Rosalie Kerr Ordine dei libri (cronologico)

In 1944 Henry Tillotson brings his new wife, Mararet, home to his farmhouse in the English countryside. Margaret is a strange, unpleasant woman, determined, it seems, to make Henry's life miserable. 'Poor Henry!' say his friends, as they visit at weekends and holidays. 'What an awful life he has!' But Henry is not at all the sad and disappointed man we might expect him to be. He manages to enjoy life, and indeed, has quite a lot of fun, one way and another ... Mary Wesley's story takes a sharp but light-hearted look at love, sex, and marriage - and the things people will do to get what they want

Written during the final stages of her illness, "The Garden Party and Other Stories" is full of a sense of urgency and was Katherine Mansfield's last collection to be published during her lifetime. The fifteen stories featured, many of them set in her native New Zealand, vary in length and tone from the opening story, "At the Bay, " a vivid impressionistic evocation of family life, to the short, sharp sketch "Mrs. Brill, " in which a lonely woman's precarious sense of self is brutally destroyed when she overhears two young lovers mocking her. Sensitive revelations of human behaviour, these stories reveal Mansfield's supreme talent as an innovator who freed the story from its conventions and gave it a new strength and prestige.

When James and Matthew spent the weekend with Henry Tillotson in 1954, they took an instant liking to the country house that Henry had inherited from his father. His wife was a bit odd though - she never seemed to get out of bed. Gossip suggested that Henry had inherited her as well.

Provides practice exam questions for the CAE exam, which replicate the real test papers. Photocopiable answer sheets give students practice in transferring their answers from the test paper. The With Answers edition helps teachers and students learn about the mark scheme through detailed notes and real examples of student composition.

BEC practice tests are available at preliminary, vantage and higher levels and reflect the ALTE (Association of Language Testers in Europe) level system. They cover the four language skills of reading, writing, listening and speaking, and, with the revisions, now incorporate certain features of the CEIBT exams, and reflect developments in other exams such as PET, FCE and CAE.

Contains five complete practice tests for the Cambridge First Certificate in English. This edition contains details about the mark schemes for Papers 2 and 5, together with sample student answers for Paper 2, full tapescripts and keys.

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. In this story, the great detective returns to hunt for Jack the Ripper.

Patrick Aldermann, an accountant with a company that makes toilets, is passionate about his roses, which he prunes ruthlessly, 'deadheading' any blossoms a minute past their prime so as to make space for the younger blooms. Not much of a gardener, Dalziel views Patrick as a strong contender for the title of Most Boring Man in Yorkshire. Pascoe, though, has noticed that senior executives at the toilet company 'gentlemen, you might say, just a minute past their prime' have an unlucky habit of dying. And when they do, it's all but inevitably Patrick who, like a lucky young bloom, is poised to take their place.

The Oxford Bookworms Library extends the range of activities and teaching support of Oxford Bookworms and includes in each book an Activities section of Before Reading, While Reading and After Reading exercises. The six stages offer stories at different levels of ability.

A set of five practice tests for the new Cambridge Certificate in Advanced English exam. The authors' close involvement in the CAE enables students to practice examination questions which genuinely replicate the real test papers.

Da tre giorni, un blizzard immobilizza una grande città americana e minaccia di paralizzare un aeroporto immenso e ultra-moderno, già insufficiente per il traffico. Il direttore, Mel Bakersfeld, teme una catastrofe e chiede aiuto, ma si sente dire di "doversi arrangiare". Si ritrova a gestire la situazione, supportato da un capo squadra pittoresco e da una donna la cui intelligenza e dedizione si rivelano preziose. Deve fare i conti con un pilota di linea che non lo ama, con il suo fratello, un controllore radar traumatizzato da un incidente aereo passato, e con un avvocato ostile dei residenti infastiditi dal rumore degli aerei. Inoltre, si interroga su un misterioso uomo con una valigetta che si imbarca su un volo intercontinentale. Un suspense alla Hitchcock, con situazioni tragiche ed emotive che si svolgono in una sola notte. Sullo sfondo, l'aeroporto stesso, un organismo mostruoso animato da una vita propria e dai suoi segreti.