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.
Mariam is only fifteen when she is sent to Kabul to marry Rasheed. Nearly two decades later, a friendship grows between Mariam and a local teenager, Laila, as strong as the ties between mother and daughter. When the Taliban take over, life becomes a desperate struggle against starvation, brutality and ...
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Someone knows what happened to Billy.When fourteen-year-old Billy Wilkinson goes missing from his Bristol home in the middle of the night, there isn''t a single member of his family that doesn''t feel that they are to blame. But the Wilkinson''s are so used to keeping secrets ...
Michael Cunningham''s luminous, compassionate new novel begins with a vision. It''s November 2004. Barrett Meeks, having lost love yet again, is walking through Central Park when he is suddenly and inexplicably inspired to look up at the sky, where he sees a pale, translucent light that seems to regard ...
Druh sortimentu : Kniha, The Fork, The Witch, and the Worm,, Rok vydania : 2019,.
Enthralled by his own exquisite portrait, Dorian Gray exchanges his soul for eternal youth and beauty. Influenced by his friend Lord Henry Wotton, he is drawn into a corrupt double life; indulging his desires in secret while remaining a gentleman inthe eyes of polite society. Only his portrait bears ...
Istanbul has always been a place where stories and histories collide and crackle, where the idea is as potent as the historical fact. From the Qu\''ran to Shakespeare, this city with three names - Byzantium, Constantinople, Istanbul - resonates as an idea and a place, and overspills its boundaries - ...
YOU WANT LESS. You want fewer distractions and less on your plate. The daily barrage of e-mails, texts, tweets, messages, and meetings distract you and stress you out. The simultaneous demands of work and family are taking a toll. And what''s the cost? Second-rate work, missed deadlines, smaller pay ...
Druh sortimentu : Kniha, The Pumpkin Songbook, Autoři : Christopher Barickman, Rok vydania : 2013,
In 1967, after a session with a psychiatrist she''''d never seen before, eighteen-year-old Susanna Kaysen was put in a taxi and sent to McLean Hospital to be treated for depression. She spent most of the next two years on the ward for teenage girls in a psychiatric hospital renowned for its famous clientele ...
You are meant to have an amazing life! This is the handbook to the greatest power in the Universe--The Power to have anything you want. Every discovery, invention, and human creation comes from The Power. Perfect health, incredible relationships, a career you love, a life filled with happiness, and ...
Pilgrimage took Annie Leibovitz to places that she could explore with no agenda. She wasn\''t on assignment. She chose the subjects simply because they meant something to her. The first place was Emily Dickinson\''s house in Amherst, Massachusetts, which Leibovitz visited with a small digital camera. ...
There are two sides to every story. This is THE US No. 1 bestselling novel that everyone is talking about. What are you thinking, Amy?'' The question I''ve asked most often during our marriage, if not out loud, if not to the person who could answer. I suppose these questions stormcloud over every marriage: ...
",I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, then all at once.", Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a gorgeous plot twist named Augustus Waters suddenly ...
"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 ...
The Scarlet Letter exposes the moral rigidity of a 17thCentury Puritan New England community when faced with the illegitimate child of a young mother. Regarded as the first real heroine of American fiction, it is Hester Prynnes strength of character
Half Boy. Half God. All Hero. Honestly, blowing up another school was the last thing I wanted to do. As the son of a Greek God, I've had my share of near-death disaster - and now my arch enemy Luke wants to invade our camp via an ancient labyrinth. If he succeeds, thousands of bloodthirsty monsters will ...
In the 1920s and ''''30s, H P Lovecraft pioneered a new type of fiction that fused elements of supernatural horror with the concepts of visionary science fiction. Lovecraft''''s tales of cosmic horror revolutionised modern horror fiction. This title collects Lovecraft''''s fictions. H.P. Lovecraft fused ...
