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Selected Poetry

Wordsworth`s verse declares a belief in the power of poetry to teach by appealing to the imagination and to the `grand elementary principle of pleasure, by which man knows, and feels, and lives, and moves`. His unique...

Selected Poetry

Byron was a legend in his own lifetime and the dominant influence on the Romantic movement. The most European of the English writers in an age of revolution, Byron was deeply involved in contemporary events, and a...

Selected Tales

The tales gathered by the Grimm brothers are at once familiar, fantastic, homely, and frightening. Grand palaces, humble cottages, and the forest full of menace are their settings; and they are peopled by kings and...

Selected Poetry

Thomas Hardy is among the best-loved of the great English poets, perhaps drawing his great popularity from the elegaic tone of much of his finest verse and the universality of his subject matter: birth, childhood,...

Selected Poems

`Verlaine, possessed by the madnesses of love, brimming over with desires and prayers, the rebel railing against the complacent platitudes of society, of love, of language`. Jean Rousselot Verlaine ranks alongside...

Selected Letters

`Little Matters they are to be sure, but highly important`. Letter-writing was something of an addiction for young women of Jane Austen`s time and social position, and Austen`s letters have a freedom and familiarity...

Selected Poems: With Parallel Spanish Text

`Lorca brought an understanding of the paradox that was Spain - sensuality chafing under a rigid moral code, individual desire at war with tradition`. Manuel Duran Federico Garcia Lorca is perhaps the most celebrated...

Sense and Sensibility

In her first published novel, Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen presents us with the subtle portraits of two contrasting but equally compelling heroines. For sensible Elinor Dashwood and her impetuous younger sister...

Sense and Sensibility. Stage 5 (1800 headwords). Austen J

Sometimes the Dashwood girls do not seem like sisters. Elinor is all calmness and reason, and can be relied upon for practical, common sense opinions. Marianne, on the other hand, is all sensibility, full of...

Sherlock Holmes Short Stories. Stage 2 (700 headwords) + CD. Conan Doyle A

Sherlock Holmes is the greatest detective of them all. He sits in his room, and smokes his pipe. He listens, and watches, and thinks. He listens to the steps coming up the stairs; he watches the door opening - and he...

Sherlock Holmes: Selected Stories

No characters in English literature since those in the great Dickens gallery have taken so firm a hold upon the British and American imagination as Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson. They have indeed been elevated above...

Sister Carrie

"Sister Carrie" was first printed in 1900 but publication was effectively held up until 1912 because its realism and supposed immorality were judged likely to give offence. Theodore Dreiser intertwined his narrative...

SISTER LOVE & OTH.CR.STORIES 3E

Some sisters are good friends, some are not. Sometimes there is more hate in a family than there is love. Karin is beautiful and has lots of men friends, but she can be very unkind to her sister Marcia. Perhaps when...

Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. Ned

With these words, Washington Irving expresses the dilemma of every American artist in the nineteenth century. The Sketch-Book (1820-1) looks simultaneously towards audiences on both sides of the Atlantic, as Irving...

So You Think You Know Jane Austen?

- A must for all Jane Austen fans, this is a quiz book designed to test the readers` knowledge of their favourite books, compiled by literary detective John Sutherland, well-known for his series of literary puzzle...

Solutions Pre-Intermediate Class Audio CDs 3rd ed

With 100% new content, the third edition of Oxford’s best-selling secondary course offers the tried and trusted Solutions methodology alongside fresh and diverse material that will spark your students’ interest and...

South Sea Tales

The literary world was shocked when in 1889, at the height of his career, Robert Louis Stevenson announced his intention to settle permanently on the Pacific island of Samoa. His readers were equally shocked when he...

Start with English Readers Grade 2. Peter and his Book

Peter shows his family photographs.

Start with English Readers Grade 3. Man in the Big Car

Start with English Readers Grade 2. John and Paul Go School

Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Other Tales

`Instantly the spirit of hell awoke in me and was suddenly struck through the heart by a cold thrill of terror.` Stevenson`s short novel, published in 1886, became an instant classic. It was a Gothic horror that...

Streamline English. Connections. Workbook B. Units 41-80. Viney P., Hartley B

STREETWISE UPPER INTERM NEW WB

A radical revision of the successful Streetwise course for teenagers, combining new material with the best of the original edition. - It appeals to teenagers through a modern, attractive magazine format and explores...

Super Songs

A beautifully illustrated collection of traditional songs for young learners of English. A cassette is available to accompany the book.

Tale of Two Cities

As the bicentennary of the French Revolution draws near, Dickens` historical novel serves as a timely reminder of nineteenth-century reactions to that great upheaval. Set between 1757 and 1793, A Tale of Two Cities...