The Life And Death of a Man of Character
The moving, humane tragedy of a deeply flawed and self-destructive man, The Mayor of Casterbridge is the story of Michael Henchard, who sells his wife and baby daughter at a country fair in a fit of drunken anger.
Vocabulary of 600 words. This reader has an accompanying cassette.
Román svetových parametrov v kongeniálnom – prvom slovenskom – preklade Zory Jesenskej. Verše za jazykovej spolupráce Jána Ferenčíka prebásnil jeden z najvýznamnejších slovenských básnikov – Laco Novomeský. Kniha stihla vyjsť v Tatrane, v edícii Knižnica svetových bestsellerov, v krátkom období politického „odmäku“, neskôr bola stiahnutá z obchodov i knižníc.
A 22,000 ton whaling ship steams into a broken plain of white, glimmering ice during the howling fury of an Antarctic gale. What madness drives the ship forwards, deeper and deeper into the ice until its jagged edges hold her fast? Marooned amidst the pitiless, frozen wastes, the crew of the Southern Cross make a desperate attempt to survive against the odds.