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HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.`We are in Transylvania; and Transylvania is not England. Our ways are not your ways, and there shall be to you many strange things.''Earnest and naive solicitor Jonathan Harker travels to Transylvania to organise the estate of the infamous Count Dracula at his crumbling castle in the ominous Carpathian Mountains. Through notes and diary entries, Harker keeps track of the horrors and terrors that beset him at the c...

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. `She promised her godmother that she would not fail to leave the ball before midnight, and away she went, beside herself with delight...''Charles Perrault''s time-honoured stories have been passed down from the seventeenth century to the present day, giving us the classic fairy tales that people of all ages know and adore: Cinderella, with the glass slipper that will fit her foot alone; the princess who is ...

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.There is probably a smell of roasted chestnuts and other good comfortable things all the time, for we are telling Winter Stories...This heart-warming collection of festive short stories and novellas perfectly captures the spirit of Christmas. Focused on the journeys taken through life and the inherent goodness of mankind, these tales explore the true meaning of Christmas and revel in the joyful season of goo...

Collins brings the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie, to English language learners.Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time and in any language. Now Collins has adapted her famous detective novels for English language learners. These carefully adapted versions are shorter with the language targeted at upper-intermediate learners (CEF level B2).Each reader includes:* A CD with a reading of the adapted story* Helpful notes on characters* Cultural and historical notes relevant ...

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.`Opportunities multiply as they are seized.''Written in the 6th century BC, Sun Tzu''s The Art of War is a Chinese military treatise that is still revered today as the ultimate commentary on war and military strategy. Focussing on the principle that one can outsmart your foe mentally by thinking very carefully about strategy before resorting to physical battle, this philosophy continues to be applied to the corpora...

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics...Despite dating from the 4th century BC, The Art of Rhetoric continues to be regarded by many as the single most important work on the art of persuasion. As democracy began emerging in 5th-century Athens, public speaking and debate became an increasingly important tool to garner influence in the assemblies, councils, and law courts of ancient Greece. In response to this, both politicians and ordinary citize...

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.Christopher Newman is an American expatriate in Paris; his fortune made, he has moved to the Old World to enjoy his wealth and find a wife. Newman soon falls for a young widow, the aristocratic Claire de Bellegarde, but his brash New World sensibility horrifies her haughty family. Though the family oppose the idea of the couple\\''s marriage, reversals of fortune cause them to reconsider. When another suitor...

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.''I want - I want somehow to get away with you into a world where words like that - categories like that - won''t exist. Where we shall be simply two human beings who love each other, who are the whole of life to each other; and nothing else on earth will matter.''Newland Archer, a successful and charming young lawyer conducts himself by the rules and standards of the polite, upper class New York society that he re...

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.Written between 29 and 19 B.C., The Aeneid tells the legendary tale of Aeneas, a Trojan who travelled to Italy, where he became the heroic ancestor of the Romans. This epic poem tells the story of Aeneas\\'' nomadic travels from Troy to Italy, followed by the Trojans\\'' victorious war against the Latins. Following on from his appearance in The Iliad, Aeneas\\'' disconnected wanderings and vague association ...

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.`Now he found out a new thing - namely, that to promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing.\\''An idyllic snapshot of a boy\\''s childhood along the banks of the Mississippi River, Twain\\''s The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is the author\\''s work that comes closest to his boyhood experiences of growing up in Hannibal in the 1840s.Mischievous and full of e...

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.''Sherlock Holmes was transformed when he was hot upon such a scent as this. Men who had only known the quiet thinker and logician of Baker Street would have failed to recognize him. His face flushed and darkened. His brows were drawn into two hard black lines, while his eyes shone out from beneath them with a steely glitter.''Set against the foggy, mysterious backdrops of London and the English countryside, these ...

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.\\''We said there warn\\''t no home like a raft, after all. Other places do seem so cramped up and smothery, but a raft don\\''t. You feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft.\\''Huck Finn escapes from his alcoholic father by faking his own death and so begins his journey through the Deep South, seeking independence and freedom. On his travels, Huck meets an escaped slave, Jim, who is a wanted man, and t...

There are lots of different feelings caused by things around us, things we eat and things we do. This is a fantastic, decodable, rhyming poem written and stunningly illustrated by Sally Symes.* Yellow/Band 3 books offer varied sentence structure and natural language* Text type: A poem* Pages 14-15 provide an opportunity for children to recap the story.* Curriculum links: PSHE, ScienceISBN: 9780007507795Format: Paperback | 16 pages Anul aparitiei: 199 x 210 x 2mm | 70g...

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. Here is one of Thomas Hardy''s most popular novels, soon to be released as a major motion picture in May 2015.`I shall do one thing in this life - one thing certain - that is, love you, and long for you, and keep wanting you till I die''Independent and spirited, Bathsheba Everdene owns the hearts of three men. Striving to win her love in different ways, their relationships with Bathsheba complicate her life in buc...

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.`He looked at her hair and longed to touch it again, and to tell her that it smelt of the woods; but he had never learned to say such things...''One harsh winter in 1900s New England, Ethan Frome toils at his farm while struggling to maintain a bearable existence with his forbidding wife, Zeena. When Ethan takes Zeena''s cousin, Mattie, home from a dance he is entranced: Mattie brings with her the possibilit...

Collins brings the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie, to English language learners.Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time and in any language. Now Collins has adapted her famous detective novels for English language learners. These carefully adapted versions are shorter with the language targeted at upper-intermediate learners (CEF level B2).Each reader includes:* A CD with a reading of the adapted story* Helpful notes on characters* Cultural and historical notes relevant ...

HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics.`The horrid mystery hanging over us in this house gets into my head like liquor, and makes me wild.\\''Centred around a glorious yellow diamond that carries with it a menacing history, The Moonstone tells the story of Rachel Verinder, who inherits the stone on her eighteenth birthday. That very evening, the diamond is stolen and there begins an epic enquiry into hunting down the thief. At the same time, three Indian me...

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.''The quality of mercy is not strain''d,It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven''Bassiano, a noble Venetian, hopes to woo the beautiful heiress Portia. However, he requires financial assistance from his friend Antonio. Antonio agrees, but he, in turn, must borrow from the Jewish moneylender Shylock. As recourse for past ills, Shylock stipulates that the forfeit on the loan must be a pound of Antonio''s fl...

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.`The movements of his mind seemed to tend to the thought that some power was working against him.''When Henchard, an out-of-work hay-trusser gets drunk and sells his wife at a country fair, his life will never be the same. Eighteen years later, his wife and daughter return to Casterbridge to find that Henchard has become Mayor. Although he''s spent most of his life attempting to repent for his actions, he remains a...

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.`I''ve worn that mask so long I don''t feel safe without it.`The Man in the Iron Mask sees D''Artagnan, Athos, Porthos and Aramis return to meet their destinies in their final adventure. D''Artagnan still remains in the service of King Louis XIV while Aramis is a priest at the Bastille prison. Upon listening to a confession from an iron-masked prisoner who tells him that he is the twin brother of the King of France...