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.
Obadiah Demurral is a sorcerer who is seeking to control the highest power in the universe. He will stop at nothing. The only people in his way are Raphael, Kate, Thomas - and the mysterious Jacob Crane. Their tortured struggles lead them to a dramat ic climax in the gothic church of St Mary''s.Upozornenie: ...
"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 ...
From the award-winning author of "The Bookseller of Kabul" comes a fascinating insight into the lives of ordinary Serbs under Milosevic and the dramatic events leading up to his fall. Asne Seierstad''''s first book, which some consider to be her best, follows fourteen Serbs whose lives were transformed ...
Paul Copeland\''s sister was one of the missing teenagers. Now raising a daughter alone, after the death of his wife, he balances family life with a career as a prosecutor. But when a homicide victim is found with evidence linking him to Cope, the well-buried secrets of the past are threatening everything. ...
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Hours" comes a new thrilling and thought-provoking masterpiece. "Specimen Days" is a novel made up of three linked visionary narratives about the relationship between man and machine. The first narrative, a ghost story set at the height of the Industrial ...
Fifty years ago Gavin Maxwell went to live in an abandoned house on a shingle beach on the west coast of Scotland. With its small bay and islands, magical waterfall and encircling stream of vivid water, his remote home was a haven for wildlife. He na med it Camusfearna and settled there with the otters ...
Kafka's features, and that dreaded word, Kafkaesque, are known to millions who have never read serious literature. Generations of academics and critics have mai…
The astonishing new discovery that could change everything. Lying inside a high-security vault, deep within the heart of one of the world’s leading natural history museums, is the scientific find of a lifetime - a perfectly fossilized early primate, older than the previously most famous primate fossil, ...
My Happy Days in Hell (1962) is Gyorgy Faludy''''s grimly beautiful autobiography of his battle to survive tyranny and oppression. Fleeing Hungary in 1938 as the German army approaches, acclaimed poet Faludy journeys to Paris, where he finds a lover but merely a cursory asylum. When the French capitulate ...
Ever wanted to be the most interesting person in the room? Let Catherine Blyth take you on an entertaining tour of the neglected art of conversation. You'll never think of talk as cheap ever again ...
This book helps you to learn about the North and South Poles with this amazing panoramic play scene! Including over 100 stickers for you to create your own icy scenes with, from sliding penguins to the lions mane jellyfish, and from Inuit families to all the different types of snow vehicles. Also included ...
´A spirited update of Bram Stoker´s classic, with a vastly ingenious plot in which Dracula has developed a mysterious penchant for librarians ... Kostova is a whiz at storytelling and narrative pace´ Observer ´Told with a compelling intensity which will keep the reader hooked until the last Undead ...
I have this little sister Lola. She is small and very funny. Sometimes for a treat, Mum says, "We are going to the shops and you may choose one thing." "One thing to share?" says Lola. I say, "One thing for you and one thing for me, which means two actual things." Charlie and Lola return in a perfectly ...
Toddly and Toddlybear have fun all year round - from finding out about Easter in the spring to playing in the snow in winter! But where did they go in summer, and who threw a nut at Toddly in the autu
What\''s at the top of the ladder? Is it the string of a kite on a meteorite, that\''s attached to a whale who\''s delivering mail, to a moose in suit who\''s delivering fruit, while a sloth eating soup, parachutes through a hoop, for a group of iguanas in purple pyjama... ? Young readers will keep guessing ...
Central Park, New York. It was the small girl chasing a pink balloon that had given Paul and Joanna the idea; to end five years of failing to conceive, and to adopt. Which is why they are travelling to the Santa Regina orphanage in Columbia, to meet their new daughter. It is meant to be a new beginning ...
Poor Mr Swimble is having a bad day.Rabbits are bouncing out of his hat, pigeons are flying out of his jacket and every time he points his finger, something mag…
Escape Earth\''s atmosphere and enter Stickyscapes Space! Over 100 removable stickers and a double-sided panoramic space scene let you learn everything about our solar system and beyond. One side of the panorama is based upon real space adventures, so includes our own solar system alongside NASA shuttles, ...
Finding Nemo: The Essential Guide takes you deep into the world of Disney Pixar''s award-winning movie, Finding Nemo. Combining DK''s best-selling Finding Nemo: The Essential Guide and Finding Nemo: Ultimate Sticker Book, this is the perfect guide to get you up to speed before meeting the characters ...
This colourful Playtown puzzle set includes three chunky vehicle books and a jigsaw playmat to build and play on. The durable, jigsaw pieces can be neatly slotted together to form the town and the chunky vehicle books can be pushed around the roads! All packaged in a presentation box.
