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.
Oscar Hopkins is an Oxford seminarian with a passion for gambling. Lucinda Leplastrier is a Sydney heiress with a fascination for glass. The year is 1864. When they meet on the boat to Australia their lives will be forever changed ...Daring, rich, intense and bizarre, Peter Carey''s Booker prize-winning ...
The author of the bestselling COSA NOSTRA explores the previously underexposed mafias of Southern Italy.
As she sits in her Bloomsbury home, with her two birds for company, elderly Harriet Baxter sets out to relate the story of her acquaintance, nearly four decades previously, with Ned Gillespie, a talented artist who never achieved the fame she maintains he deserved. Back in 1888, the young, art-loving ...
Cena:10.31€ | Autor:Lodge, David | Rok vydania:2012 | Jazyk: V anglickom jazyku | Dostupnosť:2-3 týždne | ISBN:9780099556084 | Vydavateľ:Random House
While modern design often neglects cultural and artistic heritage in favor of minimalism, Siraudeau demonstrates that it isn't necessary to forgo tradition to create a fashionable home. With his eye for idiosyncratic details, Siraudeau has an excepti onal flair for finding homes characterized with vintage ...
A year of bones, of grave-dirt, relentless work. Of mummified corpses and chanting priests. A year of rape, suicide, sudden death. Of friendship too. Of desire. Of love. A year unlike any other he has lived. Deep in the heart of Paris, its oldest cemetery is, by 1785, overflowing, tainting the very breath ...
Erst ist es ein Versehen: Leo erhält irrtümlich eine E-Mail von der ihm unbekannten Emmi. Er ist höflich und antwortet ihr. Sie schreibt zurück. Dem kurzen virtuellen Austausch entspringt ein Funke, und bald tauschen die beiden ihre geheimsten Wünsche aus, es knistert zwischen allen Zeilen. Doch ein ...
\''The jet was a solid eighteen-inch column, a pillar of brown mud and yellow gravel and sea water that beat against the steel plates of the hull with a hollow drumming roar. In the few seconds since the explosion the cyclone was already half-filled with a slimy shifting porridge that rushed from wall ...
This is the first book in Alex Scarrow's exciting TimeRiders series. Liam O'Connor should have died at sea in 1912. Maddy Carter should have died on a plane in 2010. Sal Vikram should have died in a fire in 2029. Yet moments before death, someone mysteriously appeared and said, 'Take my hand ...' But ...
The life of American writer Edgar Allan Poe was characterized by a dramatic series of successes and failures, breakdowns and recoveries, personal gains and hopes dashed through, despite which he created some of the finest literature the world has ever known. Over time his works have influenced such major ...
''Imagine a young man on his way to a less-than-thirty-second event - the loss of his left hand, long before he reached middle age.'' While reporting a story from India, a New York television journalist has his left hand eaten by a lion, millions of TV viewers witness the accident. In Boston, a renowned ...
Collins brings the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie, to English language learners. Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time and in any language. Now Collins has adapted her famous detective novels for English language learners. These carefully adapted versions are shorter with the ...
Collins brings the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie, to English language learners. Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time and in any language. Now Collins has adapted her famous detective novels for English language learners. These carefully adapted versions are shorter with the ...
Jack Fletcher is battling the high seas. Ambushed by the Shogun''''s samurai, Jack and his friends have only one hope of escape - the Seto Sea. But with ferocious storms, man-eating sharks and ninja pirates at every turn, their chosen route is fraught with danger. A treacherous crew only adds to their ...
Living the high life in LA cocktail parties, exotic restaurants and a cosmopolitan boyfriend Ree Drummond thinks she''''s got it all figured out. But, try as she might, she can''''t shake the feeling that something is missing. Returning to her hometown to get her life in order, Ree is struck by a bolt ...
From award-winning journalist Janine di Giovanni a scorching memoir of love and loss
The sequel to "Fly By Night", Hardinge's debut novel. Mosca must deal with past deeds and old enemies. Ages: 9-14yrs.
Cena:8.69€ | Autor:Townsend, Sue | Rok vydania:2012 | Jazyk: V anglickom jazyku | Dostupnosť:na sklade | ISBN:9780141046433 | Vydavateľ:Michael Joseph
Secondhand & Vintage Berlin gives you an insider's guide to the best shops and markets for almost anything you would want to buy. The first part of the book is…
The book begins with a chase through the streets of Calcutta in May 1916. Lieutenant Peake pauses for breath outside the ruins of the Jheeter''''s Gate station knowing that he only has a few hours to live. Inside his overcoat he is sheltering two newborn babies - twins, a boy and a girl. Pursued by his ...
