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.
Quitting her husband\''s house and moving back in with her horrible family, Lady Maccon becomes the scandal of the London season. Queen Victoria dismisses her from the Shadow Council and the only person who can explain anything, Lord Akeldama, unexpectedly leaves town. To top it all, Alexia is attacked ...
Alexia Tarabotti, now Lady Maccon, awakens in the wee hours of the mid-afternoon to find her husband, who should be decently asleep like any normal werewolf, yelling at the top of his lungs. Then he disappears - leaving her to deal with a regiment of supernatural soldiers encamped on her doorstep, a ...
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. ...
Nicky Belane, private detective and career alcoholic, is a troubled man. He is plagued by broads, booze, lack of cash and a raging ego, and by the surreal jobs he's been hired to do. He has been hired to track down French classical author Celine - who's meant to be dead - and supposed to find the elusive ...
Neal Stephenson continues his extraordinary ''Baroque Cycle'' in this sequel to his bestselling Quicksilver, bringing to life a cast of unforgettable characters in a time of breathtaking genius and discovery. It is the late 1600s, on the high seas. A g roup of Barbary galley slaves plot as they ply the ...
Toru Okada\''s cat has disappeared and this has unsettled his wife, who is herself growing more distant every day. Then there are the increasingly explicit telephone calls he has started receiving. As this compelling story unfolds, the tidy suburban realities of Okada\''s vague and blameless life, spent ...
AutorMarkus Heitz VydavateľstvoLittle, Brown Book Group Limited VäzbaBrož Strán752 ISBN9781841495736 The dwarves have gone to battle and they have been victorious. But outside the realm, dark forces are at work. A secret army of Orcs, made immortal by the hidden powers of the Black Water, now marches ...
Druh sortimentu : Kniha, The Deal of a Lifetime,, Rok vydania : 2018,.
Istanbul has always been a place where stories and histories collide and crackle, where the idea is as potent as the historical fact. From the Qu\''ran to Shakespeare, this city with three names - Byzantium, Constantinople, Istanbul - resonates as an idea and a place, and overspills its boundaries - ...
Awake in the dead zone and awake to a nightmare. Recoil in horror as you are touched by a young man cursed with the power to perceive the evil in men''s souls. And whose ability to see into the future forces him into a terrifying confrontation with a charismatic, power-hungry and infinitely dangerous ...
Cena:10.72€ | Autor:Cleland, John | Rok vydania:2009 | Jazyk: V anglickom jazyku | Dostupnosť:2-3 týždne | ISBN:9780007300419 | Vydavateľ:HarperPerennial
It. Is. On. From the pen of the prolific (and bestselling) author Barney Stinson comes the indispensable guide for every Bro looking to score with The Ladies. Featuring the famous plays including: -The Lorenzo Von Matterhorn -Mrs. Stinsfire -The Ted Mosby -The Time Traveller -The ''SNASA'' -The Scuba ...
Little Penguin has problems: his beak is cold; there''s snow everywhere; the water smells salty; he waddles; he looks the same as everybody else. No - it''s not easy being a penguin! The New York Times called Penguin Problems both "funny and acerbic," the London Evening Standard declared it to be "hilarious," ...
From the author of the international blockbuster Mortal Engines, adapted by visionary Peter Jackson, Larklight is an utterly unique and page-turningly brilliant Victorian space adventure. Art Mumby is just a normal boy living in space, but all that changes when an ancient race of gigantic white spiders ...
