Lewis Jones Poradie kníh (chronologicky)

Vocabulary of 600 words. This reader has an accompanying cassette.

From its spectacular opening–the astonishing scene in which drunken Michael Henchard sells his wife and daughter to a passing sailor at a county fair–to the breathtaking series of discoveries at its conclusion, The Mayor of Casterbridge claims a unique place among Thomas Hardy’s finest and most powerful novels. Rooted in an actual case of wife-selling in early nineteenth-century England, the story build into an awesome Sophoclean drama of guilt and revenge, in which the strong, willful Henchard rises to a position of wealth and power–only to suffer a most bitter downfall. Proud, obsessed, ultimately committed to his own destruction, Henchard is, as Albert Guerard has said, “Hardy’s Lord Jim…his only tragic hero and one of the greatest tragic heroes in all fiction.

Príbeh Doktora Živaga sa začína roku 1903 a končí sa roku 1929 smrťou hlavného hrdinu na srdcovú porážku v preplnenej moskovskej električke. Dokončenie a epilóg románu dovádzajú udalosti do rokov druhej svetovej vojny. Mozaika výjavov a epizód z prvej vojny, februárovej a októbrovej revolúciu, občianskej vojny, nepokojov a hladu v krajine bohatou vonkajšou scenériou vytvára v konečnom dôsledku obrovskú panorámu života v Rusku. Jej stredobodom sú Jurij Živago a Lara, ich láska.

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.