When a young graduate returns home he is accompanied, much to his father and uncle`s discomfort, by a strange friend "who doesn`t acknowledge any authorities, who doesn`t accept a single principle on faith"....
The Barber of Seville * The Marriage of Figaro * The Guilty Mother Eighteenth-century France produced only one truly international theatre star, Beaumarchais, and only one name, Figaro, to put with Don Quixote or...
Psychologically acute, subtly and sometimes bitterly comic, these six stories all display the elegance and ironic clarity of Turgenev`s finest writing. Ivan Turgenev, perhaps best known for his novel Fathers and Sons,...
Chekhov`s worldwide reputation as a dramatist rests on five great plays: Ivanov, The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, Three Sisters, and The Cherry Orchard. All are presented in this collection, taken from the authoritative...
The three novels which make up The Forsyte Saga chronicle the ebbing social power of the commercial upper-middle-class Forsyte family between 1886 and 1920. Soames Forsyte is the brilliantly portrayed central figure,...
Four Major Plays (Oxford World`s Classics)
In his four last plays (Blood Wedding, Yerma, The House of Bernarda Alba, Dona Rosita the Spinster) Federico Garcia Lorca offered his disturbed and disturbing personal vision to Spanish audiences of the...
"Frankenstein" was Mary Shelley`s immensely powerful contribution to the ghost stories which she, Percy Shelley, and Byron wrote one wet summer in Switzerland. Its protagonist is a young student of natural philosophy,...
Shelley`s suspenseful and intellectually rich gothic tale confronts some of the most important and enduring themes in all of literture - the power of human imagination, the potential hubris of science, the gulf...
Gallimaufry: Hodgepodge of Our Vanishing Vocabulary
What is a gallimaufry anyway? And when did you last hear someone refer to the wireless? What was the original paraphernalia? Would you wear a billycock? Language is always changing, and here Michael Quinion, author of...
Genius of Shakespeare: 10t Anniversary Edi. (PB)
This fascinating book by one of Britain`s most acclaimed Shakespeare scholars explores the extraordinary staying-power of the world`s most famous dramatist. Bate opens by taking up questions of authorship and then...
Gentle Creature & Other Stories Ned
In these three stories Dostoevsky explores both the figure of the dreamer divorced from reality and his own ambiguous attitude to utopianism, themes central to many of his great novels. In White Nights the apparent...
German Minidictionary, 3-th edition
This revised edition offers up-to-date vocabulary, along with helpful features: frequently used words in German and English, which form the basis of learning the language, are given a special new layout with usage...
A two-level course for very young children with optional handwriting and number work. • It gives pupils that basic knowledge and feeling for English which is the foundation of successful learning. • It teaches pupils...
Get Ready! is a lively two-level course for children who are learning English for the first time. It is the ideal preparation for English at primary level, giving pupils that basic knowledge and feeling for English...
A two-level course for very young children with optional handwriting and number work.
This is a two-level course for very young children with optional handwriting and number work.
Get Ready!: 1: Handwriting Book
Get Ready! is a lively two-level course for children who are learning English for the first time. It is the ideal preparation for English at primary level, giving pupils that basic knowledge and feeling for English...
A two-level course for very young children with optional handwriting and number work. - It gives pupils that basic knowledge and feeling for English which is the foundation of successful learning. - It teaches pupils...
Get Ready! is a lively two-level course for children who are learning English for the first time. It is based around songs and activities, carefully matched to the interests of young learners, and suitable for use...
A two-level course for very young children with optional handwriting and number work. • It gives pupils that basic knowledge and feeling for English which is the foundation of successful learning. • It teaches pupils...
A structural syllabus combined with child-centred activities. • It has a carefully graded, structural syllabus which provides steady progression in all four skills. • The emphasis on grammar and vocabulary acquisition...
Get Set - Go! is a lively language course for children learning English for the first time. - Get Set - Go! has a carefully graded syllabus which provides steady progression in all four skills. The lower levels...
