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Margaret Tarner

    Oxford and Cambridge
    Our Mutual Friend
    The Forsyte Saga
    The enchanted April - B1/B2
    Rebecca
    Bleak house
    • This edition of Much Ado About Nothing is part of the groundbreaking Cambridge School Shakespeare series established by Rex Gibson. Remaining faithful to the series' active approach it treats the play as a script to be acted, explored and enjoyed. As well as the complete script of the play, you will find a variety of classroom-tested activities, an eight-page colour section and a selection of notes including information on characters, performance, history and language.

      Much Ado about Nothing2011
      4,0
    • Macbeth

      • 192bladzijden
      • 7 uur lezen

      Encompasses witchcraft, bloody murder, and ghostly apparitions. This work tells the tragedy of a good, brave and honourable man turned into the personification of evil by the workings of unreasonable ambition.

      Macbeth2010
      3,9
    • Hamlet

      • 173bladzijden
      • 7 uur lezen

      Tragedie van de Engelse schrijver (1564-1616) over een Deense prins die de moord op zijn vader wil wreken.

      Hamlet2009
      4,0
    • Een vrouw verlaat haar gezin en gaat in vrije liefde met haar minnaar leven, doch blijkt uiteindelijk niet tegen de spanningen van dit onzekere bestaan opgewassen. "Anna Karenina". 1873-'76

      Anna Karenina2007
      4,0
    • When rain clouds gather

      • 80bladzijden
      • 3 uur lezen

      Macmillan Readers are a range of contemporary and classic titles specially retold for learners of English. Levels are carefully graded from Starter to Upper Intermediate to help students choose the right material for their abilty.

      When rain clouds gather2006
      3,9
    • The enchanted April - B1/B2

      • 80bladzijden
      • 3 uur lezen

      Four women answer and advertisement. They leave London and go on holiday to San Salavatore - an Italian castle by the sea. They find enchantment, happiness and love.

      The enchanted April - B1/B22005
      4,0
    • Een meeslepende weergave van de duistere criminele onderwereld van Londen, het verhaal volgt Oliver Twist, een wees die vanaf zijn geboorte geconfronteerd wordt met kwaad en tegenspoed. Na te zijn ontsnapt uit het werkhuis en de pompeuze Mr. Bumble, wordt Oliver in een bende van dieven getrokken, vol levendige personages zoals de sluwe Artful Dodger, de brute inbreker Bill Sikes, zijn hond Bull's Eye en de prostituee Nancy, allemaal onder het waakzame oog van meester-dief Fagin. Dickens mengt elementen van Gothic Romance, Newgate Novel en populair melodrama, en creëert een nieuwe soort fictie die een wrede samenleving bekritiseert, doordrenkt met een gevoel van bedreiging en mysterie. Dit verhaal biedt een kritische blik op de sociale ongelijkheid van de tijd en de strijd van de onschuldige tegen de onderdrukking van de maatschappij.

      Oliver Twist2005
      4,1
    • My cousin Rachel

      • 88bladzijden
      • 4 uur lezen

      "From the first pagethe reader is back in the moody, brooding atmosphere of Rebecca." The New York Times "From the bestselling author of Rebecca, another classic set in beautiful and mysterious Cornwall."Philip Ashley's older cousin Ambrose, who raised the orphaned Philip as his own son, has died in Rome. Philip, the heir to Ambrose's beautiful English estate, is crushed that the man he loved died far from home. He is also suspicious. While in Italy, Ambrose fell in love with Rachel, a beautiful English and Italian woman. But the final, brief letters Ambrose wrote hint that his love had turned to paranoia and fear.Now Rachel has arrived at Philip's newly inherited estate. Could this exquisite woman, who seems to genuinely share Philip's grief at Ambrose's death, really be as cruel as Philip imagined? Or is she the kind, passionate woman with whom Ambrose fell in love? Philip struggles to answer this question, knowing Ambrose's estate, and his own future, will be destroyed if his answer is wrong. Bonus Reading Group Guide IncludedPRAISE FOR DAPHNE DU MAURIER"Miss du Maurier is... a storyteller whose sole aim is to bewitch and beguile. And in My Cousin Rachel she does both, with Rebecca looking fondly over her shoulder." New York Times"Double-distilled readers' delight." Manchester Guardian

      My cousin Rachel2005
      4,1
    • Washington square

      • 192bladzijden
      • 7 uur lezen

      Catherine Sloper is forbidden by her wealthy father to marry the fortune-hunting Morris Townsend. She secretly promises to marry Townsend when he is ready, but then realizes that Townsend is only waiting for her father to change his mind about her inheritance.

      Washington square2005
      3,7
    • Unquiet graves

      • 64bladzijden
      • 3 uur lezen

      During their school holidays, the teenagers, Frankie, Regan, Tom and Jack, join an archaeological dig in southeast England. Their teacher and the archaeologist in charge give them some facts about the historical background to the site and the Glanville family who had once lived there. When Frankie and Jack accidentally fall into the Glanville family's vault in the local graveyard, Frankie finds an old silver coin clipped in half. Shortly after her return to the graveyard, she meets an angry young man dressed in dark clothes. As Regan, Tom and Jack start to piece together the sad tale of Eleanor, the ward of the ruthless nineteenth century owner of the manor house and the local village, the friends begin to get seriously worried about Frankie's increasingly disturbed behaviour

      Unquiet graves2005
      2,9
    • Het oog van de tijger

      • 377bladzijden
      • 14 uur lezen

      Een Engelsman die op het eiland St. Mary in de Indische Oceaan een botenverhuurbedrijfje heeft, wordt door een vreemde groep klanten betrokken bij een wilde jacht op een schat temidden van de koraalriffen.

      Het oog van de tijger2005
      4,0
    • Emma

      • 492bladzijden
      • 18 uur lezen

      Beschrijving van leven en karakter van een jong, intelligent en zelfbewust meisje uit de gegoede middenstand in Engeland omstreeks 1800.

      Emma2005
      4,1
    • Bleak house

      • 832bladzijden
      • 30 uur lezen

      Penguin presents the companion book to the "Masterpiece Theatre" miniseries starring Gillian Anderson (T"he House of Mirth, The X-Files"). This stunning production features a screenplay written by Andrew Davies ("Bridget Jones's Diary"). Part romance, part melodrama, part detective story, the novel spreads out among a web of relationships in every level of society.

      Bleak house2002
      4,3
    • The Phantom Airman

      • 64bladzijden
      • 3 uur lezen

      Lychford Green is an old RAF airbase. It hasn't been used in years, but somehow it still bears the traces of the horrors which took place there 50 years previous. When Regan, Tom, Jack and Frankie investigate the empty airfield for a school project, they find that it echoes with its untold story.

      The Phantom Airman2000
      3,4
    • The Woodlanders

      • 400bladzijden
      • 14 uur lezen

      When country-girl Grace Melbury returns home from her middle-class school she feels she has risen above her suitor, the simple woodsman Giles Winterborne. Though marriage had been discussed between her and Giles, Grace finds herself captivated by Dr Edred Fitzpiers, a sophisticated newcomer to the area - a relationship that is encouraged by her socially ambitious father. Hardy's novel of betrayal, disillusionment and moral compromise depicts a secluded community coming to terms with the disastrous impact of outside influences. And in his portrayal of Giles Winterborne, Hardy shows a man who responds deeply to the forces of the natural world, thought they ultimately betray him.

      The Woodlanders1999
      3,9
    • This Is Cambridge

      • 32bladzijden
      • 2 uur lezen

      This is an Beginner Level title in a series of ELT readers which includes a wide range of stories - some original and some simplified - from modern and classic novels, and is designed to appeal to all age-groups, tastes and cultures. The books are divided into five Starter Level, with about 300 basic words; Beginner Level (600 basic words); Elementary Level (1100); Intermediate Level (1600); and Upper Level (2200). Some of the stories are also available on audio-cassette.

      This Is Cambridge1995
    • This is an Upper Level title in a series of ELT readers comprising a wide range of stories - some original and some simplified - from modern and classic novels, and designed to appeal to all age-groups, tastes and cultures. The books are divided into five levels: Starter Level, with about 300 basic words; Beginner Level (600 basic words); Elementary Level (1100); Intermediate Level (1600); and Upper Level (2200). Some of the titles are also available on cassette.

      The Cut Glass Bowl and Other Stories1995
      3,5
    • Weep Not, Child

      • 160bladzijden
      • 6 uur lezen

      This is a simple and powerful tale of the effects of the Mau Mau war on individuals and families in Kenya. Two brothers must decide where their loyalties lie; Njoroge, the dreamer and accomplished student, finds it hard to give up schooling and is drawn relentlessly into turmoil. Good and evil are portrayed somewhat more starkly than in Ngugi's later works.

      Weep Not, Child1995
      4,0
    • Few creatures of horror have seized readers' imaginations and held them for so long as the anguished monster of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. The story of Victor Frankenstein's terrible creation and the havoc it caused has enthralled generations of readers and inspired countless writers of horror and suspense. Considering the novel's enduring success, it is remarkable that it began merely as a whim of Lord Byron's. "We will each write a story," Byron announced to his next-door neighbors, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin and her lover Percy Bysshe Shelley. The friends were summering on the shores of Lake Geneva in Switzerland in 1816, Shelley still unknown as a poet and Byron writing the third canto of Childe Harold. When continued rains kept them confined indoors, all agreed to Byron's proposal. The illustrious poets failed to complete their ghost stories, but Mary Shelley rose supremely to the challenge. With Frankenstein, she succeeded admirably in the task she set for herself: to create a story that, in her own words, "would speak to the mysterious fears of our nature and awaken thrilling horror — one to make the reader dread to look round, to curdle the blood, and quicken the beatings of the heart."

      Frankenstein1992
      4,1
    • Our Mutual Friend

      • 832bladzijden
      • 30 uur lezen

      John Harmon returns to England as his father's heir. He is believed drowned under suspicious circumstances - a situation convenient to his wish for anonymity until he can evaluate Bella Wilfer whom he must marry to secure his inheritance.

      Our Mutual Friend1992
      4,1
    • The woman in black

      • 72bladzijden
      • 3 uur lezen

      Macmillan Readers v úrovni Elementary můžete číst asi po jednom až dvou letech studia angličtiny. K porozumění vám postačí slovní zásoba 1 100 slov. Knihy mají 64 až 80 stran. věk 15+ Popis: Macmillan Readers v úrovni Elementary můžete číst asi po jednom až dvou letech studia angličtiny. K…

      The woman in black1992
      3,8
    • Rebecca

      • 319bladzijden
      • 12 uur lezen

      In het huwelijksleven van een oudere man en een jong meisje doet de invloed ten kwade van de eerste vrouw zich gelden via haar vroegere kamenier en vertrouwde.

      Rebecca1992
      4,2
    • De druiven der gramschap

      • 400bladzijden
      • 14 uur lezen

      Sociale roman over het probleem van de seizoenarbeid tijdens de oogsttijd in Californië.

      De druiven der gramschap1992
      4,1
    • F. Scott Fitzgerald's second novel, The Beautiful and Damned (1922), is a savage and haunting satire of the young, rootless post-war generation who live intent only on the pursuit of wealth and decadent pleasure. Anthony Patch's marriage to the beautiful but selfish Gloria is idyllic at first but the union slowly disintegrates as reality sets in and their goal becomes Adam Patch's fortune. Gloria's beauty fades, and Anthony's drinking takes its toll. Charting the corrosive attraction of wealth and its malign influence, The Beautiful and Damned is also a vivid portrait of early twentieth-century New York and the sights and sounds of the city's burgeoning night life.

      Oxford World's Classics: The Beautiful and Damned1992
      3,8
    • Dracula

      • 96bladzijden
      • 4 uur lezen

      Count Dracula has inspired countless movies, books, and plays. But few, if any, have been fully faithful to Bram Stoker's original, best-selling novel of mystery and horror, love and death, sin and redemption. Dracula chronicles the vampire's journey from Transylvania to the nighttime streets of London. There, he searches for the blood of strong men and beautiful women while his enemies plot to rid the world of his frightful power.Today's critics see Dracula as a virtual textbook on Victorian repression of the erotic and fear of female sexuality. In it, Stoker created a new word for terror, a new myth to feed our nightmares, and a character who will outlive us all.

      Dracula1992
      4,1
    • The central figure of this novel is the returning "native", Clym Yeobright, and his love for the beautiful but capricious Eustacia Vye.

      The return of the Native1979
      3,9
    • The Forsyte Saga

      • 906bladzijden
      • 32 uur lezen

      The three novels which make up The Forsyte Saga chronicle the ebbing social power of the commercial upper-middle class Forsyte family between 1886 and 1920. Galsworthy's masterly narrative examines not only their fortunes but also the wider developments within society, particularly the changing position of women. This is the only critical edition of the work available, with Notes that explain contemporary artistic and literary allusions and define the slang of the time.

      The Forsyte Saga1975
      4,2