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.
Amos Decker, David Baldacci\''s unique special agent with the gift of a remarkable memory, returns in The Fallen. Small towns which have seen better times are not unusual. But the mysterious events in Baronville, Pennsylvania, are raising the highly-tuned antennae of agent Amos Decker and his FBI partner, ...
This book helps you rediscover the delight and innocence of childhood in these classic poems from celebrated author, Robert Louis Stevenson. From make-believe to climbing trees, bedtime stories to morning play and favourite cousins to beloved mothers. Here is a very special collection to be treasured ...
Iris Murdoch''''s first novel is set in a part of London where struggling writers rub shoulders with successful bookies, and film starlets with frantic philosophers. Its hero, Jake Donaghue, is a drifting, clever, likeable young man who makes a living out of translation work and sponging on his friends. ...
Childhood friends Mackensie, Parker, Laurel and Emmaline have formed a very successful wedding-planning business together but, despite helping thousands of happy couples organise the biggest day of their lives, all four women are unlucky in love. Chef Laurel McBane has worked hard all her life to secure ...
This book contains an introduction by Adam Thirlwell. Sparkling with comic genius and narrative exuberance, I Served the King of England is a story of how the unbelievable came true. Its remarkable he
Europe in 1945 was prostrate. Much of the continent was devastated by war, mass slaughter, bombing and chaos. Large areas of Eastern Europe were falling under Soviet control, exchanging one despotism for another. Today, the Soviet Union is no more and the democracies of the European Union reach as far ...
Detective Inspector Ray Lennox is recovering from a mental breakdown induced by occupational stress and cocaine abuse, and a horrifying child sex murder case back in Edinburgh. On vacation in Florida, he meets two women in a seedy bar, ending up at their apartment for a coke binge interrupted by two ...
Cena:10.99€ | Autor:Auster, Paul | Rok vydania:2006 | Jazyk: V anglickom jazyku | Dostupnosť:na sklade | ISBN:9780571229086 | Vydavateľ:Faber&Faber
What do they teach you at Harvard Business School? Graduates at Harvard Business School run many of the world's biggest and most influential banks, companies and countries. But what kind of person does it take to succeed at HBS? And what do they learn there? This book deals with these questions.
Cena:14.67€ | Autor:SEN, AMARTYA | Rok vydania:2010 | Jazyk: V anglickom jazyku | Dostupnosť:na sklade | ISBN:9780141037851 | Vydavateľ:Penguin
Thomas Derale, a mild-mannered businessman from Chicago, embodies leadership''''s greatest secret: his companies make fortunes, his people love him, and his customers are willing to wait weeks just to do business with him. At age 55, though, Derale is dying, and through a series of final encounters with ...
Pippa seems to have everything in life. But suddenly she finds her world beginning to unravel. Amid the buzzing lawnmowers and suburban coffee mornings, she starts to wonder how she came to be in this place. The answer is a story of wild youth, unexpected encounters, affairs and betrayals, and the dangerous ...
Art restorer and spy Gabriel Allon is sent to Vienna to discover the truth behind a bombing which killed an old friend - a Nazi hunter. While there he encounters something that turns his whole life upside down. Each fact he uncovers only leads to more questions until finally a picture emerges which is ...
Set in New England mainly and London partly, ",On Beauty", concerns a pair of feuding families - the Belseys and the Kipps - and a clutch of doomed affairs. It puts low morals among high ideals and asks some searching questions about what life does to love. For the Belseys and the Kipps, the ...
Cena:9.88€ | Autor:Murakami, Haruki | Rok vydania:2008 | Jazyk: V anglickom jazyku | Dostupnosť:2-3 týždne | ISBN:9780099532538 | Vydavateľ:Vintage Books
Cena:10.5€ | Autor:Leon, Donna | Rok vydania:2009 | Jazyk: V anglickom jazyku | Dostupnosť:2-3 týždne | ISBN:9780099517641 | Vydavateľ:Arrow Books
Claudius has survived the murderous intrigues of his predecessors to become, reluctantly, Emperor of Rome. Here, he recounts his surprisingly successful reign: how he cultivates the loyalty of the army and the common people to repair the damage caused by Caligula; his relations with the Jewish King Herod ...
Cena:9.89€ | Autor:CLARKE, STEPHEN | Rok vydania:2005 | Jazyk: V anglickom jazyku | Dostupnosť:2-3 týždne | ISBN:9780552772969 | Vydavateľ:Black Swan
CERN Institute, Switzerland: a world-renowned scientist is found brutally murdered with a mysterious symbol seared onto his chest. The Vatican, Rome: the College of Cardinals assembles to elect a new
In 1944, Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs were charged as accessories to murder. One of their friends, Lucien Carr, had stabbed another, David Kammerrer. C…
