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.
Agnes Grey egy észak-angliai lelkészcsaládban, egyszerű, de szerető környezetben nő fel, ahol a szellemi és lelki értékek mindig fontosabbak az anyagiaknál. A féltve dédelgetett legkisebb lány, hogy segítse a szüleit, nevelőnőnek szegődik gazdagabb családokhoz, hogy az otthon megtanult elvekre nevelje ...
Lord Jim je tragický príbeh mladého námorného dôstojníka, ktorého prenasleduje pocit, že stratil svoju česť, keď v zdanlivo beznádejnej situácii opustil potápajúcu sa loď bez ohľadu na ohrozených cestujúcich, a ktorý hľadá vykúpenie z viny v obetavej pomoci domorodcom v zapadnutej malajskej dedine pri ...
And now, Katy, it\''s your turn. Tell us what you\''re going to be when you grow up. I’m not sure about what I’ll be, replied Katy; beautiful, of course, and good if I can. That’s what I’d like to be. But now I’ll tell you what I mean to do. Tomboyish Katy Carr is tall, gangling and full of mischief. ...
‘We're their slaves as long as we can work; we pile up their fortunes with the sweat of our brows, and yet we are to live as separate as if we were in two world…
Likened to Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women, What Katy Did Next is a timeless classic for both children and adults to enjoy. The story of Katy Carr, the lanky, good-hearted tomboy who learns to be gentle and patient, is continued in this third instalment of Susan Coolidge’s popular Katy series. When ...
Cena:3.54€ | Autor:Hardy, Thomas | Rok vydania:2012 | Jazyk: V anglickom jazyku | Dostupnosť:2-3 týždne | ISBN:9780007920679 | Vydavateľ:Collins Classics
Christopher Newman is an American expatriate in Paris; his fortune made, he has moved to the Old World to enjoy his wealth and find a wife. Newman soon falls f…
'I am got, I know not how, into a cold unmetaphorical vein of infamous writing, and cannot take a plumb-lift out of it&,nbsp,for my soul, so must be obliged to go on writing like a Dutch commentator to the end of the chapter, unless something be done ...' Laurence Sterne's great masterpiece of bawdy ...
The vivacious Kate Croy finds herself torn between love and money, friendship and ambition; "the crown of Henry James’s achievement.” Now a critically acclaimed film. Kate Croy is a beautiful but impoverished young woman forced to live with her successful but astringent Aunt, Maude Lower. Lower intends ...
‘I here present you, courteous reader, with the record of a remarkable period in my life . . . ‘ The Confessions of an English Opium Eater is both a classic of the English autobiographical genre and a hard-nosed study of the effects of drugs on an artistic mind. A close associate of William Wordsworth ...
The Activity Book and Play offers a range of extra writing exercises, helping you to make the most of the language presented in each Classic Tale. The short play re-uses the same language in the story. Students can perform the play for the rest of the class, for other classes, or even the whole school. ...
Read the famous tale of the old shoemaker. How do the elves help him? This richly illustrated series of retold fairy tales for children aged 5-12 years old will bring an extra dimension to your English teaching. With listening, speaking, reading, writing, and drama activities, More.Classic Tales graded ...
Three late - Victorian gentlemen, George, Harris and the writer himself as well as their fox terrier Montmorency take a trip in a boat along the River Thames to Oxford. What ensues is a hilarious journey through the English waterways full of anecdotes, and farcical incidents with Montmorency wreaking ...
Cena:5.55€ | Autor:Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan | Rok vydania:2008 | Jazyk: V anglickom jazyku | Dostupnosť:na sklade | ISBN:9780199536962 | Vydavateľ:Oxford University Press
The heartbreaking tale of the doomed lovers Heathcliff and Catherine, Emily Bronte''s gothic masterpiece, "Wuthering Heights", has enthralled readers for more than a century and a half-spawning film and televison adaptations, operas, musicals, and a hit single by British pop superstar Kate Bush. It is ...
This title comes with an introduction by Francesca Segal. The Vintage Classics Austen series is designed by the writer and illustrator Leanne Shapton and introduced by some of our finest contemporary writers and Austen fans: Alexander McCall Smith, Lynne Truss, Amanda Vickery, Francesca Segal, P.D. James ...
História puzzle siaha do osemnásteho storočia a za jeho zrodom stojí anglický rytec a kartograf John Spilsbury. Prvé puzzle okolo roku 1760 vytvoril tak, že na mapu pripevnil tenké tvrdé drevo a jemnou ostrou pílkou na vytváranie intarzie z neho vyrezal hranice krajín. Takto vytvorený produkt deťom v ...
Romeo Montague was in love with Juliet Capulet. He went over to her. ‘I don’t know who you are’ he said. ‘But I know that I love you.’ ‘You’re very handsome,’ she replied. ‘I think I love you too.’ Romeo kissed Juliet and then they kissed again. They were in love.The story of Romeo and Juliet is probably ...
It is 1757. Across north-eastern America the armies of Britain and France struggle for ascendancy. Their conflict, however, overlays older struggles between nations of native Americans for possession of the same lands and between the native peoples and white colonisers. Through these layers of conflict ...
