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In EDI (the European Department of Intelligence in Brussels) there are some very secret files - the Omega Files. There are strange, surprising, and sometimes horrible stories in these files, but not many people know about them. You never read about them…
Its 3 A.M. and Elizabeth Gilbert is sobbing on the bathroom floor. Shes in her thirties, she has a husband, a house, theyre trying for a baby - and she doesnt want any of it. A bitter divorce and a turbulent love affair later, she emerges battered and…
Firstly, it should be noted that The Lost Symbol has incorporated all the elements that so transfixed readers in The Da Vinci Code: a complex, mystifying plot (with the reader set quite as many challenges as the protagonist); breathless, helter-skelter…
CERN Institute, Switzerland: a world-renowned scientist is found brutally murdered with a mysterious symbol seared onto his chest. The Vatican, Rome: the College of Cardinals assembles to elect a new pope. Somewhere beneath them, an unstoppable bomb…
Who wants to live in a house, wear clean clothes, be good, and go to school every day? Not young Huckleberry Finn, thats for sure. So Huck runs away, and is soon floating down the great Mississippi River on a raft. With him is Jim, a black slave who…
Please, Mr Murdstone! Dont beat me! Ive tried to learn my lessons, really I have, sir! sobs David. Although he is only eight years old, Mr Murdstone does beat him, and David is so frightened that he bites his cruel stepfathers hand. For that, he is kept…
The most consistent of all series in terms of language control, length, and quality of story.
There were six of them - three Katherines, two Annes, and a Jane. One of them was the Kings wife for twenty-four years, another for only a year and a half. One died, two were divorced, and two were beheaded. It was a dangerous, uncertain life. After…
In 1659 Robinson Crusoe was shipwrecked on a small island off the coast of South America. After 15 years alone, he suddenly learns that there is another person on the island. But will this man be a friend - or an enemy?
A pretty young girl has to leave home to make money for her family. She is clever and a good worker; but she is uneducated and does not know the cruel ways of the world. So, when a rich young man says he loves her, she is careful - but not careful enough.…
Dorothy lives in Kansas, USA, but one day a cyclone blows her and her house to a strange country called Oz. There, Dorothy makes friends with the Scarecrow, the Tin Man, and the Cowardly Lion. But she wants to go home to Kansas. Only one person can help…
I like work. I find it interesting .I can sit and look at it for hours. With ideas like this, perhaps it is not a good idea to spend a holiday taking a boat trip up the River Thames. But this is what the three friends - and Montmorency the dog - decide…
I like work. I find it interesting ...I can sit and look at it for hours. With ideas like this, perhaps it is not a good idea to spend a holiday taking a boat trip up the River Thames. But this is what the three friends - and Montmorency the dog - decide…
The wind is strong on the Yorkshire moors. There are few trees, and fewer houses, to block its path. There is one house, however, that does not hide from the wind. It stands out from the hill and challenges the wind to do its worst. The house is called…
A könyv a híres középkori komikus életét meséli el. Eulenspiegel már gyermekkorában sem volt túlságosan közkedvelt falujában éles nyelve és durva tréfái miatt.Fiatalon útnak indult és cipészként, pékként, kovácsként, szabóként kereste kenyerét. Mindenhonnan…
You are walking through the streets of London. It is getting dark and you want to get home quickly. You enter a narrow side-street. Everything is quiet, but as you pass the door of a large, windowless building, you hear a key turning in the lock. A man…
Little Mary Lennox is a bad-tempered, disagreeable child. When her parents die in India, she is sent back to England to live with her uncle in a big, lonely, old house. There is nothing to do all day except walk in the gardens - and watch the robin flying…
Who wants to live in a house, wear clean clothes, be good, and go to school every day? Not young Huckleberry Finn, that s for sure. So Huck runs away, and is soon floating down the great Mississippi River on a raft. With him is Jim, a black slave who…
When men find gold in the frozen north of Canada, they need dogs - big, strong dogs to pull the sledges on the long journeys to and from the gold mines. Buck is stolen from his home in the south and sold as a sledge-dog. He has to learn a new way of…
When we are happy, we are always good, says Lord Henry, but when we are good, we are not always happy. Lord Henrys lazy, clever words lead the young Dorian Gray into a world where it is better to be beautiful than to be good; a world where anything can…
Lord Henry´s lazy, clever words lead the young Dorian Grey into a world where it is better to be beautiful than to be good; a world where anything can be forgiven - even murder - if it can make people laugh at a dinner party.
Bathsheba Everdene is young, proud, and beautiful. She is an independent woman and can marry any man she chooses - if she chooses. In fact, she Likes her independence, and she likes fighting her own battles in a mans world. But it is never wise to ignore…
London in the 1830s was no place to be if you were a hungry ten-year-old boy, an orphan without friends or family, with no home to go to, and only a penny in your pocket to buy a piece of bread. But Oliver Twist finds some friends - Fagin, the Artful…
Sometimes the Dashwood girls do not seem like sisters. Elinor is all calmness and reason, and can be relied upon for practical, common sense opinions. Marianne, on the other hand, is all sensibility, full of passionate and romantic feeling. She has no…
Scarlet is the colour of sin, and the letter A stands for Adultery. In the 1600s, in Boston, Massachusetts, love was allowed only between a husband and a wife. A child born outside marriage was a child of sin. Hester Prynne must wear the scarlet letter…
When Christmas comes for the four March girls, there is no money for expensive presents and they give away their Christmas breakfast to a poor family. But there are no happier girls in America than Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy. They miss their father, of course,…
Sometimes the Dashwood girls do not seem like sisters. Elinor is all calmness and reason, and can be relied upon for practical, common sense opinions. Marianne, on the other hand, is all sensibility, full of passionate and romantic feeling. She has no…
A pretty young girl has to leave home to make money for her family. She is clever and a good worker; but she is uneducated and does not know the cruel ways of the world. So, when a rich young man says he loves her, she is careful - but not careful enough.…
Zjednodušené verze světoznámých děl cizojazyčné literatury jsou zpracovány pro mírně až středně pokročilé studenty. Text v jazyce originálu je doplněn zrcadlovým českým překladem, slovníčkem, gramatickými poznámkami a otázkami na porozumění. Každá publikace…
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