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.
All you''ve done is taken in a parcel for a neighbour. You have no idea what you''ve let into your home.Emma''s the one that got away.The only survivor of a killer known in the tabloids as ''the barber'' - because of the trophies he takes from his victims.Or she thinks she was.The police aren''t convinced.Nor ...
Change your outlook. Win at work. Boss every Pass-Agg office situation ever with this hilarious survival guide. Spending most of our lives at work, it''s no wonder tensions run high. We''ve all been cc''d (code for ''this isn''t my problem''), we''ve all received the ''thanks in advance'' (code for ''you ...
The Autumn Radio 2 Book Club PickA Grazia Book of the Year''Honest, provocative and disarmingly funny'' Guardian''Charming, witty and touching, an Eighties Breakfast at Tiffany''s'' DAVID NICHOLLS''Dazzling. I''m incoherent with love for it'' MARIAN KEYES''Elegant, sexy, tender, wild. A beautiful, beautiful ...
This title includes more than two hundred full colour illustrations by Hugh Thomson. All Jane Austen's novels are presented in one volume. It features Jane Austen's romantic world captured by her finest illustrator, Hugh Thomson. It also includes Thomson's beautiful and evocative illustrations ...
This definitive survey of one of the most popular, collectable and dynamic periods of international design offers a rich overview of all aspects of the subject. It covers mid-century furniture, lighting, glass, ceramics, textiles, product design, industrial design, graphics and posters, as well as architecture ...
Revolutions hold a distinct place in the popular imagination. This may be because their rhetoric, such as ''liberty, fraternity, equality'', articulates aspirations with which we identify, or because we are shocked by the destructive forces unleashed when social conventions break down. Yet each revolution ...
A dedication to craft and the finest production quality have been an integral part of culture and day-to-day life in Japan for centuries. For the Japanese, the….
WITH A NEW AFTERWORD BY GARY YOUNGE''[Native Son] possesses an artistry, penetration of thought, and sheer emotional power that places it into the front rank of American fiction'' Ralph Ellison''The most important and celebrated novel of Negro life to have appeared in America'' James BaldwinReckless, ...
Rediscover one of the twentieth century''s greatest romances: a seductive tale of four tangled lovers in wartime Egypt, introduced by Andre Aciman (Call Me By Your Name and Find Me).Walking slowly home through the dark avenue of trees, tasting the brackish harbour wind, I remembered Justine saying harshly ...
When the Syrian regime used sarin and other chemical weapons against dissidents in August 2013, an estimated 1729 people were killed including 400 children. Pre….
Pippi Longstocking is nine years old. She has just moved into Villa Villekulla where she lives all by herself with a horse, a monkey, and a big suitcase full of gold coins. The grown-ups in the village try to make Pippi behave in ways that they think a little girl should, but Pippi has other ideas! She ...
''The evening the men came I fled through the garden gate…'' The Netherlands, World War II. When the Nazis invade the Netherlands in May 1940 it''s clear that life is changing for the girl and her family. Step by step, the Nazis close in on the Dutch Jews. But when the authorities finally come to the ...
