G. C. Thornley Knihy

Part of a series designed to be suitable for students at upper intermediate level, including those preparing for the Cambridge First Certificate examinations. These simplified editions keep within a 2000 word vocabulary, contain exercise material and an introduction to the text and author.

Nevil Shute’s most powerful novel—a bestseller for decades after its 1957 publication—is an unforgettable vision of a post-apocalyptic world. After a nuclear World War III has destroyed most of the globe, the few remaining survivors in southern Australia await the radioactive cloud that is heading their way and bringing certain death to everyone in its path. Among them is an American submarine captain struggling to resist the knowledge that his wife and children in the United States must be dead. Then a faint Morse code signal is picked up, transmitting from somewhere near Seattle, and Captain Towers must lead his submarine crew on a bleak tour of the ruined world in a desperate search for signs of life. Both terrifying and intensely moving, On the Beach is a remarkably convincing portrait of how ordinary people might face the most unimaginable nightmare.

Dickensův Příběh dvou měst (1859) byl přeložen do češtiny již několikrát a patřil u nás k nejoblíbenějším a nejčtenějším Dickensovým spisům. Bylo tomu tak především proto, že líčí jedno z nejzajímavějších a nejbouřlivějších údobí moderních dějin, dobu francouzské buržoasní revoluce z roku 1789, a že jeho bohatý a napínavý děj i barvité líčení prostředí neobyčejně vábily čtenářovu pozornost a fantasii. Kromě toho patří Příběh dvou měst k formálně nejdokonalejším z Dickensových spisů. Ač nevelký rozsahem, je nabit dějem, líčením osudů celé řady postav, obrazy historických událostí.

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Part of a series designed to be suitable for students at upper intermediate level, including those preparing for the Cambridge First Certificate examinations. These simplified editions keep within a 2000 word vocabulary, contain exercise material and an introduction to the text and author.

The titles in this series are mainly new editions of titles in the Longman Simplified English Series. They are suitable for students at upper intermediate level, including those preparing for the Cambridge First Certificate.

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