Francesc Ráfols Books

On a desolate tropical island, a shipwrecked British seaman tries to master his hostile environment and remain civilized

It is the horrible texture of a fabric that should be woven of ships' cables and hawsers. A Polar wind blows through it, and birds of prey hover over it."So Melville wrote of his masterpiece, one of the greatest works of imagination in literary history. In part, Moby-Dick is the story of an eerily compelling madman pursuing an unholy war against a creature as vast and dangerous and unknowable as the sea itself. But more than just a novel of adventure, more than an encyclopaedia of whaling lore and legend, the book can be seen as part of its author's lifelong meditation on America. Written with wonderfully redemptive humour, Moby-Dick is also a profound inquiry into character, faith, and the nature of perception.

Eines Tages findet der junge Jim Hawkins eine geheimnisvolle Schatzkarte. Entschlossen begibt er sich zusammen mit seinen Gefährten Doktor Livesey und Trelawney auf eine besonders abenteuerliche und schicksalhafte Reise in die Südsee. Doch Sie müssen sich in Acht nehmen, denn Piraten sind unter ihrer Mannschaft und die haben es auf den Schatz abgesehen. Besonders der einbeinige Long John Silver hat es faustdick hinter den Ohren. Ob Jim wohl seinen Schatz auf der Insel gefunden hat?

London in the 1830s was no place to be if you were a hungry ten-year-old boy, an orphan without friends or family, with no home to go to, and only a penny in your pocket to buy a piece of bread. But Oliver Twist finds some friends - Fagin, the Artful Dodger, and Charley Bates. They give him food and shelter, and play games with him, but it is not until some days later that Oliver finds out what kind of friends they are and what kind of 'games' they play ...

Julio Verne es un clásico de la literatura juvenil por sus novelas de aventuras de tipo científico. Para esta obra, publicada en 1864, tuvo que documentarse en geología, mineralogía y paleontología. El libro ofrece al lector juvenil una adaptación del texto en español y en inglés, para que disfrute del gran clásico mientras practica la lectura en los dos idiomas.Jules Verne’s scientific adventure novels make him a classic of children’s literature. He included elements of geology, mineralogy, and paleontology in this novel, originally published in 1864. Children can enjoy adaptation of Verne’s text in Spanish and English and practice reading in both languages.

Hledejte samé dukáty a zvládnete jednoduchou angličtinu! Učte se angličtinu čtením napínavých příběhů. Třeba na tropickém ostrově hemžícím se piráty, kteří bojují s chlapcem Jimem a jeho přáteli. Chtějí, aby jim prozradili, kde leží „samé dukáty“ kapitány Flinta. Ilustrovaná knížka je určena pro vás – začátečníky učící se angličtinu, jak děti, tak i dospělé. Jazyk jsme velmi zjednodušili. Český zrcadlový překlad vám umožní obratem zkontrolovat, zda jste původnímu textu porozuměli správně. Na konci knihy najdete zábavné doplňovačky, spojovačky a kontrolní otázky. Ostrov pokladů patří mezi nejznámější díla skotského spisovatele Roberta Louise Stevensona (1850–1894). Slavná kniha se dočkala mnoha divadelních a filmových zpracování. Zjednodušenou verzi připravil a audiem doplnil tým internetové jazykové školy www.anglictina.com. MP3 namluvenou rodilým mluvčím naleznete na www.abatrosmedia.cz v detailu knihy - záložka Ke stažení

V této knížce se mohou malí čtenáři seznámit s klasickými příběhy, jako jsou Ostrov pokladů, Tři mušketýři a další. Všechny příběhy jsou bohatě ilustrované a převyprávěné srozumitelnou formou, aby nenudily a příjemně se četly. Knížka obsahuje tyto příběhy: Ostrov pokladů, Moby Dick, Robin Hood, Cesta kolem světa za 80 dní, Tajuplný ostrov, Tři mušketýři, Dobrodružství Toma Sawyera.

Based on the true story of Alexander Selkirk, who survived alone for almost five years on an uninhabited island off the coast of Chile, The Mysterious Island is considered by many to be Jules Verne's masterpiece. "Wide-eyed mid-nineteenth-century humanistic optimism in a breezy, blissfully readable translation by Stump" (Kirkus Reviews), here is the enthralling tale of five men and a dog who land in a balloon on a faraway, fantastic island of bewildering goings-on and their struggle to survive as they uncover the island's secret.

'I had sent my heroine straight down a rabbit-hole without the least idea what was to happen afterwards,' wrote Dodgson, describing how Alice was conjured up one 'golden afternoon' in 1862 to entertain his child-friend Alice Liddell. In the nonsensical Wonderland and the back-to-front Looking-Glass kingdom, order is turned upside-down: a baby turns into a pig; time is abandoned at a tea-party; and a chaotic game of chess makes a 7-year-old a Queen.

One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World' The Penguin English Library Edition of Ivanhoe by Walter Scott 'Fight on, brave knights! Man dies, but glory lives!' Banished from England for seeking to marry against his father's wishes, Ivanhoe joins Richard the Lion Heart on a crusade in the Holy Land. On his return, his passionate desire is to be reunited with the beautiful but forbidden lady Rowena, but he soon finds himself playing a more dangerous game as he is drawn into a bitter power struggle between the noble King Richard and his evil and scheming brother John. The first of Scott's novels to address a purely English subject, Ivanhoe is set in a highly romanticized medieval world of tournaments and sieges, chivalry and adventure where dispossessed Saxons are pitted against their Norman overlords, and where the historical and fictional seamlessly merge. The Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War.

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