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 same time-frame as Beautiful Disaster, now we hear the story from Travis\'' point of view. Travis lost his mother at a very young age, but before she died she taught him two important rules. Love hard. Fight harder. Growing up in a family of men who like to gamble and fight, Travis Maddox ...
Welcome to the Overlook Hotel. You\''ll never want to leave. Danny is only five years old, but in the words of old Mr Hallorann he is a \''shiner\'', aglow with psychic voltage. When his father becomes caretaker of the Overlook Hotel, Danny\''s visions grow out of control. As winter closes in and blizzards ...
\''Why, if one wants to compare life to anything, one must liken it to being blown through the Tube at fifty miles an hour - landing at the other end without a single hairpin in one\''s hair! Shot out at the feet of God entirely naked! Yes, that seems to express the rapidity of life, the perpetual waste ...
Sunday Times No. 1 bestselling author Neil Gaiman\''s collection of extraordinary short stories featuring How to Talk to Girls at Parties, soon to be a major film release starring Nicole Kidman, Elle Fanning and Alex Sharp. From the author American Gods, now a major TV series for Amazon Prime Video, ...
This title is second in the "New York Times" bestselling urban fantasy series set in Victorian London. Love and lies can corrupt even the purest heart...In the magical underworld of Victorian London, Tessa Gray finds her heart drawn more and more to Jem, while her desire for Will, despite his dark moods, ...
In this collection of wonderful stories, which range between fantasy, humour, science fiction and a sprinkling of horror, the reader will relish the range and skill of Neil Gaiman''''s writing. Be prepared to laugh at the detective story about Humpty Dumpty''''s demise, spooked by the sinister jack-in ...
'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 ...
He felt that in this crisis his laws of life were useless. Whatever he had learned of himself was here of no avail. He was an unknown quantity. Following one soldier’s journey from naive recruit to hardened survivor, The Red Badge of Courage is a vivid and powerfully psychological take on the American ...
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. ''It was a town of red brick, or of brick that would have been red if the smoke and ashes had allowed it; but as matters stood, it was a town of unnatural red and black like the painted face of a savage.'' Set in ...
‘There was a contagion in the very air that blew from that haunted region; it breathed forth an atmosphere of dreams and fancies infecting all the land.’ Featu…
Svet kolotočiarov je pestrý, falošný aj desivo úprimný. Občas sa pri stánkoch nehrá o plyšové medvedíky, ale o život. V strašidelnom zámku strácajú mladé ženy spodnú bielizeň a tečie v ňom ozajstná krv. Na vlastnej koži to zistí vysokoškolák Devin Jones, ktorému život dáva poriadne zabrať. Devinova prvá ...
"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 ...
This is an exciting storybook with four embedded tracks and a pull-back train toy that will amuse little children again and again. You can pull-back the train to start its ''engine'' then place it on the tracks and watch it zoom across away from the city station, across bridges and fields, over a long ...
Featuring Jack Reacher, hero of the new blockbuster movie starring Tom Cruise. When you're as big and rough as Jack Reacher - and you have a badly-set, freshly-busted nose, patched with silver duct tape - it isn't easy to hitch a ride. But Reacher has some unfinished business in Virginia, so he doesn't ...
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. All the world''s a stage, And all the men and women merely players.’ Featuring Rosalind, one of Shakespeare’s most likeable and strong female protagonists, As You Like It is a comedic play centred around concealed identity, ...
Pride and Pleasure&,nbsp,- the classic erotic romance - by Sylvia Day - author of the sensational international bestselling&,nbsp,Bared to You, first book in the Crossfire series - is a tale of ambition, love and lust.Pursued by fortune hunters, heiress Eliza Martin is the victim of diabolical ...
Marian Keyes, the No. 1 bestselling author of Rachel''''s Holiday, is back with her stunning new novel The Mystery of Mercy Close and the return of the legendary and beloved Walsh sisters. Helen Walsh doesn''''t believe in fear - it''''s just a thing invented by men to get all the money and good jobs ...
Thirty years of silly songs, rhymes, lullabies, classics, and just plain favorite music come together on this reissue of the "25th Anniversary Celebration." Chosen from among the hundreds and hundreds of songs that Wee Sing has collected over the last 30 years, this treasury is a fitting tribute to the ...
The bestselling love story behind the massive Hollywood film starring James Marsden and Michelle Monaghan. They were teenage sweethearts from opposite sides of the tracks - with a passion that would change their lives for ever. But life would force them apart. Years later, the lines they had drawn between ...
The bestselling business book of 2012, now in paperback. When Michael Woodford was made President and CEO of Olympus, he became the first Westerner ever to climb the ranks of one of Japan\''s corporate icons. Then his dream job turned into a nightmare. He learned about a series of bizarre mergers and ...
