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The plot:Poirot is supposed to be on a relaxing holiday in Egypt, but soon finds himself caught in the middle of a confusing murder.The obvious suspect has an alibi, and not a single other person seems to have any reason to want to murder the beautiful young victim.Can Poirot find out the truth before the murderer strikes again?

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.`And now, Katy, it\\''s your turn. Tell us what you\\''re going to be when you grow up.\\''`I\\''m not sure about what I\\''ll be,\\'' replied Katy; `beautiful, of course, and good if I can. That\\''s what I\\''d like to be. But now I\\''ll tell you what I mean to do...\\''Tomboyish Katy Carr is tall, gangling and full of mischief. Constantly scheming and playing with her brothers and sisters, 12-year-old Ka...

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.`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 ...

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...

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 ...