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Inside the Third Reich (EN)
World History: Germany in the early 1930s is falling apart. The population is disillusioned, poverty is spreading, and unemployment is everywhere. Many Germans see Adolf Hitler as the only man who can pull the country out of crisis. The Nazi leader’s promise of bre
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Fall of the Third Reich (EN)
World History: Adolf Hitler ruled Germany for 12 years. As the Third Reich began to collapse in on itself in the spring of 1945, the Führer took up residence in Berlin. By the middle of April he’d entrenched himself in a bunker deep beneath the capital, as the Sov
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Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (EN)
James Joyce: “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man” is the first novel of Irish writer James Joyce. A Künstlerroman in a modernist style, it traces the intellectual and religious philosophical awakening of young Stephen Dedalus, a fictional alter ego of Joyce and
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You, Fascinating You (EN)
Germaine Shames: In the final weeks of 1938, in the shadow of Kristallnacht and imminent war, a heartsick Italian maestro wrote a love song called “Tu Solamente Tu”. Its lyrics lamented his forced separation from his wife, the Hungarian ballerina Margit Wolf, in the wake
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Poézia
The Lay of the Last Minstrel (EN)
Sir Walter Scott: An ageing singer asks for shelter at Newark Castle, and in exchange performs for his hostess the Duchess of Buccleuch the story of a 16th century border feud. The story he tells is about the so-called “Flower of Teviot,” the Lady Margaret Scott of Buccle
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Poézia
The Lady of the Lake (EN)
Sir Walter Scott: “The Lady of the Lake” (1810) is a narrative poem set in the vicinity of Loch Katrine, in the Trossach region of Scotland. It is made up of six cantos, each focusing on one day. There’s three main plots to this poem: a competition between three men fo
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Klasická literatúra
The Man Who Would Be King (EN)
Rudyard Kipling: “The Man Who Would Be King” (1888) is inspired by the real-life actions of James Brook, a British soldier who made himself Rajah of Sarawak (Borneo). In this short story, Kipling tells of two crook characters, Daniel Dravot and Peachey Carnehan, through
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Klasická literatúra
The Brushwood Boy (EN)
Rudyard Kipling: “The Brushwood Boy” tells the story of British army officer, George Cottar, following him from childhood and into his first posting to India. During his placement, Cottar keeps dreaming of a young girl he once met, a dream that always starts with a heap
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Biografie a texty
American Notes (EN)
Rudyard Kipling: “In American Notes”, the Anglo-Indian Rudyard Kipling visits the USA, and the travel-diary that came out of it offers an interesting view of the America of the 1880’s. Kipling affects a wide-eyed innocence and expresses astonishment at features of Americ
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My First Summer in the Sierra (EN)
John Muir: “My First Summer in the Sierra” (1911) takes inspiration from Muir’s journals of the months he spent between June and September 1869 as a shepherd in the Sierras. Muir went on to built a cabin along Yosemite Creek, where he lived for two years. He des
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A Thousand Mile Walk to the Gulf (EN)
John Muir: In early March 1867, Muir was injured while working at a wagon wheels factory: a tool he was using slipped and struck him in the eye. This accident changed the course of his life. He was confined to a darkened room for six weeks, worried he’d lost his
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Klasická literatúra
The Fortunate Foundlings (EN)
Eliza Haywood: “The Fortunate Foundlings” is a picaresque novel from 1744 featuring twins Horatio and Louisa, whose journey in the world differs because of their gender. They were both abandoned in infancy and adopted, but soon leave their carer to go off on their one.
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Fighting the Flying Circus (EN)
Eddie Rickenbacker: “Fighting the Flying Circus” is fighter ace Eddie Rickenbacker WWI memoir. He fought in and eventually became commander of the 94th “Hat-in-the-Ring” Squadron, which ended the war with the highest number of air victories of any American squadron. The ci
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Deti a mládež
The Calico Cat (EN)
Charles Miner Thompson: Solomon has hated the Calico Cat ever since he bought the house in Ellmington and he has tried his very best to drive her away, but with no luck. As he tries once more to get rid of the cat, he triggers a vicious series of events that ends with lies, the
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Deti a mládež
The Girl Next Door (EN)
Augusta Huiell Seaman: Marcia Brett tells her friend Janet that the old, broken-down house next door, which they always thought was empty and abandoned, is apparently not so. An old, veiled woman lives there, and so does a pretty, blond girl of about their age. They discover
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Deti a mládež
The Dragon’s Secret (EN)
Augusta Huiell Seaman: Sixteen-year-old Leslie has come to the New Jersey shore as a companion to her ailing Aunt Marcia, whose doctor has sent her there for some quiet rest and recuperation. While the beach is lovely in October, Leslie quickly finds herself getting lonely wit
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Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie (EN)
Andrew Carnegie: This posthumously published autobiography of Andrew Carnegie is a very well written and interesting accounts of the life of one of the wealthiest self-made men in American history. The industrialist and philanthropist lived his life according the followi
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A Packhorse Called Rachel (EN)
Marcelle Kellermann: A story of courage, fear, and defiance based on the author’s own personal experience. “A Pack Horse Called Rachel” is the remarkable tale of a young woman, half Jewish, caught in the extraordinarily brutal world of 1944 France. Rachel moves through the
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The Interpreter (EN)
Marcelle Kellermann: This story is set during the occupation of France of 1940-44, during which time the author fought as a member of the Resistance. It follows her interrogation, imprisonment and her subsequent unexpected release by the German Nazi Officer Frank Van Heugen,
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Humor, satira
Jak vytrhnout velrybě stoličku
Marie Poledňáková: Literární podoba legendárního rodinného filmu jako audiokniha Úsměvný příběh malého chlapce Vaška, který se snaží veškerými silami obstarat si chybějícího tatínka, zná několik generací. Velkou oblibu si získalo nejen televizní,
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Biografie a texty
Můj příběh
Michelle Obama: Silné a inspirativní osobní vzpomínky bývalé první dámy Spojených států amerických Malá Michelle Robinsonová vyrůstala v jižní části Chicaga, bydlela ve společném pokoji s bratrem Craigem a hrávala si s ním v nedalekém parku. Jej
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História
Elizino tajemství
Dominik W. Rettinger: Vzali jim důstojnost, ale nemohli jim vzít naději. Šokující román z Osvětimi. Čekala je těžká volba na strašlivém místě: buď budou žít dál jako řadové vězenkyně koncentračního tábora v Osvětimi, nebo výměnou za snesitelněj
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Tereza Ramba: DobroDruhům
Tereza Ramba: Neplánujte cesty… prožijte je! Cestování si nikdy nenaplánujete na sto procent – vždy vás něco překvapí. Ví to i oblíbená herečka a cestovatelka Tereza Ramba (Voříšková). Za dva roky navštívila dvacet zemí a rozepsala se o jejic
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Literatúra faktu a Náučná literatúra
Angličtina – slovíčka pro pokročilé C1, C2
Tomáš Dvořáček: Kurz je určen pro pokročilé uživatele, kteří běžně komunikují a chtějí si rozšířit slovní zásobu. Kurz je založen na kontextovém učení, to znamená, že se nebudete učit jen slovíčka, ale i věty, ve kterých můžete daná sloví