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- Great Gatsby
Great Gatsby
- Alma Classics
- beletrie
- 2016
- Francis Scott Fitzgerald
- 256
- anglické
Invited to an extravagantly lavish party in a Long Island mansion, Nick Carraway, a young bachelor who has just settled in the neighbouring cottage, is intrigued by the...
- Trial
Trial
- Alma Classics
- beletrie
- 2018
- Franz Kafka
- 224
- anglické
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...
- The True Story Behind the Theory of Everything - Travelling to Infinity
The True Story Behind the Theory of Everything - Travelling to Infinity
- beletrie
- 2014
- Jane Hawkingová
- 450
- anglické
Now a major motion picture starring Eddie Redmayne as Stephen Hawking and Felicity Jones as his wife Jane. It chronicles their relationship, from his early development of ALS...
- Moby Dick
Moby Dick
- Alma Classics
- beletrie
- 2018
- Herman Melville
- 666
- anglické
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
- Alma Classics
- beletrie
- 2021
- George Orwell
- 144
- anglické
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,...
- Prophet
Prophet
- Alma Classics
- beletrie
- 2020
- Kahlil Gibran
- 128
- anglické
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
- 2021
- George Bernard Shaw
- 144
- anglické
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
- Alma Classics
- beletrie
- 2019
- Alexandr Sergejevič Puškin
- 424
- anglické
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
- dětské
- 2014
- Charles Dickens
- 524
- anglické
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...
- Cry to Dream Again - Jane Hawkingová
Cry to Dream Again - Jane Hawkingová
- beletrie
- 2018
- Jane Hawkingová
- 530
- anglické
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
- Alma Classics
- beletrie
- 2015
- Erasmus Rotterdamský
- 320
- anglické
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
- beletrie
- 2014
- Richard C. Morais
- 288
- anglické
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
- 2014
- Francis Scott Fitzgerald
- 224
- anglické
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
- beletrie
- 2014
- Hawkingová Jane
- 144
- anglické
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
- 128
- slovenské
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...
- Whisperer in Darkness and Other Tales
Whisperer in Darkness and Other Tales
- Alma Classics
- beletrie
- 2023
- Howard Phillips Lovecraft
- 372
- anglické
When strange things are reported to be floating in rivers in rural Vermont after a flood, old myths about hill-dwelling monsters who abduct humans resurface in subsequent...
- Selfish Giant and Other Stories
Selfish Giant and Other Stories
- Alma Classics
- beletrie
- 2015
- Oscar Wilde
- 256
- anglické
When the Selfish Giant decides to build a wall around his garden to prevent the children from playing in it, it becomes barren and stuck in perpertual winter. It takes a...
- Metamorphosis and Other Stories
Metamorphosis and Other Stories
- Alma Classics
- beletrie
- 2014
- Franz Kafka
- 282
- anglické
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
- Slovart
- beletrie
- 2016
- Mark Twain
- 294
- anglické
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
- 2015
- Robert Louis Stevenson
- 288
- anglické
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
- 2016
- Oscar Wilde
- 137
- anglické
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
- beletrie
- 2008
- Alexander Terekhov
- anglické
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
- beletrie
- 2017
- Celine Louis-Ferdinand
- 495
- anglické
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
- Alma Classics
- beletrie
- 2019
- Herbert George Wells
- 160
- anglické
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...