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Famous Five Colour Short Stories: Well Done, Famous Five

Original Blyton stories are paired with brand new colour illustrations by Jamie Littler in a new and exciting format.

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Famous Five Colour Short Stories: George's Hair Is Too Long

Original Blyton stories are paired with brand new colour illustrations by Jamie Littler in a new and exciting format.

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Famous Five Colour Short Stories: A Lazy Afternoon

Original Blyton stories are paired with brand new colour illustrations by Jamie Littler in a new and exciting format.

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Famous Five Colour Short Stories: Five and the Runaway Dog

Introducing The Famous Five to younger readers with this NEWLY-CREATED story for children aged 5 and up!

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Famous Five Colour Short Stories: The Library Mystery

Introducing The Famous Five to younger readers with this NEWLY-CREATED mystery story for children aged 5 and up!

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Famous Five Colour Short Stories: Five and the Missing Prize

Introducing The Famous Five to younger readers with this NEWLY-CREATED story for children aged 5 and up!

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Famous Five Colour Short Stories: Five to the Rescue!

Introducing The Famous Five to younger readers! Join Julian, Dick, Anne, George and Timmy the dog on a special, newly-created adventure with full-colo

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Famous Five Colour Short Stories: The Birthday Adventure

Introducing The Famous Five to younger readers! Join Julian, Dick, Anne, George and Timmy the dog on a special, newly-created adventure with full-colo

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Famous Five Colour Short Stories: Timmy and the Treasure

Introducing The Famous Five to younger readers! Join Julian, Dick, Anne, George and Timmy the dog on a special, newly-created adventure with full-colo

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Got, Not Got: Shirt Tales a Short Stories

At last, a chance for football fans of a certain vintage to sigh over the striking, muddy simplicity of some proper footy kits. With illustrations by

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The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories - Jay Rubin

<p>A major anthology of great Japanese short stories introduced by Haruki Murakami</p> <p>This is a celebration of the Japanese short story from its modern origins in the nineteenth century to remarkable contemporary works. It includes the most well-known Japanese writers - Akutagawa, Murakami, Mishima, Kawabata - but also many surprising new pieces, fro...

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Italian Short Stories for Beginners and Intermediate Learners

Do you know what's the biggest obstacle preventing many from learning Italian to fluency? It's a lack of vocabulary Reading in Italian is perhaps the most effective way to build up your vocabulary in Italian. With

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Complete Sookie Stackhouse Stories

For the first time together in one volume, the complete Sookie Stackhouse short stories - with new introductions from Charlaine Harris

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Katherine Mansfield's Selected Stories

This Norton Critical Edition includes thirty-five of Katherine MansfieldÂ’s short stories with explanatory annotations.

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Level 5: Sherlock Holmes Short Stories - Doyle Arthur Conan

Anotace: Classic/British EnglishIn these six stories we join the brilliant detective, Sherlock Holmes, and his friend Dr Watson, in a variety of exciting adventures. These include several suspicious deaths, the mystery of the engineer with the missing thumb, and the strange case of the two men who share a very unusual name.

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Almost Midnight: Two Festive Short Stories - Rowellová Rainbow

Anotace: Almost Midnight: Two Festive Short Stories by Rainbow Rowell contains two wintery short stories, decorated throughout for the first time with gorgeous black and white illustrations by Simini Blocker. Midnights is the story of Noel and Mags, who meet at the same New Year`s Eve party every year and fall a little more in love each time . . .Kindred Spirits is about...

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Charles Dickens Supernatural Short Stories: Classic Tales - Dickens Charles

Anotace: Charles Dickens is a much-loved author for his vast and important contributions to English literature. This collection brings together his supernatural short stories, some of which were included in his longer works, and others that originally featured in magazines, including `The Bagman`s Story`, `The Ghost in the Bride`s Chamber` and `To Be Read at Dusk`, among...

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Short Stories in Spanish for Intermedia - Olly Richards

<p>An unmissable collection of eight unconventional and captivating short stories for young adult and adult intermediate learners of Spanish. Olly's top-notch language-learning insights are right in line with the best of what we know from neuroscience and cognitive psychology about how to learn effectively. I love his work - and you will too! - Barbara Oakley, PhD,...

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Short Stories in German for Intermediate Learners - Olly Richards

<p>An unmissable collection of eight unconventional and captivating short stories for young adult and adult intermediate learners of German. Olly's top-notch language-learning insights are right in line with the best of what we know from neuroscience and cognitive psychology about how to learn effectively. I love his work - and you will too! - Barbara Oakley, PhD, ...

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Short Stories in Italian for Intermediate Learners - Olly Richards

<p>An unmissable collection of eight unconventional and captivating short stories for young adult and adult intermediate learners of Italian. Olly's top-notch language-learning insights are right in line with the best of what we know from neuroscience and cognitive psychology about how to learn effectively. I love his work - and you will too! - Barbara Oakley, PhD,...

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Short Stories in English for Intermedia - Olly Richards

<p>An unmissable collection of eight unconventional and captivating short stories for young adult and adult intermediate learners of English. Olly's top-notch language-learning insights are right in line with the best of what we know from neuroscience and cognitive psychology about how to learn effectively. I love his work - and you will too! - Barbara Oakley, PhD,...

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Short Stories in Spanish for Intermediate Learners - Olly Richards

Anotace: An unmissable collection of eight unconventional and captivating short stories for young adult and adult intermediate learners of Spanish.Olly`s top-notch language-learning insights are right in line with the best of what we know from neuroscience and cognitive psychology about how to learn effectively. I love his work - and you will too! - Barbara Oakley, PhD, ...

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Short Stories in German for Intermediate Learners - Richards Olly

Anotace: An unmissable collection of eight unconventional and captivating short stories for young adult and adult intermediate learners of German.Olly`s top-notch language-learning insights are right in line with the best of what we know from neuroscience and cognitive psychology about how to learn effectively. I love his work - and you will too!- Barbara Oakley, PhD, Au...

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Short Stories in Italian for Intermediate Learners - Richards Olly

Anotace: An unmissable collection of eight unconventional and captivating short stories for young adult and adult intermediate learners of Italian.Olly`s top-notch language-learning insights are right in line with the best of what we know from neuroscience and cognitive psychology about how to learn effectively. I love his work - and you will too! - Barbara Oakley, PhD, ...

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Short Stories in English for Intermediate Learners - Richards Olly

Anotace: An unmissable collection of eight unconventional and captivating short stories for young adult and adult intermediate learners of English.Olly`s top-notch language-learning insights are right in line with the best of what we know from neuroscience and cognitive psychology about how to learn effectively. I love his work - and you will too! - Barbara Oakley, PhD, ...

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The Penguin Book of French Short Stories 1 - Patrick McGuinness

<p>'Beautiful and deep ... a sumptuous treat for any book lover' The IndependentA major new celebration of the French short storyThe short story has a rich tradition in French literature. This feast of an anthology celebrates its most famous practitioners, as well as newly translated writers ready for rediscovery. Here are decadent tales, 'bloody tales', fairy tales...

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The Penguin Book of French Short Stories: 2 - Patrick McGuinness

<p>'Beautiful and deep ... a sumptuous treat for any book lover' The IndependentA major new celebration of the French short story across the twentieth centuryThe short story has a rich tradition in French literature. This feast of an anthology celebrates its most famous practitioners, as well as newly translated writers ready for rediscovery. Here are fables, puzzle...

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Miss Marple and Mystery : The Complete Short Stories - Agatha Christie

<p>A brand new omnibus of 55 short stories, presented for the first time in chronological order. Described by her friend Dolly Bantry as ' the typical old maid of fiction', Miss Marple has lived almost her entire life in the sleepy hamlet of St Mary Mead. Yet, by observing village life she has gained an unparalleled insight into human nature - and used it to devasti...

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The Complete Short Stories of Mark Twain - Mark Twain

Anotace: For deft plotting, riotous inventiveness, unforgettable characters, and language that brilliantly captures the lively rhythms of American speech, no American writer comes close to Mark Twain. This sparkling anthology covers the entire span of Twain´s inimitable yarn-spinning, from his early broad comedy to the biting satire of his later years.Every one of ...

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Strange Lands Short Stories: Thrilling Tales - Dryden Linda

Anotace: Strange lands in fiction stretch from deep below the earth, to the outer reaches of space. This incredible new collection combines the talents of a new generation of writers with classic and ancient storytellers: from H.G. Wells to Edgar Allan Poe, Daniel Defoe to Jules Verne. Find here too the Land of the Lotus Eaters from Homer`s Odyssey and the mad horrors of...

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Strange Lands Short Stories: Thrilling Tales - Linda Dryden

<p>Strange lands in fiction stretch from deep below the earth, to the outer reaches of space. This incredible new collection combines the talents of a new generation of writers with classic and ancient storytellers: from H.G. Wells to Edgar Allan Poe, Daniel Defoe to Jules Verne. Find here too the Land of the Lotus Eaters from Homer's Odyssey and the mad horrors of ...

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Collected Stories Of Colette

Edited and with an introduction by Robert PhelpsThe hundred short stories collected here include such masterpieces as 'Bella-Vista', 'The Tender Shoot

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New Dress and Other Stories - Virginia Woolfová

Anotace: As Mabel Waring takes off her cloak and steps into the drawing room of Clarissa Dalloway, she immediately realizes that something is not right: her pale-yellow silk dress, which she has had specially made for the occasion, is clearly old-fashioned, dowdy and out of place. Everyone seems to be looking at her in dismay or mocking her appearance. Crushed at once by...

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Girl with the Golden Eyes and Other Stories

The three short fictions in this unique collection, Sarrasine, The Unknown Masterpiece, and The Girl with the Golden Eyes, deal with the relationship

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Music Stories - neuveden

Anotace: Variations on a musical theme by a striking range of authors, among them Flaubert, Turgenev, Proust, Nabokov, Katherine Mansfield, Kazuo Ishiguro, Ian McEwan, Amit Chaudhuri, Bernard MacLaverty and Maya Angelou. Wesley Stace`s attractive medley embraces musical genres from Virginia Woolf`s `A String Quartet` to Langston Hughes`s `The Blues I`m Playing`. Short st...

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Birthday Stories - Haruki Murakami

Anotace: What will you get for your birthday this year? A chance to see into the future? Or a reminder of the imperfect past? In this enviable gathering, Haruki Murakami has chosen for his party some of the very best short story writers of recent years, each with their own birthday experiences, each story a snapshot of life on a single day. Including stories by Russell B...

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Birthday Stories - Haruki Murakami

<p>What will you get for your birthday this year? A chance to see into the future? Or a reminder of the imperfect past? In this enviable gathering, Haruki Murakami has chosen for his party some of the very best short story writers of recent years, each with their own birthday experiences, each story a snapshot of life on a single day. Including stories by Russell ...

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Bohemian Stories - Renáta Fučíková

Anotace: Czech immigrants traveled to the unknown beyond the Atlantic in several waves. Some came to America in search of religious and political freedom, while others simply sought a better life in a country of great opportunities. Today we know that without their involvement, independent Czechoslovakia would hardly have come to exist, and without the assistance of the ...

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New Oxford Bookworms Library 2 Sherlock Holmes: More Short Stories with Audio Mp3 Pack Oxford University Press

zjednodušená anglická četba pro dospělé s doplňkovými cvičeními na porozumění, vysvětlivkami klíčových slov a informacemi o autorovi na konci knihy. Součástí knihy je přístup k online poslechům. (úroveň 2)...

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Cambridge Discovery Readers 4 Tasty Tales Book with CD-ROM / Audio CD ( Fiction: Short stories ) Cambridge University Press

nová série četby určená pro teenagery s poslechovým CD ( úroveň 4). Pouze do vyprodání zásob!!!...

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Oxford Bookworms Library New Edition 2 New Yorkers - Short Stories with Audio Mp3 Pack Oxford University Press

Zjednodušená anglická četba pro dospělé a mládež, na konci knihy jsou doplňková cvičení k lepšímu porozumění, náměty na projektovou práci ( úroveň 2 - A2/B1)...

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Kafkaesque: Fourteen Stories - Peter Kuper

<p> "Kafkaesque is a stout, enchanting exploration of Kafka's work. Illuminating his curious character with such incomparable art galvanises the comic's content, making each individual story land with dramatic flair..." Starburst Magazine </p> <p>Long fascinated with the work of Franz Kafka, Peter Kuper began illustrating his stories in 1988. I...

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Classic Dog Stories - Ned Halley

Anotace: From the grit of a frontier man`s dog, from pampered lapdog to wayward mongrel, from faithful guard dog to strong willed pet they`re all here in Classic Dog Stories - the perfect gift for dog lovers everywhere. Part of the Macmillan Collector`s Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beaut...

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Liberation Day : Stories - George Saunders

<p>The “best short-story writer in English” (Time) is back with a masterful collection that explores ideas of power, ethics, and justice and cuts to the very heart of what it means to live in community with our fellow humans. With his trademark prose—wickedly funny, unsentimental, and exquisitely tuned—Saunders continues to challenge and surprise: Here is a collecti...

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Tobermory and Other Stories - Saki

<p>'Tobermory' - the title story of this collection - is widely considered one of Saki's finest pieces, in which a short-sighted dinner-party guest introduces a talking cat to the diners, inadvertently revealing gossip and pushing fickle characters into the limelight - in the process undermining the common perceptions of grandiose and genteel high society. From some...

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Famous Five Colour Short Stories: Five and a Half-Term Adventure

Original Blyton stories are paired with brand new colour illustrations by Jamie Littler in a new and exciting format.

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The New Dress and Other Stories - Virginia Woolf

<p>As Mabel Waring takes off her cloak and steps into the drawing room of Clarissa Dalloway, she immediately realizes that something is not right: her pale-yellow silk dress, which she has had specially made for the occasion, is clearly old-fashioned, dowdy and out of place. Everyone seems to be looking at her in dismay or mocking her appearance. Crushed at once by ...

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Adventures in Space (Short stories by Chinese and English Science Fiction writers)

A momentous project, with thirteen Chinese and English-language science fiction writers. New, emerging and established authors from a mix of open subm

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Sherlock Holmes Short Stories Book and MP3 Pack - Level 5 - Arthur Conan Doyle

Anotace: Classic/British EnglishIn these six stories we join the brilliant detective, Sherlock Holmes, and his friend Dr Watson, in a variety of exciting adventures. These include several suspicious deaths, the mystery of the engineer with the missing thumb, and the strange case of the two men who share a very unusual name.

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PER | Level 5: Sherlock Holmes Short Stories Bk/MP3 Pack - Arthur Conan Doyle

<p>Classic/British EnglishIn these six stories we join the brilliant detective, Sherlock Holmes, and his friend Dr Watson, in a variety of exciting adventures. These include several suspicious deaths, the mystery of the engineer with the missing thumb, and the strange case of the two men who share a very unusual name.</p>

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Penguin Readers Level 3: Sherlock Holmes Short Stories (ELT Graded Reader) - Doyle Arthur Conan

Anotace: Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reader series for learners of English as a foreign language. With carefully adapted text, new illustrations and language learning exercises, the print edition also includes instructions to access supporting material online.Titles include popular classics, exciting contemporary fiction, and thought-provoking non-fiction, introduci...

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Penguin Readers Level 3: Sherlock Holmes Short Stories (ELT Graded Reader) - Arthur Conan Doyle

<p>Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reader series for learners of English as a foreign language. With carefully adapted text, new illustrations and language learning exercises, the print edition also includes instructions to access supporting material online.Titles include popular classics, exciting contemporary fiction, and thought-provoking non-fiction, introducin...

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Hercule Poirot Povídky / Hercule Poirot Short Stories - Zrcadlová četba (B1-B2) - Agatha Christie

<p>This book contains six captivating short stories featuring Agatha Christies most famous character. Follow Hercule Poirot, who is, in his own humble opinion, "probably the greatest detective in the world”, and watch him unravel mysteries of all sorts with his characteristic panache. ********** Tato kniha obsahuje šest poutavých krátkých povídek, v nichž se o...

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Hercule Poirot Povídky / Hercule Poirot Short Stories - Zrcadlová četba (B1-B2)

This book contains six captivating short stories featuring Agatha Christies most famous character. Follow Hercule Poirot, who is, in his own humble opinion, "probably the greatest detective in the world”, and watch him unravel mysteries of all sorts with his characteristic panache. ********** Tato kniha obsahuje šest poutavých krátkých povídek, v nichž se objevuje nejsla...

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Parties and Presents: Three Short Stories Level 2 Elementary/Lower-intermediate

This award-winning graded readers series is full of original fiction adapted fiction and factbooks especially written for teenagers. Three vibrant stories by author Katherine Mansfield, retold by Margaret Johnson. In one story, Laura and her family are preparing for a party when she makes a shocking discovery. In another, the magic of Leila's first dance is challenged by...

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Cambridge Discovery Readers 2 Parties and Presents Book with CD-ROM / Audio CD ( Adapted Fiction: Short Stories) Oxford University Press

nová série četby určená pro teenagery s poslechovým CD ( úroveň 2)...

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Intermediate Turkish Short Stories - Based on a comprehensive grammar and vocabulary framework (CEFR B1) - with quizzes , full answer key and online a

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Pre-Intermediate Turkish Short Stories - Based on a comprehensive grammar and vocabulary framework (CEFR A2) - with quizzes , full answer key and onli

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The Haunter of the Dark: Collected Short Stories Volume Three - Lovecraft Howard Phillips

Anotace: Selected and Introduced by M J Elliott.`They were removing the stones quietly, one by one, from the centuried wall. And then, as the breach became large enough, they came out into the laboratory in single file; led by a stalking thing with a beautiful head made of wax.`From the dark, mind-expanding imagination of H P Lovecraft, Wordsworth presents a third volume...

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The Haunter of the Dark: Collected Short Stories Volume Three - Howard Phillips Lovecraft

<p>Selected and Introduced by M J Elliott. 'They were removing the stones quietly, one by one, from the centuried wall. And then, as the breach became large enough, they came out into the laboratory in single file; led by a stalking thing with a beautiful head made of wax.' From the dark, mind-expanding imagination of H P Lovecraft, Wordsworth presents a third volum...

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