Приключения Алисы в Стране чудес — роман, написанный английским математиком Чарльзом Лутвиджем Доджсоном под псевдонимом Льюис Кэрролл. В центре сюжета — девочка по имени Алиса, которая падает в кроличью нору и попадает в фантастический мир, населенный странными антропоморфными существами. История начинается с того, что Алиса, испытывая скуку, решает отправиться на поиски приключений. В этом волшебном мире она встречает множество необычных персонажей, таких как Безумный Шляпник, Чeshire Кот и Красная Королева, каждый из которых представляет собой уникальный аспект абсурдности и нелогичности. Роман исследует темы детской наивности, взросления и абсурдности реальности, став классикой детской литературы и вдохновляя множество адаптаций и интерпретаций.
Edita Kovalová Book order (chronological)






"The murderer is with us - on the train now..." Just after midnight, the famous Orient Express is stopped in its tracks by a snowdrift. By morning, the millionaire Samuel Ratchett lies dead in his compartment, stabbed a dozen times, his door locked from the inside. One of his fellow passengers must be the murderer. Isolated by the storm and with a killer in their midst, detective Hercule Poirot must find the killer amongst a dozen of the dead man's enemies, before the murderer decides to strike again...
Dubliners
- 256 pages
- 9 hours of reading
"Don't you think there is a certain resemblance between the mystery of the Mass and what I am trying to do?...To give people some kind of intellectual pleasure or spiritual enjoyment by converting the bread of everyday life into something that has a permanent artistic life of its own." —James Joyce, in a letter to his brother With these fifteen stories James Joyce reinvented the art of fiction, using a scrupulous, deadpan realism to convey truths that were at once blasphemous and sacramental. Whether writing about the death of a fallen priest ("The Sisters"), the petty sexual and fiscal machinations of "Two Gallants," or of the Christmas party at which an uprooted intellectual discovers just how little he really knows about his wife ("The Dead"), Joyce takes narrative places it had never been before.
Jazyková úroveň B1 - B2. Podle příběhu Louisy May Alcottové.
Little Women
- 48 pages
- 2 hours of reading
This is the classic story of the four March sisters - Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy. Their story of their loves, problems and adventures is sometimes sad, often funny, but always charming.
All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others. When the animals take over the farm, they think it is the start of a better life. Their dream is of a world where all animals are equal and all property is shared. But soon the pigs take control and one of them, Napoleon, becomes leader of all the animals. One by one the principles of the revolution are abandoned, until the animals have even less freedom than before. Animal Farm is one of the classic stories of modern English fiction, and is a powerful study of the use and abuse of political power.
"Všechny děti vyrostou. Všechny kromě jednoho." Tímto zvláštním dítětem je Petr Pan. Jednoho dne ve snaze dohonit svůj stín vpadne do pokoje tří dětí – Wendy, Michaela a Johna. Na oplátku za Wendyinu pomoc navrhne Petr třem sourozencům, že je vezme s sebou zpět do svého úžasného, kouzelného domova, země Nezemě. Zažijte dobrodružství dětí Darlingových a seznamte se s vílou Zvonilkou, Ztracenými chlapci a děsivým kapitánem Hookem. Anglicko-český zrcadlový text pro začátečníky. "All the children will grow up. All but one." This special child is Petr Pan. One day, trying to catch up with his shadow, he bursts into the room of three children - Wendy, Michael and John. In return for Wendy's help, Peter suggests to the three siblings that he take them back to his wonderful, magical home, the land of the Land. Experience the adventures of the Darling children and meet the fairy Tinkerbell, the Lost Boys and the terrifying Captain Hook. English-Czech mirror text for beginners.
Set in the Gulf Stream off the toast of Havana, Hemingway's magnificent fable is the story of an old man, a young boy and a giant fish. In a perfectly crafted story, which won for Hemingway the Nobel Prize for Literature, is a unique and timeless vision of the beauty and grief of man's challenge to the elements in which he lives.

