Oliver Twist‘s life is hard and desperate one. His mother is dead, so he is brought up in a workhouse. Beaten and starved he runs away to London, where he joins Fagin’s gang of pickpockets to survive. Will the boy manage to find ... Zobraziť viac
Představte si, že se ocitnete sami uprostřed pouště, kde široko daleko není živé duše, když vtom se před vámi zjeví blonďatý chlapec. A jako by to nestačilo, nedá jinak, než abyste... Zobraziť viac
Staroruský hrdinský epos Slovo o pluku Igorom z 12. storočia nie je len ruskou literárnou pamiatkou, ale patrí celému slovanskému svetu ako svojbytnému kultúrno-historickému spoločenstvu a zároveň mu patrí pevné miesto v dejinách... Zobraziť viac
Follow Odysseus after he leaves the fallen city of Troy and takes ten long dramatic years - battling monsters, the temptations of goddesses and suffering the curse of Poseidon - to voyage home to his wife Penelope on the island of Ithaca... Zobraziť viac
Zrcadlová četba v českém a anglickém jazyce. Zobraziť viac
Wily Odysseus, King of Ithaca, has won Troy for the Greeks – after a decade of brutal, bloody warfare. But now this warrior remembers he is a husband and father – and his gaze turns longingly towards home... Zobraziť viac
Inside the grand walls of Edinburgh's nineteenth-century scientific institutions, anatomists began to map the secrets of the human body in order to discover new medical innovations. But to the horror of the local population, a shortage of bodies soon... Zobraziť viac
Everybody has heard of Alexander the Great - but few really know his story. His life is the most extraordinary story of military adventure ever told. The epic new standalone from one of Britain's best-loved historical fiction authors... Zobraziť viac
A propulsive tour through a fantastical London, where history and myth collide, murder stalks the streets and the mundane becomes very magical indeed... Zobraziť viac
Do vampires really exist? Robert Ferguson believes his wife is one! Will the famous detective Sherlock Holmes and his friend Dr Watson explain her strange behaviour? Or are they facing a real vampire? ... Zobraziť viac
Possession is an exhilarating novel of wit and romance, at once a literary detective novel and a triumphant love story.It is the tale of a pair of young scholars investigating the lives of two Victorian poets. Following a trail of letters, journals and... Zobraziť viac
Kniha je určená pre mierne pokročilých študentov angličtiny, ktorí sa radi učia alebo si precvičujú cudzí jazyk čítaním. Slovenský preklad na protiľahlej strane umožní čitateľovi skontrolovať, či cudzojazyčnému textu správne porozumel... Zobraziť viac
Veronika has everything she could wish for – young and pretty, with plenty of attractive boyfriends, a steady job, loving family. Yet Veronika is not happy and one winter's morning takes an overdose of sleeping pills, only to wake up some time later ... Zobraziť viac
The main lesson Luce had learned was that you couldn't count on anybody. In the lonesome beauty of the forest, across the far shore of the mountain lake from town, ... Zobraziť viac
Considered one of the all-time great American works of fiction, Fitzgerald’s glorious yet ultimately tragic social satire on the Jazz Age encapsulates the exuberance, energy and decadence of an era... Zobraziť viac
August,1983, it is the day of Nina Riva's annual end-of-summer party, and anticipation is at a fever pitch. Everyone who is anyone wants to be around the famous Rivas: surfer and supermodel Nina, brothers Jay and Hud, and their adored baby sister Kit... Zobraziť viac
A tale of sexual obsession set during the Paris street riots in 1968. The Dreamers is about a young American student who comes to Paris in 1968. Obsessed with film, he becomes involved with two fellow cineastes, a brother and sister whose... Zobraziť viac
Having fled Rome and a stultifying marriage, Isabel Osmond is in London, brooding on the recent disclosure of her husband's shocking, years-long betrayal of her. What should... Zobraziť viac
It began in Scotland, at an ancient stone circle. There, a doorway, open to a select few, leads into the past or the grave. Claire Randall survived the extraordinary passage, not once but twice. Her first trip swept her into the arms of ... Zobraziť viac
