„Truman Capote” – książki

Starcie dobra ze złem – odwieczny problem ludzkości. Z zimną krwią to pionierska próba nowego pisarstwa, dokument zbrodni popełnionej przez dwóch recydywistów na czteroosobowej rodzinie farmera z Kansas. Wydarzenie to zostało szczegółowo opisane, podobnie jak śledztwo, pościg za mordercami, proces i zachowanie przestępców w sądzie i więzieniu aż po egzekucję. Capote po mistrzowsku przedstawia godny Ajschylosa motyw zbrodni i kary, zmuszając czytelnika do refleksji na temat źródeł zła. Z zimną krwią to arcydzieło, obok którego nie można przejść obojętnie. Tytuł oryginalny: In Cold Blood Tłumacz: Krzysztof Filip Rudolf Redaktor: Elżbieta Bandel

Cztery historie, w których miłość króluje w swoich najbardziej różnorodnych formach. Tytułowe – legendarne! – Śniadanie u Tiffany’ego stało się inspiracją do niezapomnianego filmu z Audrey Hepburn w roli głównej. Holly Golightly to odważna, łamiąca reguły młoda kobieta, pracująca jako dama do towarzystwa. Kontakty z mafijnym półświatkiem nie chronią jej jednak przed zakochaniem się w brazylijskim dyplomacie. Czy wieczna podróżniczka, jak sama siebie nazywa, będzie miała szansę zatrzymać się gdzieś na dłużej i odnaleźć szczęście i miłość? W zbiorze znalazły się również opowiadania: Dom z kwiatów, Brylantowa gitara oraz Bożonarodzeniowe wspomnienie.

Controversial and compelling, In Cold Blood reconstructs the murder in 1959 of a Kansas farmer, his wife and both their children. Truman Capote's comprehensive study of the killings and subsequent investigation explores the circumstances surrounding this terrible crime and the effect it had on those involved. At the centre of his study are the amoral young killers Perry Smith and Dick Hickcock, who, vividly drawn by Capote, are shown to be reprehensible yet entirely and frighteningly human. The book that made Capote's name, In Cold Blood is a seminal work of modern prose, a remarkable synthesis of journalistic skill and powerfully evocative narrative.

Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reader series for learners of English as a foreign language. With carefully adapted text, new illustrations and language learning exercises, the print edition also includes instructions to access supporting material online. Titles include popular classics, exciting contemporary fiction, and thought-provoking non-fiction, introducing language learners to bestselling authors and compelling content. The eight levels of Penguin Readers follow the Common European Framework of Reference for language learning (CEFR). Exercises at the back of each Reader help language learners to practise grammar, vocabulary, and key exam skills. Before, during and after-reading questions test readers' story comprehension and develop vocabulary. Breakfast at Tiffany's, a Level 4 Reader, is A2+ in the CEFR framework. The text is made up of sentences with up to three clauses, introducing more complex uses of present perfect simple, passives, phrasal verbs and simple relative clauses. It is well supported by illustrations, which appear regularly. Visit the Penguin Readers website Exclusively with the print edition, readers can unlock online resources including a digital book, audio edition, lesson plans and answer keys. An unnamed writer remembers living in New York City in the United States of America during World War II. He becomes friends with one of his neighbors, the beautiful yet strange, Holly Golightly.

It's New York in the 1940s, where the martinis flow from cocktail-hour to breakfast at Tiffany's. And nice girls don't, except, of course, Holly Golightly. Pursued by Mafia gangsters and playboy millionaires, Holly is a fragile eyeful of tawny hair and turned-up nose, a heart-breaker, a perplexer, a traveller, a tease. She is irrepressibly 'top banana in the shock department', and one of the shining flowers of American fiction.

Including a previously-unpublished story 'The Bargain', Truman Capote's The Complete Stories is the first ever complete collection stories from one of the masters of American literature, and the author of Breakfast at Tiffany's. This Penguin Classics edition includes an introduction by Reynolds Price. Passionate, perceptive and eloquent, the short stories of Truman Capote are amon the greatest works of twentieth-century American fiction. This new collection gathers them all together for the first time: from early, eerie Southern Gothic tales such as 'Miriam' and 'The Headless Hawk', to the brilliantly evocative 'Children On Their Birth-days' and the tenderly autobiographical 'A Christmas Memory' - an affectionate portrayal of Capote's own Alabama upbringing. Whether describing the Deep South of his childhood, or considering city life with the penetrating gaze of an outsider - as in 'Among the Paths to Eden' and the hitherto unpublished 'The Bargain' - these stories rank among Capote's finest work: acutely observed tales from a unique and brilliant mind.

Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. Holly Golightly is a glittering socialite mover and shaker: generally upwards, sometimes sideways and, every now and then, down. She's up all night drinking cocktails and breaking hearts. She's a shoplifter, a delight, a drifter, a tease. In short, an icon. Truman Capote's most famous work, Breakfast at Tiffany's is the ultimate ode to dreamers. 'The most perfect writer of my generation ... I would not have changed two words of Breakfast at Tiffany's' Norman Mailer

Cztery historie, w których miłość króluje w swoich najbardziej różnorodnych formach. Tytułowe – legendarne! – Śniadanie u Tiffany'ego stało się inspiracją do niezapomnianego filmu z Audrey Hepburn w roli głównej. Holly Golightly to odważna, łamiąca reguły młoda kobieta, pracująca jako dama do towarzystwa. Kontakty z mafijnym półświatkiem nie chronią jej jednak przed zakochaniem się w brazylijskim dyplomacie. Czy wieczna podróżniczka, jak sama siebie nazywa, będzie miała szansę zatrzymać się gdzieś na dłużej i odnaleźć szczęście i miłość? W zbiorze znalazły się również opowiadania: Dom z kwiatów, Brylantowa gitara oraz Bożonarodzeniowe wspomnienie.

When Joel Knox's mother dies, he is sent into the exotic unknown of the Deep South to live with a father he has never seen. But once he gets there, everyone is curiously evasive when Joel asks to see his father. Truman Capote's first novel, Other Voices, Other Rooms is a brilliant, searching study of homosexuality set in a shimmering landscape of heat, mystery and decadence.

At the centre of Music for Chameleons is Handcarved Coffins, a ?nonfiction novel? based on the brutal crimes of a real-life murderer.Taking place in a small Midwestern town in America, it offers chilling insights into the mind of a killer and the obsession of the man bringing him to justice. Also in this volume are six short stories and seven ?conversational portraits? including a touching one of Marilyn Monroe, the ?beautiful child? and a hilarious one of a dope-smoking cleaning lady doing her rounds in New York.