Diane Mowat Poradie kníh (chronologicky)

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.

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.

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

Kniha Traja mušketieri, plná napínavých romantických udalostí a nástrah na francúzskom dvore za vlády kráľa Ľudovíta XIII., je jedným z najvzrušujúcejších dobrodružných príbehov, aké kedy boli napísané. Táto prepracovaná verzia z radu Klasických príbehov, s novátorsky použitými fotografiami a ilustráciami k deju, zasadzuje pôvodný príbeh do rámca kultúrnych súvislostí tejto doby.

'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'.

Príbeh Robinsona pozná celý svet. Chlapca z Yorku privedie túžba po mori, neznámych krajinách a dobrodružstvách na pustý ostrov, kde musí ako stroskotanec siahnuť až na dno svojich síl, aby prežil a šťastne sa vrátil domov. Román, ktorý napísal Daniel Defoe pred vyše 300 rokmi, vyšiel v stovkách vydaní a v rozličných prerozprávaniach. Buvik ho prináša v podaní Františka Novotného, ktorý sám takmer 35 rokov brázdil oceány a jeho túžby a dobrodružstvá sa v mnohom podobali tým Robinsonovým. František Novotný s bravúrou skúseného spisovateľa dokazuje, že jeho Robinson má čo povedať aj dnešnému čitateľovi. Lebo, ako v predslove napísal Daniel Hevier, všetci sme dostali do daru svoj ostrov, aby sme ho mohli sami oživiť. Pôsobivosť príbehu dotvárajú realistické ilustrácie Zdeňka Buriana.

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

"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

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 . . .

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Beginners. Speed level 3 (70wpm). A housewife, a tramp, a lawyer, a waitress, an actress - ordinary people living ordinary lives in New York at the beginning of this century. O. Henry's famous short stories - sensitive, funny, sympathetic - give us vivid pictures of the everyday lives of these New Yorkers.

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.

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.

When the children dug a hole in the gravel-pit, they were very surprised at what they found. 'It' was a Psammead, a sand-fairy, thousands of years old. It was a strange little thing - fat and furry, and with eyes on long stalks. It was often very cross and unfriendly, but it could give wishes - one wish a day. 'How wonderful!' the children said. But wishes are difficult things. They can get you into trouble . . .

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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.

Nicola Ferris, on leave from her job as a secretary in Athens, has been looking forward to a quiet week's holiday in Crete, enjoying the wild flowers and the company of her cousin Frances. But before she even reaches her destination Nicola stumbles on evidence of a murderous crime involving a young Englishman and a group of people tied together by blood and the bonds of greed. For the first time in her life Nicola meets a man and a situation she cannot deal with . . .

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

These autobiographies of Afro-American ex-slaves comprise the largest body of literature produced by slaves in human history. The book consists of three sections: selected reviews of slave narratives, dating from 1750 to 1861; essays examining how such narratives serve as historical material; and essays exploring the narratives as literary artifacts.