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Introduction and Notes by Jane Thomas, University of Hull.The Well-Beloved completes the cycle of Hardy's great novels, reiterating his favourite themes of man's eternal quest for perfection in both love and art, and the suffering that ensues. Jocelyn Pierston, celebrated sculptor, tries to create an image of his ideal woman - his imaginary Well-Beloved - in stone, just as he tries to find her in the flesh.Powerful symbolism marks this romantic fantasy that Hardy has grounded firmly in reality w...

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...

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...

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?

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

The Penguin English Library Edition of Wuthering Heights by Emily BronteMay you not rest, as long as I am living. You said I killed you - haunt me, thenLockwood, the new tenant of Thrushcross Grange on the bleak Yorkshire moors, is forced to seek shelter one night at Wuthering Heights, the home of his landlord. There he discovers the history of the tempestuous events that took place years before: of the intense passion between the foundling Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw, and her betrayal of ...

Bob Slocum is anxious, bored and fearful of his job. So why is it he wants nothing more than the chance to speak at the next company convention? In this darkly satirical book, Joseph Heller takes us for a turn on the maddening hamster wheel of work. Hellers workplace is a cradle of paranoia, bravado and nauseating banter, forever shadowed by that perennial question, whos really running the show here? In Hellers hands, our daily grind has never seemed so absurd.Selected from the book Something Ha...

The Penguin English Library Edition of Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth GaskellEh, miss, but that be a rare young lady! She do have such pretty coaxing ways ...Seventeen-year-old Molly Gibson worships her widowed father. But when he decides to remarry, Mollys life is thrown off course by the arrival of her vain, shallow and selfish stepmother. There is some solace in the shape of her new stepsister Cynthia, who is beautiful, sophisticated and irresistible to every man she meets. Soon the girls b...

One of the BBCs 100 Novels That Shaped Our WorldRhys took one of the works of genius of the 19th Century and turned it inside-out to create one of the works of genius of the 20th Century Michele RobertsJean Rhyss masterpiece tells the story of Jane Eyres madwoman in the attic, Bertha Rochester.Born into the oppressive, colonialist society of 1930s Jamaica, white Creole heiress Antoinette Cosway meets a young Englishman who is drawn to her innocent beauty and sensuality. After their marriage, how...

The Penguin English Library Edition of Villette by Charlotte BronteThat evening more firmly than ever fastened into my soul the conviction that Fate was of stone, and Hope a false idol - blind, bloodless, and of granite core. I felt, too, that the trial God had appointed me was gaining its climax, and must now be turned by my own hands, hot, feeble, trembling as they wereWith neither friends nor family, Lucy Snowe sets sail from England to find employment in a girls boarding school in the small ...

The Penguin English Library Edition of Vanity Fair by William Makepeace ThackerayVanitas Vanitatum! Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?No one is better equipped in the struggle for wealth and worldly success than the alluring and ruthless Becky Sharp, who defies her impoverished background to clamber up the class ladder. Her sentimental companion Amelia, however, longs only for caddish soldier George. As the two heroines make their way thr...

One of the twentieth centurys great undisputed masterpieces, Malcolm Lowrys Under the Volcano includes an introduction by Michael Schmidt in Penguin Modern Classics.It is the fiesta Day of the Dead in the small Mexican town of Quauhnahuac. In the shadow of the volcano, ragged children beg coins to buy skulls made of chocolate, ugly pariah dogs roam the streets and Geoffrey Firmin - ex-consul, ex-husband, an alcoholic and a ruined man - is living out the last day of his life. Drowning himself in ...

A modernist novel of supreme stylistic innovation, James Joyces Ulysses is the towering achievement of twentieth century literature. This Penguin Modern Classics edition includes an introduction by Declan Kiberd. For Joyce, literature is the eternal affirmation of the spirit of man. Written between 1914 and 1921, Ulysses has survived bowdlerization, legal action and bitter controversy. Capturing a single day in the life of Dubliner Leopold Bloom, his friends Buck Mulligan and Stephen Dedalus, hi...

How can the bird that is born for joy / Sit in a cage and sing?A selection of Blakes most haunting verse, including The Songs of Innocence and Experience.One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946. Each book gives readers a taste of the Classics huge range and diversity, with works from around the world and across the centuries - including fables, decadence, heartbreak, tall tales, satire, ghosts, battles and elephants...

The Penguin English Library Edition of Two on a Tower by Thomas HardyThen they proceeded to scan the sky, roving from planet to star, from single stars to double stars, from double to coloured stars...Hardys atmospheric, moving story of star-crossed lovers shows human beings at the mercy of forces far beyond their control, setting a tragic drama of human passion and conflict against a background of vast stellar space and scientific discovery. Two on a Tower tells the story of Lady Constantine, w...

The Penguin English Library Edition of Treasure Island and The Ebb-Tide by Robert Louis StevensonOne more step, Mr Hands, said I, and Ill blow your brains outIn Treasure Island, a weathered old sailor known as Billy Bones arrives at the inn of young Jim Hawkinss parents - and it is the start of an adventure beyond anything he could have imagined. For when Bones dies mysteriously, Jim stumbles across a map of a mysterious island in his sea chest - where X marks the spot of a stash of buried pirat...