This trade paperback edition of a classic novel includes a fresh Introduction and Afterword, enhancing its appeal for both new readers and longtime fans. Praised for its engaging narrative, the story delves into themes of power, family, and crime, offering a captivating exploration of its characters and their turbulent lives. The added content provides additional insights, making it a compelling read for those interested in a rich, immersive experience.
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, introducing language learners to bestselling authors and compelling content. The eight levels of Penguin Readers follow the Common European Framework of Reference for language learning (CEFR). Exercises at the back of each Reader help language learners to practise grammar, vocabulary, and key exam skills. Before, during and after-reading questions test readers' story comprehension and develop vocabulary. The Godfather, a Level 7 Reader, is B2 in the CEFR framework. The longer text is made up of sentences with up to four clauses, introducing future perfect simple, mixed conditionals, past perfect continuous, mixed conditionals, more complex passive forms and modals for deduction in the past. Michael Corleone is determined not to join his family's criminal businesses. He wants to live a normal life and marry his American girlfriend, Kay. But when members of his family are attacked, Michael realises that he has to take revenge. Visit the Penguin Readers website Exclusively with the print edition, readers can unlock online resources including a digital book, audio edition, lesson plans and answer keys.
Krstný otec. Sicílčan. Corleone. Tri legendárne príbehy, ktoré odhaľujú nielen nemilosrdné praktiky mafie, ale tiež odpovedajú na otázku, kým bol krstný otec skôr, ako sa stal najobávanejšou postavou amerického podsvetia. Čistý zásah! Trojnásobný priestrel cez všetkých 952 strán. Náboj zavesený na šnúrke slúži ako záložka (náboj môžete vložiť do priestrelu). A k tomu 3 nesmrteľné príbehy v jednej knihe. Unikátna luxusná a ilustrovaná edícia troch jedinečných slávnych mafiánskych príbehov. Krstný otec Maria Puza a jeho hlavný hrdina don Corleone patrí už vyše 40 rokov ku kultovým dielam a postavám svetovej literatúry. História krvavej vojny klanu Vita Corleoneho proti ďalším famíliám v 40.rokoch minulého storočia dokázala zachytiť klasickú mafiu v konkrétnom období a na miestach, kde existuje dodnes. Rovnakú popularitu a ocenenia si získala aj trojdielna filmová adaptácia tejto „americkej ságy“ newyorského podsvetia, ku ktorej scenáre napísal sám Puzo a réžie sa ujal Francis Ford Coppola. Vo filmoch zažiarili okrem iných Marlon Brando, Diane Keatonová a Al Pacino. V knihe navyše nájdete päťdesiat dvojfarebných ilustrácií. Atmosféru dotvára puzdro pripomínajúce obal whisky – nápoja, ktorý symbolizuje bohatstvo a úspech silných mužov. Kultové dielo svetovej literatúry tak dostáva nový, jedinečný nádych.
New York, 1933. The city and the nation are in the depths of the Great Depression. The crime families of New York have prospered in this time, but with the coming end of Prohibition, a battle is looming that will determine which organisations will rise . . . and which will face a violent end. For Vito Corleone, nothing is more important than his family's future. His youngest children, Michael, Fredo, and Connie, are in school, unaware of their father's true occupation. His adopted son, Tom Hagen, is a college student; but he worries most about Sonny, his oldest child. Vito pushes Sonny to be a businessman, but Sonny - seventeen years old, impatient, and reckless - wants something else: to follow in his father's footsteps, and become a part of the real family business. An exhilarating and profound novel of tradition and violence, of loyalty and betrayal, THE FAMILY CORLEONE carries on the legacy of The Godfather for a new generation.
V roce 1967, dva roky před vydáním legendárního Kmotra, publikoval Mario Puzo pod pseudonymem Mario Cleri prózu nevelkého rozsahu, v níž se podruhé – po debutové Temné aréně – vrátil do poválečného Německa. Její hrdina, Michael Rogan – bývalý kapitán americké rozvědky s geniálním mozkem, chycený gestapem ve Francii, mučený v Mnichově společně se svou ženou Christine – se deset let po válce octne na stopě sedmičky mnichovských vyšetřovatelů a přichystá jim osud, který určili původně oni jemu – smrt.
In the final days of the Second World War, Michael Rogan, an American intelligence officer, is tortured by a group of seven senior Gestapo officers who need to discover the secrets he alone can give them. Ten years later, recovered from the appalling injuries he suffered and determined to revenge the death of his wife at the hands of the same men, he begins a quest to track down and kill each one of his tormentors. Dark, violent and graphic, this is an addictive thriller about how far one man will go to exact his own justice.
