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School’s over at last! Summer holidays are here but who wants to spend them in the countryside? Not Val, of course! She hates the country, but eventually she’ll change her mind. Guess why! Read her diary and find out. She tells her diary all about herself, her moods, he…

Nine steps have led us to the final stage – right into the heart of the Darkness. Aptly enough, the iconic author from Ireland is on the doorstep; Bram Stoker – and with his Dracula to boot. Well, wait a second – not exactly, to be honest. Dracula’s Guest is one of the …

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Italský dramatik Carlo Goldoni svou Mirandolinu napsal v roce 1753 a od té doby, obrazně řečeno, mazaná benátská hostinská neslezla z jeviště.Jiří Štěpnička ztvárnil v tomto nestárnoucím příběhu barona Ripafrattu, jednoho z nápadníků rázné Benátčanky, který nakonec dost…

Studiová "rekonstrukce" inscenace někdejšího Realistického divadla v Praze z roku 1987.Účinkují: stařenka Buryjovka (Věra Kubánková), Laca Klemeň (Zdeněk Žák), Števa Buryja (Jiří Schwarz), kostelnička Buryjovka (Věra Vlčková), Jenůfa, její pastorkyňa (Miluše Šplechtová)…

Prokurátor krále Přemysla II. Otakara Oldřich z Chlumu a zároveň správce hradu Bezdězu má v pravomoci i vyšetřování a trestání hrdelních zločinů v kraji. Tentokrát řeší krádež trnu z Kristovy koruny; vzácné relikvie, již získal Havel z Lemberka hodlá ji věnovat chrámu s…

The Beauty of Women for Middle Aged and Older Men 67 humorous and reflective poems about love, attraction, and relationships from a mature man's perspective. What happens when love is seen not through youthful fantasy, but through the wisdom of time? This collection bl…

Mářa neboli Marie Stejskalová (1873-1968) nastoupila do služby u Janáčků 27. srpna 1894, když jí bylo jednadvacet let. Leoš Janáček a jeho žena Zdenka pro ni byli milostpán a milostpaní. Jemu bylo čtyřicet a jí devětadvacet. Mářa zůstala ve službě až do Zdenčiny smrti, …

The sixth step into the Darkness is called Longing, and it features a single short story; a very distinctive one indeed. It is a relatively short masterpiece by Howard Phillips Lovecraft, the author who is a pillar of our series. The Outsider is one of his most often pu…

Italský prozaik a dramatik Giovanni Verga (1840 - 1922) bývá uváděn jako nejvýznamnější italský romanopisec po Alessandru Manzonim. V novele Pastýř Jeli autor originálně upravil literární italštinu tak, aby simulovala mluvu prostých sicilských venkovanů. Na rozdíl od na…

The fifth step into the Darkness is called Planes of Existence, and it is a solo ride by the feature author of the whole series in three parts. In them, Howard Phillips Lovecraft, practically unread and unknown during his life, but a source of inspiration after his deat…

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The ninth step into the Darkness is called Love from the Dark Side, and it brings us to the climax of the series – the Darkness itself. It features The Tenant of the Cedars by Mary Elizabeth Penn – a story about the vengeance of the dead. Little is known of the author o…

Příběhy mimořádných žen, převážně urozených, ale i prostých, které se svými projevy blíženské lásky a svatostí zapsaly do dějin. O svatých královnách hovoří církevní historik profesor Martin Weis. Pozornost věnuje například císařovně Elii Pulcherii, svaté Uršule, králov…

What did Shakespeare really believe, write, and do -- and what have we simply assumed for four hundred years? 30 Great Myths about Shakespeare takes aim at the persistent myths surrounding the world's most famous playwright, from questions about his identity and authors…

James Clerk Maxwell is one of history's most influential scientists — in Einstein's words, the man with whom "one scientific epoch ended and another began" — yet he remains far less known to the public than contemporaries like Faraday, Newton, or Einstein himself. In th…

The second step into the Darkness is called Illusion, and the pioneer of modern-era horror stories, Howard Phillips Lovecraft, meets another of his “gurus” – Edgar Allan Poe (Lovecraft himself is sometimes referred to as E. A. Poe’s direct successor). William Wilson is …

The eighth step into the Darkness takes place on the American side of the Atlantic. It features two short stories by a single author – Texas native Robert Ervin Howard. Sadly enough, Howard died at age 30, but he still managed to create several immortal heroes – and was…