Táto séria ponúka podmanivé skrátené spracovania svetoznámych literárnych diel. Každá kniha predstavuje klasický príbeh z rôznych kultúr vo formáte dostupnom pre mladších čitateľov. Je to ideálny spôsob, ako sa zoznámiť s bohatstvom svetovej literatúry a rozšíriť si obzory. Séria slúži ako most k pôvodným textom a obohacuje jazykových študentov aj bežných čitateľov.
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.
Ďalší obľúbený román slávnej anglickej spisovateľky Jane Austenovej. Anna Elliotová je mladá, jemná, vzdelaná dáma, jedna z troch dcér váženého sira Waltera Elliota. Ľahkomyseľný, samoľúby otec a Annina márnivá sestra Elizabeth žijú veľmi nákladným životom a míňajú viac, ako si môžu dovoliť. A tak sir Elliot prenajme svoje vidiecke sídlo a spolu s Elizabeth odchádza do kúpeľného mestečka Bath šetriť a nadviazať kontakty s tamojšou smotánkou. Anna odcestuje k chorľavej sestre Mary, kde sa stretáva so svojím bývalým snúbencom kapitánom Wentworthom. Čoskoro zisťuje, že ani dlhých osem rokov na jej citoch voči kapitánovi nič nezmenilo. Ožije ich láska? Dajú jej ešte šancu, alebo karty zamieša mladý sir Elliot, ktorý si robí nárok na Annu aj strýkov majetok?
Though Aladdin's childhood had been full of beauty, comfort and happiness, without any trace of sadness or sorrow, he entirely failed to learn the lessons of hard work and responsibility.
Well's science fiction of time travel, and his protagonist's adventures in the future.
I had been given a simple but enormous task. This was the role for which I had spent my whole life preparing.
A retelling for students of English of one of Dickens's best-known novels, this is an upper intermediate-level Macmillan Reader. One bleak and windy evening, 8-year-old Pip meets an escaped convict on the marshes. Shortly afterwards, he is summoned to Satis House, the derelict, gloomy home of the strange, reclusive Miss Havisham.
Depicts the joyless existences of the citizens of the imaginary mid-Victorian city of Coketown, whose workers toil endlessly for factory owner Josiah Bounderby, and whose students drudge for utilitarian educator Thomas Gradgrind
While enjoying a stay in fashionable Bath, the young and callow Catherine Morland is introduced to the delights of high society. A satire on the gothic mode typified by the novels of Ann Radcliffe, 'Northanger Abbey' is a witty comedy of manners in the style of Jane Austen's later novels.
If there ever was an epic that touches upon every conceivable human emotion and poses the most complex of questions, it has to be the Mahabharata, the most famous of stories from India.
`It seems pretty clear to me that sooner or later we'll be at war with Germany, whether we like it or not.'
Dickens's classic tale of Ebenezer Scrooge and the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come.
Can the path to the ultimate truth about human life be found by leaving behind wealth, comfort, family and security?
Román Jane Austenovej nás privádza do Anglicka 18. storočia. Dvanásťročná Fanny Priceová opúšťa svoj chudobný domov a odchádza na panstvo bohatých príbuzných s názvom Mansfield Park. Tam vyrastá u Sira Thomasa Bertrama s jeho dvoma dcérami a synom Edmundom. Pomaly dospieva a začína sa o ňu uchádzať Henry Crawford. Hoci ju srdce ťahá inam, Sir Thomas, ktorého bohatstvo je založené na utrpení čiernych otrokov, jej radí, aby si Crawforda vzala. Poslúchne napo-kon jeho radu, alebo sa jej život začne uberať celkom iným smerom?
Slávny román anglickej prozaičky, klenot svetovej klasickej tvorby, o tom, ako môže príchod mladého muža prevrátiť hore nohami život v rodine s piatimi dcérami. V ovzduší sa vznáša pýcha, láska, predsudky, spoločenské konvencie, zlomené srdcia i spoločenský škandál, no aj sebapoznanie a pochopenie... Príbeh lásky a hodnôt odkrýva vzťahy medzi spoločenskými vrstvami Anglicka 18. storočia. Jane Austen sa pohybuje na hrane komédie a vážnosti, jej vtipné postrehy prezrádzajú bystrú a nemilosrdnú pozorovateľku. 2. vydanie
Ikona Indie, otec a zakladateľ pojmu Satyagraha, jedna z najväčších postáv histórie, jednoduchý človek, ktorý svojou vytrvalosťou a húževnatosťou dokázal zmeniť pomery vo vtedajšej spoločnosti. Mohandás Karamčand Gándhí a jeho autobiografické dielo zachytavájúce Gándího pôsobenie do roku 1920, hlavne v Južnej Afrike kde bojoval za práva indických menšín.
If there ever was an epic that touches upon every conceivable human emotion and poses the most complex of questions, it has to be the Mahabharata, the most famous of stories from India.
Here is a test, a puzzle for you. It is a faithful account of two most gruesome murders. Can you work out what actually happened in the early hours of one fateful morning in the Rue Morgue?
A strange figure stood in front of him, dressed from head to foot in white clothing. The moonlight showed her pale, youthful face.
In ancient China a magical monkey appears, creating chaos everywhere he goes. The only way to put his tricks and talents to good use is to make him protector of Xuanzang, a young and handsome monk determined to travel from China to India in search of the precious scriptures.
[Longman Structural Readers Stage 3] David Copperfield's happy life suddenly changes when his mother marries again. Her new husband, Mr Murdstone, does not like David at all. He is cruel to him and then sends him away to school. Here David makes friends, but he is unhappy. When David is ten, his mother dies and Mr Murdstone sends him to work in London. David hates his job so he decides to run away to his father's aunt. He starts his journey with no money for the coach or for food. But his life of adventure, love and friendship has begun.
After ten long years of war and the fall of Troy, the Greek hero Odysseus sets sail for his homeland. His voyage, however, is destined to take much longer than he expects.
Conan Doyle's first Sherlock Holmes mystery. This book also includes another Sherlock Holmes mystery, The Speckled Band.
Although Song Jiang is only a lowly local government official, he is loyal to the emperor and kind to all the citizens in his care. But Song is in trouble. A series of unfortunate incidents have led to him being arrested, and his political enemies are keen to see him sentenced to death.
The arrival of a gold bug leads the three men on an exciting adventure towards skeletons, a skull and a hunt for buried treasure.
The blackness of eternal night encompassed me. The intense darkness oppressed and stifled me so that I struggled for breath.
My darkness lifted, never to return. This man was truly the light of the world.
Makes a portrait of India. In this book, these unabridged observations of the British in India and Indian life were originally commissioned for The Civil and Military Gazette where the author worked as a journalist in the 1880s.
Catching fish. That's what I was doing on the day that changed my life for ever.
Úspešný román Jane Austenovej z prostredia anglickej lepšej spoločnosti 19.storočia, kde čas plynie pomaly a porušenie spoločenských konvencií je neodpustiteľnou chybou, kde city a vzťahy medzi mladými ľuďmi výrazne ovplyvňuje výška majetku a ich zväzky sú často výsledkom osobných obetí a kompromisov. Hlavnou postavou je krásna a vzdelaná Emma Woodhousová.
Although the shortest of George Eliot's novels, Silas Marner is one of her most admired and loved works. It tells the sad story of the unjustly exiled Silas Marner - a handloom linen weaver of Raveloe in the agricultural heartland of England - and how he is restored to life by the unlikely means of the orphan child Eppie. Silas Marner is a tender and moving tale of sin and repentance set in a vanished rural world and holds the reader's attention until the last page as Eppie's bonds of affection for Silas are put to the test.
A classic novel about the Chancery court and its cases while dwelling upon the romanic side of familiar things.
`Send the brat home? Oh no we won't! Her mother must have met some rich man - we can make a load of money out of this.'
Rachel opened the box and lifted out the diamond. She held it up in a ray of sunlight that poured through the window, and cried out in amazement.
If there ever was an epic that touches upon every conceivable human emotion and poses the most complex of questions, it has to be the Mahabharata, the most famous of stories from India.
A storm, a shipwreck, an enchanted island ...