Robert Dewsnap Knihy

Black Boy is Richard Wright’s unforgettable story of growing up in the Jim Crow South. Published in 1945, it is often considered a fictionalized autobiography or an autobiographical novel because of Wright’s use of fiction techniques (and possibly fictional events) to tell his story. Nevertheless, the book is a lyrical and skillfully wrought description of Wright’s hungry youth in rural Mississippi and Memphis, told from the perspective of the adult Wright, who was still trying to come to grips with the cruel deprivations and humiliations of his childhood."

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.

This classic story is has been simplified and abridged to suit the needs of learners of English. For use in schools and private study.

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.