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Pohodlne sa usaďte a pustite sa do prezerania krásnych ilustrácií a čítania napínavej rozprávky napísanej podľa príbehu E. T. A. Hoffmanna – príbehu o Luskáčikovi!Bol Štedrý večer, vonku ticho padal sneh. Klárka a jej braček Ferko sa nemohli dočkať. Tento večer bude plný úžasných darčekov a potom príde veľkolepý večierok s hudbou a tancom... Ako táto rozprávka pokračovala a kto bol Luskáčik, sa dozviete v tejto knižke, ktorá obsahuje jednu z najkrajších rozprávok podľa príbehu slávneho spisovateľa E. T. A. Hoffmanna. Pohodlne sa teda so svojimi deťmi posaďte a pustite sa do prezerania krásnych ilustrácií a čítania napínavého príbehu o neohrozenom Luskáčikovi!

Jane Austen's brilliant satire of the gothic novel. “If adventures will not befall a young lady in her own village, she must seek them abroad.” The most sprightly and satirical of Austen’s novels, Northanger Abbey was written when the author was herself in her early twenties, and takes for its heroine seventeen-year-old Catherine Morland, a spirited young woman preoccupied with the pleasures of dressing, dancing, and reading sensational novels. When she visits Northanger Abbey, the ancestral home of handsome Henry Tilney, Catherine’s taste in books comes back to haunt her. The rambling house, full of locked doors, and the family’s mysterious history give rise to delightfully dreadful suspicions, and finally only Catherine’s sweet nature and good humor triumph over her susceptibility. A sly commentary on the power of literature as well as a cautionary tale about the perils of naïveté, Northanger Abbey is a fresh and funny tale of one young woman receiving, as Margaret Drabble reveals in her illuminating introduction, “intensive instruction in the ways of the world.” With an Introduction by Margaret Drabble and an Afterword by Stephanie Laurens

Quando avevo quattro anni, avevo quattro nonni, due nonni di città e due nonni di campagna... Incomincia così questo libro che parla di un nonno straordinario e di un ciliegio, dell'oca Alfonsina e di suo marito Oreste, della nonna Teodolinda e delle sue "cose" morbide; e di un bambino, che non dimentica il nonno "matto" che si arrampicava sugli alberi e che lo ha reso tante volte felice. Età di lettura: dai 9 anni.