Pozoruhodná bajka začíná vzpourou zvířat, která vyženou majitele farmy a začnou si vládnout sama. Zprvu ušlechtilé, idealistické myšlenky o rovnosti, svobodě a blahobytu záhy berou za své a jejich místo postupně zaujme propaganda, nesvoboda a totalitní diktatura.
Pojďte si se svými nejmenšími přečíst klasický příběh světové četby. Je převyprávěn pro malé čtenáře, kteří si zároveň mohou prohlížet nádherné ilustrace .Dobrodružství Toma Sawyera převyprávěné moderním jazykem, pro začínající čtenáře. Vzpomínky z dětství byly inspirací Marka Twaina pro napsání Dobrodružství Toma Sawyera, která se odehrávají v malém městečku na břehu řeky Mississippi, podobnému tomu, kde bydlel autor v prvních letech svého života – Haniballu v Missouri na jihu Spojených států, kde stále přetrvávalo otroctví
Every town should have a 'card' - someone who gets talked about, someone who does mad and wonderful things, someone who makes you laugh. Bursley in the Five Towns has a 'card': Edward Henry Machin (Denry for short). Denry begins life in a poor little house where the rent is twenty-three pence a week. But before he's thirty, he's made a lot of money, and had more adventures than you and I have had hot dinners. The town of Bursley never stops talking about him. Whatever will young Denry do next?
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Arnold Bennett is famous for his stories about the Five Towns and the people who live there. They look and sound just like other people, and, like all of us, sometimes they do some very strange things. There's Sir Jee, who is a rich businessman. So why is he making a plan with a burglar? Then there is Toby Hall. Why does he decide to visit Number 11 Child Row, and who does he find there? And then there are the Hessian brothers and Annie Emery - and the little problem of twelve thousand pounds.--Quatrième de couverture
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