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.
This novel is based on the historical occurrence of the appearance of the false messiah Sabbath Zevi and the mass following he generated. While the bare facts of the delusion may be true, I believe that the fleshing out of the characters, their thoughts and behaviour are a misrepresentation. ''''Satan ...
Deeply funny, subversive and spendidly entertaining, The autograph man is a whrilwind tour of celebrity and our fame-obsessed times. Following one Alex-Li Tandem - a twenty-something, Chinese-Jewish autograph dealer turned on by sex, drugs and organi zed religion - it takes in London and New York, live ...
Šíri sa temnota, prichádza beznádej, vládne zlo... Pokračovanie fantasy bestselleru Eragon z pera Christophera Paoliniho opäť dobýva svet! Eragon cestuje so Zafirou do elfského mesta Ellesméra, aby podstúpil výcvik v čarovaní a boji, životne dôležitých zručnostiach Dračieho jazdca. Stráca istotu, nevie ...
Immortality predstavuje skoncentrovan? obraz toho najpodstatnej?ieho z jeho doteraj?ej tvorby. Jednotliv? s?rie Prekvapenia (od 2007), Menu (od 2009), Osrat? muchami (od 1993), Juxtapoz?cie (od 1996) a Smutn? z?bava (od 2002) s? otvoren?mi s?bormi, s neobmedzen?m po?tom diel. Na za?iatku dev??desiatych ...
Omar Khayyam Shakil had three mothers who shared the symptoms of pregnancy, as they did everything else, inseparably. At their six breasts, Omar was warned against all feelings and nuances of shame. It was training which would prove useful when he left his mothers' fortress (via the dumb-waiter) ...
A narrative particle accelerator that zooms between Wild Turkey Whiskey and Bob Dylan, unicorn skulls and voracious librarians, John Coltrane and Lord Jim. Science fiction, detective story and post-modern manifesto all rolled into one rip-roaring nov el, Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World ...
Innocent people are dying. Who will be next? Find out in the second Detective Mark 'Heck' Heckenburg from #1 ebook bestseller Paul Finch. A vicious serial killer is holding the country to ransom, publicly - and gruesomely - murdering his victims. When a man is burnt alive on a bonfire, it seems like ...
Cena:10.5€ | Autor:Leon, Donna | Rok vydania:2009 | Jazyk: V anglickom jazyku | Dostupnosť:2-3 týždne | ISBN:9780099517641 | Vydavateľ:Arrow Books
An enchanting, brutal vampire myth and coming-of-age love story, adapted from the best-selling novel and award-winning film. Oskar is a bullied lonely teenage boy living with his mother on a housing estate at the edge of town, when a spate of sinister killings rock the neighbourhood. Eli is the young ...
Dexter Morgan is busy planning his wedding to Rita to complete his nice-guy disguise. But when a student is found burnt, molested and headless - seemingly sacrificed to an ancient god - and Dex is brought in as forensic analyst to help investigate, he realises he could be dealing with someone a whole ...
Cena:10.65€ | Autor:Lindsay, Jeff | Rok vydania:2004 | Jazyk: V anglickom jazyku | Dostupnosť:5-7 dní | ISBN:9780752865744 | Vydavateľ:Orion Publishing Group
Pippa seems to have everything in life. But suddenly she finds her world beginning to unravel. Amid the buzzing lawnmowers and suburban coffee mornings, she starts to wonder how she came to be in this place. The answer is a story of wild youth, unexpected encounters, affairs and betrayals, and the dangerous ...
Why is it that we destroy the things we love most? This is the question Paulo Coelho faces in this story of his confrontation with his past. The Valkyries is a compelling account of his journey, as Paulo and his wife embark on a forty day quest into the searing heat of the Mojave Desert, where they encounter ...
Sylvie and Carl have been friends since they were tiny children. They''ve always played together, eaten with each other''s families, called each other boyfriend and girlfriend and deep down, Sylvie has always believed that they''d end up married to each other. They even have a magical fantasy world that ...
Enter a world where the sometimes shocking and often hilarious mating habits of the privileged are exposed by a true insider. In essays drawn from her witty and sometimes brutally candid column in the New York Observer, Candace Bushnell introduces us to the young and beautiful who travel in packs from ...
Edited by Christopher Tolkien, this is a previously unknown work by J.R.R. Tolkien, which tells the epic story of the Norse hero Sigurd. The hardback was a }Sunday Times{ and }New York Times{ bestseller, selling over 250,000 copies in English.
Munich, 1949: Amid the chaos of defeat, it is home to all the backstabbing intrigue that prospers in the aftermath of war. A place where a private eye like Bernie Gunther can find a lot of not-quite-reputable work: cleaning up the Nazi past of well-t o-do locals, abetting fugitives in the flight abroad, ...
In 1953, in the presence of an investigator, Aldous Huxley took four-tenths of a gramme of mescalin, sat down and waited to see what would happen. When he opened his eyes everything was transformed. Huxley described his experience in "The Doors of Perception" and its sequel "Heaven and Hell".
Cena:10.44€ | Autor:Goodkind, Terry | Rok vydania:2008 | Jazyk: V anglickom jazyku | Dostupnosť:na sklade | ISBN:9780752889771 | Vydavateľ:Littlehampton Book Ser
Set in New England mainly and London partly, ",On Beauty", concerns a pair of feuding families - the Belseys and the Kipps - and a clutch of doomed affairs. It puts low morals among high ideals and asks some searching questions about what life does to love. For the Belseys and the Kipps, the ...
