Publikace přináší výběr nejkrásnějších pohádek z knihy Jaroslava Tichého, které jsou zpracovány zrcadlově v anglicko-české podobě. Text ve zjednodušené angličtině je upravený pro středně pokročilé studenty (B1–B2 podle SERR pro jazyky). Kromě dvojjazyčného textu v knize také najdete souhrnné otázky na porozumění, vysvětlení obtížnějších frází a gramatických jevů a cvičení. Audionahrávka, na níž text

The first great masterpiece of the globally warmed generation. Here is an American classic which, at a stroke, makes McCarthy a contender for the Nobel Prize for Literature\' Andrew O\'Hagan A father and his young son walk alone through burned America, heading slowly for the coast. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. They have nothing but a pistol to defend themselves against

Guys like us, that work on ranches, are the loneliest guys in the world. They got no family. They don\'t belong no place\'. George and his large, simple-minded friend Lennie are drifters, following wherever work leads them. Arriving in California\'s Salinas Valley, they get work on a ranch. If they can just stay out of trouble, George promises Lennie, then one day they might be able to get some land

\'Who is going to marry Eugenie Grandet?\' This is the question that fills the minds of the inhabitants of Saumur, the setting for Eugenie Grandet (1833), one of the the earliest and most famous novels in Balzac\'s Comedie humaine. The Grandet household , oppressed by the exacting miserliness of Grandet himself, is jerked violently out of routine by the sudden arrival of Eugenie\'s cousin Charles,

The literary world was shocked when in 1889, at the height of his career, Robert Louis Stevenson announced his intention to settle permanently on the Pacific island of Samoa. His readers were equally shocked when he began to use the subject material offered by his new environment, not to promote a romance of empire, but to produce some of the most ironic and critical treatments of imperialism in nineteenth-century

Rainer Maria Rilke gehört zu den meistgelesenen und wirkungsreichsten Lyrikern dieses Jahrhunderts. In alle Kultursprachen übersetzt, hat er mehrere Dichtergenerationen über die Grenzen hinweg beeinflusst. Lange vor ihrer existenzphilosophischen Ergründung hat er die Grundstimmungen dieses Jahrhunderts in seinem Werk eingefangen, einem Werk, das in seiner Komplexität im Zusammenhang der Weltliteratur

Readers of Dan Brown\'s extraordinary bestseller THE DA VINCI CODE are fascinated by the questions raised in the novel. Was Jesus actually married to Mary Magdalene? Was she one of his disciples and did she write her own gospel? Did they have a child together? Did some geniuses of art and science, people like Leonardo da Vinci and Isaac Newton, belong to secret societies that had the most compelling

In 1986, news that East-West nuclear-arms negotiations are taking place lead many to believe the Cold War may finally be thawing. For British intelligence officer Major Tom Fox, however, it is business as usual. Ordered to arrange the smooth repatriation of a defector, Fox is smuggled into East Berlin. But it soon becomes clear that there is more to this than an old man wishing to return home to die

This autobiography in stories takes us through a most remarkable life, from the innocence of prewar Prague through the horrors of the Nazi occupation and World War II. In the title story, narrated by Skvorecky’s alter-ego Danny Smiricky, seven-year-old Danny falls in love for the first time, at sixteen he hides in a railway station and watches as his Jewish teacher is herded onto a train and taken

Massie Block: With her glossy brunette bob and laser-whitened smile, Massie is the uncontested ruler of The Clique and the rest of the social scene at Octavian Country Day School, an exclusive private girls\' school in Westchester County, New York. Massie knows you\'d give anything to be just like her. Dylan Marvil: Massie\'s second in command who divides her time between sucking up to Massie and sucking

From the author of Suite Francaise this is a compelling story of infatuation, passion and self-destructive love. Yves Harteloup is a disappointed young man, scarred by the war. He returns for the summer to the rich, comfortable Atlantic resort of Hendaye, where he spent blissful childhood holidays. There he becomes infatuated by a beautiful, bored young woman, Denise, whose rich husband is often away

Quantum theory is so shocking that Einstein could not bring himself to accept it. It is so important that it provides the fundamental underpinning of all modern sciences. Without it, we\'d have no nuclear power or nuclear weapons, no TV, no computers, no science of molecular biology, no understanding of DNA, no genetic engineering. In Search of Schrodinger\'s Cat tells the complete story of quantum

Mix, un garçon un peu paumé, pas vraiment méchant, est superstitieux - il redoute le chiffre 13. Il habite Notting Hill, sous les combles d\'une maison délabrée, parmi des cadavres d\'insectes. Il a deux obsessions : Jon Christie, un tueur en série mythique qui a rendu célbre le 10, Rillington Place, et une jeune femme noire, un superbe mannequin, qu\'il harcle. Sa logeuse, Gwendolen Chawcer, vit en

People value their powers of thinking and most of us are interested in why some people seem to drive a highly tuned Rolls Royce brain while others potter along with a merely serviceable Ford Fiesta. This Very Short Introduction describes what psychologists have discovered about how and why people differ in their thinking powers. The book takes readers from no knowledge about the science of human intelligence

\"Die Maßnahme ist nicht für Zuschauer geschrieben worden, sondern nur für die Belehrung der Aufführenden. Aufführungen vor Publikum rufen erfahrungsgemäß nichts als moralische Affekte für gewöhnlich minderer Art beim Publikum hervor. Ich gebe daher das Stück seit langem nicht für Aufführungen frei\", stellt Brecht 1956 fest. Die vorliegende Ausgabe präsentiert, der erheblichen Unterschiede wegen,

Paperback, Hodder Paperback 2011 432 pages ISBN: 1444708120 ISBN-13: 9781444708127 Once upon a time, not so long ago, a monster came to the small town of Castle Rock, Maine ...He was not a werewolf, vampire, ghoul, or unnameable creature from t he enchanted forest or snow wastes; he was only a cop ...Cujo is a huge Saint Bernard dog, the best friend Brett Camber has ever had. Then one day Cujo chases

When Soumchi, an eleven-year-old boy growing up in British-occupied Jerusalem just after World War II, receives a bicycle as a gift from his Uncle Zemach, he is overjoyed-even if it is a girl\'s bicycle. Ignoring the taunts of other boys in his neighborhood, he dreams of riding far away from them, out of the city and across the desert, toward the heart of Africa. But first he wants to show his new

THERE’S A NEW KILLER ON THE STREETS A woman is found murdered after an internet date. The marks left on her body show the police that they are dealing with a particularly vicious killer. AND HE’S OUT FOR BLOOD Under pressure from the media to solve the crime, the force know there’s only one man for the job. But Harry Hole is reluctant to return to the place that almost took everything from him. Until

Her movies are on TV. Her music is on the radio. Jennifer Lopez is a Hollywood star and a successful singer. She is a Latin performer. And “Latin” is about color, fun, and life! And who is the number one Latina? Jennifer, of course.

Betrayed by Earth\'s heroes and exiled into outer space, the man-monster Hulk has landed on the distant planet Sakaar, ruled by the tyrannical Red King. Sold into slavery, Hulk becomes the Green Scar, the planet\'s mightiest gladiator - but his new masters get more than they bargained for when he forges a bond of brotherhood with his fellow fighters: crafty insectoid Miek, the horrific Brood, wise