Modernism

Shattered by war and rattled by rapid change, the early twentieth century gave rise to bold new voices that broke every rule of how stories could be told and how the world could be understood. This collection captures that restless spirit, bringing together works that wrestle with fractured identity, disillusionment, and the search for meaning in a world that had lost its old certainties.

Modernism Shrnutí knih

Čekání na Godota

od Samuel Beckett • 1951

Two aging tramps wait beside a leafless tree for a man who never shows.

3.84

200 000+

Divadelní hry

Drama

Divadlo

Klasika

Literatura

Čekání na Godota

Two aging tramps wait beside a leafless tree for a man who never shows.

od Samuel Beckett 1951 109 stran

3.84

200 000+ hodnocení

Divadelní hry

Drama

Divadlo

Klasika

Literatura

Paní Dallowayová

od Virginia Woolfová • 1925

A London hostess walks out for flowers and into a day that opens every door of her past.

3.77

300 000+

Klasika

Literární fikce

Modernism

Romány

Feminismus

Paní Dallowayová

A London hostess walks out for flowers and into a day that opens every door of her past.

od Virginia Woolfová 1925 194 stran

3.77

300 000+ hodnocení

Klasika

Literární fikce

Modernism

Romány

Feminismus

Fiesta (I slunce vychází)

od Ernest Hemingway • 1926

A wounded journalist follows his love to Pamplona, where bullfights mirror their impossible desire.

3.79

400 000+

Klasika

Literatura

Americké

Literární fikce

Historická fikce

Fiesta (I slunce vychází)

A wounded journalist follows his love to Pamplona, where bullfights mirror their impossible desire.

od Ernest Hemingway 1926 189 stran

3.79

400 000+ hodnocení

Klasika

Literatura

Americké

Literární fikce

Historická fikce

Sbohem, armádo!

od Ernest Hemingway • 1929

An American driver and a British nurse fall in love and desert the Italian front together.

3.82

300 000+

Klasika

Literární fikce

Válka

Historická fikce

Romantika

Sbohem, armádo!

An American driver and a British nurse fall in love and desert the Italian front together.

od Ernest Hemingway 1929 304 stran

3.82

300 000+ hodnocení

Klasika

Literární fikce

Válka

Historická fikce

Romantika

Portrét umělce v jinošských letech

od James Joyce • 1916

Stephen Dedalus is raised to fear hell, but poetry makes him feel something holier than prayer.

3.64

100 000+

Klasika

Literatura

Literární fikce

Romány

Irsko

Portrét umělce v jinošských letech

Stephen Dedalus is raised to fear hell, but poetry makes him feel something holier than prayer.

od James Joyce 1916 329 stran

3.64

100 000+ hodnocení

Klasika

Literatura

Literární fikce

Romány

Irsko

Tropic of Cancer

od Henry Miller • 1934

A broke American drifts through Paris, turning hunger, sex, and failure into an ecstatic howl.

3.65

78 000+

Klasika

Literární fikce

Literatura

Americké

Avant Garde

Tropic of Cancer

A broke American drifts through Paris, turning hunger, sex, and failure into an ecstatic howl.

od Henry Miller 1934 318 stran

3.65

78 000+ hodnocení

Klasika

Literární fikce

Literatura

Americké

Avant Garde

Men Without Women

od Ernest Hemingway • 1927

Bereft of women, men face war and mortality in Hemingway's classic short stories.

3.58

16 000+

Klasika

Povídky

Literatura

Literární fikce

Modernism

Men Without Women

Bereft of women, men face war and mortality in Hemingway's classic short stories.

od Ernest Hemingway 1927 153 stran

3.58

16 000+ hodnocení

Klasika

Povídky

Literatura

Literární fikce

Modernism

The Stillborn God

od Mark Lilla • 2007

Politics broke from God only recently, and Weimar nearly put them back together.

3.60

289

Náboženství

Filozofie

Politika

Historie

Teologie

The Stillborn God

Politics broke from God only recently, and Weimar nearly put them back together.

od Mark Lilla 2007 352 stran

3.60

289 hodnocení

Náboženství

Filozofie

Politika

Historie

Teologie

[Vile Bodies] [by

od Evelyn Waugh • 1930

A broke writer needs a fortune to marry. His London set offers only gin and oblivion.

3.71

17 000+

Klasika

Humor

Literatura

British

20. století

[Vile Bodies] [by

A broke writer needs a fortune to marry. His London set offers only gin and oblivion.

od Evelyn Waugh 1930

3.71

17 000+ hodnocení

Klasika

Humor

Literatura

British

20. století

Tragedy and Hope

od Carroll Quigley • 1966

Art turned ugly, stopped making sense, and became useless. That was its last honest act.

4.32

500+

Filozofie

Umění

Teorie

Modernism

Sociologie

Tragedy and Hope

Art turned ugly, stopped making sense, and became useless. That was its last honest act.

od Carroll Quigley 1966 1348 stran

4.32

500+ hodnocení

Filozofie

Umění

Teorie

Modernism

Sociologie

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