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This series of unabridged Shakespeare titles is based on the premise that students can reach a clear understanding of their work only through a close and careful reading of the text. The commentary facing each page of the text has been designed to suggest a critical interpretation of the play.
This series of unabridged Shakespeare titles is based on the premise that students can reach a clear understanding of their work only through a close and careful reading of the text. The commentary facing each page of the text has been designed to suggest a critical interpretation of the play.
About the Book A beautiful paperback edition of The Horse and His Boy, book three in the classic fantasy series, The Chronicles of Narnia. This edition is complete with cover and interior art by the original illustrator, Pauline Baynes. On a desperate journey, two runaways meet and join forces. Though they are only looking to…
No Fear Shakespeare A Midsummer Night’s Dream Read& nbsp; A Midsummer Night’s Dream in all its brilliance and actually understand what it means. & nbsp; No Fear Shakespeare gives you the complete text of A Midsummer Night’s Dream on the left-hand page, side-by-side with an easy-to-understand translation on the right.
A mouse took a stroll through the deep dark wood. A fox saw the mouse and the mouse looked good. Walk further into the deep dark wood, and discover what happens when a quick-witted mouse comes face to face with an owl, a snake… and a hungry Gruffalo! Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler’s The Gruffalo is an…
*Winner of the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize*’Malala is an inspiration to girls and women all over the world’ J K Rowling’Inspirational and powerful’ GRAZIA’For sheer inspiration read I Am Malala’ SUNDAY TIMES’A tale of immense courage and conviction’ INDEPENDENT’She has the heart and courage of a lioness and is a true inspiration’ Lorraine Kelly, THE…
From award-winning author, Catherine Forde, comes Fat Boy Swim, a story that will make you realise that anything is possible. Jimmy Kelly is fat. Lardy. Ginormous. Clinically obese. Inside, Jimmy doesn’t feel like Smelly Kelly, Fat Boy Fat. He’s just normal. His bedroom’s a pit. His feet stink. He hates getting up on school mornings….
“Two hours ago a young woman died in the Infirmary…she’d swallowed a lot of strong disinfectant. Burnt her inside out…” Arthur Birling, a prosperous manufacturer, is holding a family dinner party to celebrate his daughter’s engagement. Into this cosy scene intrudes the harsh figure of a police inspector investigating the suicide of a young working-class…
Matilda is an exceptionally bright young girl. Her parents, Mr and Mrs Wormwood, think she’s just a nuisance. Matilda discovers that she has supernatural powers which are not only going to prove useful at home but also at Crunchem Hall School where she and her classmates must contend with the scariest headmistress of them all:…
One boy, one boat, one tiger . . . After the tragic sinking of a cargo ship, a solitary lifeboat remains bobbing on the wild, blue Pacific. The only survivors from the wreck are a sixteen-year-old boy named Pi, a hyena, a zebra (with a broken leg), a female orang-utan – and a 450-pound Royal…
Fabulous Short Stories is a series of stories that not only enlighten and teach us, but broaden our horisons and open us up to our world. We come to understand other people’s experiences better and to earn many things, such as lessons about responsibility and justice, guilt and culpability. These are human stories, written to…
Streetcar Named Desire – The Heinemann Plays series offers contemporary drama and classic plays in classroom editions. Many have large casts and an equal mix of boy and girl parts. This play depicts the conflict between a fading Southern belle and the brash lower-class society of her sister’s family.
About the book: “The League of Youth” (1869) was Ibsen’s first venture into realistic social drama and marks a turning-point in his style. By 1879, Ibsen was convinced that women suffer an inevitable violation of their personalities within the context of marriage. In “A Doll’s House”, he portrayed the wife struggling to break free: this…
An entertaining and eye-opening look at the French Revolution, by Stephen Clarke, author of 1000 Years of Annoying the French and A Year in the Merde. The French Revolution and What Went Wrong looks back at the French Revolution and how it’s surrounded in a myth. In 1789, almost no one in France wanted to…
Translated by Irene Testot-Ferry. The Little Prince is a classic tale of equal appeal to children and adults. On one level it is the story of an airman’s discovery, in the desert, of a small boy from another planet – the Little Prince of the title – and his stories of intergalactic travel, while on…
Oxford School Shakespeare is an acclaimed edition especially designed for students, with accessible on-page notes and explanatory illustrations, clear background information, and rigorous but accessible scholarly credentials. Coriolanus is a popular text for study by secondary students the world over. This edition includes illustrations, preliminary notes, reading lists (including websites) and classroom notes. This title is suitable for…
Our well established and popular series which helps all your students to understand and enjoy Shakespeare’s plays, has been improved even further. BLRevised students’ notes are clearer, with detailed explanations of difficult words and passages, plot synopses, summaries of individual scenes,and notes on the main characters BLFeaturing a host of new photographs of stage productions…
Our well established and popular series which helps all your students to understand and enjoy Shakespeare’s plays, has been improved even further. BLRevised students’ notes are clearer, with detailed explanations of difficult words and passages, plot synopses, summaries of individual scenes,and notes on the main characters BLFeaturing a host of new photographs of stage productions…
Mrs Frisby and the Rats of Nimh – They are not like other rats. They work at night, in secret. Time is running out for Mrs Frisby. She must move her family of mice before the farmer destroys their home. But her youngest son, Timothy, is too ill to survive the move. Help comes in…
This collection of stories is for key stage 4. Each genre includes a pre-twentieth century story and tales by twentieth century writers. Genres include: Horror, Crime and Detection, Ghosts and Mystery, Love, Science Fiction. Each section includes activities for comparison work as well as suggestions for student’s own creative writing.
Oxford School Shakespeare is an acclaimed edition especially designed for students, with accessible on-page notes and explanatory illustrations, clear background information, and rigorous but accessible scholarly credentials. Coriolanus is a popular text for study by secondary students the world over. This edition includes illustrations, preliminary notes, reading lists (including websites) and classroom notes. This title is suitable for…
Aimed at both teachers and pupils at higher and lower secondary levels, this lively book offers a practical first introduction to the plays of Shakespeare. This volume is part of a series which uses classroom drama to teach English as a second language. Speaking the parts helps children to increase their confidence with English and…
Part of The New Penguin Shakespeare series, this text looks at Macbeth with an introduction, a list of further reading, commentary and a short account of the textual problems of the play. The series is used and recommended by the Royal Shakespeare Company.
Mponyane is very worried about his friend Frank, and knows that he is in grave danger. But Mponyane was born deaf and connot articulate a call for help. He cannot hear what people sya, he can only feel their unhappiness and fear. He knows that he must do something, anything to help save his friend.
IN EXCELLENT CONDITION Plot summary From what is implied to be a sanatorium, Holden, the narrator and protagonist, tells the story of his adventures before the previous Christmas. The story begins with Holden at Pencey Prep School on his way to the house of his history teacher, Spencer, so that he can say goodbye. He…
Lady Windermere’s Fan; Salome; A Woman of No Importance; An Ideal Husband; The Importance of Being Earnest A newly edited volume of some of Wilde’s greatest plays. Includes arguably the greatest farcical comedy in English, The Importance of Being Earnest. New to this Edition: Modernized spelling and punctuation. A scholarly introduction and detailed annotation.
Woza Albert!” is based on one dazzlingly simple idea – that the Second Coming of Jesus Christ should take place in present-day South Africa. This brilliant two-man show from the Market Theatre, Johannesburg, took the Edinburgh Festival then London by storm in September 1982, playing to standing ovations every night. It was also seen in…
When it was first produced in 1959, A Raisin in the Sun was awarded the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for that season and hailed as a watershed in American drama. A pioneering work by an African-American playwright, the play was a radically new representation of black life. “A play that changed American…
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