V knihe Dolu vodou, 15. dielu série Denník odvážneho bojka od Jeffa Kinneyho, sa Greg Heffley a jeho rodina vydávajú na cestu naprieč krajinou na kempovanie, pripravení na dobrodružstvo svojho života. Ale veci sa nečakane zvrtnú a ocitnú sa na kempovisku, ktoré nie je práve letným rajom. Keď sa spustí lejak a voda začne stúpať, Heffleyovci sa pýtajú, či môžu zachrániť svoju dovolenku - alebo sú už príliš hlboko.
„Ahoj, zdraví vás Rowley, Gregovskvelý kamoš. Aj keď môj ockohovorí, že Greg nie je rovnakoskvelý kamoš ako ja a nepozdávasa mu, ja si to nemyslím. Ockomožno len žiarli, lebo ho kvôliGregovi dávam na druhé miesto...Ale to mu nehovorte! Je sícepravda, že Greg nie je vždy milý,no aj tak ho mám rád. Viete,v priateľstve to je niekedy poriadnenáročné... No ja chcem byťskutočne skvelý kamoš za akýchkoľvek okolností!“Odhaľte spolu s Rowleym začiatky kamarátstva s Gregom, humornépríhody, spoločné zážitky, šibalstvá, a naučte sa vážiť si darpriateľstva.
Greg Heffley sa dlho nevedel dočkať, kedy konečne vyrastie. Lenže zrazu zisťuje, že celkom zblízka už dospievanie nevyzerá až tak super. Dokonca aj školský žúr môže dopadnúť všelijako... Navyše treba hľadať odpovede na nepríjemnú otázku: „Čo sa to, dokelu, deje s mojím telom?“ A to všetko bez verného kamoša Rowleyho po boku. Zvládne to všetko úplne sám? Ako s ním zamáva krutá pravda?
Cormac McCarthy’s award-winning, bestselling trio of novels chronicles the coming-of-age of two young men in the south west of America. John Grady Cole and Billy Parham, two cowboys of the old school, are poised on the edge of a world about to change forever. Their journeys across the border into Mexico, each an adventure fraught with fear and pain, mark a passage into adulthood, and eventual salvation. In All the Pretty Horses, young John Grady Cole, dispossessed by the sale of his family’s Texas ranch, heads across the border in search of the cowboy life, where he finds a job breaking horses, and a dangerously ill-fated romance. In The Crossing, sixteen-year-old Billy Parham captures a wolf that has been marauding his family’s ranch and, instead of killing it, decides to take it on a perilous journey home to the mountains of Mexico.These two drifters come together years later in Cities of the Plain, a magnificent tale of friendship and passion. In the vanishing world of the Old West, blood and violence are conditions of life. Beautiful and brutal, filled with sorrow and humour, The Border Trilogy is both an epic love story and a fierce elegy for the American frontier.
Alexander MacDonald guides us through his family’s mythic past as he recollects the heroic stories of his people: loggers, miners, drinkers, adventurers; men forever in exile, forever linked to their clan. There is the legendary patriarch who left the Scottish Highlands in 1779 and resettled in “the land of trees,” where his descendents became a separate Nova Scotia clan. There is the team of brothers and cousins, expert miners in demand around the world for their dangerous skills. And there is Alexander and his twin sister, who have left Cape Breton and prospered, yet are haunted by the past. Elegiac, hypnotic, by turns joyful and sad, No Great Mischief is a spellbinding story of family, loyalty, exile, and of the blood ties that bind us, generations later, to the land from which our ancestors came.
Con un saggio di V.S. Naipaul - Testo originale a fronte
Capolavoro della letteratura anglosassone, frutto di una straordinaria maturazione creativa, Cuore di tenebra affianca alla dimensione concreta di testimonianza autobiografica la denuncia sociale e una cupa meditazione metafisica. Attraverso la voce recitante di Marlow, Conrad ci conduce nel cuore dell'Africa nera: l'incontro con la terribile realtà dello sfruttamento del Congo Belga di Leopoldo II si dilata fino a trasformarsi in riflessione generale sull'esperienza del colonialismo nella sua totalità, destinata a scuotere le certezze di un ottimismo evoluzionistico ed eurocentrico, in un inquietante confronto con il diverso e il primitivo. Al Libro è ispirato il film Apocalypse now di Francis F. Coppola. Testo originale a fronte
In the 1930s, two teenage brothers whose ranch in New Mexico was raided by bandits cross into Mexico to search for stolen horses. The novel follows them through the revolution-torn countryside, meeting soldiers, peasants, priests and thieves, all proffering advice. By the author of "All the Pretty Horses."
