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What does it feel like to be a child? Learning how to negotiate with the unpredictable adult world, learning how to pick a path through lifes traps and hazards, learning when the time has come to put away childish things. The writers of these short stories show us the world as seen from the far side of the child-adult divide, a gap that is sometimes small, and sometimes an unbridgeable chasm.This collection contains stories by John Updike,Graham Greene, William Boyd, Susan Hill, D. H. Lawrence, ...

This book develops a rational approach to the teaching of language as communication, based on a careful consideration of the nature of language and of the language users activities. It will stimulate all language teachers to investigate the ideas that inform their own practice.

What does the future hold in store for the human race? Aliens from distant galaxies, telepathic horror, interstellar war, time-warps, the shriek of a rose, collision with an asteroid - the unknown lies around every corner, and the universe is a big place. These nine science-fiction stories offer possibilities that are fantastic, humorous, alarming, but always thought-provoking.This collection contains stories by Ray Bradbury, Bill Brown, PhilipK. Dick, Arthur C. Clarke, Jerome Bixby, Isaac Asimo...

What sad, appalling, and surprising things people do in the name of love and for the sake of love. These short stories give us love won and love lost, love revenged, love thrown away, love in triumph, love in despair. It might be love between men and women, children and parents, even humans and cats; but whichever it is, love is a force to be reckoned with.This collection contains stories by Maeve Binchy, Edith Wharton, Virginia Woolf, JamesJoyce, H.E. Bates, Graham Greene, Fay Weldon, Patricia ...

Murder: the unlawful, intentional killing of a human being - a terrible crime. But murder stories are always fascinating. Who did it? And how? Or why? And was it murder, or just an unfortunate accident? Who will triumph, the murderer or the detective? This collection contains a wide range of murder stories, from the astute detection of the famous Sherlock Holmes, to the chilling psychology of Ruth Rendell.This collection contains stories byAgatha Christie, Ruth Rendell, Graham Greene, Angela Noe...