Diane Mowat Knihy

Vzrušujúce dobrodružstvá najznámejšieho stroskotanca na svete! Prchký mladík Robinson Crusoe sa vzoprie rodičovským radám a utečie na more, kde ho stíhajú katastrofy. Po potopení lode počas búrky a smrti priateľa ho zajmú tureckí piráti a predajú do otroctva. Napriek ťažkostiam sa nevzdáva a dúfa v lepší život. Osud mu nakoniec prinesie slobodu, priateľstvo a bohatstvo, no jeho najväčšou skúškou je stroskotanie na opustenom ostrove. Robinson sa naučí postarať o seba a využíva miestne zdroje, pričom sa na ostrove cíti ako kráľ. Musí však čeliť skrytým nebezpečenstvám, ktoré ohrozujú jeho život a všetko, čo vybudoval. Tento príbeh, napísaný Danielom Defoeom a vydaný prvýkrát v roku 1719, fascinuje čitateľov už tri storočia. Aktuálne vydanie je špeciálne prispôsobené pre mladých čitateľov a obsahuje nádherné ilustrácie Roberta Ingpena, držiteľa Ceny Hansa Christiana Andersena. Defoe, anglický obchodník a spisovateľ, bol známy svojou kontroverznou osobnosťou a napísal viac než 300 diel. Robert Ingpen, austrálsky umelec, je autorom ilustrácií k mnohým klasickým knihám a jeho práca v oblasti detskej literatúry bola ocenená viacerými cenami.

Stokerov krvilačný gróf Drakula od jeho prvého knižného vydania na sklonku 19. storočia sa stal najpopulárnejším upírom všetkých čias. Príbeh o ňom čítajú deti i dospelí všetkých vekových kategórii. Toto exkluzívne vydanie v edícii Klasické príbehy obohacuje príbeh fotografiami i ilustráciami s vysokou výpovednou hodnotou. Doplnkové náučné texty zakotvujú hrôzostrašný príbeh v historickom a kultúrnom kontexte doby, z ktorej autor čerpal svoj námet.

This series of "Bookworms" offers younger readers the chance to enjoy lively and accessible adaptations of the best classic and modern fiction. Each title is highly illustrated to engage the reader in the world of the book and help with specific vocabulary.

The five children find a cantankerous sand fairy or 'psammead' in a gravel pit. Every day 'It' will grant each of them a wish that lasts until sunset, often with disastrous consequences.

Now The Children of Green Knowe and River at Green Knowe are available in one edition. Children of Green KnoweTolly's great grandmother isn't a witch, but both she and her old house, Green Knowe, are full of a very special kind of magic.

Part of a series designed to provide English language students at all levels of comprehension with the opportunity to extend their reading and appreciation of English, this adventure novel at Level 4 is set in Greece.

Matty is fifteen and is leaving school in a few weeks' time. He wants to work with animals, and would like to get a job on a farm. But his parents say he's too young to leave home - he must stay in the town and get a job in ship-building, like his father. They also say he can't go on a campingholiday with his friends. And they say he can't keep his dog, Nelson, because Nelson barks all day and eats his father's shoes. But it is because of Nelson that Matty finds a new life . . .

Kľúčové dielo kritického realizmu v angl. literatúre. Spoločenskokritický obraz vtedajšej anglickej spoločnosti na pozadí napoleonských vojen, prenikavá satira na pokrytectvo, pýchu, márnivosť, pretvárku, sebectvo i lásku k peniazom. Sujet stavia na protichodných povahách a osudoch dvoch mladých žien: prefíkanej a životaschopnej Rebeky Sharpovej a jej naivnej priateľky Amelie Sedleyovej.

Rudolph Rassendyll's life is interrupted by his unexpected and personal involvement in the affairs of Ruritania whilst travelling through the town of Zenda. He is shortly on the way to Streslau, the capital, where he finds himself engaged in plans to rescue the imprisoned king.

'I did not intend to write a funny book, at first' wrote Jerome J. Jerome of Three Men in a Boat, which has since become a comic classic. When J. the narrator, George, Harris and Montmorency the dog set off on their hilarious misadventures, they can hardly predict the troubles that lie ahead with tow-ropes, unreliable weather-forecasts, imaginary illnesses, butter pats and tins of pineapple chunks. Denounced as vulgar by the literary establishment, Three Men in a Boat nevertheless caught the spirit of the times. The expansion of education and the increase in office workers created a new mass readership, and Jerome's book was especially popular among the 'clerking classes' who longed to be 'free from that fretful haste, that vehement striving, that is every day becoming more and more the bane of nineteenth-century life.' So popular did it prove that Jerome reunited his heroes for a bicycle tour of Germany. Despite some sharp, and with hindsight, prophetic observations of the country, Three Men on the Bummel describes an equally picaresque journey constrained only 'by the necessity of getting back within a given time to the point from which one started'.

This series of readers is aimed at students at 6 levels from elementary to advanced. All stages have exercises for classroom or private use, plus a glossary to help with vocabulary. The approximate vocabulary count for stage 1 is 400 words. This is a ghost story.

"If you wake up in the night and hear a tap running somewhere in the house, what to you do? You get up, of course, and go and turn the tap off. A little later you hear the tap running again. You are alone in the house, and you know you turned the tap off. What do you think? The ghosts in these stories all have unfinished business with the living world. They come back from the grave to continue their work, to keep a promise, to look for something they have lost. Sometimes they want to help people, sometimes they want to punish them - or kill them."--Back cover

This series of readers is aimed at students at 6 levels from elementary to advanced. All stages have exercises for classroom or private use, plus a glossary to help with vocabulary. This elementary level book features a collection of short stories from the American humourist, O. Henry.

When a group of English schoolchildren are told that they are to be in a tetrathlon (swimming, running, shooting and riding) against the perfect Greycoats school, they are totally unenthusiastic but rally when a teacher encourages them.

This series of readers is aimed at students at 6 levels from elementary to advanced. All stages have exercises for classroom or private use, plus a glossary to help with vocabulary. This is an advanced level work of fiction.

After the bleak depression of London in winter, Corfu seems like paradise to Lucy Waring. But this peace is soon to be shattered. Two incidents, seemingly unconnected, but both surrounded in mystery, throw her life into a dangerous spin

Suitable for younger learners Word count 5,310

Greg is a teenager with a problem - his father. After the death of Greg's mother in an accident, his father takes no interest in life at all. Greg tries hard to help him. His father is too old to rock and roll, of course . . . or is he? These short stories by Jan Mark look at life, love, and friendship through teenagers' eyes.

Suitable for younger learners Word count 5,310

„Jeden za všetkých, všetci za jedného." Spoznajte, ako to vlastne bolo a prežite na vlastné čitateľské oči dobrodružstvá odvážneho D'Artagnana a jeho priateľov, mušketierov Athosa, Porthosa a Aramisa, na ich ceste cti, slávy a oddanosti k Francúzsku a jeho kráľovi. Nádherný román, v ktoromsa humor, sentiment a napätie miešajú s fikciou a históriou a vytvárajú tak úžasné klbká vzrušenia, ktoré dokáže rozmotať len silný príbeh vytvorený Alexandrom Dumasom - jedným z najlepších rozprávačov všetkých čias.