A beautiful new edition of F. Scott Fitzgerald''''s classic novel The Great Gatsby to coincide with the release of Baz Luhrmann''''s film. ''''There was music from my neighbour''''s house through the summer nights. In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the ...
Kniha - 48 stran, anglicky, Brožovaná bez přebalu lesklá.Soubor tematických křížovek nejen pro děti. Každá křížovka je doplněna obrázky pro snadnější zapamatování si nových anglických slovíček a také správným řešením.
Kniha – autor Charles Goodger, 120 stran, česky, brožovaná bez přebalu lesklá Výuka angličtiny prostřednictvím "akčních písniček" rozvíjí znalost jazyka cestou hudby, jednoduchých pohybových cvičení a napodobování. Texty písniček obsahují základní slovní zásobu, melodie jsou svěží, originální a chytlavé. ...
How do you punish an immortal? By making him human. After angering his father Zeus, the god Apollo is cast down from Olympus. Weak and disoriented, he lands in New York City as a regular teenage boy. Now, without his godly powers, the four-thousand-year-old deity must learn to survive in the modern world ...
It came to me first of all, quite suddenly, as a sort of legendary tale, suggested by my recollection of having once, in early childhood, seen a linen-weaver with a bag on his back; but, as my mind dwelt on the subject, I became inclined to a more realistic treatment. Falsely accused, cut off from his ...
Based on a lecture given at Cambridge and first published in 1929, ''A Room of One''s Own'' interweaves Woolf''s personal experience as a female writer with themes ranging from Austen and Bronte to Shakespeare''s gifted (and imaginary) sister. ''Three Guineas'', Woolf''s most impassioned polemic, came ...
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 ...
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. \''"For," said he, "there never was nor is there one chaste woman upon the face of earth." \'' A collection of Persian, Arabian and Indian tales dating from the 9th century, Sir Richard Burton\''s most well-known translation ...
Mark Twain''s great American masterpiece, in a gorgeous new clothbound edition designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. These delectable and collectible Penguin editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design Mark Twain''s tale of a boy''s picaresque ...
''''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 ...
The definitive text of Jane Austen''s penetrating and sparkling satire, "Emma", this "Penguin Classics Edition" includes an introduction by Fiona Stafford. Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, rich - and fiercely independent - is perfectly content with her life and sees no need for either love or marriage. ...
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. ''He felt that in this crisis his laws of life were useless. Whatever he had learned of himself was here of no avail. He was an unknown quantity.'' Following one soldier''s journey from naive recruit to hardened survivor, ...
Black Beauty is a young black colt and loves roaming Farmer Gray''s fields with his mother. As Black Beauty grows into a handsome stallion, he is trained into the use of a saddle and whip and sold to Squire Gordon of Birtwick Hall. Here, he makes many friends including the angry Ginger, the well-meaning ...
"Newland felt more and more embarrassed. The men were all staring into the box where May was sitting between her mother and her aunt, he didn’t recognise the lady in the strange dress, and he didn’t know why everyone was so shocked to see her.”.Newland Archer, heir to one of New York City’s best families, ...
Toddly loves to visit Granny on her farm.She makes the best cakes and theres lots to see and do. But will Butch the dog ever be his Friend ? Anglický etxt.
A fun, thriller of an adventure told in words and pictures from master storyteller, Philip Pullman, including beautiful cover illustration by Peter Bailey and sumptuous illustrations throughout by David Mostyn. Rose and Lily and their little brother Ned live in an orphanage - a terrible place, where ...
The Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller The New York Times Bestseller From the author of the monumental My Struggle series, Karl Ove Knausgaard, one of the masters of contemporary literature and a genius of observation and introspection, comes the first in a new autobiographical quartet based on the four ...
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 ...
A haunting study of guilt and lost love in "Penguin Classics", Thomas Hardy''s "The Mayor of Casterbridge" is edited with an introduction and notes by Keith Wilson. In a fit of drunken anger, Michael Henchard sells his wife and baby daughter for five guineas at a country fair. Over the course of the ...