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.
Set in the Gulf Stream off the coast of Havana, this work presents the tale of an old man, a young boy and a giant fish. It is a story of heroic endeavour and of the beauty and grief of man's challenge to the elements.
Kniha - autor Haruki Murakami, 300 stran, anglicky, Brožovaná bez přebalu matná.A marvelous hybrid of mythology and mystery, A Wild Sheep Chase is the extraordinary literary thriller that launched Haruki Murakami''s international reputation. It begins simply enough: A twenty-something advertising executive ...
The birth of Jesus has been well chronicled, as have his glorious teachings, acts, and divine sacrifice after his thirtieth birthday. But no one knows about the early life of the Son of God, the missing years - except Biff, the Messiah''s best bud, wh o has been resurrected to tell the story in this ...
Middle-aged history professor George, and his wife Martha, are joined by another college couple. The result is an all-night drinking session that erupts into a nightmare of revelations.Upozornenie: Vzhľadom na častejšie obmeny vydaní tejto knihy v za hraničí, kus, ktorý vám zašleme, nemusí mať rovnakú ...
Elegant, startling, and universal in its applications, The Black Swan is a concept that will change the way you look at the world. Black Swans underlie almost everything, from the rise of religions, to events in our own personal lives. A Black Swan i s a highly improbable event with three principle characteristics: ...
Zatmenie, tretí diel Twilight ságy, by mal vyjsť najneskôr v apríli 2009. Na začiatok septembra 2009 je naplánované vydanie slovenskej verzie štvrtého dielu Twilight ságy, ktorý sa v angličtine nazýva Breaking Dawn a v slovenčine sa bude volať Úsvit. Približne v rovnakom čase by mal vyjsť aj ďalší román ...
With his mother in hospital, too ill to look after him, Alex is sent out to his grandmother Kate – a fearless reporter with blue eyes ''as sharp as daggers'' points''. Kate is about to embark on an expedition to the dangerous, remote world of the Amazon rainforest, but rather than change her plans, she ...
Toru Okada\''s cat has disappeared and this has unsettled his wife, who is herself growing more distant every day. Then there are the increasingly explicit telephone calls he has started receiving. As this compelling story unfolds, the tidy suburban realities of Okada\''s vague and blameless life, spent ...
When a man''s favourite elephant vanishes, the balance of his whole life is subtly upset; a couple''s midnight hunger pangs drive them to hold up a McDonald''s; a woman finds she is irresistible to a small green monster that burrows through her front garden; an insomniac wife wakes up to a twilight world ...
Cena:11.85€ | Autor:McCall Smith, Alexander | Rok vydania:2007 | Jazyk: V anglickom jazyku | Dostupnosť:2-3 týždne | ISBN:9780349119717 | Vydavateľ:Abacus
Philip Roth''s twenty-seventh book takes its title from an anonymous fifteenth-century English allegorical play whose drama centres on the summoning of the living to death and whose hero, Everyman, is intended to be the personification of mankind. The fate of Roth''s Everyman is traced from his first ...
Alice never imagined that she would end up like this. Is she the only mother who feels so permanently panic-stricken at the terrors of the modern world – or is it normal to sit up in bed all night popping bubble wrap? She worries that too much gluten and dairy may be hindering her children’s mental arithmetic. ...
Cena:13.14€ | Autor:Fulghum, Robert | Rok vydania:1990 | Jazyk: V anglickom jazyku | Dostupnosť:2-3 týždne | ISBN:9780586208922 | Vydavateľ:HarperCollins
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 ...
Mma Ramotswe, who became engaged to Mr J.L.B. Matekoni at the end of the first book, is still engaged. She wonders when a day for the wedding will be named, but she is anxious to avoid putting too much pressure on her fiance. For indeed he has other things on his mind - notably a frightening request ...
Tíz évvel a Trainspotting után Simon "Beteg Srác" Williamsot ismét Edingburgban találjuk, egy hosszú, Londonban töltött időszak után. A csalóként, striciként, férjként, apaként és üzletemberként is megbukott Beteg Srác váratlanul egy olyan lehetőséget kap, amely az utolsó esélyt jelenti számára kikeveredni ...
Once known only by an elite who were unwilling to share their knowledge of the power, \''the secret\'' of obtaining anything you desire is now revealed by prominent physicists, authors and philosophers as being based in the universal Law of Attraction. And the good news is that anyone can access its ...
Munich, 1949: Amid the chaos of defeat, it is home to all the backstabbing intrigue that prospers in the aftermath of war. A place where a private eye like Bernie Gunther can find a lot of not-quite-reputable work: cleaning up the Nazi past of well-t o-do locals, abetting fugitives in the flight abroad, ...
It is July 1962. Edward and Florence, young innocents married that morning, arrive at a hotel on the Dorset coast. At dinner in their rooms they struggle to suppress their private fears of the wedding night to come...Upozornenie: Vzhľadom na častejši e obmeny vydaní tejto knihy v zahraničí, kus, ktorý ...
Sylvie and Carl have been friends since they were tiny children. They''ve always played together, eaten with each other''s families, called each other boyfriend and girlfriend and deep down, Sylvie has always believed that they''d end up married to each other. They even have a magical fantasy world that ...
