Carti in categoria Diverse

Not all aliens are bad. However, being friends with a kind alien may have its negative points!

This is the ‘ordinary’ life of Count Dracula, his wife Felicia, their three children, Adam, Eve and Brian, and their Butler, Roman Blenski.

The fully-illustrated, original story takes into account the real-world interests of children in primary schools. It provides a wide range of stimulating activities, plus a picture dictionary of key vocabulary.

Bullies at school pick on Bobo, who is a bit small for his age. Not to worry, for Bobo is a resourceful young lad with a few surprises of his own, and he soon teaches the bullies a lesson!

A team of scientists headed by none other than Doctor Frankenstein create a tender-hearted monster, who a group of nosy children find in the school lab.

This play is set in the dazzling social world of 1890s London. It is the world of the aristocrat and the dandy – and it is also the world of shabby political and financial intrigue. Oscar Wilde’s play combines farce, verbal wit and satire in this gripping comedy. The play also contains an argument on the nature of love, and the need for women to forgive rather than idealise their husbands.

The Splintering Frame is a lively collection of ten paired short stories by modern and contemporary authors. Some of them are stylish, some witty, some entertaining, some puzzling and even disturbing, so there is something for everyone in this anthology: love, hope, conflict and disillusionment. You may even expect the unexpected. Each story, and pair of stories, is accompanied by activities aimed at language improvement, skills practice and in-depth study of the outstanding literary features of...

Henry Lawson, V. S. Naipaul, Nadine Gordimer and Chinua Achebe are respectively Australian, Caribbean, South African and Nigerian, yet they all write in English. The ‘English’ literature of the ex-colonies is proving to be the most interesting and innovative of our times: this volume offers a significant example of its vitality and originality. As Salman Rushdi said, ‘the Empire writes back’.

A Christmas Carol is the first and the most famous of the five books that Dickens wrote to celebrate the spiritual values of Christmas.

These short stories by Graham Greene, Kate Chopin, Bernard MacLaverty, Roald Dahl and Shirley Jackson – all with a surprise ending – explore themes such as appearances and reality, prejudices and beliefs, and isolation – all raising questions which relate to the human condition. Text analysis activities focus on comprehension, characters, setting and plot, as well as style, language, narrative techniques and themes. Follow-up work offers creative tasks for students – ima...

The ten stories in this new edition progress through the four aspects of turn-of-the-century Dublin life intended by Joyce – childhood, adolescence, mature and public life. A fully revised and extended introduction offers a comprehensive survey of Joyce and his work and a selection of critical extracts and thought-provoking activities enable readers to deepen their understanding of Joyce’s early masterpiece.

Art contrasted with Nature, and outer ugliness with inner beauty, are just two of the themes featured in this collection of six tales, including The Canterville Ghost, The Remarkable Rocket, and – for all those who ‘have kept the childlike faculties of wonder and joy’ – The Happy Prince and The Selfish Giant.

The publication in 1890 of Wilde’s only novel led to a furious public debate over art and morality. Dorian Gray’s double life in elegant high society and in London’s most degraded slums express the essence of aestheticism and fin de siècle decadence and shows up the hypocrisies of Victorian society.

Acknowledged as Wilde’s most perfect comedy, brilliant and subversive, The Importance of Being Earnest has even been considered to anticipate the ‘drama of the absurd’ of the twentieth century. Guided activities and introduction help the student to appreciate this masterpiece.

L’histoire du savant Victor Frankenstein qui, en essayant de construire une créature supérieure à l’homme, crée plutôt un monstre. Victime du destin ou usurpateur de la Nature ? En accompagnement au texte une analyse complète des thèmes du livre, un aperçu de la critique et des influences de cette œuvre de science-fiction sur la littérature et sur les autres expressions artistiques....

This collection of three of Stevenson’s stories (‘Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde’, ‘Markheim’ and ‘The Body Snatcher’) analyses the moral fibre of Victorian society and highlights the conflict between good and evil: man’s social, civilised, rational being versus his egotistic, instinctive, sensual self.

This is the story of James Joyce, a writer who overcame the limitations of poverty, nationalism, religion, family and near blindness. He only wrote about his native city, Dublin, though he refused to live there. In his lifetime, he was much criticised, but he became one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century. However, he would not have achieved this without the help of three women.

Ten strangers are invited to a beautiful house on Soldier Island. Then one of them is murdered. They learn that they cannot leave the island, and nobody is as innocent as they seem. They are all in danger because a killer is playing a game with them. But who is it?

Salvador, un joven de 17 años, decide apuntarse junto a su amigo Roberto a un campo de voluntariado juvenil en Galicia. Allí conoce también a Carmen, una voluntaria italiana. En medio de un paisaje encantador, toma conciencia de los problemas medioambientales causados por la acumulación de plásticos en el mar y los tres chicos deciden entonces, hacer algo para denunciar este problema.