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- Moby Dick
Moby Dick
- Herman Melville
- anglické
- beletrie
- Alma Classics
- 666
- 2018
When the young Ishmael gets on board Captain Ahab's whaling ship, little does he suspect that the mission on which he is about to embark is the fulfilment of his master's...
- Animal Farm
Animal Farm
- George Orwell
- anglické
- beletrie
- Alma Classics
- 144
- 2021
Under the feckless husbandry of Mr Jones, the Manor Farm has fallen into disrepair. Pushed into hardship, the animals decide to stage a revolt, and, led by two young pigs,...
- Trial
Trial
- Franz Kafka
- anglické
- beletrie
- Alma Classics
- 224
- 2018
On his thirtieth birthday, the bank clerk Josef K. is suddenly arrested by mysterious agents for an unspecified crime. He is told that he will be set free, but must make...
- Prophet
Prophet
- Kahlil Gibran
- anglické
- beletrie
- Alma Classics
- 128
- 2020
Having lived in the city of Orphalese for twelve years, the revered Prophet is about to board a ship taking him back to the isle of his birth. Before he departs, a group of...
- Pygmalion
Pygmalion
- George Bernard Shaw
- anglické
- 144
- 2021
Publikace: Pygmalion - Shaw George Bernard. When professor of phonetics Henry Higgins wagers with Colonel Pickering that he could teach even a gutter-mouthed flower seller how...
- Eugene Onegin
Eugene Onegin
- Alexandr Sergejevič Puškin
- anglické
- beletrie
- Alma Classics
- 424
- 2019
Part of Alma Classics Evergreen series, this edition is dual language. When the world-weary dandy Eugene Onegin moves from St Petersburg to take up residence in the country...
- Oliver Twist
Oliver Twist
- Charles Dickens
- anglické
- dětské
- 524
- 2014
Charles Dickens's second novel is the tale of a young orphan who faces the gruelling conditions of a Victorian workhouse before finding himself sucked into the criminal...
- Tender is the Night
Tender is the Night
- Francis Scott Fitzgerald
- anglické
- beletrie
- Alma Classics
- 319
- 2018
While holidaying at a villa on the French Riviera, Dick and Nicole Diver, a wealthy American couple, meet the young film star Rosemary Hoyt. Her arrival causes a stir in their...
- Cry to Dream Again - Jane Hawkingová
Cry to Dream Again - Jane Hawkingová
- Jane Hawkingová
- anglické
- beletrie
- 530
- 2018
From the author of the no. 1 bestseller Travelling to Infinity: The True Story Behind The Theory of Everything. In 1930s Greater London, Shirley is a talented ballerina who...
- Praise of Folly
Praise of Folly
- Erasmus Rotterdamský
- anglické
- beletrie
- Alma Classics
- 320
- 2015
The goddess Folly gives a speech, praising herself and explaining how much humanity benefits from her services, from politicians to philosophers, aristocrats, schoolteachers,...
- The Hundred-Foot Journey
The Hundred-Foot Journey
- Richard C. Morais
- anglické
- beletrie
- 288
- 2014
Now a major motion picture starring Helen Mirren, directed by Lasse Hallström and produced by Oprah Winfrey, Steven Spielberg, Juliet Blake, Dreamworks and Participant Media...
- Flappers and Philosophers - S. Fitzgerald
Flappers and Philosophers - S. Fitzgerald
- Francis Scott Fitzgerald
- anglické
- 224
- 2014
Publikace: Flappers and Philosophers - Fitzgerald Francis Scott. Part of Alma Classics Fitzgerald's mini-series, this lavishly produced edition with flaps, foil on the cover...
- The Theory of Everything - The Screenplay
The Theory of Everything - The Screenplay
- Hawkingová Jane
- anglické
- beletrie
- 144
- 2014
Based on Jane Hawking’s best-selling memoir Travelling to Infinity: My Life with Stephen, Anthony McCarten’s screen adaptation for the hit movie The Theory of of Everything,...
- Incest - Sade De
Incest - Sade De
- Marquis de Sade
- slovenské
- 128
When the immoral libertine Monsieur de Franval marries and fathers a daughter, he decides to inculcate in her a sense of absolute freedom, an unconventional education that...
- Metamorphosis and Other Stories
Metamorphosis and Other Stories
- Franz Kafka
- anglické
- beletrie
- Alma Classics
- 282
- 2014
When the young salesman Gregor Samsa wakes up one morning transformed into a monstrous insect, his shock and incomprehension are coupled with the panic of being late for work...
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
- Mark Twain
- anglické
- beletrie
- Slovart
- 294
- 2016
Widely considered one of the greatest American novels, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn tells the story of Huck Finn and his companion, the slave Jim, as they journey down the...
- Treasure Island Louis Stevenson Robert
Treasure Island Louis Stevenson Robert
- Robert Louis Stevenson
- anglické
- 288
- 2015
One of the best-loved adventure stories ever written, Treas-ure Island's timeless tale of pirates, lost treasure maps, mutiny and derring-do has appealed to generations of...
- Canterville Ghost and Other Stories
Canterville Ghost and Other Stories
- Oscar Wilde
- anglické
- 137
- 2016
When the Americans Mr and Mrs Otis and their four children move into Canterville Chase, its previous occupant Lord Canterville warns them that the ghost of his ancestor still...
- The Rat Killer - Alexander Terekhov
The Rat Killer - Alexander Terekhov
- Alexander Terekhov
- anglické
- beletrie
- 2008
Rats and human beings aren't that far apart from each other in "The Rat-Killer". As the political intrigue of phantasmagorical post-communist reality develops into nightmare,...
- Death on Credit
Death on Credit
- Celine Louis-Ferdinand
- anglické
- beletrie
- 495
- 2017
When Celine's first novel, Journey to the End of the Night was first published in 1932, it created an instant scandal, being extravagantly praised by its supporters and...
- Time Machine
Time Machine
- Herbert George Wells
- anglické
- beletrie
- Alma Classics
- 160
- 2019
A Victorian scientist and inventor creates a machine for propelling himself through time, and voyages to the year AD 802701, where he discovers a race of humanoids called the...
- Hot Dogs and Cocktails - Conradi Peter
Hot Dogs and Cocktails - Conradi Peter
- Conradi Peter
- anglické
- 297
- 2013
etween 9th and 12th June 1939, King George VI and Queen Elizabeth were the guests of Roosevelt at his country estate in Hyde Park, New York State, during what was the first...
- Paradise
Paradise
- Dante Alighieri
- anglické
- 384
- 2017
In the third and final part of The Divine Comedy, Dante recounts his journey through heaven, after the travails and torments of Hell and the arduous ascent of Mount Purgatory,...
- The Canterbury Tales - Geoffrey Chaucer
The Canterbury Tales - Geoffrey Chaucer
- Geoffrey Chaucer
- anglické
- beletrie
- Alma Classics
- 600
- 2020
Assembling at the Tabard Inn in Southwark, a group of pilgrims begin their journey to Canterbury Cathedral. To entertain themselves on the long road, their host suggests that...