Beletria, alebo aj prozaické umelecké dielo, prináša do našich životov nové príbehy, vzrušenie i zážitok, ktorý pre nás napísal autor a pred našimi očami ho nakreslila naša vlastná fantázia. Klasická anglická literatúra prináša nezabudnuteľné príbehy Williama Shakespaera či Jane Austenovej. Knihy po anglicky a príbehy ukryté na ich stránkach nám nielenže rozjasňujú dni a vytŕhajú nás z každodennej nudnej rutiny, ale rovnako nás nútia aktívne premýšľať nad vetnými konštrukciami a pomáhajú nám v zdokonaľovaní sa v cudzom jazyku.
WONDER IS SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING JULIA ROBERTS, OWEN WILSON, AND JACOB TREMBLAY! Over 5 million people have read the #1 New York Times bestseller Wonder--the book that inspired the Choose Kind movement--and have fallen in love with Auggie Pullman, an ordinary boy with an extraordinary ...
Charlie is a freshman. And while he\''s not the biggest geek in the school, he is by no means popular. Shy, introspective, intelligent beyond his years yet socially awkward, he is a wallflower, caught between trying to live his life and trying to run from it. Charlie is attempting to navigate his way ...
Set in the small Southern town of Maycomb, Alabama, during the Depression, To Kill a Mockingbird follows three years in the life of 8-year-old Scout Finch, her brother, Jem, and their father, Atticus—three years punctuated by the arrest and eventual trial of a young black man accused of raping a white ...
From the private papers of Jane Austen and Mozart to those of Anne Boleyn and Nelson, Love Letters of Great Men and Women collects together some of the most rom…
Cena:8.13€ | Autor:CARLE, ERIC | Rok vydania:2012 | Jazyk: V anglickom jazyku | Dostupnosť:2-3 týždne | ISBN:9780141332031 | Vydavateľ:Penguin
Join the world of "Artemis Fowl", the number one bestseller by Eoin Colfer. Rumour has it Artemis Fowl is responsible for every major crime of the new century. Just twelve years old and already he''''s a criminal genius, plotting to restore his family''''s fortune with a spot of corruption and kidnapping. ...
George Orwell''s chilling fable of Soviet Russia''s brutal dictatorship, "Animal Farm" brings to life in lucid, uncomplicated language the disastrous project of Russian Communism. This "Penguin Modern Classics" edition includes an introduction by Malcolm Bradbury. ''All animals are equal - but some are ...
2015 is the 70th anniversary of&,nbsp,Animal Farm. To commemorate this important anniversary, Penguin Classics is republishing the classic illustrated&,nbsp,Animal Farm&,nbsp,by Joy Batchelor and John Halas. When the downtrodden animals of Manor Farm overthrow their master Mr Jones and take ...
From the back list of Elif Shafak, author of The Architect''s Apprentice, The Bastard of Istanbul is a tale of an extraordinary family curse and was long listed for the 2008 Orange Fiction Prize. One rainy afternoon in Istanbul, a woman walks into a doctor''s surgery. ''I need to have an abortion'', ...
'London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.' Including some of Oscar Wilde's most well-known and infamous plays, Lady Windermere's Fan, A Woman of No Importance, An Ideal Husband, and The Importance of Being Earnest, this ...
Please, sir, can I have some more?’ asks Oliver. Tags Friendship and hate Social Issues In this Reader you will find: - Focus on… - Comprehension activities - Glossary of difficult words - Test yourself Oliver Twist is a poor orphan boy. He hasn’t got a mum or dad and he lives in a terrible place called ...
"The Penguin Classics" edition of Anne Bronte''s "The Tenant of Wildfell Hall", her groundbreaking study of a woman''s valiant struggle for independence from an abusive husband is edited with an introduction and notes by Stevie Davis. Gilbert Markham is deeply intrigued by Helen Graham, a beautiful and ...
Winner of the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction 2007, this is a heartbreaking, exquisitely written literary masterpiece. Now a major film starring Thandie Newton and Chiwetel Ejiofor, due for release in 2014. In 1960s Nigeria, Ugwu, a boy from a poor village, goes to work for Odenigbo, a radical university ...
After the death of her husband, Mrs Dashwood and her three daughters, Elinor, Marianne and Margaret, find they must leave Norland Park and move to a small cottage. There, Marianne falls in love with t
A Room of One''s Own is an extended essay by Virginia Woolf. First published on 24 October 1929, the essay was based on a series of lectures she delivered at Newnham College and Girton College, two women''s colleges at Cambridge University in October 1928. While this extended essay in fact employs a ...
Neal Stephenson continues his extraordinary ''Baroque Cycle'' in this sequel to his bestselling Quicksilver, bringing to life a cast of unforgettable characters in a time of breathtaking genius and discovery. It is the late 1600s, on the high seas. A g roup of Barbary galley slaves plot as they ply the ...
Homer''s great epic, The Odyssey, is perhaps Western literature''s first adventure story, and certainly remains one of its finest. It describes King Odysseus of Ithaca''s epic, ten-year quest to return home after the Trojan War. He encounters giants, sorceresses, sea-monsters and sirens, while his wife ...
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. ''If music be the food of love, play on; Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die.'' A comedic romance of mistaken identity, Twelfth Night begins with a shipwreck, splitting up Viola ...
Sam and Dean Winchester know all the secrets their father recorded in his journal. Now you can, too. On November 2, 1983, Sam and Dean Winchester lost their mother to a demonic supernatural force. In the wake of the tragedy, their father, John, set out to learn everything he could about the paranormal ...
Kimmie's home is on the streets of Copenhagen. To live she must steal. She has learned to avoid the police and never to stay in one place for long. But now others are trying to find her. And they won't rest until she has stopped moving - for good. Detective Carl Morck of Department Q, the cold cases ...
