Robert Dewsnap Knihy

Richard Wright grew up in the woods of Mississippi amid poverty, hunger, fear, and hatred. He lied, stole, and raged at those around him; at six he was a "drunkard," hanging about in taverns. Surly, brutal, cold, suspicious, and self-pitying, he was surrounded on one side by whites who were either indifferent to him, pitying, or cruel, and on the other by blacks who resented anyone trying to rise above the common lot. Black Boy is Richard Wright's powerful account of his journey from innocence to experience in the Jim Crow South. It is at once an unashamed confession and a profound indictment—a poignant and disturbing record of social injustice and human suffering.

Zjednodušené převyprávění proslulého hororově detektivního případu Sherlocka Holmese. Dvojjazyčné vydání pro začátečníky ve studiu angličtiny, doplněné slovníčkem a zábavnými cvičeními.

K případu spojenému se známou rodinou Roylottů ze Stoke Moranu v Surrey došlo na samém počátku přátelství doktora Watsona se Sherlockem Holmesem, v době, kdy ještě coby dva svobodní mládenci bydleli společně v Baker Street.

"The Bottle Imp" is an 1891 short story by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson usually found in the short story collection "Island Nights' Entertainments." It was first published in the "New York Herald" (February-March 1891) and "Black and White" London (March-April 1891). In it, the protagonist buys a bottle with an imp inside that grants wishes. However, the bottle is cursed; if the holder dies bearing it, his or her soul is forfeit to hell.

Rollo Martins' usual line is the writing of cheap paperback Westerns under the name of Buck Dexter. But when his old friend Harry Lime invites him to Vienna, he jumps at the chance. With exactly five pounds in his pocket, he arrives only just in time to make it to his friend's funeral. The victim of an apparently banal street accident, the late Mr. Lime, it seems, had been the focus of a criminal investigation, suspected of nothing less than being "the worst racketeer who ever made a dirty living in this city." Martins is determined to clear his friend's name, and begins an investigation of his own...

Humour: The well-known story about an American family who moves into an old English castle. We follow the trag-comic complications between a poor ghost and the modern American family.