",How I long to sail!", said the tiny snail. The Snail and the Whale is a delightful tale of adventure and friendship by the unparalleled picture book partnership of Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler, creators of The Gruffalo. One little snail longs to see the world and hitches a lift on the ...
Hravá knížka plná obrázků je určená dětem, které s angličtinou začínají.Nenásilnou a přitom velmi poutavou formou za pomocí jednoduchých a snadno zapamatovatelných básniček fixuje do paměti základní anglická slovíčka.Pro každé anglické slovíčko je vymyšlena jedna básnička a každé slovíčko má v knize ...
Marion and Shiva Stone, born in a mission hospital in Ethiopia in the 1950s, are twin sons of an illicit union between an Indian nun and British doctor. Bound by birth but with widely different temperaments they grow up together, in a country on the brink of revolution, until a betrayal splits them apart. ...
Read the original books before you see the How to Train Your Dragon film! This book will be a hit with children and adults alike. THE STORY BEGINS in the first volume of Hiccup''s How to Train Your Dragon memoirs. Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III was an awesome sword-fighter, a dragon-whisperer and the ...
Waris Dirie (the name means desert flower) lives a double life - by day she is a famous model and UN spokeswoman on women''''s rights in Africa, at night she dreams of her native Somalia. Waris, one of 12 children, was born into a traditional family of desert nomads in East Africa. She remembers her ...
I stuck my finger under the edge of the paper and jerked it under the tape. 'Shoot,' I muttered when the paper sliced my finger. A single drop of blood oozed from the tiny cut. It all happened very quickly then. 'No!' Edward roared.Dazed and disorientated, I looked up from the bright ...
Painstakingly restored from Tolkien's manuscripts and presented for the first time as a fully continuous and standalone story, the epic tale of The Children of Hurin will reunite fans of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings with Elves and Men, dragons and Dwarves, eagles and Orcs, and the rich landscape ...
J. R. R. Tolkien\''s Unfinished Tales is a collection ranging from the time of The Silmarillion – the Elder days of Middle-earth – to the end of the War of the Ring in The Lord of the Rings. Its many treasures include Gandalf\''s lively account of how he came to send the Dwarves to the celebrated party ...
''''you are to understand, Mr. Pip, that the name of the person who is your liberal benefactor remains a profound secret.'''' Young Pip lives with his sister and her husband the blacksmith, with few prospects for advancement until a mysterious benefaction takes him from the Kent marshes to London. Pip ...
Immortalised by Audrey Hepburn''s sparkling performance in the 1961 film of the same name, ''Breakfast at Tiffany''s'' is Truman Capote''s timeless portrait of tragicomic cultural icon Holly Golightly, published in ''Penguin Modern Classics''. It''s New York in the 1940s, where the martinis flow from ...
A condensed guide to life from the bestselling author of "The Black Swan", Nassim Nicholas Taleb''''s "The Bed of Procrustes" is an invaluable collection of aphorisms navigate the modern world. Why are we so often unwilling to accept that life is unpredictable? In this brilliant book Nassim Nicholas ...
Provocative, startling, prophetic, and more relevant than ever, The Handmaid''s Tale has become a global phenomenon. Now, in this stunning graphic novel edition of Margaret Atwood''s modern classic, the terrifying reality of Gilead is brought to vivid life like never before. "Everything Handmaids wear ...
Zemeckisův film je brilantním shrnutím dosavadních režisérových poznatků o možnostech "comicsového" vyprávění. Formálně i obsahově nejméně konvenční z jeho snímků přesvědčuje komediálními gagy i naléhavě patetickým tónem. Jeho hrdinou je prosťáček Forrest Gump, typický obyčejný muž, který od dětství ...
Henry Chinaski is a lowlife loser with a hand-to-mouth existence. His menial post office day job supports a life of beer, one-night stands and racetracks. Lurid, uncompromising and hilarious, Post Office is a landmark in American literature, and over 1 million copies have been sold worldwide. The new ...
Inspired by his experiences as a reporter during the Spanish Civil War, Ernest Hemingway''s For Whom the Bell Tolls tells the story of Robert Jordan, an American volunteer in the International Brigades fighting to defend the Spanish Republic against Franco. After being ordered to work with guerrilla ...
