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.
"Politics and the English Language" is widely considered Orwell''''s most important essay on style. Style, for Orwell, was never simply a question of aesthetics; it was always inextricably linked to politics and to truth. ''''All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, ...
Comedy and tragedy intertwine when two very different couples fall in and out of love in Shakespeare''s Much Ado About Nothing. Part of the Macmillan Collector''s Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect ...
The Woman in White is the first English ‘sensation novel’ full of mystery and dark secrets.After meeting a strange woman one night in London, Walter Hartright begins to realise that this mysterious woman is connected, in some way, to his new life at Limmeridge House and the woman he loves, Laura Fairlie. ...
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. \''"For," said he, "there never was nor is there one chaste woman upon the face of earth." \'' A collection of Persian, Arabian and Indian tales dating from the 9th century, Sir Richard Burton\''s most well-known translation ...
Three Men in a Boat is a humorous book that will make you laugh while it gives you a view of Victorian England and the Thames.Three friends, George, Harris and J. decide they need a holiday and plan to go on a trip on the river. J. tells the story of that two-week trip. He includes funny stories from ...
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, ...
‘After I had accepted the position and agreed to his condition, I had two or three very bad days. I was full of doubts, sure I had made a terrible mistake. I was in this state of mind as I sat in the uncomfortable coach which was taking me to my new home.’.A young woman starts her first job as a governess ...
Hamlet. Úroveň 3 (Pre-Intermediate) + CD. His heart is filled with sadness and pain. Why? Only his two best friends, Horatio and Marcellus, know the true reason. The new king, Claudius, murdered Hamlet''s father and married the young prince''s mother. Will Hamlet be strong and brave enough to take revenge? ...
The Picture of Dorian Gray was a succčs de scandale. Early readers were shocked by its hints at unspeakable sins and the book was later used as evidence against Wilde at the Old Bailey in 1895.Enthralled by his own exquisite portrait, Dorian Gray makes a Faustian bargain to sell his soul in exchange ...
The hit BBC series Sherlock, starring Benedict Cumberbatch, offers a fresh, contemporary take on the original Sir Arthur Conan Doyle stories, and has helped introduce a whole new generation of fans to the legendary detective. This TV tie-in edition to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's second collection of Sherlock ...
“She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.” One sleepy summer, an American woman arrives in England, and wakes everybody up. Isabel Archer is an interesting woman. Everybody thinks so. She is an independent woman. Everybody agrees. And she changes the lives of ...
The convict scares Pip into stealing food for him and a file to grind away his leg shackles. He warns Pip not to tell anyone and to do as he says or he will cut out Pip''s heart and liver. Pip returns home, where he lives with his older sister Mrs. Joe, whose name is later revealed to be Georgiana Maria, ...
Three children and their mother move to a new home because their father gets sent away. They are sad at the beginning of their new life, but they make a new friend along the way and live a lot of adventures.Three children go to live in the country. Their house is near a train station. They go there with ...
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. ''Wouldn''t it be fun if all the castles in the air which we make could come true and we could live in them?'' A heart-warming tale of love, sisterhood and hardship during the New England Civil War, Little Women tells ...
Tieto slová znejú v hlave známemu harvardskému vedcovi ikonografovi Robertovi Langdonovi, keď sa zranený prebudí na nemocničnej posteli. Netuší, kde je a ako sa tam dostal. Nevie vysvetliť ani to, odkiaľ sa v jeho veciach vzal podivný predmet. Čo má hľadať? Komu alebo čomu sa kráti čas? V ohrození života ...
Set in 1482, Victor Hugo''s powerful novel of ''imagination, caprice and fantasy'' is a meditation on love, fate, architecture and politics, as well as a compelling recreation of the medieval world at the dawn of the modern age. In a brilliant reworking of the tale of Beauty and the Beast, Hugo creates ...
Enjoy reading about this little boy and discover if he stays true to himself even with all the changes in his life. In the mid-1880s, young Cedric Errol lives with his mother in New York. They are quite poor after the death of Cedric’s father, but live a simple happy life together. Then, one day, an ...
Containing an enchanting mix of familiar favourites and hidden gems, the "Penguin Classics" edition of Hans Christian Andersen''s "Fairy Tales" is translated by Tiina Nunnally and edited with an introduction by Jackie Wullschlager. The first writer to create timeless, universal fairy tales from his own ...
Persuasion: Theory and Research, Third Edition is a comprehensive overview of social-scientific theory and research on persuasion. Written in a clear and accessible style that assumes no special technical background in research methods, the Third Edition has been thoroughly revised to reflect developments ...
H.G. Wells classic story of Martian invasion is vividly retold in this exciting addition to the Young Reading series. The action-packed text is complimented by David Miles atmospheric illustrations. A