Diane Mowat Libri

Un libro universale che tocca i temi eterni della vita: la sopravvivenza, la natura, la solitudine, la speranza.

Accompagnato da ininterrotta fortuna, riconfermata dal successo del film di Francis Ford Coppola, Dracula di Bram Stoker è l’ultimo grande romanzo gotico e al tempo stesso, forse, il più famoso: spettrale, altero, spietato e sottilmente erotico, il pallido Conte (il cui nome è ormai sinonimo di vampiro) appartiene a quei pochi personaggi che entrano a far parte dell’immaginario collettivo, impongono un genere, divengono un simbolo. «Una figura», notava Thomas Wolf, «che costringe a confrontarci con misteri primordiali: la morte, il sangue, l’amore e i loro reciproci legami», cosicché «il risultato cui Stoker perviene è questo: ci fa comprendere, attraverso la nostra esperienza, perché si dice che il vampiro sia invisibile allo specchio. Egli c’è, ma noi non lo riconosciamo, dal momento che il nostro stesso viso lo cela».

This series of "Bookworms" offers younger readers the chance to enjoy lively and accessible adaptations of the best classic and modern fiction. Each title is highly illustrated to engage the reader in the world of the book and help with specific vocabulary.

Suitable for younger learners Word count 5,945

Now The Children of Green Knowe and River at Green Knowe are available in one edition. Children of Green KnoweTolly's great grandmother isn't a witch, but both she and her old house, Green Knowe, are full of a very special kind of magic.

Part of a series designed to provide English language students at all levels of comprehension with the opportunity to extend their reading and appreciation of English, this adventure novel at Level 4 is set in Greece.

Matty is fifteen and is leaving school in a few weeks' time. He wants to work with animals, and would like to get a job on a farm. But his parents say he's too young to leave home - he must stay in the town and get a job in ship-building, like his father. They also say he can't go on a campingholiday with his friends. And they say he can't keep his dog, Nelson, because Nelson barks all day and eats his father's shoes. But it is because of Nelson that Matty finds a new life . . .

No one is better equipped in the struggle for wealth and worldly success than the alluring and ruthless Becky Sharp, who defies her impoverished background to clamber up the class ladder. Her sentimental companion Amelia, however, longs only for caddish soldier George. As the two heroines make their way through the tawdry glamour of Regency society, battles - military and domestic - are fought, fortunes made and lost.

Een Engelsman neemt de plaats in van zijn neef, de koning van Ruritanië.

Il viaggio esilarante di tre amici molto, molto inglesi ha come meta la Germania. Questa volta niente barca: si va in bicicletta. Tre avventurieri pasticcioni, pronti a ficcarsi in un sacco di guai in una vacanza costellata di colpi di scena e soffusa di umorismo inlgese.

This series of readers is aimed at students at 6 levels from elementary to advanced. All stages have exercises for classroom or private use, plus a glossary to help with vocabulary. The approximate vocabulary count for stage 1 is 400 words. This is a ghost story.

"If you wake up in the night and hear a tap running somewhere in the house, what to you do? You get up, of course, and go and turn the tap off. A little later you hear the tap running again. You are alone in the house, and you know you turned the tap off. What do you think? The ghosts in these stories all have unfinished business with the living world. They come back from the grave to continue their work, to keep a promise, to look for something they have lost. Sometimes they want to help people, sometimes they want to punish them - or kill them."--Back cover

This series of readers is aimed at students at 6 levels from elementary to advanced. All stages have exercises for classroom or private use, plus a glossary to help with vocabulary. This elementary level book features a collection of short stories from the American humourist, O. Henry.

When a group of English schoolchildren are told that they are to be in a tetrathlon (swimming, running, shooting and riding) against the perfect Greycoats school, they are totally unenthusiastic but rally when a teacher encourages them.

This series of readers is aimed at students at 6 levels from elementary to advanced. All stages have exercises for classroom or private use, plus a glossary to help with vocabulary. This is an advanced level work of fiction.

These autobiographies of Afro-American ex-slaves comprise the largest body of literature produced by slaves in human history. The book consists of three sections: selected reviews of slave narratives, dating from 1750 to 1861; essays examining how such narratives serve as historical material; and essays exploring the narratives as literary artifacts.

Suitable for younger learners Word count 5,310

Greg is a teenager with a problem - his father. After the death of Greg's mother in an accident, his father takes no interest in life at all. Greg tries hard to help him. His father is too old to rock and roll, of course . . . or is he? These short stories by Jan Mark look at life, love, and friendship through teenagers' eyes.

Suitable for younger learners Word count 5,310

Dove sta la magia? Nella forza del plot? Nella qualità possente dello scenario storico che è in grado di evocare? Nella suspense? Forse, più di tutto, nella gioia del raccontare. Questo capolavoro dell’intrigo cattura a ogni pagina il lettore, lo spiazza, lo depista, lo inganna e lo rende complice, per poi coinvolgerlo in uno strabiliante “effetto meraviglia”. A partire dal titolo: non solo I tre moschettieri sono quattro, ma – come ha osservato Umberto Eco – il romanzo è palesemente “la storia del quarto”, di d’Artagnan, che è l’assoluto protagonista non solo di questo libro, ma degli altri due che seguiranno: Vent’anni dopo e Il visconte di Bragelonne. “Immaginatevi un Don Chisciotte a diciott’anni”: è questo il primo impatto del lettore con d’Artagnan, e attorno a questo virtuoso della spada, a questo campione di lealtà, di dedizione assoluta alla regina, si dipanerà la storia dei tre romanzi, la storia di una vita. L’altra figura decisiva, antagonistica, è Milady, quintessenza dell’inganno, maschera erotica della perfidia e del tradimento, di cui porta il segno indelebile inciso nelle carni. C’era bisogno di una nuova edizione dei Tre moschettieri per riportare il romanzo all’altezza della sua scrittura: attraverso una nuova traduzione che unisce rigore e respiro narrativo, un’Introduzione del più grande studioso vivente di Dumas e un dettagliatissimo Dizionario dei personaggi.