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.
Late at night, in a New York cafe, Jack Reacher orders coffee in a cup made of foam, not china. He owns nothing, carries less. He has never met a woman who said no or a case he couldn't solve. But now Reacher faces a new case so disturbing that the truth eludes him. He has to sweat the details and work ...
Inspired by his experiences as a reporter during the Spanish Civil War, Ernest Hemingway''s For Whom the Bell Tolls tells the story of Robert Jordan, an American volunteer in the International Brigades fighting to defend the Spanish Republic against Franco. After being ordered to work with guerrilla ...
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 ...
When Mario Puzo''s blockbuster saga, The Godfather, was first published in 1969, critics hailed it as one of the greatest novels of our time, and "big, turbulent, highly entertaining." Since then, The Godfather has gone on to become a part of America''s national culture, as well as a trilogy of landmark ...
Born in 1951 in an affluent Tokyo suburb, Hajime -- beginning in Japanese -- has arrived at middle age wanting for almost nothing. The postwar years have brought him a fine marriage, two daughters, and an enviable career as the proprietor of two jazz clubs. Yet a nagging sense of inauthenticity about ...
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 ...
This stunning and elegiac novel by the author of the internationally acclaimed Wind-Up Bird Chronicle has sold over 4 million copies in Japan and is now available to American audiences for the first time. It is sure to be a literary event.§Toru, a quiet and preternaturally serious young college student ...
Immortality predstavuje skoncentrovan? obraz toho najpodstatnej?ieho z jeho doteraj?ej tvorby. Jednotliv? s?rie Prekvapenia (od 2007), Menu (od 2009), Osrat? muchami (od 1993), Juxtapoz?cie (od 1996) a Smutn? z?bava (od 2002) s? otvoren?mi s?bormi, s neobmedzen?m po?tom diel. Na za?iatku dev??desiatych ...
AutorJ. R. R. TolkienVydavateľstvoHarperCollinsVäzba BrožEAN 9780261102736Strán448Rozmery 111 x 178 mm Designed to take fans of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings deeper into the myths and legends of Middle-earth The Silmarillion is an account of the Elder Days, of the First Age of Tolkien’s world. ...
Penguin Student Editions have been specifically designed for readers who are studying a text in detail. They include a helpful introduction and explanatory notes, character sketches, a text summary, a chronology, language notes, a selection of questi ons and topics for discussion and analysis, as well ...
In one of the most memorable novels of recent years, Kazuo Ishiguro imagines the lives of a group of students growing up in a darkly skewered version of contemporary England. Narrated by Kathy, now 31, Never Let Me Go hauntingly dramatises her attempts to come to terms with her childhood at the seemingly ...
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 - ...
Cena:10.99€ | Autor:Murakami, Haruki | Rok vydania:2002 | Jazyk: V anglickom jazyku | Dostupnosť:2-3 týždne | ISBN:9780099448761 | Vydavateľ:Vintage
A narrative particle accelerator that zooms between Wild Turkey Whiskey and Bob Dylan, unicorn skulls and voracious librarians, John Coltrane and Lord Jim. Science fiction, detective story and post-modern manifesto all rolled into one rip-roaring nov el, Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
Cena:10.5€ | Autor:Leon, Donna | Rok vydania:2009 | Jazyk: V anglickom jazyku | Dostupnosť:2-3 týždne | ISBN:9780099517641 | Vydavateľ:Arrow Books
Cena:15.7€ | Autor:COHEN, LEONARD | Rok vydania:2007 | Jazyk: V anglickom jazyku | Dostupnosť:2-3 týždne | ISBN:9780141027562 | Vydavateľ:Penguin
Following an otherwise-enjoyable literary luncheon, the celebrated crime novelist Ariadne Oliver is accosted by a particularly formidable woman who engages her in conversation about one of her many god-daughters, whom Ariadne hasn\''t seen since she was a child. She lands a bombshell with the question ...
