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.
‘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, ...
The convict scares Pip into stealing food for him and a file to grind away his leg shackles. He warns Pip not to tell anyone and to do as he says or he will cut out Pip''s heart and liver. Pip returns home, where he lives with his older sister Mrs. Joe, whose name is later revealed to be Georgiana Maria, ...
Tento produkt je v pôvodnom znení a neobsahuje české ani slovenské titulky a dabing. Lavish BBC adaptation of the much-loved Charlotte Bronte novel, starring Ruth Wilson as Jane Eyre and Toby Stephens as Rochester. Orphaned at a young age, Jane is placed in the care of her wealthy aunt Mrs Reed (Tara ...
Vzrušujúce dobrodružstvá najznámejšieho stroskotanca na svete! ". ocitol som sa v nezávideniahodnej situácii: bol som celý mokrý, nemal som šaty na prezlečenie, nemal som nič na jedenie ani na pitie, čo by mi prinieslo aspoň akú-takú útechu. Nevedel som si predstaviť iný koniec, len ten, že zahyniem ...
A Tale of Two Cities is Charles Dickens’s most famous historical novel.Set in Paris and London at the time of the French Revolution, this is the story of two men, Frenchman, Charles Darnay, and Englishman, Sydney Carton. As the Revolution takes hold and the Terror begins, the two men’s destinies bring ...
A regény címszereplője koldusszegény árvalány, akit nagynénje nevel. Kapcsolatukat számos konfliktus tarkítja, így Jane idővel egy nevelőintézetbe kerül Lowoodba. Az állandó koplalás és hideg, valamint az intézet rideg, szigorú szabályai nem könnyítik meg az érzékeny, szeretetre éhes kislány helyzetét. ...
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives to be the most pernicious race of little odious vermin that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth.'Shipwrecked on the high seas, Lemuel Gulliver finds ...
''there were only seven out of the twenty-six on whom we knew we could rely; and out of those seven one was a boy ...'' When a mysterious seafarer puts up at the Admiral Benbow, young Jim Hawkins is haunted by his frightening tales; the sailor''s sudden death is the beginning of one of the most exciting ...
Jane Austen was born on December 16, 1775. She was an English novelist who wrote numerous works of romantic fiction. Ms. Austen has millions of adoring fans all around the world and she is one of the most beloved writers in all of English literatu re.Many people may be surprised to learn that Jane Austen ...
Comedy and tragedy intertwine when two very different couples fall in and out of love in Shakespeare''s Much Ado About Nothing. Part of the Macmillan Collector''s Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect ...
Call me Ishmael. So begins Moby-Dick, Herman Melville's epic account of the last voyage of the ill-fated whaling ship Pequod, and its captain's obsessive pursuit of the legendary white whale that maimed him years before. Melville's classic novel has given American literature some of its most iconic characters. ...
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. Written by an anonymous poet between the 8th and 11th centuries, this Old English epic poem follows the story of Beowulf, courageous hero of the Geats in Scandinavia. The King of the Danes has found his hall and ...
With its four-letter words and its explicit descriptions of sexual intercourse, Lady Chatterley''s Lover is the novel with which D.H. Lawrence is most often associated. First published privately in Florence in 1928, it only became a world-wide best-seller after Penguin Books had successfully resisted ...
Enjoy reading about this little boy and discover if he stays true to himself even with all the changes in his life. In the mid-1880s, young Cedric Errol lives with his mother in New York. They are quite poor after the death of Cedric’s father, but live a simple happy life together. Then, one day, an ...
The Picture of Dorian Gray was a succčs de scandale. Early readers were shocked by its hints at unspeakable sins and the book was later used as evidence against Wilde at the Old Bailey in 1895.Enthralled by his own exquisite portrait, Dorian Gray makes a Faustian bargain to sell his soul in exchange ...
The Woman in White is the first English ‘sensation novel’ full of mystery and dark secrets.After meeting a strange woman one night in London, Walter Hartright begins to realise that this mysterious woman is connected, in some way, to his new life at Limmeridge House and the woman he loves, Laura Fairlie. ...
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. ''It was a town of red brick, or of brick that would have been red if the smoke and ashes had allowed it; but as matters stood, it was a town of unnatural red and black like the painted face of a savage.'' Set in ...
From the bestselling author of Autumn and Winter, as well as the Baileys Prize-winning. How to be both, comes the next installment in the remarkable, once-in-a-generation masterpiece, the Seasonal Quartet. What unites Katherine Mansfield, Charlie Chaplin, Shakespeare, Rilke, Beethoven, Brexit, the present, ...
The unmissable finale to Ali Smith''s dazzling literary tour de force: the Seasonal quartet concludes in 2020 with Summer.In the present, Sacha knows the world''s in trouble. Her brother Robert just is trouble. Their mother and father are having trouble. Meanwhile the world''s in meltdown - and the real ...
Mary Shelley tizennyolc évesen, egy lidércnyomás hatására találta ki rémtörténetét egy baráti költői versenyre. A versenyt megnyerte, ezzel pedig teremtménye elindult világhódító útjára. A hátborzongató, mára már ikonikus történet szerint Victor Frankenstein életet lehel a holt anyagba, ám később megtagadja ...
