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Pearson English Readers bring language learning to life through the joy of reading. Well-written stories entertain us, make us think, and keep our interest page after page. Pearson English Readers offer teenage and adult learners a huge range of titles, all featuring carefully graded language to... číst celé

Discover the magic of stories: Read and learn with Disney friends With the brand-new Disney Readers series, young learners can build their reading skills with the help of engaging Disney stories and characters they know and enjoy. Created to be used both at school and at home Helps young learners expand their reading in a fun and motivating way Audobook, extra learning content and activities included Aligned to the Global Scale of English and Common European Framework Lexile text measure 500 Rapunzel has magic, golden hair that can heal people. She lives with Mother Gothel, far away from people.

The Tesseract is a very powerful weapon and Loki plans to use it for an attack on Earth. Who can protect the Tesseract and save our world from the angry Asgardian? Iron Man, Captain America, Hulk, Black Widow, Hawkeye, and Thor are the Avengers - and they are Earth's only hope. číst celé

The Tesseract is a very powerful weapon and Loki plans to use it for an attack on Earth. Who can protect the Tesseract and save our world from the angry Asgardian? Iron Man, Captain America, Hulk, Black Widow, and Hawkeye are the Avengers - and they are Earth's only hope.

The How to Train Your Dragon movies are loved around the world for their original characters, exciting adventures and fun, action-packed stories. This Level 2 Popcorn ELT reader is based on the second film in the franchise.

Extensive reading is essential for improving fluency and there is a real need in the ELT classroom for contemporary, low-level reading material for younger learners. This level 3 Popcorn ELT Reader is based on the popular animated film Home , about the adventures of Oh, an alien and Tip, a teenage girl and their search for a new home.

In these eleven stories, Fitzgerald depicts the Roaring Twenties as he lived them. He masterfully blends accounts of flappers and the smart set with more fantastical visions of America, always imbuing his narratives with his trademark themes of money, class, ambition and love.

Un thriller di straordinaria tenuta narrativa. Chi è l'uomo senza nome, senza memoria, con il volto dai lineamenti ricostruiti, che alcuni pescatori di Marsiglia hanno salvato dopo un naufragio? A che cosa si riferiscono le visioni confuse e le immagini di violenza e di pericolo che di tanto in tanto gli affiorano nella memoria? Perché qualcuno ha tentato, e sta ancora tentando, di eliminarlo con ogni mezzo? La storia di un incubo, di un'angoscia: quella di essere un ingranaggio di una macchina che non si sa a che cosa serva e dove porti.

[Penguin Readers Level 3]Lord Cutler Beckett thinks that pirates are very bad for business. He wants to take command of the oceans. The Pirate Lords, of course, have other ideas. But can they fight him and win--together? They need the help of Captain Jack Sparrow, but he and his ship are at the bottom of the ocean. Is this the end for the Pirates of the Caribbean?

A famous painting is going to the Grierson Gallery in LA and they want a top man to come to the United States. He can talk about the artist. The National Gallery in London send Mr Bean. But something is very wrong with Mr Bean! He's very, very strange. And dangerous! After he arrives, accidents start to happen.

Tra i volumi che compongono la vasta serie dei Viaggi Straordinari di Jules Verne, Il Giro del Mondo in Ottanta Giorni (1872) è incontestabilmente uno dei più famosi. Con il successo straordinario ottenuto presso il pubblico contrasta, tuttavia, il limitato interesse mostrato dalla critica. Il romanzo, infatti, pur essendo oggetto di numerose allusioni e richiami, molto raramente, finora, ha dato origine a studi approfonditi, esclusivi.

Classic / British English When a fisherman opens an old jar, a giant comes out. When a donkey opens its mouth, gold falls out. There is magic in these five fairy tales. Good people are often very unhappy -- but in the end they have happy lives.

"Martin Luther King had a dream. He wanted blacks and whites to live together happily. But in America in the 1950s and 1960s, all men were not equal. King led peaceful protests against the government and won changes for the blacks of America. But has King's dream really come true today?"--Back cover

Allie Fox hates the United States and he hates the twentieth century. He takes his wife and children to the jungle in Honduras to find a new, simpler way of living. But things go wrong, and their lives become much worse and more frightening than anything back home

Classic / British EnglishOnly the next king can pull the sword out of the stone. Many people try, but they cannot move the sword. Then young Arthur tries, but it comes out easily. Now he will be king. But will he be a good king? And will his life be happy? This Pack contains a Book and MP3

Contemporary / British English Young Prince Einon is dying. Only the Great Dragon can help him But first the boy has to say, 'I won't be a cruel king. I'll love my people and be kind to them.' But Einon is cruel, and everybody in the country is afraid. Now the Dragon, good Sir Bowen and the peasants have to fight in a great battle between Good and Bad.

[Penguin Readers Level 2]Sindbad the Sailor went to sea seven times. Each time his voyage was filled with adventure and danger! He meets giant men, giant snakes and giant birds. How does he save himself? Set sail with Sindbad on these exciting voyages. ...

Classic / British EnglishEdgar Allan Poe, ‘the father of the detective story’ and a master of horror, is one of the greatest American short story writers. In these stories we meet people struggling with fear, revenge, mental illness and death. Which of them will win – and which will lose – their battles?

Retells the story of the misfortunes that plague a prominent New England family because of greed and a two-hundred-year-old curse.

Botswana, Africa del sud: territori aridi, etnie diverse, spazi ampi, ma anche uffici piccoli come pollai. In uno di questi la signora Precious Ramotswe ha aperto la Ladies’ Detective Agency N.1, la prima e unica agenzia investigativa del Botswana diretta da una donna. Stavolta deve fare i conti con una madre americana, che anni prima ha perso il suo ragazzo, impegnato nel progetto di una cooperativa agricola. Poi con un marito tradito e addolorato, nonché con una cameriera invidiosa. La signora Ramotswe, armata di un cuore d’oro, di un cervello niente male e del ricordo degli insegnamenti dell’adorato padre, parte «in groppa» al più scalcagnato furgoncino del paese e sfida polvere e calura, come uno sceriffo in gonnella. Dispensa, con un senso della giustizia tutto personale, pillole di saggezza, soluzioni pratiche e felicità a portata di mano. Alexander McCall Smith è riuscito a creare un personaggio originalissimo: una grassa, benevola protettrice dei più deboli e sfortunati, grande bevitrice di tè rosso, con un passato doloroso alle spalle – un primo marito violento – che ne accentua l’umanità. Con leggerezza e ironia l’autore tesse le avventure dell’ottima detective, sullo sfondo fresco e vivace di un’Africa insolita, sconosciuta e vera.

Celebrated prose retellings of Shakespeare's plays Charles and Mary Lamb have delighted generations of adults as well as children with their famed prose renderings of Shakespeare's originals. Bringing the plays to life in a form that encourages readers to enjoy and explore, "Tales from Shakespeare" provides an entertaining and informative introduction to the great works while retaining much of Shakespeare's lyricism, phrasing, and rhythm. It is a captivating work of Romantic storytelling as well as the original literary homage to the Bard.

Contemporary/ British English 'Sons of Scotland! You have come here to fight as free men. If you fight, perhaps you'll die. If you run, you may live for a time. But at what cost?' Braveheart is the story of William Wallace, who gave hope to Scottish people in their fight to be free.

Clicca qui per l'edizione "Storie senza tempo". Scritto nel 1795 con il titolo di "Elinor and Marianne", "Ragione e sentimento" viene pubblicato nel 1811. Come gli altri maggiori romanzi della Austen, descrive le vicende di un'anima ingenuamente romantica che, attraverso l'esperienza, giunge a comprendere infine la realtà dell'esistenza. Protagoniste sono le giovani sorelle Dashwood, Elinor e Marianne, che, alla morte del padre, sono costrette a fare i conti con le ristrettezze economiche nella loro nuova e modesta casa nel Devonshire. Qui conosceranno le pene e le gioie dell'amore e, imparando a conciliare la ragione con il sentimento, diventeranno donne. Attorno a questo processo di maturazione la Austen tesse una trama piena di grazia e ironia, in cui con la sua elegantissima prosa riesce ad analizzare e descrivere con straordinaria sottigliezza il contrasto e il dissidio tra istanze psicologiche e morali.

Pierre Aronnax, professore al Museo di Storia Naturale di Parigi, il suo devoto domestico Conseil e l'infallibile fiociniere Ned Land si imbarcano alla caccia di una sconosciuta creatura marina che infesta le acque affondando le navi. Ma cosa si nasconde veramente dietro le storie che si raccontano sul mostro? Una grande sorpresa li aspetta nelle profondità dei mari: è il "Nautilus", un sottomarino pronto a "divorarli" per farli suoi ospiti. Lo guida il Capitano Nemo, uomo colto e sfuggente, enigmatico come gli abissi. Insieme percorreranno ventimila leghe sotto i mari, tra meraviglia, paura e infinte scoperte. Un affascinante viaggio tra i misteri dei fondali, un'avventura senza tempo con cui l'inesauribile fantasia di Jules Verne ha aperto le porte alla fantascienza moderna.

Sal Paradise, un giovane newyorkese con ambizioni letterarie, incontra Dean Moriarty, un ragazzo dell'Ovest. Uscito dal riformatorio, Dean comincia a girovagare sfidando le regole della vita borghese, sempre alla ricerca di esperienze intense. Dean decide di ripartire per l'Ovest e Sal lo raggiunge; è il primo di una serie di viaggi che imprimono una dimensione nuova alla vita di Sal. La fuga continua di Dean ha in sé una caratteristica eroica, Sal non può fare a meno di ammirarlo, anche quando febbricitante, a Città del Messico, viene abbandonato dall'amico, che torna negli Stati Uniti.

Contemporary / British English Meet the Larkin family They enjoy a wonderful country life, never worrying about money, work -- or the law. But then, one day, a man arrives from the tax office. Is the taxman going to change the Larkin's lives? Or is his life going to change forever?

Private detective Philip Marlowe is looking for the missing wife of Derace Kingsley. Is she dead or not? And is she the lady in the lake?

When Sir Robert Chiltern is threatened with blackmail, his only escape is to turn the tables on the blackmailer. This play is an exploration of social hypocrisy. Ideal for group.

One night Tom Ripley is insulted by a man at a party. An ordinary person would just be upset by this, but Tom Ripley is not an ordinary person. Months later, when a friend asks him for help with two simple murders, he remembers this night and plans revenge. He starts a game - a very nasty game, in which he plays with the life of a sick and innocent man. But how far will he go?

Every year some species of animal disappear - we never see them again.Every year cities, factories and pollution eat up more land - land that animalsneed. Every year hunters kill more elephants, rhinoceros and tigers. Animalseverywhere are in danger - what can we do to save them?

"Ci sono dei libri che fanno scalpore, poi vengono dimenticati. Altri sopravvivono al passare degli anni: sono i classici. Uno di questi è 'Piccole donne': racconta la crescita di quattro sorelle adolescenti nell'Ottocento americano, un tempo lontanissimo dal nostro, apparentemente molto diverso. Eppure le sorelle March parlano il nostro linguaggio, vivono le stesse nostre emozioni." dall'introduzione di Teresa Buongiorno

A man wants to kill the Police Commissioner. But who is he? Can Steve Malone find the killer? He only has two days...

The Amazon Rain Forest is the largest rain forest in the world. It is 10,000,000 years old and many different kinds of plants and animals live here. The forest is important for the world's weather and wildlife, but it is disappearing fast. Read this book and learn about this wonderful forest - and its problems. What will its future be?

The Wind in the Willows is a children's novel by Kenneth Grahame, first published in 1908. Alternately slow moving and fast paced, it focuses on four anthropomorphised animals in a pastoral version of England. The novel is notable for its mixture of mysticism, adventure, morality, and camaraderie and celebrated for its evocation of the nature of the Thames valley. In 1908 Grahame retired from his position as secretary of the Bank of England. He moved back to Cookham, Berkshire, where he had been brought up and spent his time by the River Thames doing much as the animal characters in his book do-namely, as one of the phrases from the book says, "simply messing about in boats"-and wrote down the bed-time stories he had been telling his son Alistair.

This series offers students a bridge from simplified fiction to the original writings of famous literary figures. This complete text edition has an introduction and glossary and is suitable for students preparing for Cambridge Proficiency.

Classic / American English These nine stories will take the reader on an exciting journey to distant cultures and times. The collection includes folktales from South America, Africa, India, China, and Europe.

Now a major motion picture from Universal Studios, starring "The Rock!" Across the deserts of the Middle East, the warlord Memnon expands his reign. With his sorcerer foretelling the outcome of every battle, his army marches undefeated, slaughtering those who dare oppose him. Memnon seeks to fulfill an ancient prophecy to become the King of Legend, the favored ruler of the gods... But the gods favor another. His name is Mathayus. A warrior without peer, he will inspire the remnants of the desert tribes to unite against Memnon's tyranny. And he will ascend a throne of his own making...

"Romeo and Juliet is one of the most famous love stories in the world. But it is more than a great love story. It is also about life and death, happiness and sadness, and the terrible hate between two great families. Shakespeare's beautiful tale is still as popular today as it was more than 400 years ago." - back cover.

This is the classic story of the four March sisters - Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy. Their story of their loves, problems and adventures is sometimes sad, often funny, but always charming.

Sheherezade is beautiful and clever. She also knows 1001 wonderful stories. Her husband wants to kill her, but he can't. Sheherezade tells him stories about a clever servant girl and a boy judge, about Ali Baba and Aladdin. What happens next? Her husband wants to know. He listens and she lives.

Profiles six "gurus" whose ideas on management helped create the modern business world, including Frederick Taylor, Alfred P. Sloan, Peter Drucker, Tom Peters, Rosabeth Moss Kanter, and Charles Handy.

Wordsworth Classics covers a huge list of beloved works of literature in English and translations. This growing series is rigorously updated, with scholarly introductions and notes added to new titles.

Nel 1992, la Guerra Mondiale ha devastato il pianeta, portando l'umanità a cercare rifugio nello spazio. Chi è rimasto sogna di avere un animale vivo, mentre le aziende producono copie incredibilmente realistiche di creature come gatti e cavalli. Anche gli esseri umani sono stati duplicati: i replicanti, indistinguibili dai biologici, sono stati banditi dalla Terra. Alcuni di loro, però, scelgono di mescolarsi con gli umani, perdendo le proprie tracce. A San Francisco, un uomo ha il compito di ritirare gli androidi che infrangono la legge, ma i suoi dubbi lo portano a interrogarsi sulla vera natura dell'umanità. Questa edizione rigorosa e commentata di un classico della letteratura d'immaginazione esplora la visione di una metropoli futura e i dilemmi della bioetica contemporanea. Con un mix di tragicità e grottesco, il romanzo di Philip K. Dick dipinge un futuro desolato, rivelando il desiderio di amore e redenzione nei più umili. Trasformando il genere fantascientifico in un noir cupo e metafisico, la narrazione si muove tra esseri umani e artificiali, cacciatori e vittime. Dopo il successo di Blade Runner, la trasposizione cinematografica, il romanzo è diventato uno dei classici meno conosciuti, invitando i lettori a riflettere su un mondo che rispecchia i sogni e la fantasia collettiva del nuovo millennio.

Set in 1751 Scotland during a tumultuous period, the story follows young David Balfour, who finds himself alone and without resources. His life takes a dramatic turn when he discovers a letter from his deceased father, setting him on an extraordinary journey filled with fear and excitement. As he navigates through challenges, David's adventure promises to be both thrilling and transformative.

[ Penguin Readers Level 3 ] Katy and her boyfriend Tom are happy playing in their band, Steel City, but when Tom gets a new guitar, he starts to change. Everytime he picks it up, he plays better than he has ever done, but he also behaves in a frightening way.

The Borrowers are tiny people who live under the floor of the Lender family's house. A nasty lawyer, Ocious P. Potter, wants to pull down the Lender's home, but young Peter Lender meets Arrietty Clock, a Borrower, and they join forces to try and stop him.

Ed Exley, Bud White, Jack Vincennes: tre poliziotti che si servono della legge per motivi personali, estremamente personali. Ma in una città come la Los Angeles dei primi anni Cinquanta la polizia non può fare a meno dell'ambizione smodata di Exley, dei rancori di White e dei rimorsi di Vincennes. Ha bisogno di uomini capaci di muoversi in quel pantano di pornografia, corruzione, lotte tra gang rivali; capaci di uccidere e di mentire, di rispondere alla violenza con la violenza. Una detective story dura e perfetta, difficile da sbrogliare, raccontata in presa diretta, con linguaggio crudo e preciso, con la raggelante chiarezza della verità. Un libro che dà nuova luce al noir.

The hilarious, Academy Award-nominated screenplay that features six old friends, three disastrous receptions, a tongue-tied priest, and the role that made Hugh Grant the world's favorite bumbling bachelor. Toasted by romantics and cynics, critics and fans, Four Weddings and a Funeral grossed more than $250 million worldwide, garnered Academy Award nominations for Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay, and was unanimously pronounced the romantic comedy of the 90s. Richard Curtis's smart, irreverent, and brilliantly crafted screenplay will delight fans of the movie, as well as screenwriters and film students. From the first spoken line to the last ("I do"), it's a jubilant celebration of friendship, romance, and good humor.

The oldest university in England and one of the most famous cities in the world. But Oxford is not only a city of students, and its history was not always quiet and thoughtful. And what is modern Oxford really like? This book looks at the history of Oxford - but it also looks at the livingcity of today, its river, and some places of interest nearby.

This course is based on research carried out in four real companies. All the language is presented and practised within the context of a contemporary international commercial working environment. The weighting given to certain items in the syllabus reflects the needs of junior business people.

The coursebooks points to clearly highlight the objective of every lesson regular ‘grammar backup’ sections to reinforce the key language points and provide additional practice wordfiles to help students remember new vocabulary lively role-plays and discussions to build confidence phrasebook boxes to provide reminders of key language project units to provide extended practice of spoken and written communication

This course is based on research carried out in four real companies. All the language is presented and practised within the context of a contemporary international commercial working environment. The weighting given to certain items in the syllabus reflects the needs of junior business people.

Look Ahead is a four-level series for upper secondary and young adult learners of English, taking them from beginning level to First Certificate preparation. The Longman classroom series is the institutional version of this multimedia project, created by a consortium consisting of: BBC English, British Council, Longman ELT, Cambridge Examinations (UCLES), with the cooperation of the Council of Europe.

'Penguin Readers' is a series of novels, film novelizations and original titles that introduces students at all levels to the pleasures of reading.

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.

In una mattina d'inverno Grace, unica figlia di Annie, una giovane donna in carriera, e di Robert, un avvocato, viene travolta da un camion mentre è in sella al suo cavallo. La ragazzina, in seguito alla caduta, deve subire l'amputazione della gamba, ma anche Pilgrim, l'amato cavallo di Grace, è gravemente ferito e dovrebbe essere abbattuto. Tornati a casa, sia Grace che Pilgrim manifestano i sintomi di un grave trauma psicologico: Grace ha perso completamente la gioia di vivere, Pilgrim sembra in preda a una oscura follia e nessuno lo può avvicinare. Consapevole del legame che unisce sua figlia all'animale, sicura che guarirà solo se guarirà Pilgrim, Annie ricorre all'aiuto di un cowboy che ha il "dono" di saper ammansire i cavalli selvaggi.

Look Ahead is a four-level series for upper secondary and young adult learners of English, taking them from beginning level to First Certificate preparation. The Longman classroom series is the institutional version of this multimedia project, created by a consortium consisting of: BBC English, British Council, Longman ELT, Cambridge Examinations (UCLES), with the cooperation of the Council of Europe.

The titles in this series are mainly new editions of titles in the Longman Simplified English Series. They are suitable for students at upper intermediate level, including those preparing for the Cambridge First Certificate.

Look Ahead is a four-level series for upper secondary and young adult learners of English, taking them from beginning level to First Certificate preparation. The Longman classroom series is the institutional version of this multimedia project, created by a consortium consisting of: BBC English, British Council, Longman ELT, Cambridge Examinations (UCLES), with the cooperation of the Council of Europe.

Look Ahead is a four-level series for upper secondary and young adult learners of English, taking them from beginning level to First Certificate preparation. The Longman classroom series is the institutional version of this multimedia project, created by a consortium consisting of: BBC English, British Council, Longman ELT, Cambridge Examinations (UCLES), with the cooperation of the Council of Europe.

Look Ahead is a four-level series for upper secondary and young adult learners of English, taking them from beginning level to First Certificate preparation. The Longman classroom series is the institutional version of this multimedia project, created by a consortium consisting of: BBC English, British Council, Longman ELT, Cambridge Examinations (UCLES), with the cooperation of the Council of Europe.

«Questa è la storia dei cinque anni che ho trascorso da ragazzo, con la mia famiglia, nell’isola greca di Corfù. In origine doveva essere un resoconto blandamente nostalgico della storia naturale dell’isola, ma ho commesso il grave errore di infilare la mia famiglia nel primo capitolo del libro. Non appena si sono trovati sulla pagina non ne hanno più voluto sapere di levarsi di torno, e hanno persino invitato i vari amici a dividere i capitoli con loro»: così Gerald Durrell presenta questo libro, uno dei più universalmente amati che siano apparsi in Inghilterra negli ultimi trent’anni. Ma il lettore avrà il piacere di scoprirvi anche qualcos’altro: la storia di un Paradiso Terrestre, e di un ragazzo che vi scorrazza instancabile, curioso di scoprire la vita (che per lui, futuro illustre zoologo, è soprattutto la natura e gli animali), passando anche attraverso avventure, tensioni, turbamenti, tutti però stemperati in una atmosfera di tale felicità che il lettore ne viene fin dalle prime pagine contagiato. La mia famiglia e altri animali fu pubblicato in Inghilterra nel 1956.

Teachers book includes detailed guidance on teaching methodology and bank of teacher development worksheets Two free photocopiable test booklets, with pull-out answer keys, to accompany the course.  These provide help for students preparing for KET, PET and FCE examinations.

* A wide range of activities provides further controlled practice of the main grammatical, functional and vocabulary areas presented in the Students' Book * Integrated skills tasks require learners to work with a listening or reading text and then to produce a piece of related written work *'Help Yourself' sections provide learner-development activities which encourage students to reflect on language and the language learning process * Regular Sound/Spelling links sections draw attention to common links between sound and spelling in English. The sections are designed both to develop an awareness of spelling patterns and to help learners with their pronunciation * A review list of key vocabulary from the Students' Book is contains at the back of the Workbook

Look Ahead is a four-level series for upper secondary and young adult learners of English, taking them from beginning level to First Certificate preparation. The Longman classroom series is the institutional version of this multimedia project, created by a consortium consisting of: BBC English, British Council, Longman ELT, Cambridge Examinations (UCLES), with the cooperation of the Council of Europe.

Look Ahead is a four-level series for upper secondary and young adult learners of English, taking them from beginning level to First Certificate preparation. The Longman classroom series is the institutional version of this multimedia project, created by a consortium consisting of: BBC English, British Council, Longman ELT, Cambridge Examinations (UCLES), with the cooperation of the Council of Europe.