International Express. Pre-Intermediate. Work Book (+CD)
International Express combines general English with business situations, giving students the social and functional English they need to work, travel, and socialize.
This anthology traces the history of modern Irish literature from the revolutionary era of the late eighteenth century to the early years of political independence. From Charlotte Brooke and Edmund Burke to Elizabeth...
"Jane Eyre" is a novel of passion - of anger, defiance, and of overwhelming desire. The orphaned Jane is punished at the hands of her unfeeling aunt, and is oppressed by the harsh regime at Lowood school. Engaged as a...
Joan Soars - American Headway 2 Workbook
American Headway, Second Edition is the world`s most trusted adult English course offering a perfectly-balanced, six-level syllabus and fresh new digital support. With a strong focus on grammar, clear vocabulary...
This authoritative edition was formerly published in the acclaimed Oxford Authors series under the general editorship of Frank Kermode. It brings together a unique combination of Donne`s poetry and prose - all the...
The real-life Jonathan Wild, gangland godfather and self-styled `Thief-taker General`, controlled much of the London underworld until he was executed for his crimes in 1725. Even during his lifetime his achievements...
Henry Fielding wrote both Joseph Andrews (1742) and Shamela (1741) in response to Samuel Richardson`s book Pamela (1740), of which Shamela is a splendidly bawdy travesty. Joseph Andrews begins as a parody, too, but...
The text and notes are reproduced from the Oxford English Novels edition. The introduction sheds light on the relationship of the Journal to Pepys`s diary, and a medical note relates the latest research on the Plague.
Just So Stories for Little Children
How did the camel get his hump? Why won`t cats do as they are told? Who invented reading and writing? How did an inquisitive little elephant change the lives of elephants everywhere. Kipling`s imagined answers to such...
Dostoevsky`s last and greatest novel, "The Karamazov Brothers" (1880) is both a brilliantly told crime story and a passionate philosophical debate. The dissolute landowner Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov is murdered; his...
KET Practice Tests: Without Key: Practice Tests for the KET Exam
Four tests for the updated Cambridge Key English Test (KET). - Highly experienced authors closely involved with the KET exam. - Includes exam tips throughout. - Includes vocabulary and structures commonly tested. -...
Kreutzer Sonata & Other Stories
The four stories selected here represent Tolstoy at his creative best, exploring in a specific and detailed way his characteristic themes: life understood as a journey of the discovery of identity and vocation, the...
Saint Bartholomew`s Day 1572. Paris is awash with the blood of Huguenots slaughtered by order of Charles IX. Or perhaps of Catherine de Medicis, one of history`s great monsters? Or the ambitious Duke de Guise? Or the...
Landmark Advanced. Student`s Book
Landmark builds on what learners bring to class and respects their knowledge and experience. Using real-life listening and reading, Landmark gets students thinking, noticing, and reacting. - Fresh topics get students...
"Landmark" builds on what learners bring to class and respects their knowledge and experience. Using real-life listening and reading, "Landmark" gets students thinking, noticing, and reacting.
Le Morte Darthur: The Winchester Manuscript
The definitive English version of the stories of King Arthur, "Le Morte Darthur" was completed in 1469-70 by Sir Thomas Malory, `knight-prisoner`. In a resonant prose style, Malory charts the tragic disintegration of...
Whitman is today regarded as America`s Homer or Dante, and his work the touchstone for literary originality in the New World. In "Leaves of Grass", he abandoned the rules of traditional poetry - breaking the standard...
The complex moral ambiguities of seduction and revenge make Les Liaisons dangereuses (1782) one of the most scandalous and controversial novels in European literature. Its prime movers, the Vicomte de Valmont and the...
France, 1815. Jean Valjean leaves prison after nineteen years. These are dangerous and troubled times, and life is hard. Valjean must begin a new life, but how can he escape his past, and his enemy, Inspector Javert?...
He that is to govern a whole nation, must read in himself, not this, or that particular man; but mankind. Leviathan is both a magnificent literary achievement and the greatest work of political philosophy in the...
A motivating three-level course with a clear, coherent structure and built-in flexibility. Lifelines combines thorough language presentation and practice with human-interest topics and texts. It provides core material...
Lifelines Elementary Work Book With Keys
A motivating three-level course with a clear, coherent structure and built-in flexibility. Lifelines combines thorough language presentation and practice with human-interest topics and texts. It provides core material...
