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HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics.`It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.''Austen''s best-loved tale of love, marriage and society in class-conscious Georgian England still delights modern readers today with its comedy and characters. It follows the feisty, quick-witted Elizabeth Bennet as her parents seek to ensure good marriages for her and her sisters in order to secure t...

HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics.`She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older: the natural sequel of an unnatural beginning.\\''Written at the end of the Napoleonic Wars, Persuasion is a tale of love, heartache and the determination of one woman as she strives to reignite a lost love.Anne Elliot is persuaded by her friends and family to reject a marriage proposal from Captain Wentworth because he lacks in fort...

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.`Greedily she engorged without restraint,And knew not eating death;''Milton''s Paradise Lost is a poem of epic proportions that tells of Satan''s attempts to mislead Eve into disobeying God in the Garden of Eden, by eating from the tree of knowledge. His interpretation of the biblical story of Genesis is vivid and intense in its language, justifying the actions of God to men. In his sequel poem, Paradise Regained, ...

HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics.`Northanger Abbey! These were thrilling words, and wound up Catherine''s feelings to the highest point of ecstasy.''Considered the most light-hearted and satirical of Austen''s novels, Northanger Abbey tells the story of an unlikely young heroine Catherine Morland. While staying in Bath, Catherine meets Henry Tilney and his sister Eleanor who invite her to their family estate, Northanger Abbey. A fan of Gothic Romance ...

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.`There is no greater sorrow then to recall our times of joy in wretchedness.''Considered one of the greatest medieval poems written in the common vernacular of the time, Dante''s Inferno begins on Good Friday in the year 1300. As he wanders through a dark forest, Dante loses his way and stumbles across the ghost of the poet Virgil. Virgil promises to lead him back to the top of the mountain, but to do so, they must...

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 ...

Cambridge Discovery Education Interactive Readers are the next generation of graded readers - captivating topics, high-impact video, and interactive exercises designed to motivate and engage. Venice is one of the most romantic and storied cities in the entire world. Now a popular tourist destination, Venice isn''t just about winding canals and gondoliers. This reader examines not only Venice''s long and fascinating history, but also its controversial present day. Word count: 2254. Lexile Reading...

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey work of the stars...First published in 1855, and edited, revised and expanded over thirty years, `Leaves of Grass\\'' has become one of the most celebrated poetry collections in the history of American literature. A master of free verse, Walt Whitman captures the true spirit of his homeland and its people through his poetry. He explores a wide range of th...

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.LADY CHATTERLEY\\''S LOVER was banned on its publication in 1928, creating a storm of controversy. Lawrence tells the story of Constance Chatterley\\''s marriage to Sir Clifford, an aristocratic and an intellectual who is paralyzed from the waist down after the First World War. Desperate for an heir and embarrassed by his inability to satisfy his wife, Clifford suggests that she have an affair. Constance, tr...

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.\\''Out of the dark we came, into the dark we go. Like a storm-driven bird at night we fly out of the Nowhere; for a moment our wings are seen in the light of the fire, and, lo! we are gone again into the Nowhere.\\''An amazing adventure set in Africa, against the backdrop of endless deserts and snowy mountains, Kings Solomon\\''s Mines follows Allan Quartermain, in his quest to find his missing brother and unearth...

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.\\''Out of the dark we came, into the dark we go. Like a storm-driven bird at night we fly out of the Nowhere; for a moment our wings are seen in the light of the fire, and, lo! we are gone again into the Nowhere.\\''An amazing adventure set in Africa, against the backdrop of endless deserts and snowy mountains, Kings Solomon\\''s Mines follows Allan Quartermain, in his quest to find his missing brother and unearth...

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.`Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! rage! blow!''Epic and tragic in its scope, King Lear explores a king''s demise into madness and insanity when he is betrayed by two of his manipulative and scheming daughters. It is Cordelia, the third and only daughter who refuses to flatter her father to deceive, who is banished from the kingdom, leading to dramatic and tumultuous events.show moreNr pagini: 208 pagesFormat: 11...

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.`"I am Kim. I am Kim. And what is Kim?" His soul repeated it again and again.''Set against the backdrop of Britain and Russia''s political struggle in central Asia, Kim, the son of a drunken Irish soldier grows up as a street-wise orphan in the city of Lahore. Upon befriending an aged Tibetan Lama, the playful and spirited Kim journeys with him across India, experiencing the exotic culture, religion and people of t...

Cambridge Discovery Education Interactive Readers are the next generation of graded readers - captivating topics, high-impact video, and interactive exercises designed to motivate and engage. What does the word \\''hot\\'' mean? From the Sahara Desert to heatstroke, from temperature to emotions, learn how heat affects our world. Use the unique code inside the book to access the online reader, complete with videos and interactive exercises. Word count: 1881. Lexile Reading Level: 690L.ISBN: 97811...

Cambridge Discovery Education Interactive Readers are the next generation of graded readers - captivating topics, high-impact video, and interactive exercises designed to motivate and engage. There are many secrets to a long and happy life - and being rich and famous isn\\''t one of them. Come explore why friends, love, a positive personality, and the environment are much more important. Use the unique code inside the book to access the online reader, complete with videos and interactive exercis...

A Room of One's Own (1929) has become a classic feminist essay and perhaps Virginia Woolf's best known work; The Voyage Out (1915) is highly significant as her first novel. Both focus on the place of women within the power structures of modern society. The essay lays bare the woman artist's struggle for a voice, since throughout history she has been denied the social and economic independence assumed by men. Woolf's prescription is clear: if a woman is to find creative expression equal to a man...

Anyone with a desire to learn more about English Literature can find it difficult to know where to start, but here is the perfect solution. David Rothwell's book is an idiosyncratic and light-hearted review of all that is great (and not so great) about the major figures of English Literature, and provides lucid and entertaining explanations of every literary form and technique. Free of pointless biographical detail, it concentrates on providing examples of prose and poetry that help to understan...

This edition contains Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking Glass. It is illustrated throughout by Sir John Tenniel, whose drawings for the books add so much to the enjoyment of them. Tweedledum and Tweedledee, the Mad Hatter, the Cheshire Cat, the Red Queen and the White Rabbit all make their appearances, and are now familiar figures in writing, conversation and idiom. So too, are Carroll's delightful verses such as 'The Walrus and the Carpenter' and the inspired j...