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.
In the small village of Hawkins Hollow, three best friends who share the same birthday sneak off into the woods for a sleepover the evening before turning 10. But a night of pre-pubescent celebration turns into a night of horror as their blood brother oath unleashes a three-hundred year curse. Twenty-one ...
Susan had never hung up a stocking. She''d never put a tooth under her pillow in the serious expectation that a dentally inclined fairy would turn up. It wasn''t that her parents didn''t believe in such things. They didn''t need to believe in them. They know they existed. They just wished they didn''t. ...
From the back list of Elif Shafak, author of The Architect''s Apprentice, The Bastard of Istanbul is a tale of an extraordinary family curse and was long listed for the 2008 Orange Fiction Prize. One rainy afternoon in Istanbul, a woman walks into a doctor''s surgery. ''I need to have an abortion'', ...
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. ''Deep in the forest a call was sounding, and.he felt compelled to turn his back upon the fire, and to plunge into the forest.'' Half St. Bernard, half sheepdog, Buck is stolen away from his comfortable life as a pet in ...
It came to me first of all, quite suddenly, as a sort of legendary tale, suggested by my recollection of having once, in early childhood, seen a linen-weaver with a bag on his back; but, as my mind dwelt on the subject, I became inclined to a more realistic treatment. Falsely accused, cut off from his ...
‘The horrid mystery hanging over us in this house gets into my head like liquor, and makes me wild.’ Centred around a glorious yellow diamond that carries with it a menacing history, The Moonstone tells the story of Rachel Verinder, who inherits the stone on her eighteenth birthday. That very evening, ...
‘After I had accepted the position and agreed to his condition, I had two or three very bad days. I was full of doubts, sure I had made a terrible mistake. I was in this state of mind as I sat in the uncomfortable coach which was taking me to my new home.’.A young woman starts her first job as a governess ...
Far in the future, the World Controllers have created the ideal society. Through clever use of genetic engineering, brainwashing and recreational sex and drugs all its members are happy consumers. Bernard Marx seems alone in feeling discontent. Harbouring an unnatural desire for solitude, and a perverse ...
\''Just because you can\''t explain it, doesn\''t mean it\''s a miracle.\'' In the beginning was the Word. And the Word was: \''Hey, you!\'' This is the Discworld, after all, and religion is a controversial business. Everyone has their own opinion, and indeed their own gods, of every shape and size, ...
Contemporary / British English Linnet Ridgeway is rich, beautiful and clever. She appears to have everything. But Linnet also has enemies. When she is shot dead on a passenger boat in Egypt, it is fortunate that Hercule Poirot is also on the trip. But even for the great Belgian detective, this is not ...
Hello. I''m called Ella Brook and I live in a town called Cherrywood. I have blue eyes and dark brown hair. My best friends at school are Tom and Lenka. My worst enemy is Zoe. And then there is my mummy. She looks normal, like any other mummy... but she''s not. Because she can turn into a fairy. She ...
The Kane Chronicles: The Serpent''s Shadow" is the final thrilling instalment in award-winning author and Percy Jackson creator Rick Riordan''s "Kane Chronicles" trilogy. Is their inherited magic enough to battle against the most powerful mythical forces that Egypt''s gods have to throw at them? Carter ...
Tom Sagan is staring down the barrel of a gun. He has lost everything he ever loved: his job, his wife, his daughter, his reputation.What hurts most is that he knows his Pulitzer Prize-winning career as a journalist was sabotaged. He was set up, but he can''t prove it. They - whoever they are - have ...
Enter the Grishaverse with book one of the Shadow and Bone Trilogy by number one New York Times-bestselling author, Leigh Bardugo. Perfect for fans of Laini Taylor and Sarah J. Maas. Now with a stunning new cover and exclusive bonus material: A lost letter from Mal, The Tailor (a Genya story) and a Q&A ...
