Roland John Knihy

Left alone on a beautiful but isolated island off the coast of California, a young Indian girl spends eighteen years, not only merely surviving through her enormous courage and self-reliance, but also finding a measure of happiness in her solitary life.Karana is that girl. She becomes stranded on the Island of the Blue Dolphins after her tribe leaves on a ship for the mainland without her and her brother, Ramo. A pack of wild dogs kills Ramo, and when Karana tries to avenge her brother's death, she befriends the pack leader and names him Rontu.

It is the summer of 1900 and Leo is staying with his friend Marcus. Leo likes Marcus's beautiful older sister, Marian very much. He becomes a secret messenger for her and a local farmer. But when he realizes what the messages they send each other are about, he is shocked and confused.

Anglicko-česká verze, zrcadlový text hororových povídek E. Allana Poea. Pro začátečníky, vhodné jako doplněk výuky angličtiny. Maska Červené smrti Rukopis nalezený v láhvi Jáma a kyvadlo Metzengerstein Zrádné srdce Pád domu Usherů Zlatý brouk

Unusually for Dickens, Hard Times is set, not in London, but in the imaginary mid-Victorian Northern industrial town of Coketown with its blackened factories, downtrodden workers and polluted environment. This is the soulless domain of the strict utilitarian Thomas Gradgrind and the heartless factory owner Josiah Bounderby.