Trápia ťa zlé sny? Bojíš sa tmy, alebo nemôžeš večer zaspať? V tom prípade tento komiks nie je nič pre teba! Cítiš, ako sa na krajinu zniesla temná noc? Ako pomaly a potichu mrazivá hmla rozprestiera svoju chladnú náruč? Aj vtáky prestali spievať. Ťaživé ticho zahalilo celé okolie. Dnes opäť niečo nadprirodzené a zlé chodí okolo domu a číha na neopatrné duše. Zažni svetlá, zamkni dvere, zatiahni rolety a radšej sa schovaj pod perinu…
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.
This additional series of "Oxford Bookworms" offers young readers at an elementary level of the English language the chance to enjoy accessible adaptations of classic and modern fiction. This is the tale of a sand fairy who grants five children a daily wish
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.
Suitable for younger learners Word count 10,710 Bestseller
'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'.
Pack of ten best-selling iBookworms/i and– ideal for building up class libraries. Each Pack contains one copy of each listed title.liThe Adventures of Tom Sawyer/libr / liThe Elephant Man/libr /liA Little Princess/libr / liLove or Money?/libr / liThe Monkey's Paw/libr / liThe Phantom of the Opera/libr / liThe President's Murderer/libr / liSherlock Holmes and the Duke's Son/libr / liWhite Death/libr / liThe Wizard ofOz/li
"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
