Truman Capote

An account of the senseless murder of a Kansas farm family and the search for the killers

A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences

In Cold Blood

A Short Novel and Three Stories

Breakfast at Tiffany's

Other voices, other rooms

including A tree of night and other stories

The grass harp

Sniadanie u Tiffanyego

Cercueils sur mesure

Chladokrevně

Maria Isabel Braga

A sangue frio

roman

Kabul edilmiş dualar

Umělecká, románově pojatá reportáž o čtyřnásobné vraždě v Americe r. 1959 a o dopadení, vyšetřování a potrestání vrahů; román z pera významného amerického spisovatele (nar. 1924), považovaný za vrchol současné americké prózy.Autor v něm výběrem a dramatickým řazením faktů rekonstruje bestiální vraždu čtyř členů farmářské rodiny v zapadlé vesnici v Kansasu dvěma patologicky zrůdnými chuligány, a to od motivu vraždy, přes vraždu samu, až po potrestánízločinců trestem smrti. Autor doslovu o knize ríká, že je možno ji číst "jako krutě věcné hlášení o činu přímo bestiálním ... i jako detektivní příběh složitého pátrání, nacházení stop, zatčení, výslechů a konečné zdrcující,překvapivé rekonstrukce nejen toho, co se stalo, ale i důvodů proč se to stalo".

Pravdivé vylíčení čtyřnásobné vraždy a jejích důsledků

Chladnokrevně

Pravdivé vylíčení několikanásobné vraždy a jejích důsledků

Miroslav Jindra

Cecil Beaton

C. Z. Guest

An illustrated primer for novice horticulturalists combines basic instruction with personal reminiscences and advice in a guide to the essentials of planning and maintaining flower and vegetable gardens of modest but satisfying yield.

First Garden

Immortalised in the film starring Audrey Hepburn, Truman Capote's classic 'Breakfast at Tiffany's' is full of sharp wit. Its exuberant cast of characters vividly captures the restless, slightly madcap era of early 1940s New York.

Breakfast at Tiffany's and Other Stories

Robillot

Brisac

Perhaps no twentieth-century writer was so observant and graceful a chronicler of his times as Truman Capote. Portraits and Observations is the first volume devoted solely to all the essays ever published by this most beloved of writers. Included are such masterpieces of narrative nonfiction as “The Muses Are Heard” and the short nonfiction novel “Handcarved Coffins,” as well as many long-out-of-print essays, including portraits of Mae West, Humphrey Bogart, and Marilyn Monroe. From his travel sketches of Brooklyn, New Orleans, and Hollywood, written when he was twenty-two, to the author’s last written words, composed the day before his death in 1984, the recently discovered “Remembering Willa Cather,” Portraits and Observations puts on display the full spectrum of Truman Capote’s brilliance. Certainly Capote was, as Somerset Maugham famously called him, “a stylist of the first quality.” But as the pieces gathered here remind us, he was also an artist of remarkable substance. Praise for Portraits and Observations NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD “A must-have treasure for Capote fans . . . These are delicious, dramatic, and tender nonfiction portraits and tales.” –NPR’s Morning Edition “A wonderful volume . . . Nearly every page can be read with real pleasure. . . . No matter what his subject, [Capote’s] canny, careful art gives it warm and breathing life” –The Washington Post Book World “Every piece is a treasure. . . . Pages and pages of remarkably evocative, careful and well-observed prose [delineate,] in a measured and elegant manner, one of the most remarkable American literary lives of the twentieth century.” –Jane Smiley, Los Angeles Times Book Review

The Essays of Truman Capote

Portraits and Observations

The Grass Harp ; And, A Tree of Night, and Other Stories

Truman Capote

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