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In this new edition of Shakespeare's most controversial comedy The Merchant of Venice, the merchant Antonio - on behalf of his friend Bassano - seeks a loan from Shylock. The loan is required to impress an heiress. Shylock is a Jewish moneylender whom Antonio has always treated with the utmost contempt, and Antonio is to honour the debt with a pound of the merchant's own flesh. When Antonio defaults on the loan, Shylock prepares to take his gruesome revenge - only to find that the law is a knife...

William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night is a comedy. In medieval and Tudor times, the 'Twelfth Night' was the end of a winter festival that started on 31 October (All Hallows Eve, or as we know it today, Halloween). Mulled cider was drunk, and special pastries baked, and a king and queen (who could have been servants in charge for the night) ruled the festival until the clock struck midnight. People expected a topsy-turvy evening, with singing and clowning about, when the normal order of things was ...

Award-winning original fiction for learners of English. At seven levels, from Starter to Advanced, this impressive selection of carefully graded readers offers exciting reading for every student's capabilities. When the wife of a prominent surgeon dies suddenly in the hospital emergency room of Mercy Hospital in Milwaukee, USA, Dr Maxine Cassidy suspects murder. Maxine is determined to find the killer and starts an investigation of her own. However, when someone tries to kill her, she begins to ...

Dubliners, about Joyce's native city, is faithful to his country, seeing it unflinchingly and challenging every precedent and piety in Irish literature. The stories in Dubliners show us truants, seducers, hostesses, corrupt politicians, failing priests, struggling musicians, poets, patriots, and many more simply striving to get by.A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man falls between the realism of Dubliners and the symbolism of Ulysses. The novel is a highly autobiographical account of the yout...

In the The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, a huge cyclone transports the orphan Dorothy and her little dog Toto from Kansas to the Land of Oz, and she fears that she will never see Aunt Em and Uncle Henry ever again. But she meets the Munchkins, and they tell her to follow the Yellow Brick Road to the Emerald City where the Wonderful Wizard of Oz will grant any wish. On the way, she meets the brainless Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman and the Cowardly Lion. The four friends set off to seek their heart's desir...

Introduction and Notes by Doreen Roberts, Rutherford College, University of Kent at Canterbury.Tom Jones is widely regarded as one of the first and most influential English novels. It is certainly the funniest. Tom Jones, the hero of the book, is introduced to the reader as the ward of a liberal Somerset squire. Tom is a generous but slightly wild and feckless country boy with a weakness for young women.Misfortune, followed by many spirited adventures as he travels to London to seek his fortune,...

This award-winning graded readers series is full of original fiction, adapted fiction and factbooks especially written for teenagers. Twins, Andy and Mary, are in Dublin on a school trip. When Mary discovers that she has been given a forged EURO20 note, she thinks she knows the identity of the forger. The twins start to investigate, but it soon becomes clear that the forgers know who Andy and Mary are too. This paperback is in British English. Download the complete audio recording of this title ...

This reader is accompanied by an audiobook and eBook. While Thor, the God of Thunder, is a prisoner of the King of Muspelheim, the King describes his terrible plans for Asgard, Thor's home. Thor realises then that he has to escape immediately - but how? And if he reaches Asgard, what will he find? Are other enemies also preparing to attack? Can Thor save his home, or will he have to accept Ragnarok - the end of Asgard? About the series Pearson English Readers bring language learning to life t...

This reader is accompanied by an audiobook and eBook. For thousands of years, tall mountains and thick forests have hidden the African country of Wakanda from the world. Using vibranium, the world's strongest metal, Wakanda is now also protected by its technology. After his father's death, T'Challa returns there to take his place as king. But then deadly challengers to his position appear. Can he protect his country from them? And when the fighting ends, will he still be king? About the series...

This reader is accompanied by an audiobook and eBook. Scott Lang is a loving father to Cassie, but he is also Ant-Man. When Avengers fought Avengers in Germany, he was there. He is now under arrest and cannot leave his home. But Hope - The Wasp - and her father have an important job for him … now. Can he leave his home and his daughter? The FBI are watching and will send him to prison. But can he really do nothing? Will Ant-Man fly again? About the series Pearson English Readers bring l...

Volumul de tip colectie de opere cuprinde trei povesti fascinante in limba engleza apartinand celebrului scriitor Oscar Wilde. Colectia este compusa din scurta povestire „The Canterville Ghost” si din doua piese de teatru intitulate „The Importance of Being Earnest” si „An Ideal Husband”. Volumul este potrivit pentru orice cititor care cunoaste limba engleza la un nivel avansat, indiferent de varsta....

Why another study on American influence? The current research study focuses on identifying the main Romanian perceptions of the United States of America, as well as the various ways in which elements belonging to American culture are integrated in the culture of Romania, a country that belonged to the former South-East European Communist Bloc. The research efforts will concentrate on the period after 1989, but references will also be made to previous years, in an attempt to emphasize the connect...

Titlu: Aladdin and the Magic LampAutori: A Folk Tale, retold by Jenny Dooley, & Charles Lloyd DVDISBN: 978-1-84679-095-9Nivel: Stage 3 A1An aparitie: 2008

It was the year 1867. Some sailors said that they saw a dangerous, giant monster living in the cold waters of the ocean. Some ships tried to find it and kill it, but they never returned. People said it looked like a whale."It was 300 feet long and a mile wide!""Water came out of its back. It was like a big underwater explosion!" Nivel: A2Pachetul contine: carte, caiet de activitati si Multi ROM

"Storytime Readers" is a series of storybooks especially designed to provide easy and enjoyable reading practice. They have been carefully graded into three stages and have been written in a way that will help teachers to use them as plays, thus providing an early introduction to drama as a means of learning."Storytime Readers" tell tales of friendship, trust, family loyalty, kindness and love using colourful illustrations, dramatised audio recordings and engaging animations to stimulate the ima...

„Tokyo Station”, the captivating diary of Radu Serban, ambassador to Japan between March 14, 2012 and August 14, 2016, is the starting point for a reflection on the notion of culture and civilization in terms of maximum otherness. In addition to highlighting his own diplomatic experience coupled with a prodigious culture, the author explores what Roland Barthes called the Empire of Signs, a “revolution in the ownership of symbolic systems,” a suite of codes in a world whi...

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) is acknowledged as the greatest dramatist of all time. He excels in plot, poetry and wit, and his talent encompasses the great tragedies of Hamlet, King Lear, Othello and Macbeth as well as the moving history plays and the comedies such as A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Taming of the Shrew and As You Like It with their magical combination of humour, ribaldry and tenderness. This volume is a reprint of the Shakespeare Head Press edition, and it presents all the pla...

Build your child’s reading confidence at home with books at the right levelFollow the journey of a polar bear from cub to adulthood to find out how they reach the top of the Arctic food chain and survive in the frozen north.- Text type - An information book.- The book is organised into short chapters to help children practise the skills of locating and identifying important information.- The glossary and index on pages 44 and 45 can be used to develop children's information retrieval skill...

Sick with his petty life in a small Romanian rural community governed by superstition and having lost his faith, a village priest decides to do something absolutely scandalous for a bearer of the priestly garment… I have worn the priestly garment for a long time now. I have given so many Ressurection sermons, year after year, and talked at many more funerals, each time the occasion arose.My eyes have witnessed so many births and deaths… have read into so many souls, sitting in my c...

Concept and Preface: Erwin KesslerCover: Mihail CosuletuLayout: Gabriel NiculaNotes: Ioana Antonia PearsicaDocumentation and translation: Ioana SerbanThe most decent and inconspicuous Romanian artist, Florin Mitroi, has left the most indecent and violent legacy. What should we do with it? Should we hide it, ignore it, downplay it as pathological? Should we burn it, perhaps?This could be the prologue to a scandal rather than to a revelation. Yet, here is the most electrifying breakthrough over th...