Audiobook przeznaczony do nauki języka angielskiego. Doktor Jekyll i mister Hyde - Robert Stevenson Zbiór trzech opowiadań dziwnego przypadku jakim jest postać doktora Jekylla i mister Hyde'a w jednej postaci. Każde z opowiadań analizuje moralność wiktoriańskiej arystokratycznej społeczności i odwieczny prblem i konflikt w walce dobra ze złem. This collection of three of Stevenson's stories ('Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde', 'Markheim' and 'The Body Snatcher') analyses the moral fib...
The publication in 1890 of Wilde's only novel led to a furious public debate over art and morality. Dorian Gray's double life in elegant high society and in London's most degraded slums express the essence of aestheticism and fin de siècle decadence and shows up the hypocrisies of Victorian society.
Art contrasted with Nature, and outer ugliness with inner beauty, are just two of the themes featured in this collection of 6 tales, including The Canterville Ghost, The Remarkable Rocket, and - for all those who "have kept the childlike faculties of wonder and joy" - The Happy Prince and The Selfish Giant.
Horror ('The Fall of the House of Usher' and 'William Wilson'), detection ('The Murders in the Rue Morgue') and the bizarre ('The Devil in the Belfry') all feature in this selection of eight stories by Poe – displaying his sense of humour and an understanding of the complexities of the modern sensibility.
An illustrated filmography is also included.
Osborne's modern-day classic, first staged at London's Royal Court Theatre in 1956, voices the frustrations of an entire generation – the so-called "Angry Young Men". Aggression, sympathy and sadness are magnificently portrayed in the stormy triangular relationship between Jimmy Porter, his wife Alison and their best friend Cliff.
Oscar Wilde dla uczących się angielskiego Acknowledged as Wilde's most perfect comedy, brilliant and subversive, The Importance of Being Earnest has even been considered to anticipate the 'drama of the absurd' of the twentieth century. Guided activities and introduction help the student to appreciate this masterpiece. Dramat komediowy "Bądźmy poważni na serio" (Brat marnotrawny) Oscara Wilde'a w trzech aktach. Wilde jak zawsze błyskotliwy, z ciętym dowcipem i przewrotny w s...
Mary Shelley was not yet twenty years old when she wrote this classic tale of a scientist’s attempt to create a new noble species – an experiment which instead produces a monster.
Frankenstein is here presented in the 2nd, revised edition of 1831 and includes an analysis of the most recent criticism on Shelley’s science fiction masterpiece, as well as an extensive filmography.
Henry Lawson, V. S. Naipaul, Nadine Gordimer and Chinua Achebe are respectively Australian, Caribbean, South African and Nigerian, yet they all write in English.
The 'English' literature of the ex-colonies is proving to be the most interesting and innovative of our times: this volume offers a significant example of its vitality and originality. As Salman Rushdi said, 'the Empire writes back'.
In the second half of the 19th century, the British Empire, was at its greatest. Imperialism left a lasting mark on Great Britain itself as well as on the ex-colonies. The atmosphere and issues of this bygone age are evoked in Empire Tales , an anthology of stories by some of the most outstanding British writers of the 19th and 20th centuries, Joseph Conrad, E. M. Forster, Ruyard Kipling, W. Somerset Maugham, George Orwell and Jean Rhys.
Cideb’s unabridged study edition of Joyce’s Dubliners comes complete with a full critical introduction which places the author in the short-story tradition before going on to examine ‘Joyce as Experimentalist’. Emphasis is placed on the author’s various narrative techniques and this allows the reader to see this ‘highly original work’ not only as the reflection of a real world but also as a sophisticated literary construction.
Huxley’s grim but witty vision of the future, first published in 1932, shows human individuals dominated by science and technology in a World State where economic and social stability compensate for the vulgarisation of intellectual life and the absence of political responsibility. But the values of this menacing Utopia are brought into question by the arrival of the Savage...
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This apparently light-hearted novel is written in the tradition on of social comedy started by Jane Austen. The central theme lies in the gradual awakening of Lucy Honeychurch and her eventual liberation from the constraints of upper-middle class society, its hypocrisy and obsession for respectability – a liberation in which love and honesty, in the end, triumph over social conventions.
Join Tom Sawyer and his friends in a series of fantastic adventures on the Mississippi River: looking for ghosts in a graveyard, witnessing a murder, living as pirates on a deserted island, attending their own funerals, getting lost in an enormous cave and finding ... The Adventures of Tom Sawyer reflects many of Mark Twain's own adventures growing up on the Mississippi River. A fast-moving story with unforgettable characters that captures the unique American spirit of the 18...
Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow are Washington Irving’s masterpieces. Known as the Father of American Literature, Irving’s unusual stories are filled with suspense, mystery, magic, ghosts and humour. Set in the beautiful Hudson River Valley in Verdana, these unforgettable stories capture the exhilarating atmosphere and lively spirit of young America. Who can ever forget the terrifying night ride of the Headless Horseman of Sleepy Hollow and his lanky victim, Ic...
Audiobook do nauki języka angielskiego Królowie, królowe, znane i wybitne postaci historii Anglii i Szkocji, które fascynują historyków od wieków. Audiobook jest skierowany do osób chcących poszerzyć nie tylko zasób słownictwa i nauczyć się języka angielskiego, ale też chcą wzbogacić swoją wiedzę o znajomość historii Wielkiej Brytanii. Anegdoty, ciekawostki, fakty historyczne, prawdziwe historie, skrócone biografie w przystępnej, łatwej formie językowej. Kolekcja dla amb...
When Kate and Mike Sullivan invite their friend Carlos to sail to the Farallon Islands on their father’s new boat, The Pelican, they expect to see the fascinating birds and animals which live there.
But this exciting boat trip on the Pacific Ocean turns into a night of horror when ghastly ghosts from the past appear… and the three friends make an altogether different discovery.
'The Young King' tells how a shepherd boy becomes a king and realises that money is not worth human suffering.
In 'The Star Child' a baby is found in the forest and discovers his true identity after many adventures.
'The Nightingale and the Rose' is a tale of a nightingale who sacrifices her life to create the perfect red rose for a student in love.
