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.
Who better to choose the ultimate in spine-chillers than Roald Dahl, whose own sinister stories have teased and twisted the imagination of millions? Here are fourteen of his favourite ghost stories, including Sheridan Le Fanu's The Ghost of a Hand, Edith Wharton's Afterward, Cynthia Asquith's ...
Alexandre Dumas'' epic tale of suffering and revenge inspired by a real-life case of wrongful imprisonment, the "Penguin Classics" edition of "The Count of Monte Cristo" is translated with an introduction by Robin Buss. Thrown in prison for a crime he has not committed Edmond Dantes spends fourteen bitter ...
Secondhand & Vintage Berlin gives you an insider's guide to the best shops and markets for almost anything you would want to buy. The first part of the book is…
Walking the streets of Moscow, indistinguishable from the rest of its population, are the Others. Possessors of supernatural powers and capable of entering the Twilight, a shadowy parallel world existing in parallel to our own, each Other owes allegiance either to the Dark or the Light. The "Night Watch", ...
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 ...
Boy, Roald Dahl''s bestselling autobiography, is full of hilarious anecdotes about his childhood and school days, illustrated by Quentin Blake. As a boy, all sorts of unusual things happened to Roald Dahl. There was the time he and four school friends got their revenge on beastly Mrs Prachett in her ...
Choice is the only tool we have for achieving fulfilment in life, allowing us to be masters of our worlds. Sometimes the path in front of us is simple and meaningless, such as choosing Coke or Pepsi, but often we are faced with life-changing choices, such as whether to stay in or leave a relationship, ...
Ciel, Sebastian, and Lau investigate a case where British citizens returning from India are attacked, stripped and hung upside-down outside Indian pubs in London. Attached to each victim is a letter insulting the English. The group is attacked by poor Indian men during their investigation but are helped ...
Ruby and Garnet are ten-year-old twins. They\'re identical, and they do Everything together, especially since their mother died three years earlier - but they couldn\'t be more different. Bossy, bouncy, funny Ruby loves to take charge, and is desperate to be a famous actress, while quiet, sensitive, ...
For Art Spiegelman, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Maus, the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 were both highly personal and intensely political. In the Shadow of No Towers, his first new book of comics since the groundbreaking Maus, is a masterful and moving account of the events and aftermath ...
Just a stone\''s throw from London lies the manor house of the illustrious Phantomhive earldom, its master one Ciel Phantomhive. Earl Phantomhive is a giant in the world of commerce, Queen Victoria\''s faithful servant. and a slip of a twelve-year old boy. Fortunately, his loyal butler, Sebastian, is ...
Tom Wolfe is back with his most brilliant novel since "The Bonfire of the Vanities", jettisoning us into the turbulent heart of Americas racial vortex: Miami. Loud, unique and unerringly funny, "Back to the Blood" displays the tensions of wealth, sex, ambition, culture, class and crime in America, and ...
When Óscar Amalfitano begins an impulsive affair with one of his students at the University of Barcelona, he has no idea where it will lead. More than his turbulent revolutionary past, or the death of his beautiful wife, the scandalous exposure of this relationship will change him for ever. Forced to ...
Cena:8.55€ | Autor:TRAVISS, KAREN | Rok vydania:2008 | Jazyk: V anglickom jazyku | Dostupnosť:2-3 týždne | ISBN:9780345477576 | Vydavateľ:Del Rey
Winter, 1916. In St Petersburg, snow is falling in a country on the brink of revolution. Beautiful and headstrong, Sashenka Zeitlin is just sixteen. As her mother parties with Rasputin and her dissolute friends, Sashenka slips into the frozen night to
Cena:8.6€ | Autor:Karpyshyn, Drew | Rok vydania:2007 | Jazyk: V anglickom jazyku | Dostupnosť:2-3 týždne | ISBN:9780345498168 | Vydavateľ:Del Rey
From No. 1 bestselling author Sheila O''''Flanagan comes a novel of tears, romance and rediscovering the joy of being single.What do you do when you find yourself suddenly single? Go suddenly suicidal? Suddenly sex-crazed? Or simply slump into self-pity? Alix Callaghan, who thought she was in control ...
Theodore Boone ist ein Teenager, sein Hobby ist das Gesetz. Vielleicht war das nicht zu vermeiden, mit zwei Anwälten als Eltern, aber selbst der Richter findet, dass Theodore mehr über das Recht weiß, als die meisten Erwachsenen (sogar mehr als sein Lehrer).Following on from the bestselling Theodore ...
Of all the choristers at the Cathedral Basilica of St George, he is the angel - the one whose voice could only have been made in heaven. In every other respect Hubert is utterly ordinary: a nice, rather timid ten-year-old boy. The year is 1976, but b y bold Amisian sleight-of-hand, the England of The ...
