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.

Príbeh upíra z karpatských lesov, ktorý rozbúril pokojné noci Angličanov a zapríčinil celú sériu katastrof, si zaručil miesto medzi najväčšími svetovými bestsellermi. 2. vydanie

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.

Een Engelsman neemt de plaats in van zijn neef, de koning van Ruritanië.

'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

A housewife, a tramp, a lawyer, a waitress, an actress - ordinary people living ordinary lives in New York at the beginning of the 20th century. The city has changed greatly since that time, but its people are much the same. Some are rich, some are poor, some are happy, some are sad, some have found love, some are looking for love. O. Henry's famous short stories -sensitive, funny, sympathetic- give us vivid pictures of the everyday lives of these New Yorkers

Sam Sylvester is a teacher who wants his class to have ambition, and to do great things in life. So he enters them for a sporting competition against the rich students of Greycoats School. The team that he has chosen for the competition think Sam has gone crazy. 'Who, Sir? Me, Sir?' says little Hoomey, his eyes round with horror. 'We'll never beat Greycoats,' the others cry. 'Never in a million years!' But you don't know what you can do - until you try . . .

The Oxford Bookworms Library offers new editions of the original Oxford Bookworms Black and Green series, merging the two series into one with new covers. The new editions build on the success of the original series and provide enhanced teaching support. Sixteen additional pages inside each book allow extra pages of activities and increased author and series information. Some of the titles have new illustrations. For those titles which had associated cassettes, the cassettes will remain available with the same ISBNs as before.

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

Mladý d'Artagnan touží po jediném - stát se královským mušketýrem. Za svým snem se vypraví do Paříže, kde je přijat za člena královské stráže a má přislíbeno, že pokud se osvědčí, může se stát i mušketýrem. Při potyčce s vojáky kardinála Richelieu se spřátelí s mušketýry Athosem, Porthosem a Aramisem, a také pozná krásnou Constance Bonacieux, služebnou královny Anny. Tehdy však ještě neví nic o tom, že královna bude muset brzy tvrdě soupeřit s kardinálem Richelieu, který se dozví o jejím tajném ctiteli, anglickém vévodovi z Buckinghamu. Podaří se královským mušketýrům zachránit čest královny i přes nástrahy proradného kardinála a jeho vojáků? A splní se d'Artagnanovi jeho sen stát se mušketýrem? Odpovědi na tyto otázky, mnoho zábavy a napětí najdete v komiksovém zpracování známého románu Alexandra Dumase.