Pride and Prejudice wer. angielska

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1. 1. The Picture of Dorian Gray. Penguin Readers Level 3 wer. angielska, Oscar Wilde

   With carefully adapted text, new illustrations, language practise activities and additional online resources, the Penguin Readers series introduces language learners to bestselling authors and compelling content. Titles include popular classics, exciting contemporary fiction, and thought-provoking non-fiction.The Picture of Dorian Gray, a Level 3 Reader, is A2 in the CEFR framework. The text is made up of sentences with up to three clauses, introducing first conditional, past continuous and p...

2. 2. Breakfast at Tiffany's. Penguin Readers Level 4 wer. angielska, Truman Capote

   Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reader series for learners of English as a foreign language. With carefully adapted text, new illustrations and language learning exercises, the print edition also includes instructions to access supporting material online. Titles include popular classics, exciting contemporary fiction, and thought-provoking non-fiction, introducing language learners to bestselling authors and compelling content.The eight levels of Penguin Readers follow the Common European Fr...

3. 3. Invisible Man wer. angielska, Ralph Ellison

   Ralph Ellison's blistering and impassioned first novel tells the extraordinary story of a man invisible 'simply because people refuse to see me'. Published in 1952 when American society was in the cusp of immense change, the powerfully depicted adventures of Ellison's invisible man - from his expulsion from a Southern college to a terrifying Harlem race riot - go far beyond the story of one individual. As John Callahan says, 'In an extraordinary imaginative leap, he hit upon a single word for...

4. 4. Frankly in Love. Penguin Readers Level 3 wer. angielska, David Yoon

   Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reader series for learners of English as a foreign language. With carefully adapted text, new illustrations and language learning exercises, the print edition also includes instructions to access supporting material online.Titles include popular classics, exciting contemporary fiction, and thought-provoking non-fiction, introducing language learners to bestselling authors and compelling content.The eight levels of Penguin Readers follow the Common European Fra...

5. 5. Serce i rozum. Czytamy w oryginale, Emily Brontë

   Emily Jane BrontëWuthering Heights. Wichrowe WzgórzaJane AustenSense and Sensibility. Rozważna i romantycznaKlasyki literatury angielskiej o miłości wystawionej na próbę przez klasę, majątek i konwenanse.Seria wydawnicza „czytamy w oryginale“ zawiera adaptacje największych dzieł literatury światowej w wersji dwujęzycznej, przeznaczonej dla uczących się języka angielskiego. Śledząc losy bohaterów, możemy na bieżąco porównywać tekst angielski i polski.Adaptacje zostały prz...

6. 6. The Great Gatsby. Vintage Classics Library, Francis Scott Fitzgerald

   Jay Gatsby is the man who has everything. But one thing will always be out of his reach ... Everybody who is anybody is seen at his glittering parties. Day and night his Long Island mansion buzzes with bright young things drinking, dancing and debating his mysterious character. For Gatsby - young, handsome, fabulously rich - always seems alone in the crowd, watching and waiting, though no one knows what for. Beneath the shimmering surface of his life he is hiding a secret: a silent longing...

7. 7. Animal Farm. Folwark zwierzęcy, George Orwell

   Gdy właściciel farmy zapomina nakarmić zwierzęta, na farmie wybucha bunt. Władzę przejmują zwierzęta, którym przewodzą świnie. Od tej pory na folwarku mają zapanować nowe zasady - oparte na wartościach takich jak wolność, równość i sprawiedliwość. Bardzo szybko jednak okazuje się, że nowa władza jest jeszcze gorsza od starszej... "Folwark zwierzęcy" Georga Orwella to jedna z najważniejszych powieści XX wieku. Teraz wydana w oryginale w serii "Angielski z ćwiczeniami". Pod pozorem satyry Georg...

8. 8. The Girl on the Train. Penguin Readers Level 6 wer. angielska, Paula Hawkins

   Rachel catches the same commuter train every morning. She knows it will wait at the same signal each time, overlooking a row of back gardens. She`s even started to feel like she knows the people who live in one of the houses. `Jess and Jason`, she calls them. Their life – as she sees it – is perfect. If only Rachel could be that happy. And then she sees something shocking. It`s only a minute until the train moves on, but it`s enough. Now everything`s changed. Our Penguin Readers b...

9. 9. The Catcher in the Rye, Jerome Salinger

   Pozycja w języku angielskim. Powieść amerykańskiego pisarza J.D. Salingera, po raz pierwszy opublikowana w 1951 roku. Niedługo po wydaniu stała się jedną z najbardziej napiętnowanych książek w Stanach Zjednoczonych. Książka budziła kontrowersje m.in. ze względu na poruszanie wątków związanych z seksualnością nieletnich oraz używanie wulgaryzmów przez głównego bohatera.

10. 10. The Last to Know, Laura Jane Williams

    Ash has met her perfect match.So has CJ.Unfortunately for them, it`s the same man.Mid-thirties and feeling the pressure, they`re ready to fight for him. Even if it means sabotaging each other.As Ash and CJ turn up on each other`s dates, ruin one another`s chances, and accidentally end up spending an awful lot of time together, their friends begin to wonder. Are they fighting over the same guy? Or are they fighting their feelings for each other?PRAISE FOR LAURA JANE WILLIAMS . . .'I'm a big fa...

11. 11. The New Dark Ages, James Marriott

    Books are dying. Across the world the number of people reading is in free fall. Literacy is declining or stagnating in most developed countries. At universities, students are unable to read the books assigned to them by their teachers. Addictive digital entertainment technologies have colonised our free time with infantilising `slop`. The golden chain of knowledge linking reader to reader through the centuries is breaking for the first time since the collapse of the Western Roman Empire usher...

12. 12. What We Can Know, Ian McEwan

    'One of the finest writers alive'  Sunday Times2014: A great poem is read aloud and never heard again. For generations, people speculate about its message, but no copy has yet been found.2119: The lowlands of the UK have been submerged by rising seas. Those who survive are haunted by the richness of the world that has been lost.Tom Metcalfe, a scholar at the University of the South Downs, part of Britain's remaining archipelagos, pores over the archives of the early twenty-first century, ...

13. 13. Leonhart Fuchs. The New Herbal, Werner Dressendörfer

    Leonhart Fuchs (1501–1566) was a founding father of modern botany, honored to this day in the vivid flower, and corresponding color, Fuchsia. In 1543, Fuchs combined his masterful botanical knowledge with groundbreaking medical research in his New Herbal, a catalog of some 500 types of plants and their healing properties.While a dependable scientific reference, The New Herbal won fame above all with the detail and quality of its illustrations. Alongside essays describing the plants` fea...

14. 14. The Silver Dwarf. Royal Institute of Magic, Victor Kloss

    Ben's double life continues at the Royal Institute of Magic.To most, he's a talented apprentice and an exceptional spell shooter, but Ben is also a Guardian, responsible for uniting Elizabeth's Armour, the only artefact powerful enough to overthrow the evil dark elves. With two pieces of the armour secure, finding the third may be Ben's toughest challenge yet. His only clue is a magical key, a tenuous link to a legend called the Silver Dwarf. With the dark elves slowly conquering the Unseen K...

15. 15. War and Power wer. angielska, Phillips Payson O Brien

    War and power are two of the most-widely discussed issues in all of human history, and yet they are, time and again, misunderstood — often disastrously so.Whilst we might think the outcome of war is determined by so-called `Great Powers` who dominate their opponents with their impressive size and military prowess, the reality of modern conflict, as renowned strategic historian Professor Phillips Payson O`Brien demonstrates, is very different. He urges us instead to look for `Full Spectr...

16. 16. The Murder on the Links, Agatha Christie

    Stabbed in the backA pieced of lead piping nearbyIt should be a simple case… Poirot is summoned to France, but arrives too late to save his client, whose body now lies face down in a shallow grave on a golf course. Why is the dead man wearing his son`s overcoat? And who was the intended recipient of the love-letter in the pocket? Before Poirot can answer these questions, the case is turned upside down by the discovery of a second, identically murdered corpse…

17. 17. Nocne światła. Wersja ukraińska, Lorena Alvarez

    Книга для детей с развитым воображением и фантазией! Волшебные существа, затейли&#...

18. 18. House of salt. Wersja ukraińska, Svitlana Taratorina

    Flashes? disasters of an unexplained nature? turned the once flourishing Cimmerian peninsula into ashes. How much? the world of the new order. The inhabitants of the earth, who managed to survive, became salty, and the Elder Brothers look at the dead world from the flying station "Mother of the Winds". One of them, Talavir, is tasked with investigating the murder and finding the Golden Cradle? a mysterious weapon developed by the scientist Mamai. But, having set foot on the dried-up land of D...

19. 19. Being There, Erica Komisar

    A powerful look at the importance of a mother`s presence in the first years of life.`Being There really resonated with me during this season of motherhood. Erica's wisdom validated what I`ve always felt instinctively – that presence, especially in the early years, is everything. It`s a beautiful reminder to slow down and prioritise connection. A must-read for every mother seeking emotional security over all!` KOURTNEY KARDASHIAN BARKERIn this important and conversation-starting book, ve...

20. 20. Nobody Can Give You Freedom wer. angielska, Andrews Kehinde

    Malcolm X is a titanic figure in political history, but he is also one of the most misunderstood. So much of what we know about his life and politics is from books, films and documentaries that are all guilty of peddling the Malcolm myth for their own nefarious interests. Forever known as the violent Yang to Martin Luther King`s Yin, in the years since his death he has been co-opted into the American project, punished by his enemies for his radicalism, and marginalised by decades of governmen...