First-time visitors to the Louvre cannot help but be impressed by the sheer scope of the collections before them. This guide does not aim to cover absolutely everything, but to provide a comprehensive overview with a selection of nearly 600 masterpieces from Antiquity to the mid-19th century.
Suspense, humor, and romance abound in this 1868 mystery, in which a gem stolen from a Hindu shrine resurfaces in an English country home -- with a trio of watchful Brahmins hot on its trail.
A Tale of Two Cities is Charles Dickens’s most famous historical novel. Set in Paris and London at the time of the French Revolution, this is the story of two men, Frenchman, Charles Darnay, and Englishman, Sydney Carton. As the Revolution takes hold and the Terror begins, the two men’s destinies bring them together in a powerful story of love, hate and revenge. We meet revolutionaries and aristocrats, and see the poverty of many in both London and Paris contrasted with the wealth of a few. SyllabusVerbs: Present Perfect Continuous - Past Perfect Continuous - perfect infinitives - a variety of phrasal verbs - complex passive forms - wish/if only - modal verbs: might, needn’t - reporting verbs: explain, repeat, reply, answer, ask, cry, scream, shout - tenses with This is the first …Types of Clausetype-three conditionals - mixed conditionals - relative: embedded, defining Other connectives: although, despite, in spite of, however - time sequencers - inversion.
Contemporary / British English Meet the Larkin family They enjoy a wonderful country life, never worrying about money, work -- or the law. But then, one day, a man arrives from the tax office. Is the taxman going to change the Larkin's lives? Or is his life going to change forever?
Jonathan Harker's visit to mysterious Count Dracula's eerie castle in Transylvania is just the start of a insidious plan to send vampires to England.
"Four short stories of murder and mystery, in which Edgar Allan Poe wrote about terrible people who lead strange lives."--Amazon.com
