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In a fit of drunken anger, Michael Henchard sells his wife and baby daughter for five guineas at a country fair. Over the course of the following years, he manages to establish himself as a respected and prosperous pillar of the community of Casterbridge, but behind his success there always lurk the shameful secret of his past and a personality prone to self-destructive pride and temper. Subtitled ‘A Story of a Man of Character’, Hardy’s powerful and sympathetic study of the heroic but deeply flawed Henchard is also an intensely dramatic work, tragically played out against the vivid backdrop of a close-knit Dorsetshire town.

At twenty-seven, Anne Elliot is no longer young and has few romantic prospects. Eight years earlier, she had been persuaded by her friend Lady Russell to break off her engagement to Frederick Wentworth, a handsome naval captain with neither fortune nor rank.

Well's science fiction of time travel, and his protagonist's adventures in the future.

I had been given a simple but enormous task. This was the role for which I had spent my whole life preparing.

The adventures of an orphaned young man in Victorian England who is given a great deal of money by an unknown benefactor to enable him to live as a gentleman, pursuing a good education and fulfilling great expectations.

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While enjoying a stay in fashionable Bath, the young and callow Catherine Morland is introduced to the delights of high society. A satire on the gothic mode typified by the novels of Ann Radcliffe, 'Northanger Abbey' is a witty comedy of manners in the style of Jane Austen's later novels.

Dickens's classic tale of Ebenezer Scrooge and the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come.

Fanny Price, a teenaged girl of low social rank brought up on her wealthy relatives' countryside estate, feels the sharp sting of rejection when her cousin Edmund, the only person who treats her as an equal, is won over by a flirtatious, exciting--and unprincipled--London girl.

Een van de meest gelezen Engelse romans, die meer dan twee eeuwen na zijn ontstaan nog steeds lezers over de hele wereld betovert. De roman "Pride and Prejudice", gepubliceerd in 1813, speelt zich af op het pittoreske Engelse platteland aan het einde van de 18e eeuw en vertelt het verhaal van de familie Bennet. Mevrouw Bennet is onvermoeibaar op zoek naar geschikte huwelijkskandidaten voor haar vijf dochters. Het verhaal begint wanneer de rijke heer Bingley in de buurt komt wonen, samen met zijn mysterieuze vriend, de gereserveerde en onsympathieke heer Darcy. Tussen hem en de slimme, vrijgevochten Elizabeth, de op één na oudste dochter van de Bennets, ontstaat een bijzondere relatie die vele misverstanden, vooroordelen en sociale barrières moet overwinnen voordat het kan uitgroeien tot echte liefde en begrip. "Pride and Prejudice" is niet alleen een liefdesverhaal, maar ook een tijdloze verkenning van menselijke relaties, met een scherpzinnig inzicht in de spanning tussen rede en gevoel, en de strijd tussen individuele vrijheid en sociale conventies.

Mohandas K. Gandhi is one of the most inspiring figures of our time. In his classic autobiography he recounts the story of his life and how he developed his concept of active nonviolent resistance, which propelled the Indian struggle for independence and countless other nonviolent struggles of the twentieth century. In a new foreword, noted peace expert and teacher Sissela Bok urges us to adopt Gandhi's "attitude of experimenting, of tesing what will and will not bear close scrutiny, what can and cannot be adapted to new circumstances,"in order to bring about change in our own lives and communities. All royalties earned on this book are paid to the Navajivan Trust, founded by Gandhi, for use in carrying on his work.

A strange figure stood in front of him, dressed from head to foot in white clothing. The moonlight showed her pale, youthful face.

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.

Sociale roman over de moeilijke jeugd van een Engelse jongen.

In lijn met het thema "Het monster, aan de grenzen van het menselijke" van het nieuwe programma voor de zesde klas, presenteert deze editie van de epiek van Homerus de reis van Odysseus. Na de oorlog van Troje dwaalt Odysseus tien jaar rond langs de kusten van de Middellandse Zee en moet hij vele beproevingen doorstaan voordat hij zijn koninkrijk Ithaka kan terugkeren. Deze verzameling bevat 16 van de meest beroemde episodes van deze fantastische reis. Daarnaast zijn er fragmenten van het scenario en foto's van de film Odysseus van Mario Camerini (1954), wat de mogelijkheid biedt om te bestuderen hoe de epiek op het scherm is overgebracht. De pedagogische aanvullingen omvatten voorstellen voor workshops in de klas, activiteiten "Speciaal cinema", een leesgids met belangrijke punten en een parcours in 8 stappen, een themagroep over "De monsters: onvoorstelbare wezens" en een documentair onderzoek naar de zeilomstandigheden in de oudheid.

Ein Toter liegt auf dem Boden eines verlassenen Hauses, neben ihm ein Ehering. An einer Wand steht in Blut geschrieben „Rache“. Doch von dem Toten stammt das Blut nicht. Nur Sherlock Holmes kann der überforderten Polizei helfen und die unglaubliche Geschichte hinter dem Mord ans Licht bringen.

READ BY DAVID SOUL Duration: 2 hours 28 minutes Edgar Allan Poe (1809-49) was an American poet, writer, editor and literary critic. Best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre, Poe’s full-blooded Gothic style influenced generations of writers, filmmakers and musicians, from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Charles Baudelaire to Roger Corman and Lou Reed. The five tales collected here range from the famous to the obscure, but each displays Poe's unique sense of the macabre and his love for the baroque. A victim of the Inquisition finds himself in a nightmarish torture chamber, a castle is besieged by plague, a man becomes obsessed by the evil eye of his fellow lodger, a mesmerist suspends a man's life at the point of death and a jester takes his revenge on his cruel employers.

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.

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

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. The approximate vocabulary count for stage 4 is 1400 words.

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.