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.
With his mother in hospital, too ill to look after him, Alex is sent out to his grandmother Kate – a fearless reporter with blue eyes ''as sharp as daggers'' points''. Kate is about to embark on an expedition to the dangerous, remote world of the Amazon rainforest, but rather than change her plans, she ...
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:10.99€ | Autor:Doctorow, E. L. | Rok vydania:2010 | Jazyk: V anglickom jazyku | Dostupnosť:na sklade | ISBN:9780349122595 | Vydavateľ:Abacus
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, ...
Stunning reissue of the phenomenal worldwide bestseller: Frank McCourt\''s sad, funny, bittersweet memoir of growing up in New York in the 30s and in Ireland in the 40s. It is a story of extreme hardship and suffering, in Brooklyn tenements and Limerick slums — too many children, too little money, his ...
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 ...
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie in possession of brains must be in want of more brains.' So begins Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, an expanded edition of the beloved Jane Austen novel featuring all-new scenes of bone-crunching zombie mayhem. This special, tie-in movie edition is ...
Jane Griffiths writes mysteriously resonant poems about home, exile and shifting frontiers in classically precise language. "Another Country" presents a selection from her first two collections, "A Grip on Thin Air" and "Icarus on Earth", as well as a whole collection of new work. Where the earlier books ...
Limitovaná edícia s ukážkou z pripravovaného titulu Inferno. When the National Security Agency''s invincible code-breaking machine encounters a mysterious code it cannot break, the agency calls in its head cryptographer, Susan Fletcher, a brilliant, beautiful mathematician. What she uncovers sends shock ...
"The Forsyte Saga" is the first part of John Galsworthy''''s magnificent, well-loved "Forsyte Chronicles", which trace the changing fortunes of the wealthy Forsyte dynasty through fifty years of material triumph and emotional disaster. "The Forsyte Saga" begins as the nineteenth century is drawing to ...
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 ...
This book contains two wonderful stories about members of the Glass family by the author of "The Catcher in the Rye". The first story takes place in downtown New Haven during the weekend of 'the Yale game' and follows Franny Glass on a date with her collegiate boyfriend. The second focuses on Zooey Glass, ...
This is the "Penguin English Library Edition" of "Howards End" by E. M. Forster. 'The poor cannot always reach those whom they want to love, and they can hardly ever escape from those whom they love no longer. We rich can'. 'Only connect' is the idea at the heart of this book, a heartbreaking and provocative ...
\''There\''s a saying that all roads lead to Ankh-Morpork. And it\''s wrong. All roads lead away from Ankh-Morpork, but sometimes people just walk along the wrong way.\'' Ankh-Morpork! City of One Thousand Surprises (according to the famous publication by the Guild of Merchants)! All human life is here! ...
Beautiful Chaos&,nbsp,is the third instalment of the spellbinding love story that began with&,nbsp,Beautiful Creatures -&,nbsp,a romance that is bound to capture the hearts of&,nbsp,Twilight&,nbsp,fans everywhere.Some loves are meant to be. Others are cursed...Ethan wate is in love with ...
"Gabriel''''s Inferno" is the first in this intoxicating trilogy featuring Gabriel and Julia, following their sensual journey of forbidden love - with all the obsessive yearning of "Twilight" with the intensity of "Fifty Shades of Grey". Two lovers bound by their darkest desires.Professor Gabriel Emerson ...
Jane Eyre was an immediate bestseller, and most critics liked it. One reviewer wrote: ‘It is one of the most powerful domestic romances which have been published for many years.’ Jane Eyre is an orphan, and all alone in the world. But she is no ordinary young woman; despite her lonely and unhappy childhood, ...
Oliver Twist a dologházban születik. Anyja belehal a szülésbe, a kisfiú tehát az egyházközség gondoskodására szorul. Rá és a hozzá hasonló szerencsétlenekre nem szívesen pazarolnak pénzt, majdhogynem éheztetik őket - társai ezért egyszer sorsot húznak, és Olivernek kell a hitvány vacsora után kiállnia, ...
When we first published this little book by Kamila Skopová in 2004, we had no idea what a tradition we would be starting, for ever since then the original Czech version of this little book has been republished almost every year in a larger print run. What is there about it that attracts readers' ...
