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.
One balmy Texas evening, widowed financier Ben Fosberg answers the door to two Homeland Security agents. From the minute he lets them in, his life spirals out of control. A businessman has been killed in a hit gone wrong and Ben''s card is in the dead hitman''s pocket. The agents have a thousand questions ...
In early 1998 I went to Perth in Western Australia in order to attend the literature festival, and part of the arrangement was that I should go to Karratha to do their first ever literary dinner. Karratha is a mining town a long way further north. Th e landscape is extraordinary, being composed of vast ...
Paul Copeland\''s sister was one of the missing teenagers. Now raising a daughter alone, after the death of his wife, he balances family life with a career as a prosecutor. But when a homicide victim is found with evidence linking him to Cope, the well-buried secrets of the past are threatening everything. ...
Julianna Kiss, twenty-one, inexperienced and gentle, arrives in England from rural Hungary in May 1990. She\''s a student and has come to earn money and see the country where her grandmother was born, by picking fruit on a farm in southern England. It\''s a lush, pastoral pasage, where she falls in love ...
The sea monster lives down at the bottom of the ocean but one day he sits among the rocks on the shore and watches a boy and his little dog playing in the rock pools. Suddenly, the current carries the boy\''s toy boat out among the waves and when he tries to reach it the boy is swept far out to sea. ...
A stunning novel in the great tradition of American coming-of-age novels from Catcher in the Rye to The Secret History. Lee Fiora is a shy fourteen-year-old when she leaves small-town Indiana for a scholarship at Ault, an exclusive boarding school in Massachusetts. Her head is filled with images from ...
Cena:12.36€ | Autor:Lovecraft, H.P. | Rok vydania:2005 | Jazyk: V anglickom jazyku | Dostupnosť:na sklade | ISBN:9780141187891 | Vydavateľ:Penguin Books
Helen Dunmore follows the lives of four ordinary people, united by love, trying to survive the siege of Leningrad in her powerful historical novel "The Siege". Leningrad, September 1941. Hitler orders the German forces to surround the city at the start of the most dangerous, desperate winter in its history. ...
A great American writer’s confrontation with a great European critic – a personal and intellectual awakening. A hundred years ago, the Viennese satirist Karl Kraus was among the most penetrating and prophetic writers in Europe: a relentless critic of
Kate knows the irrestistible attraction she feels for Dominic Knight could forfeit her chance at happiness, but she’s finding it impossible to stay away… Knight Takes Queen is the final instalment in a trilogy featuring the clever and sensitive Katherine Hart and her indomitable billionaire lover, Dominic ...
Tento titul je novým vydaním knihy Spot of Bother z roku 2006At fifty-seven, George is setting down to a comfortable retirement, building a shed in his garden, reading historical novels, listening to a bit of light jazz. The Katie, his unpredic table daughter, announces that she is getting remarried, ...
A must for any fan of the storytelling genius that is Neil Gaiman, author of the acclaimed novel AMERICAN GODS and the bestselling THE OCEAN AT THE END OF THE LANE.
Neil Gaiman lives in the USA where he writes books for children, screenplays (Beowulf) and novels for adults, including Stardust - also now a major film, and Anansi Boys. Gris Grimly also lives in the USA and is a regular contributor to the world of children´s books.
AutorNeil Gaiman, Dave McKeanVydavateľstvoBloomsbury PublishingVäzba BrožISBN 978-0747588443Strán96Rozmery 220 x 294 mm A young boy stumbles across a Punch and Judy show at the pier one day and thus enters a world of extraordinary magic. A story unfolds in which the boy is forced to confront family secrets, ...
50 insightful entries examining the self-proclaimed urban elite. Skinny jeans? Check. Charity-shop clothing? Check. Non-essential prescription glasses? Check. Beanie balanced artfully on the back of your skull? Check. These items have become the uniform for a new breed of young people - hipsters - determined ...
Zoe Heller''s The Believers - part of the limited edition Penguin Street Art series: timeless writing, enduring design. "On the flyleaf of the diary she was keeping that year, she had inscribed Socrates'' words: "I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance." When Audrey makes a devastating discovery ...
The Scavenger species are circling. It is, truly, the End Days for the Gzilt civilisation. An ancient people, organised on military principles and yet almost perversely peaceful, the Gzilt helped set
Cosmically fast-paced and wildly imaginative, this debut novel is a perfect potion of magic and suspenseOnce a city of enormous wealth and culture, Prague was home to emperors, alchemists, astronomers, and, as it’s whispered, hell portals. When music student Sarah Weston lands a summer job at Prague ...
Peter Hames completes the first, English-language study on the themes and traditions of Czech and Slovak cinema. Joining interwar and postwar cinema with films produced during the post-Communist period, Hames follows interactions among theme, genre, and visual style and the way in which a range of styles ...
Dieses zweibändige Werk versammelt Bestleistungen amerikanischer Printwerbung in der Epoche, als Markenfirmen und Agenturen bei ihren Kampagnen noch auf die eine "Big Idea" setzten. §In den goldenen Tagen der Konsumbegeisterung waren die Magazine voll mit cleveren Anzeigen, die von Gürteln bis zu Waffen ...