Carti in categoria Literature & Biography

Macmillan Readers provide high-quality and enjoyable texts which your students will want to read from beginning to end. Carefully-graded levels from Beginner to Upper-intermediate so your students get the right reading material for their ability. Eight pages of additional exercises and Audio CD in selected titles. A range of new and exciting titles, including James Bond 007, and Meg Cabot's The Princess Diaries. A truly international range of simplified readers with a prestigious list of aut...

Agnes Grey is a trenchant expose of the frequently isolated, intellectually stagnant and emotionally starved conditions under which many governesses worked in the mid-nineteenth century. This is a deeply personal novel written from the author's own experience and as such Agnes Grey has a power and poignancy which mark it out as a landmark work of literature dealing with the social and moral evolution of English society during the last century. An aparitie: 1998Format: 19,8 X 12,9Numar pagini: 1...

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is a powerful and sometimes violent novel of expectation, love, oppression, sin, religion and betrayal. It portrays the disintegration of the marriage of Helen Huntingdon, the mysterious `tenant' of the title, and her dissolute, alcoholic husband. Defying convention, Helen leaves her husband to protect their young son from his father's influence, and earns her own living as an artist. Whilst in hiding at Wildfell Hall, she encounters Gilbert Markham, who falls in love...