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HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.`In fact, the fairies had turned him into a water-baby. A water-baby? You never heard of a water-baby. Perhaps not. That is the very reason why this story was written.\\''Poor Tom is an orphan, employed by the underhand Grimes as a chimney sweep. While cleaning a chimney one day, Tom becomes lost and appears in Ellie\\''s bedroom. She mistakes him for a thief and he flees in fright, down to the edge of a stream whe...

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.`Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind...''Based on a lecture given at Cambridge and first published in 1929, `A Room of One''s Own'' interweaves Woolf''s personal experience as a female writer with themes ranging from Austen and Bronte to Shakespeare''s gifted (and imaginary) sister. `Three Guineas'', Woolf''s most impassioned polemi...

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 ...

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 rele...

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 ...

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 incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.`But it was not only the heart-rending sound that almost paralysed poor Mimi with terror. What she saw was sufficient to fill her with evil dreams for the remainder of her life...''At the estate of Castra Regis in Derbyshire, mystery lurks in the woods, a place where snakes dwell and murderous deeds take place in the darkness. The behaviour of local residents Arabella March and Edgar Caswall further arouse t...

The shocking first-hand account of one man\\''s remarkable fight for freedom; now an award-winning motion picture.`Why had I not died in my young years - before God had given me children to love and live for? What unhappiness and suffering and sorrow it would have prevented. I sighed for liberty; but the bondsman\\''s chain was round me, and could not be shaken off.\\''1841: Solomon Northup is a successful violinist when he is kidnapped and sold into slavery. Taken from his family in New York St...

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.`If music be the food of love, play on;Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting,The appetite may sicken, and so die.\\''A comedic romance of mistaken identity, Twelfth Night begins with a shipwreck, splitting up Viola and her twin brother, Sebastian. Alone in a strange land, Viola disguises herself as a male servant, Cesario, in order to work for the Duke Orsino. Orsino is in love with Lady Olivia, but it is Cesario ...

HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics.`Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within as on the state of things without and around us.\\''Considered one of her less well-known novels, Shirley is Charlotte Bronte\\''s only historical work, set during the Napoleonic Wars. Wealthy and independent, Shirley is very different from her friend Caroline, who has few prospects and is dependent on her uncle. Strug...

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.Featuring the last 12 stories ever written about the infamous detective, The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes contains some of Conan Doyle''s most villainous and unusual characters.The 1920s was a disenchanting era, and the darker mood of many of these stories reflects the environment at the time. Some even felt that the stories showed Conan Doyle exploring Spiritualism as it was an area he was interested in at the tim...

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...

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 ...

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 ...

Discover amazing facts about bees and how they live. This interesting, decodable information book is written by Sally Morgan.* Blue/Band 4 books offer longer, repeated patterns with sequential events and integrated literary and natural language.* Text type: An information book* Pages 14-15 provide an opportunity for children to recap the text.* Curriculum links: scienceshow moreFormat: 19x21Numar pagini: 16Anul aparitiei: 2013...

This selection of a hundred of O. Henry's succinct tales displays the range, humour and humanity of a perennially popular short-story writer.Here Henry gives a richly colourful and exuberantly entertaining panorama of social life, ranging from thieves to tycoons, from the streets of New York to the prairies of Texas.These stories are famed for their 'trick endings' or 'twists in the tail': repeatedly the plot twirls adroitly, compounding ironies. Indeed, O. Henry's cunning plots surpass those of...

Professor Aronnax, his faithful servant, Conseil, and the Canadian harpooner, Ned Land, begin an extremely hazardous voyage to rid the seas of a little-known and terrifying sea monster. However, the "monster" turns out to be a giant submarine, commanded by the mysterious Captain Nemo, by whom they are soon held captive.So begins not only one of the great adventure classics by Jules Verne, the 'Father of Science Fiction', but also a truly fantastic voyage from the lost city of Atlantis to the Sou...

Examine your words well, and you will find that even when you have no motive to be false, it is a very hard thing to say the exact truth, even about your immediate feelings...'Adam Bede (1859), George Eliot's first full-length novel, marked the emergence of an artist to rank with Scott and Dickens. Set in the English Midlands of farmers and village craftsmen at the turn of the eighteenth century, the book relates a story of seduction issuing in 'the inward suffering which is the worst form of Ne...

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes first introduced Arthur Conan Doyle's brilliant detective to the readers of The Strand Magazine. The runaway success of this series prompted a second set of stories, The Memoirs. In these twenty three tales, collected here in one volume, you have some of the best detective yarns ever penned.In his consulting room at 221B Baker Street, the master sleuth receives a stream of clients all presenting him with baffling and bizarre mysteries to unravel. There is, for e...