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• Editura: ELI
• Data publicatie:: 10/04/2017

CEFR Level: B1 Ebenezer Scrooge loves only one thing – money. He has no friends, doesn’t like his family and never helps anyone. But when Jacob Marley, who’s been dead for seven years, arrives at his house one night, Scrooge learns that a good life is about much more than money. ... more

• Editura: ELI
• Data publicatie:: 20/03/2013

CEFR Level: C2 Theme: Social Issues More than any other conflict, the Great War inspired writers of all generations and classes.   Th ... more

• Editura: PENGUIN BOOKS
• Data publicatie:: 26/02/2015

'It is a most wonderful comfort to sit alone beneath a lamp, book spread before you, and commune with someone from the past whom you have never met...'Moonlight, sake, spring blossom, idle moments, a woman's hair - these exquisite reflections on life's fleeting pleasures by a thirteenth-century Japanese monk are delicately attuned to nature and the senses.Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Pen ... more

• Editura: CAMBRIDGE
• Data publicatie:: 29/08/2013

Level 6 Advanced: 3800 Headwords Genre: Human Interest WINNER Language Learner Literature AWARD. Award-winning original fiction for learners of English. At seven levels, from Starter to Advanced, this impressive selection of carefully graded readers offers exciting ... more

• Editura: CAMBRIDGE
• Data publicatie:: 14/06/2007

Level Starter/Beginner: 250 Headwords Genre: Murder Mystery Modern, original fiction for learners of English. When Dr Leighton is murdered Inspector Frank Williams and Sergeant Kate Miller set out to track down her killer. Was it her husband, her son or her colleague? All had re ... more

• Editura: PENGUIN BOOKS
• Data publicatie:: 07 Feb 2002

Originally published in 1967, Ngugi's third novel is his best known and most ambitious work. A Grain of Wheat portrays several characters in a village whose intertwined lives are transformed by the 1952-1960 Emergency in Kenya. As the action follows the village's arrangements for Uhuru (independence) Day, this is a novel of stories within stories, a nar ... more

• Editura: PENGUIN BOOKS
• Data publicatie:: 26/02/2015

'While engaged on this hunt I felt the earth quiver under my feet, and heard a soft big soughing sound, and looking round saw I had dropped in on a hippo banquet...'Told with verve and self-mocking wit, the adventures of doughty female Victorian explorer Mary Kingsley describe stumbling upon five hippos by night, dodging elephants and fighting off a leopard with a stool.Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books fo ... more

• Editura: CAMBRIDGE
• Data publicatie:: 15/01/2001

Level 6 Advanced: 3800 Headwords Genre: Romance Award-winning original fiction for learners of English. At seven levels, from Starter to Advanced, this impressive selection of carefully graded readers offers exciting reading for every student's capabilities.In Cambridge, ... more

• Editura: CAMBRIDGE

Level 4 Intermediate: 1900 Headwords Genre: Thriller Award-winning original fiction for learners of English. At seven levels, from Starter to Advanced, this impressive selection of carefully graded readers offers exciting reading for every student's capabilities. ... more

• Editura: ELI
• Data publicatie:: 20/03/2013

CEFR Level: A2 Theme: Love ‘Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind.’     In this Reader you will find: Information about William Shakespeare’s li ... more

• Editura: ELI
• Data publicatie:: 2022

Young Adult ELI Readers In this funny play, four young lovers run away to the woods where the fairies live. Oberon, the King of the Fairies uses magic to teach his wife a lesson. Then strange things start to happen to the young lovers and some workmen too. It’s a very unusual Midsummer Night: perhaps it’s all a dream.In this reader you will find:&l ... more

• Editura: PENGUIN BOOKS
• Data publicatie:: 03/03/2016

He is fond of enigmas, of conundrums, hieroglyphics; exhibiting in his solutions of each a degree of acumen which appears to the ordinary apprehension praeternatural. ... more

• Editura: PENGUIN BOOKS
• Data publicatie:: 20/02/2015

'... a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food...'Swift's devastating short satire on how to solve a famineIntroducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in ... more

• Editura: PENGUIN BOOKS
• Data publicatie:: 03/03/2016

"I did have hallucinations, but did they harm anyone? Who did they harm, that's what I'd like to know!' From the supreme artist of the short story, three disturbing tales of supernatural hallucinations, hysterical obsession and moral decay.One of 46 new books in the ... more

• Editura: PENGUIN BOOKS
• Data publicatie:: 26/02/2015

'At night, among the reeds on the bayou, Chicot could still hear the woman's wail, mingled now with the croaking of the frogs...'From one of the most daring writers of fin-de-siecle America, five stories of awakening that range from Louisiana's plantations and poverty-stricken bayous to its gilded cities.Introducing Little Black Classics: ... more