Příběhy lásky s rozdílem . . . Je tu polibek u ohně, který byl omylem, teta nenávidící muže u moře a střelec v Texasu, který hledá potyčku. Je tu bílá volavka letící nad lesem a posel běžící mezi dvěma lavičkami v parku. A samozřejmě, je tu dívka, která se setkává s chlapcem . . . Tyto příběhy lásky napsali američtí autoři Kate Chopin, Stephen Crane, Sarah Orne Jewett, O. Henry a kanadská autorka Lucy Maud Montgomery (autorka slavné Anny ze Zelených střech).
Jennifer Bassett Ordine dei libri (cronologico)
Jennifer Bassett è un'autrice di talento il cui vasto lavoro per studenti di lingue crea un ponte tra la narrazione avvincente e l'apprezzamento letterario. I suoi contributi come caporedattrice di serie e scrittrice prolifica dimostrano una profonda comprensione di come adattare e creare narrazioni che risuonino con i lettori. La capacità di Bassett di creare storie accessibili ma significative la rende una figura importante nella letteratura educativa. La sua dedizione sta nel rendere diverse esperienze letterarie accessibili e piacevoli per un pubblico globale.






Shirley Homes and the Lithuanian Case
- 64pagine
- 3 ore di lettura
Shirley Homes is a private investigator. She is clever with computers, and knows London like the back of her hand. She laughs when people say, 'Was Sherlock Holmes your grandfather?' Sherlock Holmes, of course, was not a real person, but, like Sherlock, Shirley has good eyes, and good ears. And she knows the right questions to ask.And in the Lithuanian Case, the right questions are important. Because Shirley must find a missing person - Carrie Williams, aged fifteen. Where is she? Who is she with?
Les Misérables. Volume One
- 528pagine
- 19 ore di lettura
"Les Miserables" is a magisterial work which is rich in both character portrayal and meticulous historical description. site accessed 03/06/2013 http://www.booktopia.com.au/les-miserables-victor-hugo/prod9781853260858.html.
Songs from the soul : stories from around the world
- 55pagine
- 2 ore di lettura
Good luck in Malaysia, bad news in New Zealand, a chicken and a jug of cider in Britain, a goat and a pumpkin in India, fun and games in a cyber café in Nigeria...The countries change in these stories, but people's lives are always strange and wonderful in any place.
A Cup of Kindness: Stories from Scotland
- 71pagine
- 3 ore di lettura
In Edinburgh a detective listens to a confession; in Orkney an old man lives with the ghosts of his past. In the Outer Hebrides some travellers learn a lesson; in Glasgow a young woman steals a meeting with a famous actor; and in a small town somewhere a pigeon dies. These stories are as richly varied as the land of Scotland itself
Playing with Fire: Stories from the Pacific Rim
- 80pagine
- 3 ore di lettura
This award-winning collection of adapted classic literature and original stories develops reading skills for low-beginning through advanced students. Accessible language and carefully controlled vocabulary build students' reading confidence. Introductions at the beginning of each story, illustrations throughout, and glossaries help build comprehension. Before, during, and after reading activities included in the back of each book strengthen student comprehension. Audio versions of selected titles provide great models of intonation and pronunciation of difficult words.
Playing with Fire
- 80pagine
- 3 ore di lettura
"He smiled, showing teeth yellow from cigarette smoke. He looked at his desk diary, then at her papers again. 'Mmm ... a hundred pesos a month. Why, that's one thousand two hundred pesos a year. Surely, you can afford to buy me a forty-peso dinner!' How can Marian say no? How can she refuse the Chief's next request? He is an evil man, but she needs her promotion ..."--Page 4 of cover
Penguin Readers: The Lady in the Lake
- 38pagine
- 2 ore di lettura
Detective Philip Marlowe is looking for Derace Kingsley's wife, Crystal. Is she dead or not? Marlowe finds more than one dead body and learns about women, drugs, men in love, and a police cover-up. Who killed The Lady in the Lake and why?
Teacher's Handbook, Level 2
- 88pagine
- 4 ore di lettura
Reading a complete story in English gives students a great sense of achievement -- and encourages them to read more. The Oxford Bookworms Library offers a variety of titles. The books are graded at six vocabulary levels ranging from 250 words (Starter) to 2,500 (Advanced).
Moondial. Stage 3
- 72pagine
- 3 ore di lettura
Word count 10,650 Suitable for younger learners
Changing Their Skies. Stories from Africa
- 55pagine
- 2 ore di lettura
This award-winning collection of adapted classic literature and original stories develops reading skills for low-beginning through advanced students. Accessible language and carefully controlled vocabulary build students' reading confidence. Introductions at the beginning of each story, illustrations throughout, and glossaries help build comprehension. Before, during, and after reading activities included in the back of each book strengthen student comprehension. Audio versions of selected titles provide great models of intonation and pronunciation of difficult words.
Sherlock Holmes and the Duke's Son
- 56pagine
- 2 ore di lettura
Pack of ten best-selling iBookworms/i and– ideal for building up class libraries. Each Pack contains one copy of each listed title. liThe Adventures of Tom Sawyer/libr / liThe Elephant Man/libr /liA Little Princess/libr / liLove or Money?/libr / liThe Monkey's Paw/libr / liThe Phantom of the Opera/libr / liThe President's Murderer/libr / liSherlock Holmes and the Duke's Son/libr / liWhite Death/libr / liThe Wizard of Oz/li
Sherlock Holmes and the sport of kings
- 56pagine
- 2 ore di lettura
"Horseracing is the sport of kings, perhaps because racehorses are very expensive animals. But when they win races, they can make a lot of money too - money for the owners, for the trainers, and for the people who put bets on them to win. Silver Blaze is a young horse, but already the winner of many races. One night he disappears from his stables, and someone kills his trainer. The police want the killer, and the owner wants his horse, but they can't find them. So what do they do? They write to 221B Baker Street, London, of course - to ask for the help of the great detective, Sherlock Holmes."--Publisher
'I wish I could get through into looking-glass house, ' Alice said. 'Let's pretend that the glass has gone soft and ... Why, I do believe it has! It's turning into a kind of cloud!' A moment later Alice is inside the looking-glass world. There she finds herself part of a great game of chess, travelling through forests and jumping across brooks. The chess pieces talk and argue with her, give orders and repeat poems ... It is the strangest dream that anyone ever had ... --Quatrième de couverture
Tales from Longpuddle
- 64pagine
- 3 ore di lettura
The Bookworms series offers six graded stages provide more than 130 stories at different levels of ability. The lower levels feature a wide choice of original stories, while the higher levels feature adaptations of well-known works originally published for native speakers. There are titles to suit all tastes: fantasy and horror; thriller and adventure; classics; true stories; crime and mystery; human interest.
Rabbit-proof fence
- 80pagine
- 3 ore di lettura
Following an Australian government edict in 1931, black Aboriginal children and children of mixed marriages were gathered up and taken to settlements to be institutionally assimilated. In Rabbit-Proof Fence, Doris Pilkington traces the story of her mother, Molly, one of three young girls uprooted from their community in Southwestern Australia and taken to the Moore River Native Settlement. There, Molly and her relatives Gracie and Daisy were forbidden to speak their native language, forced to abandon their heritage, and taught to be culturally white. After regular stays in solitary confinement, the three girls planned and executed a daring escape from the grim camp
From Botswana to New Zealand, from Jamaica to Nigeria, from Uganda to Malaysia, from India to South Africa, these moving stories show us that the human heart is the same in every place. Fear and pain, happiness and sadness belong to us all. These eight stories were winning entries in the 2004 Commonwealth Short Story Competition. The writers are Sefi Atta, Adrienne M. Frater, Lauri Kubuitsile, Erica N. Robinson, Jackee Budesta Batanda, Janet Tay Hui Ching, Anuradha Muralidharan, and Tod Collins.
In EDI (the European Department of Intelligence in Brussels) there are some very secret files - the Omega Files. There are strange, surprising, and sometimes horrible stories in these files, but not many people know about them. You never read about them in the newspapers. Hawker and Jude know all about the Omega Files, because they work for EDI. They think fast, they move fast, and they learn some very strange things. They go all over the world, asking difficult questions in dangerous places, but they don't always find the answers...
This award-winning collection of adapted classic literature and original stories develops reading skills for low-beginning through advanced students. Accessible language and carefully controlled vocabulary build students' reading confidence. Introductions at the beginning of each story, illustrations throughout, and glossaries help build comprehension. Before, during, and after reading activities included in the back of each book strengthen student comprehension. Audio versions of selected titles provide great models of intonation and pronunciation of difficult words.
Oxford Bookworms Library - 1: Aladdin and the Enchanted Lamp
- 56pagine
- 2 ore di lettura
Word count 5,240 Suitable for young learners
Piccole donne
- 78pagine
- 3 ore di lettura
Nella prestigiosa collana di capolavori stranieri per la gioventù, di cui questo volume fa parte, vengono offerti testi di qualità, affidati per la traduzione a scrittori contemporanei di grande fama ed esperienza. Piccole donne è il primo dei romanzi che, sullo sfondo di un'America ottocentesca, racconta la storia delle sorelle March, bambine e poi fanciulle e spose, fra cui emerge Jo, la sensibile protagonista di questo libro. Il romanzo scritto da Louisa Alcott ha passato i cento anni, ma conserva tuttora una sua fresca vitalità.
Love Among the Haystacks and Other Stories gathers together all of Lawrence's short stories not collected in the Prussian Officer volume. It offers a range of work from Lawrence's earliest surviving published story, 'A Prelude', to 'New Eve and Old Adam' written at the height of his early maturity in 1913. Each story in this edition appears in a new, authoritative text based on the manuscripts, typescripts, corrected proofs and early printings drawn from libraries and private collections in England, Italy and America. All the stories have thus been stripped of the layers of errors introduced by typists, editors and printers in their previous publication. John Worthen's introduction sets out the composition and publication history of each story, and gives a full account of the context in which it was created. A textual apparatus records all variant readings and explanatory notes explain allusions, dialect forms and foreign words.
Meet Macon Leary--a travel writer who hates both travel and strangeness. Grounded by loneliness, comfort, and a somewhat odd domestic life, Macon is about to embark on a surprising new adventure, arriving in the form of a fuzzy-haired dog obedience trainer who promises to turn his life around. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Strange things happen in the world. You can hear all sorts of sensational stories, but are they true? Who can you trust? Some stories will never be published in newspapers because the government does not want people to know about them. But their stories will appear in The Omega Files.
Language Teaching and Research Publisher : Foreign Language Teaching and Research
Contiene, in trad. italiana di Daniela Palladini: The murders in the Rue Morgue, The mystery of Marie Rogêt, The purloined letter.
For use in schools and libraries only. An Aladdin Classics edition. Sara Crewe, a pupil at Miss Minchin's London school, is left in poverty when her father dies, but she is later rescued by a mysterious benefactor.
The Riddle of the Sands
- 104pagine
- 4 ore di lettura
Carruthers is summoned to the Baltic by his friend, an accomplished yachtsman, who reveals his suspicions concerning German activity in the North Frisian Islands
The Omega Files: Short stories
- 56pagine
- 2 ore di lettura
In EDI (the European Department of Intelligence in Brussels) there aresome very secret files - the Omega Files. There are strange, surprising, andsometimes horrible stories in these files, but not many people know about them.You never read about them in the newspapers. Hawker and Jude know all about theOmega Files, because they work for EDI.They think fast, they move fast, and they learn some very strange things. Theygo all over the world, asking difficult questions in dangerous places, but theydon't always find the answers
A collection of anthologies, resource and reference books, including titles from Oscar Wilde, Mary Shelley, Alex Madina, Jo Phillips and Adrian Barlow.
Oxford Bookworms Factfiles
- 60pagine
- 3 ore di lettura
Supplementary teaching material for the Oxford Bookworms Factfiles.
Oxford Bookworms Library - 1: The Phantom of the Opera
400 Grundwörter. - Bisherige Ausgabe
- 56pagine
- 2 ore di lettura
The Oxford Bookworms Starters Teacher's Handbook Answer Keys and Photocopiable Tests for Bookworms Starters.
Activity Worksheets + Teacher's Handbook. Stage 3
Oxford Bookworms Library
- 2volumi
- 132pagine
- 5 ore di lettura
The teacher's handbooks offer an introduction to the Oxford Bookworms Library series with guidance on using graded readers, answers to the exercises in the books, photocopiable tests and an answer key.
The Eye of Childhood
- 156pagine
- 6 ore di lettura
These stories by John Updike, Graham Greene, William Boyd, Susan Hill, D.H. Lawrence, Saki, Penelope Lively, Bernard McLaverty, Frank Tuohy, Morley Callaghan explore life from a child's perspective, and show that the world can be a strange, baffling, and sometimes very frightening place.
The Wind in the Willows
- 74pagine
- 3 ore di lettura
Rat, Mole, Toad, and Badger roam the English countryside for a memorable series of adventures. Timeless tales of friendship amid the natural world.
Arthur C. Clarke is one of the greatest science fiction writers of the century, and surely the most celebrated science fiction writer alive. He is -- with H. G. Wells, Isaac Asimov and Robert A. Heinlein -- one of the writers who define the genre. Now, at the dawn of the year 2001, Sir Arthur C. Clarke has cooperated in the preparation of a massive definitive edition of his collected shorter works, which will be made available on audio in five chronological volumes, followed by a 10 CD volume of favorite selection and a 30 cassette gift set...the most ambitious science fiction audio project in history.In addition to the well-known and ever popular stories "The Other Side of the Sky," "I Remember Babylon," and The Songs of Distant Earth," this volume features comic cosmic narratives originally collected in Tales From the White Hart, including "The Defenestration of Ermintrude Inch," "The Next Tenants," and "The Man Who Ploughed the Sea."
Hurricane Mabel is far out in the Atlantic Ocean and moving slowly northwards. Perhaps it will never come near land at all. But if it hits the island of San Fernandez, many thousands of people will die. There could be winds of more than 250 kilometres an hour. There could be a huge tidal wavefrom the sea, which will drown the capital city of St Pierre. Mabel will destroy houses, farms, roads, bridges . . . Only one man, David Wyatt, believes that Mabel will hit San Fernandez, but nobody will listen to him...
A little girl falls down a rabbit hole and discovers a world of nonsensical and amusing characters.
Oxford Bookworms offer students at all levels the opportunity to extend their reading and appreciation of English. There are six stages, taking students from elementary to advanced level. At the lower stages, many of the texts have been specially written for the series, to provide elementary and lower-intermediate students with an introduction to real reading in English. At the higher stages, most of the books have been adapted from works originally published for native speakers.
Storylines - 3: Milo
- 32pagine
- 2 ore di lettura
In 2008, Sally Gardiner makes friends with Milo, a young student. When he tells Sally why he is different from other boys of his age, she does not believe him. Many years later, however, she realises that he was right. She sits dow to write a letter of warning to her grandmother, Lola. Storylines are new editions of selected Streamline Graded Readers with a new design and new colour artwork. Aimed at beginner to intermediate levels, each story is graded and has a contemporary feel that should appeal to teenagers and young adults.
The Unquiet Grave
- 79pagine
- 3 ore di lettura
A level 4 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Retold for Learners of English by Peter Hawkins. If you find a locked room in a lonely inn, don't try to open it, even on a bright sunny day. If you find a strange whistle hidden among the stones of an old church, don't blow it. If a mysterious man gives you a piece of paper with strange writing on it, give it back to him at once. And if you call a dead man from his grave, don't expect to sleep peacefully ever again. Read these five ghost stories by daylight, and make sure your door is locked.
Moondial
- 60pagine
- 3 ore di lettura
While staying with her mother's godmother, Minty finds herself drawn to a mysterious sundial which takes her back in time and links her life to that of two unhappy children she meets in two different centuries.
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 three stories of love, death and deception on train journeys.
The President is dead! A man is running in the night. He is afraid and needs to rest. But there are people behind him - people with lights, and dogs, and guns. A man is standing in front of a desk. His boss is very angry, and the man is tired and needs to sleep. But first he must find the other man, and bring him back - dead or alive. Two men: the hunter and the hunted. Which will win and which will lose? Long live the President!
A window on the universe: short stories
- 160pagine
- 6 ore di lettura
What does the future hold in store for the human race? Aliens from distant galaxies, telepathic horror, interstellar war, time-warps, the shriek of a rose, collision with an asteroid - the unknown lies around every corner, and the universe is a big place. These nine science-fiction stories offer possibilities that are fantastic, humorous, alarming, but always thought-provoking.This collection contains stories by Ray Bradbury, Bill Brown, Philip K. Dick, Arthur C. Clarke, Jerome Bixby, Isaac Asimov, Brian Aldiss, Roald Dahl, and John Wyndham.
William Shakespeare
- 56pagine
- 2 ore di lettura
The story of William Shakespeare's life is told by an imaginery friend, Toby.
Based on William Shakespeare's K̀ing Lear'. Retold in narrative form in modern language and reinterpreted for today's world. Suitable for adult literacy and learners of English-as-a-second-language.
It is 1880, in the Opera House in Paris. Everybody is talking about the Phantom of the Opera, The gost that lives somewhere under the Opera House. The Phantom is a man in black clothes. He is a body without a head, he is a head without a body. He has a yellow face, he has no nose, he has black holes for eyes. Everybody is afraid of the Phantom - the singers, the dancers, the directors, the stage workers
Independent and spirited Bathsheba Everdene has come to Weatherbury to take up her position as a farmer on the largest estate in the area. Her bold presence draws three very different suitors: the gentleman-farmer Boldwood, soldier-seducer Sergeant Troy and the devoted shepherd Gabriel Oak. Each, in contrasting ways, unsettles her decisions.
Vintage - V-145: The Lady in the Lake
- 217pagine
- 8 ore di lettura
A couple of missing wives—one a rich man's and one a poor man's—become the objects of Marlowe's investigation. One of them may have gotten a Mexican divorce and married a gigolo and the other may be dead. Marlowe's not sure he cares about either one, but he's not paid to care.
The Watchers
- 24pagine
- 1 ora di lettura
This reader is one in a series of redesigned new editions of the most popular titles in the Streamline Graded Readers series, which contain a new design and new colour artwork.
Best Loved Books: The Scarlet Pimpernel. Tom Sawyer. The Wind in the Willows. Robin Hood
- 574pagine
- 21 ore di lettura
Kenneth Grahame was a British author best known for writing books for children. The Wind in the Willows is Grahame's most famous work and is considered one of the greatest classics in children's literature. The story follows four anthropomorphised animals living in England.















































