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The death and burial of Addie Bundren is told by members of her family, as they cart the coffin to Jefferson, Mississippi, to bury her among her people. And as the intense desires, fears and rivalries of the family are revealed in the vernacular of the Deep South, Faulkner presents a portrait of extraordinary power - as epic as the Old Testament, as American as Huckleberry Finn.

One hot summer night in the house of the Mississippi Delta's richest cotton planter, a family imprisoned by the past is torn apart by the revelations of feelings of lust, greed and envy.

Doris Lessing brought the manuscript of 'The Grass is Singing', her classic first novel, with her when she left Southern Rhodesia and came to England in 1950. When it was first published it created an impact whose reverberations we are still feeling, and immediately established itself as a landmark in twentieth-century literature. Set in Rhodesia, it tells the story of Dick Turner, a failed white farmer and his wife, Mary, a town girl who hates the bush. Trapped by poverty, sapped by the heat of their tiny brick and iron house, Mary, lonely and frightened, turns to Moses, the black cook, for kindness and understanding. A masterpiece of realism, 'The Grass is Singing' is a superb evocation of Africa's majestic beauty, an intense psychological portrait of lives in confusion and, most o

Tyto malé slovníky obsahují elementární slovní zásobu a frazeologii nezbytnou pro porozumění běžným sdělením a dorozumění se v běžných životních situacích.

Se znalostí lexikální zásoby angličtiny v prezentovaném rozsahu lze řešit běžné situace, jako např. pozdravit, představit se, vést běžnou společenskou konverzaci, omluvit se, vyjádřit svůj názor, zeptat se na cestu, nakoupit, ubytovat se, objednat si v restauraci nebo se domluvit u lékaře. Slovní zásoba těchto slovníků je základním stavebním kamenem pro jakoukoli komunikaci.

Slovník je doplněn přílohou se základními anglickými frázemi, anglickou abecedou (včetně výslovnosti hlásek), základními a řadovými číslovkami, barvami a nejpoužívan

Thousands of miles away from the small township of "Salem's Lot", two terrified people, a man and a boy, still share the secrets of those clapboard houses and tree-lined streets. They must return to "Salem's Lot" for a final confrontation with the unspeakable evil that lives on in the town.

Beautiful young Elinor Carlisle stood serenely in the dock, accused of the murder of Mary Gerrard, her rival in love. The evidence was damning: only Elinor had the motive, the opportunity and the means to administer the fatal poison. Yet, inside the hostile courtroom, only one man still presumed Elinor was innocent until proven guilty: Hercule Poirot was all that stood between Elinor and the gallows