"A Lolita bizonyos értelemben túlságosan nagy regény. Úgy zúdul rá az olvasóra, mint valami kábítószer, amely erősebb, mint bármelyik, amit eddig felfedeztek vagy létrehoztak. A Lolita kegyetlen könyv a kegyetlenségről." Martin Amis írta ezt Nabokov leghíresebb regényéről: egyike annak a számos - vagy ...
Zrcadlový text vám přináší 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 v angličtině! Klasický příběh je převyprávěn pro dnešní čtenáře, s využitím běžné ...
Pollyanna comes to live with her Aunt Polly. Pollyanna always looks for the good in life and she helps her new friends to be happy again, but not her aunt! Will Aunt Polly learn to be happy?Pollyanna is eleven when she comes to live with her Aunt Polly, after her father dies. Life isn’t easy for Pollyanna. ...
It''s 200 years since Cinderella found her prince, but the fairytale is over. Sophia knows the story though, off by heart. Because every girl has to recite it daily, from when she''s tiny until the night she''s sent to the royal ball for choosing. And every girl knows that she has only one chance. For ...
A New York Times No. 1 best seller §On the New York Times Best Seller List for more than 52 consecutive weeks §Includes an excerpt from the much-anticipated sequel and an interview with author Ransom Riggs §A mysterious island.§An abandoned orphanage.§A strange collection of very curious photographs§It ...
"Need it be said — the little grey cells solve once more the seemingly insoluble. Mrs Christie makes an improbable tale very real, and keeps her readers enthralled and guessing to the end." Times Literary Supplement "A brilliantly ingenious story." Dorothy L. Sayers, Daily Herald "Ingenuity at its height ...
A companion to the New York Times bestselling Miss Peregrine''s Home for Peculiar Children, now in a deluxe paperback edition with a never-before-seen story! Before Miss Peregrine gave them a home, the story of peculiars was written in the Tales. Wealthy cannibals who dine on the discarded limbs of peculiars. ...
"Lord of the Flies" is a novel that has captivated schoolchildren ever since it was first published in 1954. A teacher himself, Golding clearly understood what excites and interests children. It is not only a gripping story, with strong, sympathetic characters, but it also raises timeless and profound ...
Emma si uvedomuje, ako sa jej do psychiky a tela zabodáva každý ďalší pribúdajúci deň, ako sa vekom dostáva do rozporu s vlastnými názormi, ako inak vnímajú celú jej bytosť dcéry aj manžel. Jej mladosť, ukrývajúca sa niekde hlboko v podvedomí, z času na čas prejaví svoju životaschopnosť. Emma podľahne ...
With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Tim Middleton, Head of English Studies, University of Ripon and York. In seeking to discover his inner self, the brilliant Dr Jekyll discovers a monster. First published to critical acclaim in 1886, this mesmerising thriller is a terrifying study of the duality of ...
''The dog was lying on the grass in the middle of the lawn in front of Mrs Shears'' house. It looked as if it was running on its side, the way dogs run when they think they are chasing a cat in a dream. But the dog was not running or asleep. The dog was dead. There was a garden fork sticking out of the ...
"Oliver Twist" (1838) is one of the best loved and darkest of Dickens'' novels and presents some of the most memorable of Dickens'' great characters, from the rascal antics of street urchin the Artful Dodger, the manipulative seediness of Fagin and the threatening brutality of Bill Sykes, to the kindness ...
George Orwell''''s dystopian masterpiece, Nineteen Eighty-Four is perhaps the most pervasively influential book of the twentieth century, making famous Big Brother, newspeak and Room 101. ''''Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past'''' Hidden away in the ...
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is an incredible 50 years old! To celebrate, this paperback edition has a special ''''double'''' golden ticket cover design. Charlie Bucket desperately wants to eat more than cabbage soup every day. But, even more than that, he longs to have a specially conducted tour ...
After many more days and nights of study, I discovered exactly how life was created. With this knowledge I became the first man in history to have the power to create life from death.’ Tags Science Fiction Fantasy/Horror In this Reader you will find: - Information about Mary Shelley’s life - Sections ...
Percy Jackson and the Sea of Monsters is the second exciting adventure in Rick Riordan''s bestselling Percy Jackson series - now with a brand new cover look. Half Boy. Half God. All Hero. You can''t tell by looking at me that my dad is Poseidon, God of the Sea. It''s not easy being a half-blood these ...
Harry čaká na Privátnej ceste. Fénixov Rád prichádza, aby ho čo najbezpečnejšie presunul preč od Voldemorta a jeho pomocníkov. Ale čo bude Harry robiť potom? Ako môže splniť dôležitú a zdanlivo nemožnú úlohu, ktorú mu zanechal profesor Dumbledore?Harry bol poverený ťažkou, nebezpečnou a zdanlivo nesplnitelnou ...
