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.
Oxford Bookworms enjoy a world-wide reputation for high-quality storytelling and a great reading experience.Research shows reading a lot improves all your language skills.Experts recognize Oxford Bookworms as the most consistent series in terms of language control, length, and quality of story - very important for fluent reading and extensive reading.There's a wide choice of titles too - something for everyone.
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
Penguin Readers is a series of simplified novels, film novelizations and original titles that introduce students at all levels to the pleasures of reading in English. Originally designed for teaching English as a foreign language, the series' combination of high interest level and low reading age makes it suitable for both English-speaking teenagers with limited reading skills and students of English as a second language. Many titles in the series also provide access to the pre-20th century literature strands of the National Curriculum English Orders.
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?
Mistrovská díla pro děti, spisovatele Marka Twaina, čte celý svět již po dvě století. Mezi jeho romány pak zvláště vynikají dva: Dobrodružství Toma Sawyera a Dobrodružství Huckleberryho Finna. Tato vrcholná práce americké literatury 19. století o osudech dvou podnikavých chlapců je nabitánapětím, humorem a neodolatelnou hravostí. Zvláště v Hucku Finnovi vytvořil autor typ nekonvenčního klukovského hrdiny, který s vtipem řeší podivné události, jichž se stává svědkem při své cestě po řece Mississippi. Vítězí nad podvodníky a gangstery a v napínavé spleti převleků, komické nadsázky a gagů , spolu s kamarádem Tomem, osvobozuje uprchlého černocha Jima. Dva bezstarostné, trochu lehkomyslné a rošťácké přátele, Toma a Hucka, v této dramatizaci, plné twainovského humoru, představují Jiří Ornest a Michal Pešek. Humor a napětí v příběhu dobrodružstvím posedlých klukovských kamarádů.