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.
First came the days of the plague. Then came the dreams. Dark dreams that warned of the coming of the dark man. The apostate of death, his worn-down boot heels tramping the night roads. The warlord of the charnel house and Prince of Evil. His time is at hand. His empire grows in the west and the Apocalypse ...
Enter a world where the sometimes shocking and often hilarious mating habits of the privileged are exposed by a true insider. In essays drawn from her witty and sometimes brutally candid column in the New York Observer, Candace Bushnell introduces us to the young and beautiful who travel in packs from ...
In 1967, after a session with a psychiatrist she''''d never seen before, eighteen-year-old Susanna Kaysen was put in a taxi and sent to McLean Hospital to be treated for depression. She spent most of the next two years on the ward for teenage girls in a psychiatric hospital renowned for its famous clientele ...
Cena:17.13€ | Autor:Joyce, James | Rok vydania:2000 | Jazyk: V anglickom jazyku | Dostupnosť:2-3 týždne | ISBN:9780141183114 | Vydavateľ:Penguin Classic
Lara has always had an overactive imagination. Now she wonders if she is losing her mind. Normal twenty-something girls just don't get visited by ghosts. But inexplicably, the spirit of Lara's great aunt Sadie - in the form of a bold, demanding Charleston-dancing girl - has appeared to make one last ...
Waris Dirie, whose name means "desert flower", was born in Somalia of nomadic parents. She underwent extreme female circumcision at the age of five, and when she was 13 her father sold her into marriage with a 60-year-old for five camels, at which time she ran away. She was discovered by a fashion photographer ...
One of the most famous accounts of living under the Nazi regime of World War II comes from the diary of a thirteen-year-old Jewish girl, Anne Frank. Today, "The Diary of a Young Girl" has sold over 25 million copies world-wide; this is the definitive edition released to mark the 70th anniversary of the ...
Jack Reacher weiß: Selbstmordattentäter sind anhand einer Liste von zwölf Punkten leicht zu identifizieren. Um zwei Uhr nachts in der U-Bahn in New York wird ihm auf einmal klar: seine direkte Nachbarin erfüllt alle Punkte der Liste- so beginnt der neue Actionthriller von Lee Child
Emma, die Floristin des ''Wedding Quartets'' sucht, wie ihre Kindheitsfreundinnen Mackensie, Parker und Laurel noch immer nach ihrem eigenen ''Mr.Right'', obwohl die Männer sie umschwärmen.Doch manchmal liegt das Glück genau dort, wo man nie hinschaut, vor der eigenen Nase. Der 2. Teil der ''Wedding ...
Cena:10.99€ | Autor:Auster, Paul | Rok vydania:2006 | Jazyk: V anglickom jazyku | Dostupnosť:na sklade | ISBN:9780571229086 | Vydavateľ:Faber&Faber
Cena:14.13€ | Autor:Charriere, Henri | Rok vydania:2005 | Jazyk: V anglickom jazyku | Dostupnosť:2-3 týždne | ISBN:9780007179961 | Vydavateľ:Harper Perennial Books
The Catcher in the Rye is the ultimate novel for disaffected youth, but it's relevant to all ages. The story is told by Holden Caulfield, a seventeen- year-old dropout who has just been kicked out of his fourth school. Throughout, Holden dissects the 'phony' aspects of society, and the 'phonies' themselves: ...
'Ex-CID. Ex-New York. Ex-cellent' reads the sign outside the Satisfaction Guarantee Detective Agency. Cephas Buthelezi certainly talks the talk, Precious discovers, but would he have the wherewithal to deal with her current case - a man who has been attacked by ostrich rustlers, and is eager ...
A collection of fantasy short stories from the author of LORD OF THE RINGS, which are set in Middle Earth, from the time of the Elder Days to the end of the War of the Ring. Includes stories which feature Gandalf, the Riders of Rohan, the Five Wizards, the Palantiri, the legend of Amroth, and the halycon ...
It is 1941 and Captain Antonio Corelli, a young Italian officer, is posted to the Greek island of Cephallonia as part of the occupying forces. At first he is ostracised by the locals, but as a conscientious but far from fanatical soldier, whose main aim is to have a peaceful war, he proves in time to ...
Pilgrimage took Annie Leibovitz to places that she could explore with no agenda. She wasn\''t on assignment. She chose the subjects simply because they meant something to her. The first place was Emily Dickinson\''s house in Amherst, Massachusetts, which Leibovitz visited with a small digital camera. ...
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. ...
Amikor Tiro, az egyik római senator bizalmi embere egy hideg novemberi napon ajtót nyit egy halálra rémült idegennek, olyan eseményeket indít el, melyek végül a történelem egyik legnevezetesebb bírósági tárgyalásának, egy tárgyalóteremben játszódó izgalmas drámának a főszereplőjévé teszik gazdáját. A ...
