This beautifully illustrated collection contains all of Jane Austen's novels retold for young readers, including Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Northanger Abbey and Mansfield Park, with notes on the characters and quotations from the original text. With links to websites to find out more about Jane Austen's life and times.
Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautifully bound pocket-sized gift editions of much loved classic titles. Bound in real cloth, printed on high quality paper, and featuring ribbon markers and gilt edges, Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure. When red-headed orphan Anne arrives at the Cuthberts' home, Green Gables, she feels sure she's found the home she has longed for. They, however, are less certain; their request to the orphanage had been for a boy. But before long Anne's irrepressibly optimistic, loving nature has charmed them. While her temper is unpredictable and her extravagant imagination makes her dreamily whimsical and prone to comic mishap, the Cuthberts come to love Anne as if she were their own child. Montgomery's classic tale is a celebration of the transformative power of love and the unique qualities of a girl who has a second chance at childhood. Illustrated by M. A. & W. A. J. Claus, with an afterword by Anna South.
Five well-known fairy tales retold for young children and presented in a boxed 'Little Red Riding Hood', 'The Elves and the Shoemaker', 'Puss in Boots', 'Jack and the Beanstalk' and 'Cinderella'. Each book is designed and illustrated in a traditional style, bound as a cloth-covered hardback and finished with a ribbon page marker.
Leo Tolstoy's epic Russian classic, retold in just 64 pages. First published in 1869, this novel is one of the most famous books in the world, and this simple but atmospheric retelling now makes it accessible for young readers. Set in Russia following the French invasion of Russia in 1812, as the Tsarist regime is succeeded by the Napoleonic era. A concise introduction to what is widely regarded as one of the greatest works of literature ever written. The Usborne Reading Programme is a collection of over 300 reading books, graded in seven levels. Developed with reading experts. Series Three books are for fully confident readers who still need to gain the stamina needed for standard length books. They use advanced sentence structure and vocabulary and have more complex plots with subplots than the level below.
Převyprávění klasického románu o chudé, osiřelé dívce, která přes nejrůznější útrapy nakonec najde štěstí.
A new title in Young Reading Series Three, which is aimed at children whose reading ability and confidence allows them to tackle longer and more complex stories. The classic story of misadventure by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra retold for children ready to tackle longer and more complex stories. Don Quixote thinks he's a knight, just like in the days of old - he even has a squire. Of course, these days, there are no dragons to fight, but a thing like that doesn't stop him, as he drags his squire on one madcap adventure after another… Part of the Usborne Reading Programme developed with reading experts at the University of Roehampton.
A Swiss orphan is heartbroken when she must leave her beloved grandfather and their happy home in the mountains to go to school and to care for an invalid girl in the city.
A marvellous addition to the highest level of the best-selling Reading Programme. Follow Alice and the White Rabbit down the rabbit hole and join in with their madcap adventures. Part of the Usborne Young Reading series, this retelling of Lewis Carroll's enduring and popular nonsensical tale is ideal for newly independent readers.
V "Oliveru Twistovi", který buržoazní kritika neprávem opomíjí jako "slabou" a "začátečnickou" práci Dickensovu, ačkoliv jí předcházely znamenité realistické črty a studie z londýnského života (Črty Bozovy aj.) i klasický humoristický román o Pickwickovcích, si může čtenář sám ověřit, zda obecné vývody o Dickensově lidovosti vztahu k člověku jsou správné. "Oliver Twist" není jen zcela záměrný pokus o realistické zobrazení soudobé skutečnosti, jak naznačil Dickens sám, když v předmluvě k románu napsal, že "cílem knihy byla nezkrášlená pravda". Je to také účinné odsouzení chudinského zákona vydaného roku 1834 a drásavé umělecké vylíčení strašných poměrů v anglických "dělnických domech", t.j. obecních a krajských chudobincích i v brlozích obývaných nejchudšími obyvateli Londýna i jiných velkoměst. Obojí odsuzuje Dickens ve jménu lidumilnosti a lidskosti... (text z obálky knihy vyd.1952 v nakl. Melantrich) Doslov napsal Karel Štěpaník
Three children try to solve the mystery of their father's disappearance when they move from London to a country cottage and befriend the porter on the local railway.
