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.
From one of Britain's best-loved and bestselling writers comes an intimate yet panoramic novel set in the 19th century A new 'whole life' novel from William Boyd, the author of Any Human Heart. Set in the 19th century, the novel follows the roller-coaster fortunes of a man as he tries to negotiate the ...
THE LATEST BOOK FROM THE #1 BESTSELLING AUTHOR AND CREATOR OF THE HIT NETFLIX DRAMAS THE STRANGER AND THE WOODS, described by Dan Brown as ''the modern master of the hook and twist'' ''I read The Boy From The Woods. I liked it. I liked it a lot!'' STEPHEN KING ''Harlan''s a great thriller writer [.] ...
Life is both fleeting and dangerous, and there is no point in denying yourself pleasure, or being anything other than what you are. Beloved author Elizabeth Gilbert returns to fiction with a unique love story set in the New York City theater world during the 1940s. Told from the perspective of an older ...
When a man''s favourite elephant vanishes, the balance of his whole life is subtly upset; a couple''s midnight hunger pangs drive them to hold up a McDonald''s; a woman finds she is irresistible to a small green monster that burrows through her front garden; an insomniac wife wakes up to a twilight world ...
Two men have been enlisted to kill the head of the Gestapo. This is Operation Anthropoid, Prague, 1942: two Czechoslovakian parachutists sent on a daring mission by London to assassinate Reinhard Heydrich - chief of the Nazi secret services, ''''the hangman of Prague'''', ''''the blond beast'''', ''''the ...
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 ...
Discover mystery and wonder in Tales from the Arabian Nights. The next elegant edition in the Knickerbocker Classic series, Tales from the Arabian Nights is comprised of twenty-one of the most popular tales that were told by Scheherazade to her husband, King Shahryar, in the course of 1,001 nights in ...
Cena:14.13€ | Autor:Weeks, Brent | Rok vydania:2008 | Jazyk: V anglickom jazyku | Dostupnosť:2-3 týždne | ISBN:9780356500737 | Vydavateľ:Orbit
The Jungle Books can be regarded as classic stories told by an adult to children. But they also constitute a complex literary work of art in which the whole of Kipling`s philosophy of life is expressed in miniature. They are best known for the `Mowgli` stories; the tale of a baby abandoned and brought ...
THE STORY CONTINUES in the third volume of Hiccup''s How to Train Your Dragon memoirs.Haddock III was an awesome sword-fighter, a dragon-whisperer and the greatest Viking Hero who ever lived. But it wasn''t always like that. Hiccup''s memoirs look ba ck to when Hiccup was just an ordinary boy, and finding ...
Rules are different outside the Society. Chasing down an uncertain future, Cassia makes her way to the Outer Provinces in pursuit of Ky - taken by the Society to his certain death - only to find that he has escaped into the majestic, but treacherous, canyons. On this wild frontier are glimmers of a different ...
