Příběh je považován za Wallaceův nejlepší thriller o zabijákovi, který má jméno Ringer, tedy Maska, a který sužuje Londýn. Policie dělá stále stejné chyby, kvůli kterým ho nemůže dopadnout... Zobraziť viac
Příběh je považován za Wallaceův nejlepší thriller o zabijákovi, který má jméno Ringer, tedy Maska, a který sužuje Londýn. Policie dělá stále stejné chyby, kvůli kterým ho nemůže dopadnout... Zobraziť viac
Hlavní postavou tří povídek obsažených v této knize (Vraždy v ulici Morgue, Záhada Marie Rogetové a Odcizený dopis) je Auguste Dupin, první detektiv v dějinách literatury. Je velice důležitý, protože se jeho geniální postavou... Zobraziť viac
A moving portrayal of the struggle between desire and duty in nineteenth-century New York high society... Zobraziť viac
“Newland felt more and more embarrassed. The men were all staring into the box where May was sitting between her mother and her aunt, he didn’t recognise the lady in the strange dress, and... Zobraziť viac
Edith Wharton (1862–1937) wrote carefully structured fiction that probed the psychological and social elements guiding the behavior of her characters... Zobraziť viac
'We can't behave like people in novels, though, can we?'... Zobraziť viac
In a society where people "dreaded scandal more than disease," passion was a force of ruin. Winner of the 1921 Pulitzer Prize, Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence is set amidst the pre-World War I "Golden Age" of upper-class society in New York and is... Zobraziť viac
Edgar Allan Poe’s only novel is an exciting and unmissable story and a classic of American literature... Zobraziť viac
Edgar Allan Poe's gothic tale of the decaying Usher mansion comes to life in an all-new way! In this graphic novel edition of The Fall of the House of Usher, Raul Garcia adapts his animated short, The Fall of the House of Usher, now streaming on... Zobraziť viac
Newland Archer, a successful and charming young lawyer conducts himself by the rules and standards of the polite, upper class New York society that he resides in. Happily engaged to the pretty and conventional May Welland, ... Zobraziť viac
Edgar Allan Poe’s only novel is an exciting and unmissable story and a classic of American literature... Zobraziť viac
Edith Wharton's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Age of Innocence, is both a poignant story of frustrated love and an extraordinarily vivid, delightfully satirical record of a vanished world... Zobraziť viac
Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reader series for learners of English as a foreign language... Zobraziť viac
Initially serialized in the Pictorial Review in 1920, The Age of Innocence is a stylistic and intimate portrayal of upper... Zobraziť viac
Wordsworth Editions Ltd: Widely regarded as one of Edith Wharton's greatest achievements, The Age of Innocence is not only... Zobraziť viac
