Klasika

Audiokniha Tri gaštanové kone, ktorú napísala Margita Figuli. Románová novela Tri gaštanové kone patrí medzi základné diela slovenského naturizmu. Je príbehom ľúbostného trojuholníka dvoch mužov a jednej ženy na pozadí dobového slovenského vidieka, s výrazným sociálnym podtextom. Autorka v diele dodržiava niektoré základné znaky naturizmu.

Audiokniha Továrna na Absolutno, kterou napsal Karel Čapek. Proč po celém světě jako lavina vzrůstá náboženské běsnění a lidská touha po dokonalém štěstí? Nechtěným efektem zázračného stroje na výrobu energie je totiž vytvoření „Absolutna" – esence, působící na lidstvo a jeho jednání ve formě božího poznání. Chaos a šílenství na sebe nenechají dlouho čekat. Podaří se lidstvu zastavit celosvětovou vlnu násilí a ukončit krvavou náboženskou válku? Dystopický román Továrna na absolutno byl poprvé publikován v roce 1922 ve formě fejetonů vycházejících na pokračování.

Audiokniha Továrna na absolutno, kterou nasal Karel Čapek. Je "absolutno" bůh? Je "božství" jen utopie? První Čapkův utopický román o vynálezu stroje na využití energie, jenž však z hmoty kromě ostatní energie uvolňuje i „absolutno“ - boha a způsobí tím převraty v citech a myšlení lidí i národů. Kladem díla zůstává jeho kritika: kritika nacionalismu, klerikalismu a společenského systému, na jehož pozicích autor stál.

Totem and Taboo: Resemblances Between the Mental Lives of Savages and Neurotics is a book by Sigmund Freud, published in German in 1913. It is a collection of four essays first published in the journal Imago (1912-13), employing the application of psychoanalysis to the fields of archaeology, anthropology, and the study of religion.

With a star cast including Richard Wilson as Humpty Dumpty, David Shaw Parker as Tweedledum, David Timson as the Dodo, Teresa Gallagher as the Rose and the Fawn, Sean Barrett as The Lion and many more. Alice is back in her room, stroking her cats – but not for long. Slipping through the Looking Glass she meets another wild collection of fantasy characters including the Red and White Kings and Queens, Tweedledum and Tweedledee and is entertained by the poems Jabberwocky and The Walrus and the Carpenter.

Published at the end of Flaubert’s career, Three Tales is a collection of three compelling short stories about faith, loneliness and love. In ‘A Simple Heart’ (the inspiration for Julian Barnes’s novel Flaubert’s Parrot), a saint-like servant girl begins to experience religious visions of her pet parrot after enduring the loss of loved ones.

Gertrude Stein’s pioneering triptych Three Lives portrays the lives of three working-class women in the fictional American town of Bridgepoint (Baltimore). A progenitor of the ‘stream of consciousness’ technique later adopted by Joyce and Woolf, Stein takes us into the minds of three distinct women, who are each trapped in their societal positions.

Audiobook This Side of Paradise written by Francis Scott Fitzgerald. First published in 1920, This Side of Paradise proved to be a best-selling novel in Fitzgerald’s own lifetime. The book follows the early life and education of Amory Blaine and is, in fact, a thinly disguised account of Fitzgerald’s own experience as an undergraduate at Princeton and as an aspiring writer.

Published in 1867, Thérèse Raquin is the novel which established Zola’s reputation as a writer who forensically explored the darker side of human nature. Thérèse is a half Algerian orphan, brought up in provincial France by her aunt and married off to her sickly cousin Camille. His ambition takes the three of them to Paris, where they set up home in the dank and dingy backstreets that run down to the Seine.

A timeless piece of feminist literature, the story follows a series of journal entries made by a woman diagnosed with hysterical tendencies by her doctor and husband. Barred from working for her "nerves", she is confined to the nursery in an old New England colonial mansion to recuperate. Trapped in this room with barred windows and sickly yellow wallpaper, she begins writing in secret as she starts to feel the walls mutate around her.