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.
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. ...
It is July 1962. Edward and Florence, young innocents married that morning, arrive at a hotel on the Dorset coast. At dinner in their rooms they struggle to suppress their private fears of the wedding night to come...Upozornenie: Vzhľadom na častejši e obmeny vydaní tejto knihy v zahraničí, kus, ktorý ...
Edited by Christopher Tolkien, this is a previously unknown work by J.R.R. Tolkien, which tells the epic story of the Norse hero Sigurd. The hardback was a }Sunday Times{ and }New York Times{ bestseller, selling over 250,000 copies in English.
Cena:9.25€ | Autor:HURWITZ, GREGG | Rok vydania:2009 | Jazyk: V anglickom jazyku | Dostupnosť:2-3 týždne | ISBN:9780751542103 | Vydavateľ:Sphere Books
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 ...
Klima, a celebrated jazz trumpeter, receives a phone call announcing that a young nurse with whom he spent a brief night at a fertility spa is pregnant. She has decided he is the father. And so begins a comedy which, during five madcap days, unfolds with ever-increasing speed. Klima''''s beautiful, jealous ...
Middle-aged history professor George, and his wife Martha, are joined by another college couple. The result is an all-night drinking session that erupts into a nightmare of revelations.Upozornenie: Vzhľadom na častejšie obmeny vydaní tejto knihy v za hraničí, kus, ktorý vám zašleme, nemusí mať rovnakú ...
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. ...
Just a stone\''s throw from London lies the manor house of the illustrious Phantomhive earldom, its master one Ciel Phantomhive. Earl Phantomhive is a giant in the world of commerce, Queen Victoria\''s faithful servant. and a slip of a twelve-year old boy. Fortunately, his loyal butler, Sebastian, is ...
A sweltering week in late August. Where better to enjoy the last days of summer than on the beautiful Bay of Naples? But even as Rome''s richest citizens relax in their villas around Pompeii and Herculaneum, there are ominous warnings that something is going wrong. Wells and springs are failing, a man ...
Penguin Classics: Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie...
On 2 August 1944, Winston Churchill mocked Adolf Hitler in the House of Commons by the rank he had reached in the First World War. ''Russian success has been somewhat aided by the strategy of Herr Hitler, of Corporal Hitler'', Churchill jibed. ''Even military idiots find it difficult not to see some ...
Cena:12.14€ | Autor:Hodgkinson, Tom | Rok vydania:2005 | Jazyk: V anglickom jazyku | Dostupnosť:2-3 týždne | ISBN:9780141015064 | Vydavateľ:Penguin
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 ...
Recounting the life and times of one of the most respected men in the world, 'The Snowball' is the most fascinating financial success story of our time. Warren Buffett, the legendary Omaha investor has never written a memoir, but finally has given Alice Schroeder unprecedented access to him and all those ...
A new omnibus of over 50 short stories, presented for the first time in chronological order. The new TV adaptations start in the autumn, starring Julia McKenzie as Miss Marple.
Cena:12.36€ | Autor:Dawkins, Richard | Rok vydania:2010 | Jazyk: V anglickom jazyku | Dostupnosť:na sklade | ISBN:9780552775243 | Vydavateľ:Black Swan
What does history really consist of? Centuries of people quietly going about their daily business - sleeping, eating, having sex, endeavouring to get comfortable. And where did all these normal activities take place? At home. This was the thought that inspired Bill Bryson to start a journey around the ...
Short listed for the Richard & Judy Book Club 2007. An uplifting story set in Los Angeles about one man''''s effort to bring himself back to life. Richard is a modern day everyman; a middle-aged divorcee trading stocks out of his home. He has done such a good job getting his life under control that he ...
