, education, public health, women, and social welfare and reform. This collection of new essays from a rich variety of contributors, explores the journalism and fiction in Household Words and All Year Round and their relationship to the wider publishing world. The essays were presented at the Dickens Journals Online Conference launched in March 2012.

Wettbewerbsvorteile in puncto Qualität, Zeit und Kosten können auf Dauer nur gesichert werden, wenn die Lean Production Teil der Unternehmenskultur wird. Schlanke Prozesse dürfen nicht einfach hingenommen, sondern müssen von allen Mitarbeitern getragen und verwirklicht werden. Die Autoren zeigen mit realitätsnahen Beispielen, wie Manager erfolgreich eine »Lean Culture« in ihr Unternehmen implementieren können.

Román rozpráva o túžbe po večnej mladosti a kráse. Maliar Basil Hallward namaľuje portrét osemnásťročného Doriana Graya, mladíka s krásnou tvárou a čistou dušou. Lord Henry Wotton však Dorianovi zdôrazňuje, že mladosť a fyzická krása sú pominuteľné, a nabáda ho, aby ich naplno využil. Dorian podľahne lordovmu vplyvu a zostane večne mladý a krásny, kým čas a Dorianove výčiny sa odrážajú na obraze. Napokon sa krásny zhýralec rozhodne obraz zničiť, no zabije sám seba. Na stene visí Dorianov nepoškvrnený portrét, pod ním leží mŕtvy starec s vyžitou tvárou... Aké aktuálne – v dnešnom čase honby za mladosťou a krásou!