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Toibin Colm

Emily Brontë

u003cbu003eThe Penguin English Library Edition of u003ciu003eWuthering Heights u003c/iu003eby Emily Bront u003c/bu003e u003cpu003eu003cbu003e"May you not rest, as long as I am living. You said I killed you - haunt me, then"u003c/bu003eu003cpu003eLockwood, the new tenant of Thrushcross Grange on the bleak Yorkshire moors, is forced to seek shelter one night at Wuthering Heights,...

Judith Flanders

For much of the century, London's greatest contemporary observer, Charles Dickens, obsessively walked its streets, recording its pleasures and vices, curiosities and cruelties. In his company, the author leads us through the markets, sewers, rivers, slums, cemeteries, gin palaces and chop-houses of the Victorian capital, revealing the city in all its variety, vibrancy, and squa...

Dashiell Hammett

u003cbu003e'When I opened my eyes and sat up in bed Nora was shaking me and a man with a gun in his hand was standing in the bedroom doorway.'u003cbru003e u003cbru003eu003c/bu003eEx-detective Nick Charles attracts trouble like a magnet. He thinks his sleuthing days are over, but when Julia Wolf, a former acquaintance, is found dead, her body riddled with bullets, Nick - along w...

Koester, Almut / Pitt, Angela / Handford, Michael / Lisboa, Martin

An innovative, new multi-level course for the university and in-company sector. Business Advantage is the course for tomorrow's business leaders. Based on a unique syllabus that combines current business theory, business in practice and business skills - all presented using authentic, expert input - the course contains specific business-related outcomes that make the material ...

Ernest Cline

THE BOOK BEHIND THE MAJOR MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY STEVEN SPIELBERG 'Wildly original and stuffed with irresistible nostalgia, Ready Player One is a spectacularly genre-busting, ambitious, and charming debut' Independent 'Part intergalactic scavenger hunt, part romance, and all heart' CNN 'Ernest Cline's novel deserves to be a modern classic' SciFiNow 'Gorgeously geeky, super...

Salinger, J. D.

The Catcher in Rye is the ultimate novel for disaffected youth, but it's relevant to all ages. The story is told by Holden Caulfield, a seventeen- year-old dropout who has just been kicked out of his fourth school. Throughout, Holden dissects the 'phony' aspects of society, and the 'phonies' themselves: the headmaster whose affability depends on the wealth of the parents, his r...

Austen, Jane

Stevenson, Robert Louis

What can a person do when he is pulled between the good and the bad inside him? Dr Jekyll, a scientist, uses chemistry to divide himself into two different bodies - good Dr Jekyll and evil Mr Hyde. But this does not make his life any simpler. Instead the conflict between the two parts becomes more and more violent. Which part will win? ...

Williams, Tennessee

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire is the tale of a catastrophic confrontation between fantasy and reality, embodied in the characters of Blanche DuBois and Stanley Kowalski. This Penguin Modern Classics edition includes an introduction by Arthur Miller.'I have always depended on the kindness of strangers'Fading southern belle Blanche Du...

Stevenson

La exitosa serie de lectores de Burlington, que ofrece más de 130 títulos, está especialmente diseñado para estudiantes de ESO y Bachillerato. Ofrece una amplia variedad de adaptaciones accesibles e historias originales que reflejen los intereses de los estudiantes de estos grupos de edad.La serie de Burlington Reader ofrece muchas características interesantes: Las estructur...

Vv.aa

Un cirujano victoriano rescata a un hombre muy desfigurado que es maltratado mientras raspa la vida como un monstruo de feria. Detrás de su fachada monstruosa, no se revela a una persona de inteligencia y sensibilidad. ...

Aa.vv.

West Hill School is just an ordinary school, but one day a new teacher arrives and some very strange things start to happen. The teacher comes to work in a car that has no driver. He carries a newspaper dating from 1935. And he always seems to punish the same boy. What is going on? ...

Boyne, John

Improve your English, and reading, skills with unabridged contemporary literature. The year is 1943. Bruno's family must move from their home to a new house far away. A tall fence running alongside stretches as far as the eye can see and cuts him off from the strange people he can see in the distance. Bruno sets out to explore this desolate new place. ...

Chinua Achebe

Dickens, Charles

Kipling, Rudyard

This is the story of Mowgli, a young boy abandoned in the Indian jungle. He is adopted by a pack of wolves and becomes friends with Baloo the bear and Bagheera the panther. Mowgli learns how to communicate with the animals and survive in the jungle. But ...

Conan Doyle

Genre: Classic Adventure Level: Difficult Words: 600-900 Headwords Edward Malone is determined to prove to his beloved Gladys that he's a man of adventure. Accompanied by Professor Challenger, Professor Summerlee and Lord John Roxton, Edward em ...

Robinson, Nick / Day, Jeremy

Endorsed by the Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM), this short course (40-60 hours) uses practical tasks and realistic scenarios to develop the specialist language and communication skills needed for a career in marketing. Cambridge English for Marketing covers a wide range of marketing topics, from understanding the role of marketing in an organisation through to launchin...

Murakami, Haruki

u003cpu003eWhen he hears her favourite Beatles song, Toru Watanabe recalls his first love Naoko, the girlfriend of his best friend Kizuki. Immediately he is transported back almost twenty years to his student days in Tokyo, adrift in a world of uneasy friendships, casual sex, passion, loss and desire - to a time when an impetuous young woman called Midori marches into his life ...

Philip Drury

Alcott, Louisa May

Austen, Jane

James, Henry

Catherine Blake comes to a huge mansion in the remote English countryside as governess to Miles,10, and his sister Flora, 7. The children seem to be angelic and innocent, but Catherine soon discovers that this is not the case. Then two ghostly visitors, a man and a woman, start appearing. They seem to be watching the children, and the children seem to be aware of their presence...

Louise Erdrich

u003cpu003e The stunning first novel in Louise Erdrich's Native American series, u003ciu003eLove Medicineu003c/iu003e tells the story of two families, the Kashpaws and the Lamartines. Written in Erdrich's uniquely poetic, powerful style, it is a multi-generational portrait of strong men and women caught in an unforgettable drama of anger, desire, and the healing power that is l...

Vine, Barbara

A Fatal Inversion - a classic thriller from the queen of crime Barbara Vine 'An absolute winner ... a gripping read from start to end' Daily Mail 'Brilliant. Vine has the kind of near-Victorian narrative drive ... that compels a reader to go on turning the pages' Sunday Times In the long hot summer of 1976, a group of young people are camping in Wyvis Hall. Adam, Rufus, Shiva, ...

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Austen, Jane

When Elizabeth Bennet first meets eligible bachelor Fitzwilliam Darcy, she thinks him arrogant and conceited; he is indifferent to her good looks and lively mind. When she later discovers that Darcy has involved himself in the troubled relationship between his friend Bingley and her beloved sister Jane, she is determined to dislike him more than ever. In the sparkling comedy of...

Allan, Nicholas

"Father Christmas needs a wee.He's been drinking drinks since half past three . . ." At each different house that he visits Father Christmas drinks and eats all the goodies left out for him. Before long he really, really, really needs a wee. So much so that he even forgets to leave the presents behind. But he dashes back, delivers all the pressies and flies home at high speed t...

Austen, Jane