Lord Orville did me the honour to hand me to the coach, talking all the way of the honour I had done him! O these fashionable people!\'Frances Burney\'s first and most enduringly popular novel is a vivid, satirical, and seductive account of the pleasures and dangers of fashionable life in late eighteenth-century London. As she describes her heroine\'s entry into society, womanhood and, inevitably,

Keď sa chceš dozvedieť o meste na vode, o ruských cároch, o blokáde vtedajšieho Leningradu počas 2. svetovej vojny, VOSR, ale aj o slávnom ruskom balete, toto je kniha pre Teba. Kniha je doplnená množstvom fotografií. Petrohrad je jedno z najkrajších miest Európy. Mesto sa chváli mnohými prirovnaniami, ako napríklad Benátky severu, okno do Európy, mesto bielych nocí, mesto hrdinov.... Petrohrad je

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E könyvecske 1934-ben jelent meg először. Jelen kiadvány ennek átdolgozott kiadása. A könyv eredetileg a magyar konyha iránt érdeklődő külföldi szakácsok és háziasszonyok részére íródott, s így lehetséges, hogy a mai hazai Olvasók számára talán csalódást okoz majd. De a külföldre szakadt hazánkfiainak a legegyszerűbb ételek leírása is lényeges, és az éppen főzni tanuló honleányok részére is nélkülözhetetlen.

This is the second book in the bestselling urban fantasy trilogy, \"The Mortal Instruments\".With her mother in a coma and her father hell-bent on destroying the world, Clary is dragged deeper into New York\'s terrifying underworld of werewolves, demons and the mysterious Shadowhunters. Discovering the truth about her past was only the beginning, now Clary must save the world from her own father -

V předkládané publikaci autoři sledují různorodé vztahy španělsky mluvící části karibského regionu – ostrovů a přilehlých břehů kontinentu – s evropskými zeměmi v posledních dvou stoletích. Pozornost je věnována především problematice vztahů Kuby s některými evropskými státy. Zajímavým tématem je dále například podíl Středoevropanů na obchodu s otroky, francouzský pokus o výstavbu středoamerického

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Introducing Tracy Beaker, 10-year-old girl-wonder and the daughter of a famous Hollywood actress . . . sort of. Tracy Beaker’s not exactly sure what her mother does, because Tracy has been in foster care for as long as she can remember. She has a picture of her mother, who’s pretty enough to be in movies, so maybe she is. And maybe one day Tracy’s mother will show up and reclaim her long-lost

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