For fans of all ages, legendary British writer Rudyard Kipling’s complete collection of enchanting fables set in India—the basis of the beloved animated Disney film and a modern cinematic retelling from director Jon Favreau—now available in a deluxe four-color illustrated collectible edition. The Jungle ...
The world first publication of a previously unknown work by J.R.R. Tolkien, which tells the epic story of the Norse hero, Sigurd, the dragon-slayer, and the revenge of his wife, Gudrún, upon those who betrayed him. The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún tells in narrative verse the saga of a Norse hero, Sigurd, ...
Kniha - autor Paul Dowswell, 208 stran, anglicky, Brožovaná bez přebalu lesklá Zrcadlový text vám přináší napínavý příběh jak v českém tak anglickém jazyce – na levé straně knihy je původní text, na pravé jeho překlad do češtiny. Ideální čtení nejen na dovolenou, u kterého se pobavíte, ale navíc se procvičíte ...
For gauche young apprentice Miloš Hrma, life at the small but strategic railway station in Bohemia in 1945 is full of complex preoccupations. There is the exacting business of dispatching German troop trains to and from the toppling Eastern front; the problem of ridding himself of his burdensome innocence; ...
His second major venture into non fiction (after Death in the Afternoon, 1932), Green Hills of Africa is Ernest Hemingway''s lyrical journal of a month on safari in the great game country of East Africa, where he and his wife Pauline journeyed in December of 1933. Hemingway''s well-known interest in ...
Jonathan Livingston Seagull, the most celebrated inspirational fable of our time, tells the story of a bird determined to be more than ordinary. This bestselling modern classic, reissued with a beautiful new cover design, is a story for people who want to follow their dreams and make their own rules ...
After the gravity of "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" and "Immortality," "Slowness" comes as a surprise: It is certainly Kundera''''s lightest novel, a "divertimento," an "opera buffa," with, as the author himself says, "not a single serious word in it"; then, too, it is the first of his novels to ...
This revised and expanded edition of Tolkien''s own Hobbit-inspired poetry includes previously unpublished poems and notes, and is beautifully illustrated by Narnia artist Pauline Baynes. ''Here is something that no devotee of the Hobbit epic can afford to miss, while awaiting a further instalment of ...
Split into two books for the paperback, the third volume in George R.R. Martin''''s superb and highly acclaimed epic fantasy A Song of Ice and Fire continues the richest, most exotic and mesmerising saga since The Lord of the Rings. The Seven Kingdoms are divided by revolt and blood feud, and winter ...
Collins brings the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie, to English language learners. Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time and in any language. Now Collins has adapted her famous detective novels for English language learners. These carefully adapted versions are shorter with the ...
In der Nähe einer Militärbasis in Carter Crossing, Mississippi wird die Leiche einer jungen Frau aufgefunden. Ist der Mörder ein Bewohner der Stadt oder ein Soldat? Um das herauszufinden schickt man Jack Reacher auf eine Undercover Mission. Jack Reacher ist zurück in seinem 16. Abenteuer.Everything starts ...
Romantic, liberating and totally addictive, the Fifty Shades trilogy will obsess you, possess you, and stay with you forever.E L James When literature student Anastasia Steele interviews successful entrepreneur Christian Grey, she finds him very attractive and deeply intimidating. Convinced that their ...
The fourth volume that contains the early myths and legends which led to the writing of Tolkien''''s epic tale of war, The Silmarillion. In this fourth volume of The History of Middle-earth, the shaping of the chronological and geographical structure of the legends of Middle-earth and Valinor is spread ...
Concluding the story of The Hobbit, this is the final part of Tolkien''''s epic masterpiece, The Lord of the Rings, featuring a striking black cover based on Tolkien''''s own design, the definitive text, and a detailed map of Middle-earth. The armies of the Dark Lord Sauron are massing as his evil shadow ...
This is the first book in a brand new series from bestselling author, Maggie Stiefvater. Fans of SHIVER (9781407115009), LINGER (9781407121086) and FOREVER (9781407121116) will love this new quartet! Blue has spent the majority of her sixteen years being told that if she kisses her true love, he will ...
Bursting with the imaginative power of Neil Gaiman, this story blends fantasy with humour and drama. Fat Charlie Nancy is not actually fat. He was fat once but he is definitely not fat now. No, right now Fat Charlie Nancy is angry, confused and more than a little scared - right now his life is spinning ...
Prebieha dotlač, termín vydania dotlače na knižný trh neznámyVäčšina detí miluje knihy od útleho detstva. Prvé knihy – leporelá by mali mať menší formát, tvrdé stránky, ktoré odolajú prípadnému útoku prvých zúbkov a jednoduché veľké ilustrácie. Baby''s very first black and white books Babies je súčasťou ...
This is an exciting storybook with four embedded tracks and a pull-back train toy that will amuse little children again and again. You can pull-back the train to start its ''engine'' then place it on the tracks and watch it zoom across away from the city station, across bridges and fields, over a long ...
This astonishingly inventive title allows young children to discover the inner workings of the human body in a gently humorous, yet wholly accurate way. Bright, original colour illustrations and diagrams display all the major organs of the human body and are accompanied by witty, clear and informative ...
