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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.Hugely ambitious in its historical focus and vast geographical scope, Antony and Cleopatra is one of Shakespeare''s most astonishing tragedies. The drama centres on the relationships between his main protagonists, Octavius Ceasar, Mark Antony and Cleopatra, and the highly charged affair between Mark Antony and the Egyptian queen that forms the backdrop to the pervading theme of struggle between East and West...

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.Marilla and Matthew Cuthbert are expecting a young orphan boy to help them with farmwork at Green Gables. But when a skinny, red-haired girl turns up instead, immediately certain she\\''s home, they get much more than they bargained for. Spirited, adventurous and imaginative, Anne Shirley quickly charms her way into the hearts of the Cuthberts, the entire town of Avonlea and, over 100 years later, the hearts...

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.`People glorify all sorts of bravery except the bravery they might show on behalf of their nearest neighbours.\\''An epic study of provincial life at a time when England was facing rapid industrialization and increasingly fluid social mobility, Eliot\\''s depiction of the small community of Middlemarch weaves an intricate web of different characters disparate lives as they strive to adapt to the changing world arou...

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.`It''s only because of their stupidity that they''re able to be so sure of themselves.''On the morning of his thirtieth birthday Josef K. is arrested for an unspecified crime. One morning Gregor Samsa opens his eyes to discover that he has been transformed into a monstrous bug. Josef K. finds himself drawn into a quasi-legal labyrinth, while Gregor is imprisoned in his own horrific body. Strange and provocat...

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.`We\\''re their slaves as long as we can work; we pile up their fortunes with the sweat of our brows, and yet we are to live as separate as if we were in two worlds...\\''Based in the industrial unrest of 1840s Manchester, Mary Barton is a factory-worker\\''s daughter living a working-class life in Victorian England. She soon attracts the attentions of the mill-owner\\''s son, Harry Carson, and in the hope that mar...

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.\\''Stars, hide your fires!Let not light see my black and deep desires.\\''One of Shakespeare\\''s darkest and most violent tragedies, Macbeth\\''s struggle between his own ambition and his loyalty to the King is dramatically compelling. As those he kills return to haunt him, Macbeth is plagued by the prophecy of three sinister witches and the power hungry desires of his wife.ISBN: 9780007350988Nr pagini: 288 pages...

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.`Who could tell what forms, what visions, what faces, what forgiveness he could see in the glow of the west!\\''Jim is a well-bred young romantic who takes to the seas with hopes of adventure and the aspiration to prove his mettle. When the boat he sails in threatens to sink, Jim abandons ship in fear in order to save himself, leaving the other passengers to their fate. However, the ship does not sink and guilt-rid...

\\''The red and yellow tulips, heavy with flowers, seemed to lean upon the dusk. A grey cat, dragging its belly, crept across the lawn, and a black one, its shadow, trailed after.\\'' Powerful and evocative, each of Katherine Mansfield\\''s short stories is a masterclass in the form that made her name. Cut tragically short at the age of 34, hers was a life of passion that took her from New Zealand to Bohemian London and Paris. These various landscapes are reflected with verve in her writing, and...

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.`I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the Heart\\''s affections and the truth of the Imagination.\\''One of the most popular of the Romantic poets, Keats\\'' poetry is suffused with adoration for natural beauty, exploration of joy and pain, and ideas on the transience of life. This new collection combines many of Keats\\'' well-loved poems - from `Ode to a Nightingale\\'' to `Bright Star\\'' - with his lette...

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.`Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight!For I ne\\''er saw true beauty till this night.\\''Arguably the greatest love story ever told, Shakespeare\\''s Romeo and Juliet continues to touch modern audiences with its passionate depiction of the tragic romance between two young lovers. With a bitter feud between their respective families, Romeo and Juliet\\''s love is troubled from the start, and through their ...

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.`Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.''Set just before the Jacobite Rising in 1715, Scott drew upon the political and economic struggles leading up to the rebellion and the tumultuous history of the Highlands in his classic adventure novel Rob Roy. Despite the book''s title, Frank Osbaldistone is the protagonist, travelling through England and the Scottish Highlands to collect a debt owed to hi...

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.`Bear you well in this new spring of time,Lest you be cropp\\''d before you come to prime.\\''King Richard II rules England in a wasteful and short-sighted way, spending money unwisely and selecting his counselors foolishly. His manner ostracises him from his people and his country and it\\''s not long before both commoners and noblemen feel Richard has gone too far.When Richard seizes land that rightfully belongs ...

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.`But I am not like other boys! I always tell the truth.\\''The story of Pinocchio has remained one of the best-loved children\\''s tales for over a century. However, the original 1883 novel about the adventures of the mischievous marionette on his quest to become a real boy began as a sophisticated story for both adults and children, and includes political satire, slapstick humour and questions about the rol...

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.`My true name is so well known in the Records or Registers at Newgate, and in the Old Bailey, and there are some things of such consequence still depending there, relating to my particular conduct, that it is not to be expected I should set my name or the account of my family to this work.\\''Born into the seedy world of Newgate Prison and abandoned as a baby at six months old, Moll Flanders soon learns that she ca...

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.`Towards thee I roll, thou all-destroying but unconquering whale; to the last I grapple with thee; from hell''s heart I stab at thee; for hate''s sake I spit my last breath at thee...''Few literary masterpieces cast quite as awesome a shadow as Herman Melville''s Moby Dick. Captain Ahab''s quest for the white whale is a timeless epic - a thrilling tale of vengeance and obsession, and a searing parable about ...

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.`Yet I am not more sure that my soul lives, than I am that perverseness is one of the primitive impulses of the human heart - one of the indivisible primary faculties, or sentiments, which gives direction to the character of Man.''Including Poe''s most terrifying, grotesque and haunting short stories, Tales of Mystery and Imagination is the ultimate collection of the infamous author''s macabre works.Considered to b...

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.`Our consciousness rarely registers the beginning of a growth within us any more than without us: there have been many circulations of the sap before we detect the smallest sign of the bud.\\''Set in the agricultural town of Raveloe in the English countryside, Silas Marner is a tragic figure. Exiled from a religious community because of a wrongful accusation of theft, he works from day to day as a weaver, saving hi...

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.`Clanless, lawless, homeless is he who is in love with civil war, that brutal ferocious thing.''The epic poem The Iliad begins nine years after the beginning of the Trojan War and describes the great warrior Achilles and the battles and events that take place as he quarrels with the King Agamemnon. Attributed to Homer, The Iliad, along with The Odyssey, is still revered today as the oldest and finest example of Wes...