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.
Homer''s great epic, The Odyssey, is perhaps Western literature''s first adventure story, and certainly remains one of its finest. It describes King Odysseus of Ithaca''s epic, ten-year quest to return home after the Trojan War. He encounters giants, sorceresses, sea-monsters and sirens, while his wife ...
The second book in the highly acclaimed crime fiction series by J.K. Rowling, writing under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith.When novelist Owen Quine goes missing, his wife calls in private detective Cormoran Strike. At first, she just thinks he has gone off by himself for a few days - as he has done before ...
From the back list of Elif Shafak, author of The Architect''s Apprentice, The Bastard of Istanbul is a tale of an extraordinary family curse and was long listed for the 2008 Orange Fiction Prize. One rainy afternoon in Istanbul, a woman walks into a doctor''s surgery. ''I need to have an abortion'', ...
Two Supreme Court Justices are dead, their murders unsolved.But one woman might have found the answer - if she can live to tell it.Darby Shaw is a brilliant New Orleans legal student with a sharp political mind. For her own amusement, she draws up a legal brief showing how the judges might have been ...
Cena:2€ | Autor:SOMERS, JEFF | Rok vydania:2008 | Jazyk: V anglickom jazyku | Dostupnosť:na sklade | ISBN:9781841496160 | Vydavateľ:Orbit
From the Orange Prize winning author of We Need to Talk About Kevin this is the novel Lionel Shriver wrote directly afterwards. The Post-Birthday World is an unflinching account of the choices that unfold before us and what our decisions really mean. Some of us believe that our lives are on a set course. ...
Nick Hornby''s internationally bestselling first novel, available as a Penguin Essential for the first time. Do you know your desert-island, all-time, top five most memorable split-ups? Rob does. He keeps a list, in fact. But Laura isn''t on it - even though she''s just become his latest ex. He''s got ...
Tíz évvel a Trainspotting után Simon "Beteg Srác" Williamsot ismét Edingburgban találjuk, egy hosszú, Londonban töltött időszak után. A csalóként, striciként, férjként, apaként és üzletemberként is megbukott Beteg Srác váratlanul egy olyan lehetőséget kap, amely az utolsó esélyt jelenti számára kikeveredni ...
''He too began to chase the great pierrot through the corridors of the chateau.'' This is a novel of desperate yearning and vanished adolescence, the story of Meaulnes and his restless search for a lost, enchanted world has the atmosphere of a dream and the purity of a fairy tale. It is a new series ...
The award-winning illustrated edition of Ted Hughes'' classic tale in paperback.
THE TWELVE Death-row prisoners with nightmare pasts and no future. THE TWELVE Until they were selected for a secret experiment. THE TWELVE To create something more than human. THE TWELVE Now they are the future and humanity's worst nightmare has begu n. THE TWELVE The epic sequel to THE PASSAGE.
The new crime thriller by the author of The Hypnotist. The number one bestseller in Sweden. Stockholm, Sweden On a summer''''s evening a young woman''''s body is discovered aboard an abandoned boat. The likely cause of death is drowning, but her clothes are completely dry. A man is found hung in his ...
