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.
Paris 1774. Nicolas is on trial, as unknown enemies try to implicate him in the murder of his lover.
This is the first book dedicated to Elgort\''s Jazz portraits and the list of names it includes constitutes a veritable pantheon of jazz greatness. Featured in the book are portraits of Wynton Marsalis, James Carter, Roy Haynes, George Benson, Milt Hinton, Walter Blanding, Michael Bowie, David Sanchez, ...
Arvid has lost his parents and his two younger brothers in a ferry accident. Only he and his brother are left alive. The novel he is writing about his father is stalled, the grief and guilt he feels at having survived are too overwhelming. It is as t hough Arvid has become dislocated from the flow of ...
The picture possessed a frightful beauty, one which burned so brightly that, once witnessed, could never be unseen...Even the presence of two corpses, one clearly murdered, the other dead through strange and suspicious circumstances, did nothing to
British-occupied Cairo, 1928:Several young children have disappeared and were then found, horribly mutilated, in the tombs just outside the city. Panic is spreading among the locals after a cloaked giant is sighted. Has a ghoul from One Thousand and One
Davinsky Labour Camp, Siberia, 1933: Sofia Morozova knows she has to escape. Only two things have sustained her through the bitter cold, aching hunger and hard labour: the prospect of one day walking free; and the stories told by her friend Anna, beg uiling tales of a charmed upbringing in Petrograd ...
Cena:16.5€ | Autor:WATERS, PAUL | Rok vydania:2008 | Jazyk: V anglickom jazyku | Dostupnosť:2-3 týždne | ISBN:9780230703988 | Vydavateľ:Macmillan Books
August 1611. Jack Fletcher is shipwrecked off the coast of Japan – his beloved father and the crew lie slaughtered by ninja pirates. Rescued by the legendary sword master Masamoto Takeshi, Jack's only hope is to become a samurai warrior. And so his training begins. But life at the samurai school ...
Charles Frieth, pre-eminent composer, conductor and prodigious womaniser, is preparing for a performance of one of his early works, and the world premiere of Demonic Aubade. Obstinate and myopic, he is oblivious to the growing turmoil around him; his wife´s poor health and dissatisfaction; the exhausted ...
Becca Orchard is the Bride Hunter. the woman filthy rich executives turn to when they decide it\''s time to supplement the perfect house, the perfect car and the perfect job with the perfect wife. Sacked by her ex-lover (and boss) from her corporate head-hunting job, Becca has turned her hand to playing ...
What happens after the \''happy ever after\''? When Robin asked Tilly to marry him, it was the happiest moment of her life. Ten years on, the sparkle has faded - household bills, household chores, two small children and a boisterous dog have seen to that - but Tilly is convinced their love can survive ...
Mimi and Ralph have left social climbing, pushy parenting and their marital problems behind them in London, and moved west to the bucolic green depths of the country. Or so they thought. Yes, there\''s mud and masses of fresh air, plenty of handsome hayseeds and there\''s Rose, Mimi\''s new best friend ...
For philosophically minded Isabel Dalhousie, editor of the Review of Applied Ethics, getting through life with a clear conscience requires careful thought. And with the arrival of baby Charlie, not to mention a passionate relationship with his father Jamie, fourteen years her junior, Isabel enters deeper ...
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. ...
Cena:12.72€ | Autor:PESSL, MARISHA | Rok vydania:2007 | Jazyk: V anglickom jazyku | Dostupnosť:na sklade | ISBN:9780141024325 | Vydavateľ:Penguin
A beautiful June day in the Yorkshire Dales, and a group of children are spending the last of their half-term freedom swimming in the river near Hindswell Woods. But the idyll is shattered by their discovery of a man\''s body, hanging from a tree. DI Annie Cabott soon discovers he is Mark Hardcastle, ...
Truman Capote's dazzling New York novel Breakfast at Tiffany's that inspired the classic 1961 film starring Audrey Hepburn is beautifully repackaged as part of the Penguin Essentials range. 'What I've found does the most good is just to get into a taxi and go to Tiffany's. It calms me down right away, ...
Cena:7.42€ | Autor:McEwan, Ian | Rok vydania:1995 | Jazyk: V anglickom jazyku | Dostupnosť:na sklade | ISBN:9780099470717 | Vydavateľ:Vintage
