'A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life'This edition provides a clear and accessible introduction to Shakespeare's enduring tale of ill-fated lovers. Hannah August pays particular attention to the dramatic function of the famous prologue and the significance of the play's ending.
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Tried and tested all over the world, Headway is the course teachers and learners rely on. A perfectly-balanced syllabus with extensive reso at all levels : In-depth treatment of grammar ; Integrated skills throughout ; Full support in print and online.
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For students : Students Book with or without Oxford Online Skills Program to improve all four skills ; Workbook with or without key ; Students website with extra activities and all audio and video resources for the course at : elt.oup.com/student/headway. For teachers : Teacher's Book with Teacher's Resource Disc ; Class Audio CD's ; LMS for Oxford Online Skills Program.
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Children will love exploring the lively, magical world of Bridge Town with their new friends Poppy, Rowan and Fern. The changing seasons provide a backdrop to the adventures of a diverse cast of characters that capture children's imagination and attention.
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The river has become downright dangerous. Its once-peaceful waters are filled with careering barges, racing speedboats, lurking dinghies, and petrifying pirates! And strange rumours are spreading. What is going on at Toad Hall? And who set the riddles that Mr Toad is following? Can Teejay, Ratty, and Mo solve the situation?
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'I like work. I find it interesting ... I can sit and look at it for hours.' With ideas like this, perhaps it is not a good idea to spend a holiday taking a boat trip up the River Thames. But this is what the three friends - and Montmorency the dog - decide to do. It is the sort of holiday that is fun to remember afterwards, but not so much fun to wake up to early on a cold, wet morning.
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Little Mary Lennox is a bad-tempered, disagreeable child. When her parents die in India, she is sent back to England to live with her uncle in a big, lonely, old house. There is nothing to do all day except walk in the gardens - and watch the robin flying over the high walls of the secret garden... which has been locked for ten years. And no one has the key.
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A non-fiction book, ideal for elementary learners of English looking to improve and practise their English. The book is filled with useful vocabulary that is carefully graded and easy to understand, it also comes with audio, so that you can listen at the same time as reading.Twenty-five million people come to England every year, and some never go out of London.
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Each unit of Oxford Living GRAMMAR explains how the grammar works
and the situations where you use it. The exercises use real-life situations to practise the grammar in context.
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This volume offers John Webster's two great Jacobean tragedies, The White Devil and The Duchess of Malfi, together with his brilliant tragicomedy, The Devil's Law-Case, and the comedy written with William Rowley, A Cure for a Cuckold. Webster is a radically and creatively experimental dramatist.
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Edith Wharton's satiric anatomy of American society in the first decade of the twentieth century both appalled and fascinated its first reviewers. It follows the career of Undine Spragg, as she pursues her schemes and social ambitions in a world of shifting values, where triumph is swiftly followed by disillusion.
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And now I found these fancies creating their own realities, and all imagined horrors crowding upon me in fact'. The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym is an archetypal American story of escape from home and family which traces a young man's rite of passage through a series of terrible brushes with death during a fateful sea voyage.
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A Midsummer Night's Dream is perhaps the best loved of Shakepeare's plays. It brings together aristocrats, workers, and fairies in a wood outside Athens, and from there the enchantment begins. Simple and engaging on the surface, it is none the less a highly original and sophisticated work, remarkable for both its literary and its theatrical mastery.
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In 1918 in the peaceful province of Transkei, South Africa, the Mandela family gave their new baby son the name Rolihlahla - 'troublemaker'. But the young boy's early years were happy ones, and he grew up to be a good student and an enthusiastic sportsman.
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'Thus, gentle Reader, I have given thee a faithful History of my Travels for Sixteen Years, and above Seven Months; wherein I have not been so studious of Ornament as of Truth.
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