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D. K. Swan

    Great Men and Women
    Adventures of Sindbad the Sailor : Dobrodružství Sindibády námořníka
    Alice in Wonderland
    The book of British humour
    Favourite Fairy Tales: Sleeping Beauty
    Far from the madding crowd
    • Bathsheba Everdene is young, proud, and beautiful. She is an independent woman and can marry any man she chooses - if she chooses. In fact, she likes her independence, and she likes fighting her own battles in a man's world. But it is never wise to ignore the power of love. There are three men who would very much like to marry Bathsheba. When she falls in love with one of them, she soon wishes she had kept her independence. She learns that love brings misery, pain, and violent passions that can destroy lives . ..

      Far from the madding crowd
      4.2
    • Favourite Fairy Tales: Sleeping Beauty

      Favourite Fairy Tales

      • 32 pages
      • 2 hours of reading

      Each title in the Favourite Fairy Tales series has been developed primarily for young children learning English, but has proved equally successful with older age groups. Titles in the series include Puss in Boots, The Ugly Duckling, Little Red Riding Hood, Rumpelstilskin and many other popular works.

      Favourite Fairy Tales: Sleeping Beauty
      2.0
    • Alice in Wonderland

      • 295 pages
      • 11 hours of reading

      This selection of Carroll's works includes Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking Glass, with illustrations by the author. Tweedledum and Tweedledee, the Mad Hatter, the Cheshire Cat, the Red Queen and the White Rabbit are all now familiar figures in writing, conversation and idiom. So too, are the delightful verses such as The Walrus and the Carpenter and the inspired jargon of that masterly Wordsworthian parody the Jabberwocky. Also included are some of Carroll's miscellaneous pieces of work, of which the best-known is perhaps the mock-heroic Hunting of the Snark which epitomises the author's enormous gift for nonsense verse. --back cover

      Alice in Wonderland
      4.1
    • This series provides a stimulating introduction to the great classic stories of literature and the best in children's fiction. The books are easy and enjoyable to read, and feature full-page, full-color pictures and photographs. Each title includes interesting information about the authors, and comprehension questions to spark discussion.

      Adventures of Sindbad the Sailor : Dobrodružství Sindibády námořníka
      3.8
    • Great Men and Women

      • 112 pages
      • 4 hours of reading

      It contains the life stories of five influential individuals who have impacted humanity: Mahatma Gandhi, Florence Nightingale, Abraham Lincoln, Madame Curie, and Albert Schweitzer.

      Great Men and Women
      3.8
    • A Tale of Two Cities

      • 127 pages
      • 5 hours of reading

      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.

      A Tale of Two Cities
      3.9
    • There are few more convincing, less sentimental accounts of passionate love than the story of the tormented Heathcliff, who falls wildly in love with Catherine Earnshaw, the daughter of his benefactor, and of the violence and misery that result from their thwarted longing for each other. Revised reissue.

      Wuthering Heights
      3.8
    • Three adventures of Sherlock Holmes

      • 80 pages
      • 3 hours of reading

      Sherlock Holmes is a great detective. There are few cases that he cannot solve. In these three stories we meet a young woman who is terrified of a mysterious speckled band, a family who think that five orange pips are a sign of death, and a banker who believes that his son is a thief. But are things really as they seem?

      Three adventures of Sherlock Holmes
      3.6
    • Gulliver's Travels

      • 288 pages
      • 11 hours of reading

      An Englishman is shipwrecked in a land where the people are only six inches tall.

      Gulliver's Travels
      3.6
    • Five Famous Fairy Tales

      • 64 pages
      • 3 hours of reading

      The White Birds; The Fisherman and the Giant; The Glass Box; The Prince and his Servants; The Table, the Donkey and the Stick.

      Five Famous Fairy Tales
      3.1