Člověk má již odedávna moc vzít život, ale co se stane, když se naučí život darovat? Mladého Viktora Frankensteina, dychtivého studenta přírodních věd, pronásleduje tato otázka natolik, až se z ní stane posedlost, a on veškeré své síly a schopnosti... Zobraziť viac
Tajuplný dětský svět může být plný štěstí a radosti, ale také utrpení a smutku. V románu Město vypráví americký mistr napětí Dean Koontz příběh talentovaného devítiletého klavíristy Jonaha, jeho nejlepšího kamaráda a jeho rodiny... Zobraziť viac
Catherine Morland is a young girl with a very active imagination. Her naivety and love of sensational novels lead her to approach the fashionable social scene in Bath and her stay at nearby Northanger ... Zobraziť viac
In the mountains of Transylvania there stands a castle. It is the home of Count Dracula - a dark, lonely place, and at night the wolves howl around the walls. In the year 1875, Jonathan Harker comes from England to do business with the Count... Zobraziť viac
Travelling aboard a whaling vessel, a young stowaway is swept up in myriad misadventures – mutiny, shipwreck, cannibalism – narrowly escaping numerous brushes with death. This rousing story of a daring sea voyage also presents its ... Zobraziť viac
The woman who first gives life, light, and form to our shadowy conceptions of beauty, fills a void in our spiritual nature... Zobraziť viac
Revered as one of the greatest ghost stories ever told, James’s The Turn of the Screw is an eerie Victorian masterpiece. When an inexperienced governess goes to work at Bly, a country house in Essex to look after a young boy Miles and his sister Flora, .. Zobraziť viac
Three horror classics with an introduction by Stephen King Some of literature s most popular and enduring horror icons in one indispensable tome. Zobraziť viac
I have just returned from a visit to my landlord—the solitary neighbour that I shall be troubled with. This is certainly a beautiful country! In all England, I do not believe that I could have fixed on a situation so completely removed from the stir ... Zobraziť viac
A young governess is sent to a great country house to care for two orphaned children... Zobraziť viac
The situation with the vial has, apparently, cleared up. Syra is no longer angry with Levant who had only been pretending his own death. She has found her parents and is now leaving to the West. So how come the ever repeating visions with... Zobraziť viac
Set on the bleak moors of Yorkshire, Lockwood is forced to seek shelter at Wuthering Heights, the home of his new landlord, Heathcliff. The intense and wildly passionate Heathcliff tells the story of his life, his all-consuming love for Catherine... Zobraziť viac
A mysterious island. An abandoned orphanage. And a strange collection of very curious photographs. It all waits to be discovered in Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, an unforgettable novel that mixes fiction ... Zobraziť viac
Po záhadné smrti slavného archeologa se jeho dcera Jessika se rozhodne pokračovat v otcově díle, třebaže netuší, že... Zobraziť viac
All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others. George Orwell's fable of revolutionary farm animals - the steadfast horses Boxer and Clover, the opportunistic pigs Snowball and Napoleon, and the deafening choir of sheep... Zobraziť viac
Wilde's first and only published novel recounts the story of handsome Dorian Gray who upon having his portrait painted desires that it will age and grow ugly while he may remain eternally beautiful... Zobraziť viac
Detektív Sherlock Holmes, pravý anglický džentlmen a jeho neodmysliteľný priateľ doktor Watson objasňujú smrť sira Charlesa... Zobraziť viac
