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.
A Tale of Two Cities is Charles Dickens’s most famous historical novel.Set in Paris and London at the time of the French Revolution, this is the story of two men, Frenchman, Charles Darnay, and Englishman, Sydney Carton. As the Revolution takes hold and the Terror begins, the two men’s destinies bring ...
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives to be the most pernicious race of little odious vermin that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth.'Shipwrecked on the high seas, Lemuel Gulliver finds ...
Includes introduction and notes by Dr Ella Westland, University of Exeter and Illustrations by George Cruickshank. Dickens had already achieved renown with "The Pickwick Papers". With "Oliver Twist" his reputation was enhanced and strengthened. This novel contains many classic Dickensian themes - grinding ...
This is the "Penguin English Library Edition" of A"lice''s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass" by Lewis Carroll. ''"Curiouser and curiouser!" cried Alice (she was so surprised, that for the moment she quite forgot how to speak good English). "Now I''m opening out like the largest ...
On a seemingly normal day at the exclusive Reform Club, Phileas Fogg, a gentleman of great wealth and exacting tastes, makes an extraordinary GBP20,000 wager; he will perform an impossible feat and circumnavigate the globe in just eighty days. Accompanied only by his new French valet, the steady Passepartout, ...
Forced to move from the rural tranquillity of southern England to the turbulent northern mill town of Milton, Margaret Hale takes an instant dislike to the dirt and noise that seems to characterize her new home and its inhabitants - even the handsome and charismatic cotton mill owner, John Thornton. ...
From the classic childrens story by Carlo Collodi. Pinocchio the puppet wants to be a real boy, but he is constantly in trouble - running away, falling into bad company and telling lies that make his nose grow and grow. Will he ever find his missing father Geppetto, and learn in the end to be good? The ...
The unmissable finale to Ali Smith''s dazzling literary tour de force: the Seasonal quartet concludes in 2020 with Summer.In the present, Sacha knows the world''s in trouble. Her brother Robert just is trouble. Their mother and father are having trouble. Meanwhile the world''s in meltdown - and the real ...
From the bestselling author of Autumn and Winter, as well as the Baileys Prize-winning. How to be both, comes the next installment in the remarkable, once-in-a-generation masterpiece, the Seasonal Quartet. What unites Katherine Mansfield, Charlie Chaplin, Shakespeare, Rilke, Beethoven, Brexit, the present, ...
Mary Shelley tizennyolc évesen, egy lidércnyomás hatására találta ki rémtörténetét egy baráti költői versenyre. A versenyt megnyerte, ezzel pedig teremtménye elindult világhódító útjára. A hátborzongató, mára már ikonikus történet szerint Victor Frankenstein életet lehel a holt anyagba, ám később megtagadja ...
It is night in the south seas near Tahiti, and the ship HMS Bounty has begun the long voyage home to England. But the sailors on the ship are angry men, and they have swords and guns. They pull the captain out of bed and take him up on deck. He tries to run, but a sailor holds a knife to his neck. Do ...
The tenth book in the Sword of Truth series from bestselling author Terry Goodkind. Fantasy adventure on a grand scale featuring the popular wizard-hero Richard Cypher. As her husband, Richard, desperately searches for his beloved, who only he rememb ers, he knows that if she doesn''t soon discover who ...
Zrkadlový preklad novely Jacka Londona z prostredia dobrodruhov na Aljaške. Anglicko-český text. Český preklad Lukáš Houdek
Charlotte Brontë leghíresebb regénye, a Jane Eyre rengeteget elárul szerzőjéről: életrajzi elemekből építi fel Jane gyermekkorának keserves éveit, és lelke legmélyéből veszi hősnőjének törhetetlen, makacs jellemét is. A regény romantikus cselekménye és érzelmessége révén már első megjelenésekor nagy ...
The 1st book in a breathtaking new series from Rick Riordan. After angering his father Zeus, the god Apollo is cast down from Olympus. Weak and disoriented, he lands in New York City as a regular teenage boy. But Apollo has many enemies - gods, monsters and mortals who would love to see him permanently ...
Re-told by Hilary Ayling and Keith Munroe, this 36 page mini hardback book is beautifully illustrated by Mark Robertson whilst the story of Jesus\''s birth is read by Marie McCarthy on the accompanying CD. For children from 3 - 5 years.
′Clanless, lawless, homeless is he who is in love with civil war, that brutal ferocious thing.′ The epic poem The Iliad begins nine years after the beginning of the Trojan War and describes the great warrior Achilles and the battles and events that take place as he quarrels with the King Agamemnon. ...
Canadians have enjoyed a long history of encounters with Shakespeare, from the visual arts to creative new adaptations, from traditional and nontraditional interpretations to distinguished critical scholarship. We have in over two centuries remade Shakespeare in ways that are distinctly Canadian. The ...
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? ...
White Nights is the second book in Ann Cleeves'' bestselling Shetland series - a major BBC One drama starring Douglas Henshall. When Shetland detective Jimmy Perez finds a body in a hut used by fishermen it seems to be a straightforward case of suicide. He recognizes the victim - a stranger with amnesia ...
