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Questa serie offre rielaborazioni avvincenti e condensate di capolavori letterari di fama mondiale. Ogni volume presenta un racconto classico di diverse culture in un formato accessibile ai lettori più giovani. Funge da eccellente introduzione alla ricchezza della letteratura mondiale, ampliando gli orizzonti di molti. Questi libri fungono da ponte verso i testi originali, arricchendo sia gli studenti di lingue che i lettori occasionali.

Jesus of Nazareth
Time Machine, The
Aladdin and his Magic Lamp
Persuasion
Mill on the Floss
The Mayor of Casterbridge

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  • Persuasion

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    Featuring one of her most likeable characters, this sparkling love story set in a seaside resort is Jane Austen’s final finished work. “There could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison.” Since Anne Elliot eight years ago rejected the marriage proposal of Captain Wentworth, a penniless naval officer, she has resigned herself to a quiet life at home, tending to the imagined needs of her spoiled sisters and vain father. But when Captain Wentworth reappears in their midst, having made his fortune at sea, Anne must ask herself whether she made the right decision—or allowed herself to be persuaded against her heart. Jane Austen’s last completed novel and her most optimistic and romantic work, Persuasion gives full scope to the author’s artistic powers, blending sharp wit and warm sympathy, stylistic brilliance and matchless insight. It is a story that affirms the lasting power of love and the rejuvenating power of hope. With an Introduction by Margaret Drabble and an Afterword by Diane Johnson

    Persuasion

  • Aladdin and his Magic Lamp

    • 64pagine
    • 3 ore di lettura

    Though Aladdin's childhood had been full of beauty, comfort and happiness, without any trace of sadness or sorrow, he entirely failed to learn the lessons of hard work and responsibility.

    Aladdin and his Magic Lamp

  • Great expectations

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    Pip, a poor young boy, receives amazing news. Someone has given him a large amount of money and wants to make him a gentleman. But who is his mysterious benefactor? Is it Miss Havisham, the strange lady who lives in an old house with the beautiful Estella? Pip loves Estella but can she love him? Life is full of surprises...

    Great expectations

  • Mahabharata: How it All Began

    If there ever was an epic that touches upon every conceivable human emotion and poses the most complex of questions, it has to be the Mahabharata, the most famous of stories from India.

    Mahabharata: How it All Began

  • Picture of Dorian Gray, The

    • 64pagine
    • 3 ore di lettura
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    Young, rich and handsome, Dorian Gray seems to have it all. So why do people who were once his friends, leave the room when he enters? Can there really be any truth in the dark tales that are told about him? And just why does he keep his portrait locked away in an attic room?

    Picture of Dorian Gray, The

  • Siddhartha Gautama

    • 64pagine
    • 3 ore di lettura

    Can the path to the ultimate truth about human life be found by leaving behind wealth, comfort, family and security?

    Siddhartha Gautama

  • Dream of the Red Chamber

    Baoyu has always believed that he will marry his childhood sweetheart, Daiyu. Daiyu is beautiful and talented, very sensitive, and physically fragile. It is a huge shock to him when he learns that his parents want him to marry Baochai instead, a healthy and considerate girl.

    Dream of the Red Chamber

  • Pride and Prejudice

    • 352pagine
    • 13 ore di lettura
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    Jane Austen's famous novel about Elizabeth Bennet and Mr Darcy finding love against all the odds of misunderstanding, scandal and family interference is brought to life in a brand new adaptation coming to cinemas this Autumn.

    Pride and Prejudice

  • La mia vita per la libertà. L'autobiografia del profeta della non-violenza

    • 384pagine
    • 14 ore di lettura
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    It is not my purpose to attempt a real autobiography. I simply want to tell the story of my numerous experiments with truth, and as my life consists of nothing but those experiments, it is true that the story will take the shape of an autobiography. ...Identification with everything that lives is impossible without self-purification; without self-purification, the observance of the law of Ahimsa must remain an empty dream; God can never be realised by one who is not pure of heart. Self-purification, therefore, must remain purification in all walks of life. And purification being highly infectious, purification of oneself necessarily leads to the purification of one's surroundings. But the path to self-purification is hard and steep. To attain perfect purity, one has to become absolutely passion-free in thought, speech and action; to rise above the opposing currents of love and hatred, attachment and repulsion. I know that I have not in me as yet the triple purity, in spite of constant ceaseless striving for it. That is why the world's praise fails to move me; indeed it very often stings me. To conquer the subtle passions seems to me far harder than the physical conquest of the world by the force of arms. Ever since my return to India, I have had experiences of the dormant passions lying hidden within me. The knowledge of them has made me feel humiliated though not defeated. The experiences and experiments have sustained me and given me great joy. But I know I still have before me a difficult path to traverse. I must reduce myself to zero. So long as a man does not of his own free will put himself last among his fellow creatures, there is no salvation for him. Ahimsa is the farthest limit of humility. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, 26 November, 1925.

    La mia vita per la libertà. L'autobiografia del profeta della non-violenza

  • Mahabharata: Rolling the Dice

    If there ever was an epic that touches upon every conceivable human emotion and poses the most complex of questions, it has to be the Mahabharata, the most famous of stories from India.

    Mahabharata: Rolling the Dice

  • Journey to the West

    • 64pagine
    • 3 ore di lettura
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    In ancient China a magical monkey appears, creating chaos everywhere he goes. The only way to put his tricks and talents to good use is to make him protector of Xuanzang, a young and handsome monk determined to travel from China to India in search of the precious scriptures.

    Journey to the West

  • David Copperfield

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    David, orfano di padre, vive una infanzia felice con la madre, ma questa poi si risposa con il signor Murdstone, un uomo crudele che la porta alla tomba. Privo di affetti, David sperimenta la dura scuola del maestro Creakle. Il patrigno gli impone un lavoro avvilente in un negozio di Londra. Disperato fugge a piedi a Dover, dove una zia, Betsey, accetta di occuparsi di lui. Lo manda a Canterbury, per educarlo, in casa del suo avvocato, padre di Agnes, una dolce fanciulla. Divenuto cronista parlamentare e conquistata anche fama letteraria, David sposa Dora che pochi anni dopo muore. Il giovane allora si accorge della dolce Agnes che sposa, dopo aver salvato il futuro suocero dalle trame del suo amministratore. Annotation Supplied by Informazioni Editoriali

    David Copperfield

  • Odyssey, The

    • 64pagine
    • 3 ore di lettura
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    After ten long years of war and the fall of Troy, the Greek hero Odysseus sets sail for his homeland. His voyage, however, is destined to take much longer than he expects.

    Odyssey, The

  • Study in Scarlet, A

    • 52pagine
    • 2 ore di lettura

    Conan Doyle's first Sherlock Holmes mystery. This book also includes another Sherlock Holmes mystery, The Speckled Band.

    Study in Scarlet, A

  • Water Margin, The

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    Although Song Jiang is only a lowly local government official, he is loyal to the emperor and kind to all the citizens in his care. But Song is in trouble. A series of unfortunate incidents have led to him being arrested, and his political enemies are keen to see him sentenced to death.

    Water Margin, The

  • Little Dorrit

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    The classic story of Amy Dorrit, who lives much of her life at the Marshalsea prison where her father is imprisoned for debt, earning meager wages at jobs outside the prison walls, including seamstress work for Mrs. Clennam, whose son Arthur takes an interest in her plight.

    Little Dorrit

  • Simon Peter

    Catching fish. That's what I was doing on the day that changed my life for ever.

    Simon Peter

  • Bleak house

    • 128pagine
    • 5 ore di lettura
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    zjednodušená anglická četba, vhodná při přípravě na zkoušku FCE jako doplňkový materiál ( úroveň B2 - Upper-Intermediate, slovní zásoba 2 200 slov)věk 16+

    Bleak house

  • Les Miserables

    • 64pagine
    • 3 ore di lettura

    `Send the brat home? Oh no we won't! Her mother must have met some rich man - we can make a load of money out of this.'

    Les Miserables

  • Moonstone, The

    • 64pagine
    • 3 ore di lettura

    Rachel opened the box and lifted out the diamond. She held it up in a ray of sunlight that poured through the window, and cried out in amazement.

    Moonstone, The