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.
As winter turns to spring across the red earth, acacia trees and slow green rivers of Botswana, all is not quite as it should be on Zebra Drive, home to Mma Ramotswe and her beloved husband Mr J. L. B. Matekoni. At the No.1 Ladies'''' Detective Agency t here are the usual number of cases to be pursued, ...
In the cloud-washed airspace between the cornfields of Illinois and blue infinity, a man puts his faith in the propeller of his biplane. For disillusioned writer and itinerant barnstormer Richard Bach, belief is as real as a full tank of gas and s parks firing in the cylinders.until he meets Donald Shimodaformer ...
Readers worldwide have come to know the work of Stephen Hawking through his phenomenal bestseller, A Brief History of Time. Now, in his first collection of essays and other pieces - on subjects that range from the warmly personal to the wholly scient ific - Stephen Hawking is revealed variously as the ...
"Getting Rid of Matthew" is the brilliantly witty novel from Jane Fallon. What to do if Matthew, your secret lover of the past four years, finally decides to leave his wife Sophie and their two daughters and move into your flat, just when you''''re thinking that you might not want him anymore.Plan A: ...
The new, brilliantly high-concept religious conspiracy-theory thriller from the author of ''''The Righteous Men'''', set against the backdrop of the world''''s bitterest conflict. April 2003: as the Baghdad Museum of Antiquities is looted, a teenage Iraqi boy finds an ancient clay tablet in a long-forgotten ...
The story of a man called Honda\''s obsessive pursuit of a beautiful young Thai princess, and an equally passionate search for enlightenment that takes him to India. It dramatizes the Japanese experience from the eve of World War II through the postwar era. One of the "Sea of Fertility" cycle.
A 2020 agenda based on the writings of Paulo Coelho, one of the world\''s most beloved and inspirational authors. World-renowned author Paulo Coelho has inspired millions with bestselling classics like The Alchemist, The Pilgrimage, Manuscript Found in Accra, Adultery, The Spy and most recently, Hippie. ...
''''Do you know what a smash cut is?'''' ‘It’s an abrupt edit. A sudden shift of scene. Used to shock the audience. Very effective. Lots of impact. It’ll be like that. No one will see it coming. Especially her.’ When Paul Wheeler is shot dead during an armed robbery, his lover Julie Rutledge is convinced ...
Another superb novel to delight Jacqueline Wilson’s vast 8-12-year-old girl fanbase.Dixie is the youngest of the Diamond family. She and her sisters, dreamy Martine, glamorous Rochelle and tough Jude, could hardly be more different from each other but their Mum’s tried to teach them the value of ...
Jean Giono was born in 1895 in Manosque, Provence, and lived there most of his life. He supported his family working as a bank clerk for eighteen years before his first two novels were published, thanks to the generosity of André Gide, to critical acclaim. He went on to write thirty novels, including ...
A few months of married bliss, a lovers' nest in Darrowby and the wonders of home cooking are rudely interrupted for James Herriot by the Second World War. James Herriot's fifth volume of memoirs relocates him to a training camp somewhere in England. And in between square pounding and digging ...
The Yorkshire dales have never seemed more beautiful for James - now he has a lovely wife by his side, a partner's plate on the gate and the usual menagerie of farm animals, pets and owners demanding his constant attention and teaching him a few lessons along the way. All of the old Darrowby friends ...
New York comedian Alvy Singer reflects ruefully upon a failed relationship. When he first met Annie Hall on a tennis date, she was an insecure wallflower in trousers, vest and tie. But they shared a self-deprecating sense of humour, plus certain deep-seated neuroses, and love soon blossomed. Alvy supported ...
Vynikajúce čítanie pre všetkých, ktorí obdivujú poetiku a jazyk mága svetovej literatúry. In 1933 a sensationalist Argentinian newspaper employed Jorge Luis Borges to produce high-brow cultural commentary. Alongside the high-toned pieces, he also contributed these quirky blood-and-guts tales of gunslingers, ...
Výučbové zošity s Jankom Hraškom sú prvými učebnicami pre najmenších, vďaka ktorým si dieťa hravou formou začína osvojovať angličtinu. Ku každému zošitu sú priložené farebné samolepky, ktoré výučbu angličtiny urobia pre deti príťažlivou. Tento modrý zošit obsahuje slovíčka z oblasti: zvieratá, ovocie ...
An epic of love, hatred, war and revolution. A huge novel that follows five families through the world-shaking dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for votes for women. It is 1911. The Coronation Day of King George V. The Williams, a Welsh coal-mining family, is ...
Cena:11.41€ | Autor:Eco, Umberto | Rok vydania:1998 | Jazyk: V anglickom jazyku | Dostupnosť:2-3 týždne | ISBN:9780749397050 | Vydavateľ:Vintage
James Gleick, the author of the bestsellers Chaos and Genius, brings us his crowning work: a revelatory chronicle that shows how information has become the modern era''''s defining quality--the blood, the fuel, the vital principle of our world. We live in the information age. But every era of history ...
Two Supreme Court Justices are dead, their murders unsolved.But one woman might have found the answer - if she can live to tell it.Darby Shaw is a brilliant New Orleans legal student with a sharp political mind. For her own amusement, she draws up a legal brief showing how the judges might have been ...
