Illustrated by Simon Williams. ... "It was Saturday night. The street lights were on and there was a misty light over Marabastad. Everyone was watchful, especially the women. I was watching for the light from torches. I think now that the torchlight was very threatening. It was always like this for us: Saturday night and police torchlights, Saturday night and police whistles, Saturday night and screams, Saturday night and cursing from the white man. And I was only thirteen." From the Book "Down Second Avenue" is the story of Eseki, a young boy who, during his growth into adulthood, becomes slowly ... |
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The Black Death is sweeping through Europe. In Florence, plague has carried off one hundred thousand people. In their Tuscan villas, seven young women and three young men tell tales to recreate the world they have lost, weaving a rich tapestry of comedy, tragedy, ribaldry and farce. Giovanni Boccaccio's Decameron recasts the storytelling heritage of the ancient and medieval worlds into perennial forms that inspired writers from Chaucer and Shakespeare down to our own day. Boccaccio makes the incredible believable, with detail so sharp we can look straight into the lives of people who lived six hundred years ago. ... |
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Lawrence's finest, most mature novel initially met with disgust and incomprehension. In the love affairs of two sisters, Ursula with Rupert, and Gudrun with Gerald, critics could only see a sorry tale of sexual depravity and philosophical obscurity. "Women in Love" is, however, a profound response to a whole cultural crisis. The "progress" of the modern industrialised world had led to the carnage of the First World War. What, then, did it mean to call ourselves "human"? On what grounds could we place ourselves above and beyond the animal world? What are the definitive forms of our ... |
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First encountered in Lawrence's novel The Rainbow, sisters Ursula and Gudrun Brangwen are now grown-up women living in the English Midlands at the time of the First World War. Each becomes involved in a love affair: Ursula with the misanthropic intellectual Rupert Birkin, and Gudrun with Gerald Crich, a successful industrialist. The contrast between the two relationships - the former happy and fulfilling, the latter tempestuous and violent - facilitates an examination of both the regenerative and destructive aspects of human passion, while the novel's Alpine climax is revelatory of the intensity of close male ... |
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In 1991, two Bulgarian brothers, Ned and Angel, receive an unusual package from the USA; a black plastic box containing the ashes of their late father, Professor Emmanuel Banov. But are they really his ashes? How can the brothers be sure? And why would anyone want to fake their father's death? 15 years later, as the brothers forge new and very different lives (Ned a management consultant; Ango a dog walker to the rich) in their new home in New York, some answers begin to emerge... A darkly comic tale of disillusionment, The Black Box explores the nature and logic of neo liberal capitalism and how so many of us are ... |
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The Woman in Black is an adapted Elementary Level reader written by Susan Hill. This book is a ghost story being told by Arthur to his children at Christmas time. His story is about a lonely house amongst the dangerous marshes, where a woman in black with hate in her eyes waited and watched out in the mist. This book is in British English. Key features: carefully controlled information, structure and vocabulary; some difficult words and phrases are explained with pictures; the book has around 1100 basic words for Elementary-level students; free resources including worksheets, tests and author data sheets at here. ... |
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A story of survival. In 1943, German SS officers in charge of Auschwitz-Birkenau ordered that an orchestra should be formed among the female prisoners. Almost fifty women and girls from eleven nations were drafted into a hurriedly assembled band that would play marching music to other inmates, forced labourers who left each morning and returned, exhausted and often broken, at the end of the day. While still living amid the most brutal and dehumanising of circumstances, they were also made to give weekly concerts for Nazi officers, and individual members were sometimes summoned to give solo performances of an officer' ... |
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The Black Cat is an Elementary-level detective story set in Egypt. Salahadin El Nur is an inspector in the Antiquities Department of the Egyptian Police. After discovering the murder of a visiting European Archaeologists, Salahadin’s investigations lead him to a missing statuette. Soon he is on the trail of some international smugglers. ... |
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Спортната торба е част от серията Ninjas in the Dark, където ще откриете още ученически продукти и аксесоари по темата. ... Спортната торба от Ars Una е стилен и практичен избор за тийнейджъри. Изработена от здрав и издръжлив плат в черен цвят, тя е подходяща за часовете по физическо възпитание и спортни дейности. Затваря се с връзки в горната част и може да се носи и като раница. ... |
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Несесерът е част от серията Ninjas in the Dark, където ще откриете още ученически продукти и аксесоари по темата. ... Ученическият несесер от Ars Una впечатлява не само с прекрасния си дизайн, но и с богатото съдържание, което го прави напълно готов за училище. Разполага с едно основно отделение с две крила и 28 ластични разделения, в които всички принадлежности са подредени прегледно и удобно. Несесерът е с размери 12.8 / 19.3 / 3.6 cm. ... |
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It is with pleasure that I write a preface to the English version of this book, "The Black Sea, the Flood and Ancient Myths" It was originally written in Bulgarian by the distinguished father and son team of oceanographers, Petko and Dimitar Dimovi, and it is a major geologic past. ... |
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Award-winning readers series of original fiction for learners of English. At seven levels, this impressive selection of carefully graded readers offers exciting reading for every student's capabilities. Rarotonga, in the beautiful Pacific Cook Islands, is the setting for a daring robbery. When master-thief Wolfgang Peters arrives on the island, Inspector Janet Hunter of the New Zealand Police is waiting for him. Will Peters manage to escape justice once again, or will Hunter and the Rarotongan police catch him? ... |
