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Anna Karenina (Anna Kareninová)

Lev Nikolajevič Tolstoj

 Upper intermediate| 2 200 slov 

The timeless story of Anna's forbidden love for the dashing Count Vronsky.

Bleak House (Ponurý dům)

Charles Dickens

romantika & krimi/detektivní příběh  Upper intermediate| 2 200 slov 

A simplified version of a great British classic.

It is 1852 and three young people meet for the first time in the High Court of Chancery. They are the latest victims to be caught in the long-running court case of Jarndyce vs Jarndyce. A case which has caused the financial and moral breakdown of many previous claimants.

The Creative Impulse and Other Short Stories

(Síla okolností a jiné povídky)

W. Somerset Maugham

povídky & příběhy ze života  Upper intermediate| 2 200 slov 

Maugham, the quintessential observer of human behaviour, tells the stories of: The Creative Impulse, The Round Dozen and Jane. Recommended for older readers

The Cut Glass Bowl and Other Stories

F. Scott Fitzgerald

romantika  Upper intermediate| 2 200 slov 

One bleak and windy evening, 8-year-old Pip meets an escaped convict on the marshes. Shortly afterwards, he is summoned to Satis House, the derelict, gloomy home of the strange, reclusive Miss Havisham. Here, Pip meets and falls in love with the beautiful, cold-hearted Estella but can they ever be together?

The Grapes of Wrath (Hrozny hněvu)

John Steinbeck

 Upper intermediate| 2 200 slov 

Steinbeck's most powerful novel describes the lives of a homeless farming family as they travel across America in the Great Depression of the 1930s. The family face hardship and hostility at every step of the way as they struggle to survive in a country where kindness seems no longer to exist.

Great Expectations (Nadějné vyhlídky)

Charles Dickens

romantika  Upper intermediate| 2 200 slov 

One bleak and windy evening, 8-year-old Pip meets an escaped convict on the marshes. Shortly afterwards, he is summoned to Satis House, the derelict, gloomy home of the strange, reclusive Miss Havisham. Here, Pip meets and falls in love with the beautiful, cold-hearted Estella but can they ever be together?

The Importance of Being Earnest (Jak je důležité míti Filipa)

Oscar Wilde

 Upper intermediate| 2 200 slov 

Oscar Wilde's comic masterpiece of love and mistaken identity was a great hit when it first appeared on the stage in 1895 and has remained hugely popular with theatre audiences ever since.

L. A. Movie

Philip Prowse

humor, krimi/detektivní příběh & dobrodružství/napětí/špionáž  Upper intermediate| 2 200 slov 

Lenny Samuel, the Los Angeles private detective, is hired to investigate threats made to a famous film actress.

There are stories featuring Lenny Samuel at the other four levels of Macmillan Guided Readers: L. A. Detective, L. A. Raid, L. A. Winners and The Woman Who Disappeared.

Macbeth

William Shakespeare

 Upper intermediate| 2 200 slov 

Shakespeare's Scottish story of witchcraft and murder is probably one of his darkest works. Macbeth's bloody rise to power is encouraged by his wife, Lady Macbeth. Like her husband, Lady Macbeth's ambition leads her into a dark world of guilt and madness which slowly destroys their marriage, and ends in tragedy.

Middlemarch (Middlemarch)

George Eliot

 Upper intermediate| 2 200 slov 

When the young and beautiful Dorothea Brooke marries the aging scholar, Edward Casaubon, the people of Middlemarch believe that no good will come of it. Dorothea quickly grows unhappy and bored. Then she begins a sensitive friendship with Casaubon’s young cousin, Will Ladislaw. Meanwhile, the beautiful but spoilt Rosamond Vincey pursues the idealistic but poor Doctor Lydgate. Lydgate is determined not to get married, but Rosamond has other ideas…

Mine Boy

Peter Abrahams

 Upper intermediate| 2 200 slov 

Read the vivid story of the hardships endured by a young Zulu migrant worker.
Xuma sees the brutality of the bosses of the mine and the squalor of the township where he lives. In the city, white people lead privileged lives. Xuma begins to question the racial injustices which surround him. Recommended for older readers.

The Mistress Of Spices

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

romantika & mýty/legendy/folklore  Upper intermediate| 2 200 slov 

A story of mysticism and romance set in present-day California.
Tilo owns a shop in Oakland, California, where she sells herbs and spices. But Tilo isn't just a shopkeeper, she is also The Mistress of Spices. With her knowledge of their secret powers this high priestess of wisdom and magic helps customers find answers to the questions of love, loss and loneliness. But when Tilo herself falls in love with a visitor to her shop, she has to choose between personal happiness and keeping her mystical gift.

Mobby Dick (Bílá velryba)

Herman Melville

dobrodružství  Upper intermediate| 2 200 slov 

Ishmael and his friend join the crew of the whaling ship the Pequod, unaware that its captain, the mysterious Ahab, is out for revenge. His plan is to pursue and kill the vicious white whale, Moby Dick, and no one can stop him.

Of Mice and Men (O myších a lidech)

John Steinbeck

 Upper intermediate| 2 200 slov 

The tragic story of George and Lennie, who move from one farm to another, looking for work. George is clever but Lennie's size and slowness are always getting him into trouble. One day the two men get a job on a farm. Things are going well until they meet the unhappy wife of the foreman, Curley. Then Curley's wife tries to become friendly with Lennie…

Officially Dead

Richard Prescott

dobrodružství/napětí/špionáž  Upper intermediate| 2 200 slov 

Colin Fenton and his wife run a busy computer software company but only Colin knows that the business is in serious trouble - to the tune of L10,000. When a chance meeting in a pub leads him to an offer that will, he thinks, quickly and easily solve all his problems, he accepts. But he loses the gamble and subsequently his identity, leaving his wife to try to prove whether or not he is officially dead.

Our Mutual Friend (Náš vzájemný přítel)

Charles Dickens

krimi/detektivní příběh  Upper intermediate| 2 200 slov 

Dickens' sinister story of murder and intrigue set in London in the 1860s.

Rebecca Mrtvá a živá (Rebeka)

Daphne du Maurier

romantika & krimi/detektivní příběh  Upper intermediate| 2 200 slov 

An outstanding love story that has been sensitively retold.
The heroine, while employed as a personal companion, meets and falls in love with Maxim de Winter, a rich Englishman whose beautiful wife has recently died under tragic circumstances. To her surprise and joy, Maxim proposes to her. But the shadow of Rebecca, Maxim's first wife still dominates him.

Vanity Fair (Jarmark marnosti)

William Makepeace Thackeray

 Upper intermediate| 2 200 slov 

Thackeray's classic story of Becky Sharp's rise from rags to riches in Vanity Fair.

Weep Not Child

Ngugi wa Thiong'o

dobrodružství/napětí/špionáž Upper intermediate| 2 200 slov 

A thrilling story by the internationally acclaimed African writer.
Young Njoroge believes that education is the key to success in his life. Yet, as he grows up, political events and personal tragedy shatter his hopes and beliefs.