Charlie Gordon, a floor sweeper born with an unusually low IQ, has been chosen as the perfect subject for an experimental surgery that doctors hope will increase his intelligence... Zobraziť viac
Picador: Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and for the National Book Award 2015A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara is an... Zobraziť viac
Le premier soir je me suis donc endormi sur le sable mille milles de toute terre habitée. J´étais bien plus isolé... Zobraziť viac
It’s the year 2000 in a city aglitter with wealth and possibility; what could be so terribly wrong? Our narrator has many of the advantages of life: Young, thin, pretty, a recent Columbia graduate, she lives in an apartment on ... Zobraziť viac
Rachel catches the same commuter train every morning. She knows it will wait at the same signal each time, overlooking a row of back gardens. She's even started to feel like she knows the people who live in one of the houses. 'Jess and Jason', ... Zobraziť viac
Poet and pervert, Humbert Humbert becomes obsessed by twelve-year-old Lolita and seeks to possess her, first carnally and then artistically, out of love, 'to fix once for all the perilous magic of nymphets'. Is he in love or insane? ... Zobraziť viac
Humble and lowly, a young Fanny Price goes to live with her wealthy Aunt and Uncle at their grand house, Mansfield Park. Growing up with her privileged and spoilt cousins, the Bertrams, she lives in the shadows of their glamorous lives, ... Zobraziť viac
Zrcadlový text vám přináší příběh jak v českém tak anglickém jazyce - na levé straně knihy je původní text, na pravé jeho... Zobraziť viac
Kafka on the Shore follows the fortunes of two remarkable characters. Kafka Tamura runs away from home at fifteen, under the shadow of his fathers dark prophecy... Zobraziť viac
At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade’s worth of training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. One day he was a doctor treating the dying, and the next he was a patient struggling to live... Zobraziť viac
This popular series of readers has now been completely revised and updated, using a new syllabus and new word structure... Zobraziť viac
Introduction and Notes by Dr Sally Minogue, Canterbury Christ Church University College. Jane Eyre ranks as one of the greatest and most perennially popular works of English fiction. Although the poor but plucky heroine is outwardly of plain... Zobraziť viac
With an Introduction and Notes by Merry M. Pawlowski, Professor and Chair, Department of English, California State University, Bakersfield. Virginia Woolf's singular technique in Mrs Dalloway heralds a break with the traditional novel form and reflects... Zobraziť viac
Margaret Atwood’s dystopian masterpiece, The Handmaid’s Tale, is a modern classic. Now she brings the iconic story to a dramatic conclusion in this riveting sequel... Zobraziť viac
Wordsworth Editions Ltd: Bonnie Greer "A masterpiece... I still get shivers down my spine whenever I read the words of... Zobraziť viac
To the children, the town was their whole world. To the adults, knowing better, Derry Maine was just their home town: familiar, well-ordered for the most part. A good place to live... Zobraziť viac
One of Britain's most popular novels, George Orwell's dystopian tale "Nineteen Eighty-Four" is set in a society terrorised by a totalitarian ideology .... Zobraziť viac
Anne Elliot is persuaded by her friends and family to reject a marriage proposal from Captain wentworth because he lacks in fortune and rank. More than seven years later, when he returns home from the Navy, Anne realises she still has strong ... Zobraziť viac
Hodder & Stoughton: To the children, the town was their whole world. To the adults, knowing better, Derry Maine was just... Zobraziť viac