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Sci-fi, fantasy, horory
Frankenstein (EN)
Mary Shelley: Mary Shelley’s poignant exploration of the true depths of human ambition has had a profound effect on readers since its conception in 1816.
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Dobrodružné romány
Robinson Crusoe (EN)
Daniel Defoe: When his ship is wrecked in a storm, Robinson Crusoe finds himself stranded on a desert island with no-one to help him and no chance of rescue.
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Klasická literatúra
Pride and Prejudice (EN)
Jane Austenová: Jane Austen’s most popular novel, originally published in 1813, some 17 years after it was first written, presents the Bennet family of Longbourn.
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Deti
Pinocchio (EN)
Carlo Collodi: Pinocchio is a wooden puppet who comes to life and has the most astonishing adventures.
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Klasická literatúra
Jane Eyre (EN)
Charlotte Brontëová: One of the greatest love stories ever written, Jane Eyre is the tale of a young woman entangled with the powerful Mr Rochester.
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Humor, satira
The Good Soldier Švejk (EN)
Jaroslav Hašek: Too old, too fat, too drunk – Švejk really shouldn’t be in the army at all. And it doesn’t take long before his superiors wish he wasn’t…
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Klasická literatúra
Anna Karenina (EN)
Lev Nikolajevič Tolstoj: Anna Karenina has been described as the perfect Russian novel. Trapped in a loveless marriage, Anna Karenina is defenceless against the power of her passions once they are unleashed by the adoration of Count Vronsky.
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Dobrodružné romány
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (EN)
Mark Twain: Meet Tom Sawyer, a boy with a good heart who’s always in trouble with everyone: at home, in school and in church. With his best friends, Joe, Ben and Huckleberry, Tom lives an exciting outdoor life. But he begins to grow up when pretty Becky Thatcher co
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Stories of Mystery and Suspense (EN)
Edgar Allan Poe: In this reader you will find nine of Edgar Allan Poe’s most famous stories of mystery and suspense. They range from Gothic historical stories such as The Pit and the Pendulum, through to detective fiction like The Murders in the Rue Morgue and an early
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Klasická literatúra
Sense and Sensibility (EN)
Jane Austenová: Elinor is careful but Marianne is not. They both meet the man of their dreams, but will they find true happiness? Sense and Sensibility is Jane Austen’s classic story of two sisters who have a lot to learn about love.
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The Secret Garden (EN)
Frances Hodgson Burnett: One day, in India, nine-year old Mary wakes up and finds that she is completely alone. Back home in England, she is sent to live with an uncle she has never met. His house is a strange, lonely place where she will gradually discover secret after secret in
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Klasická literatúra
Romeo and Juliet (EN)
William Shakespeare: The story of Romeo and Juliet is probably the most famous love story of all time. It is set in mediaeval Verona and follows Romeo, son of the house of Montague as he falls in love with Juliet, daughter of the rival house of Capulet. The story moves quickl
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Klasická literatúra
Robin Hood (EN)
Rob Lloyd Jones: The daring and handsome nobleman Robin Hood is forced to live as an outlaw in Sherwood Forest, after the evil Sheriff of Nottingham kills his family and takes his land and money. With the help of his Merry Men, Robin becomes a hero, stealing from the rich
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Klasická literatúra
Pride and Prejudice (EN)
Jane Austenová: Mrs Bennet has five daughters and they are all unmarried. When rich, single Mr Bingley comes to live in the area, she is sure that he will be the perfect husband for Jane, the eldest Miss Bennet. Then proud Mr Darcy comes to stay with Bingley. Will any of
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The Picture of Dorian Gray (EN)
Oscar Wilde: Late nineteenth-century London: a city of contrasts. Great wealth and terrible poverty, beauty and ugliness, purity and immorality. Oscar Wilde takes the reader into this strange and fascinating world through the strange story of the picture of Dorian Gra
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Oliver Twist (EN)
Charles Dickens: Oliver Twist is a poor orphan boy. He hasn’t got a mum or dad and he lives in a terrible place called the workhouse. One day, he makes the master of the workhouse very angry and his life changes forever… What will happen next to Oliver? Where will he
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Mrs Dalloway (EN)
Virginia Woolfová: London 1923. The First World War has been over for five years, but the effects are still being felt all round the metropolis. A ocialite and politician’s wife prepares for one of her famous parties while somewhere else in the city an old friend contempl
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Klasická literatúra
Jane Eyre (EN)
Charlotte Brontëová: Jane Eyre is an orphan, and all alone in the world. But she is no ordinary young woman; despite her lonely and unhappy childhood, she is determined to succeed at a time when women had little freedom. When she meets the enigmatic Mr Rochester, however, her
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In Search of a Missing Friend (EN)
Maureen Simpson: What have the Black Hand Gang done? Have they kidnapped Wills, a brilliant young inventor? Where is he? Where have they taken him? No one knows where Wills has gone – and his best friends, the twins Harry and Camilla – are very worried. Last time they
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Detektívky
The Hound of the Baskervilles (EN)
Arthur Conan Doyle: An old family document says that everyone who l ivesat Baskerville Hall is in danger from a terrifying animal which lives on Dartmoor. When Sir Charles Baskerville dies in a mysterious way, his nephew, the young Sir Henry Baskerville, comes to live on Da
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The Great Gatsby (EN)
Francis Scott Fitzgerald: “Gatsby?” asked Daisy urgently. “What Gatsby?” Could it be the same young army lieutenant whom Daisy Fay met five years ago – and who owns a sumptuous house on Long Island, where New York society enjoys the best parties on offer? Is it just coin
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Great Expectations (EN)
Charles Dickens: Pip is born poor, but one day his life mysteriously changes. He is sent to London to learn to become a gentleman. But who is paying for his education? Who is paying for his life in London? We follow Pip as he grows up, falls in love and finally …
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Dobrodružné romány
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket (EN)
Edgar Allan Poe: His name is Arthur Gordon Pym. He comes from Nantucket. Nantucket is a town in America, near the sea. People from Nantucket are often sailors. His grandfather is a lawyer. He’s famous and he’s very rich. Gordon Pym is very lucky. He is only eighteen y
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Sci-fi, fantasy, horory
Frankenstein (EN)
Mary Shelley: Victor Frankenstein is a young, ambitious scientist who wants to make a better world, but does not understand the consequences of his work. Victor makes great advances in the study of medicine and biology and creates a new species of human being – one t