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Elizabeth Walker

    Vanity Fair
    The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
    Rendezvous with Rama
    David Copperfield
    Sense and Sensibility
    The wizard of Oz
    • The wizard of Oz

      • 80 pages
      • 3 hours of reading
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      Macmillan Readers v této pokročilosti můžete číst asi po dvou letech studia angličtiny, knihy mají 80 až 69 stran. Titul je balen společně s audio CD a je rozšířen o 8 stran cvičení. K porozumění vám postačí slovní zásoba 1 400 slov.věk 14 - 16klasický příběh L. Franka Bauma o dobrodružství Dorothy v zemi Oz...

      The wizard of Oz
    • Sense and Sensibility

      • 135 pages
      • 5 hours of reading
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      Macmillan Readers v úrovni Intermediate můžete číst asi po třech až čtyřech letech studia angličtiny. K porozumění vám postačí slovní zásoba 1600 slov. Knihy mají až 128 stran. Kniha je balena s audio CD a obsahuje 8 stran cvičení.

      Sense and Sensibility
    • David Copperfield is the story of a young man’s adventures on his journey from an unhappy and impoverished childhood to the discovery of his vocation as a successful novelist. Among the gloriously vivid cast of characters he encounters are his tyrannical stepfather, Mr Murdstone; his brilliant, but ultimately unworthy school-friend Steerforth; his formidable aunt, Betsey Trotwood; his nemesis, the eternally humble Uriah Heep; frivolous, enchanting Dora; and the magnificently impecunious Micawber, one of literature’s great comic creations. In David Copperfield – the novel he described as his ‘favourite child’ – Dickens drew revealingly on his own experiences to create one of his most exuberant and enduringly popular works, filled with tragedy and comedy in equal measure.

      David Copperfield
    • Rendezvous with Rama

      • 252 pages
      • 9 hours of reading
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      The astonishing and groundbreaking Rama series begins. Rama - a metallic cylinder approaching the sun at a tremendous velocity Rama - first product of an alien civilization to be encountered by man Rama - a world of technological marvels and artificial ecology What is its purpose in this year 2131? Who is inside it? And why? Look out for more information on this book and others on the Orbit website at www.orbitbooks.co.uk

      Rendezvous with Rama
    • Published in June 1848, less than a year before her death, Anne Bronte's second (and last) novel, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, is the somber account of the breakdown of a marriage in the face of alcoholism and infidelity. The novel enjoyed a modest success that led its publisher, theunscrupulous T.C. Newby, to issue a "Second Edition" less than two months later. The present edition, which completes the Clarendon Edition of the Novels of the Brontes, offers a text based on the collation of the first edition with the second. The introduction details the work's composition andearly printing history, including its first publication in America; and the text is fully annotated. Appendices record the substantive variants in the first English and American editions, and discuss the author's belief in the doctrine of universal salvation.

      The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
    • Vanity Fair

      • 144 pages
      • 6 hours of reading

      Tells the story of Becky Sharp's rise from rags to riches in Vanity Fair. This is a work about the situation of two women during nineteenth century British society and the French napoleonic wars.

      Vanity Fair
    • The Handbook of Practical Resilience

      • 192 pages
      • 7 hours of reading

      Once, enough food could be grown in Britain to feed the whole population. High Streets were full of small businesses where everything could be bought or repaired. We lost this national resilience years ago. Now the High Streets are occupied by chain stores full of imported goods, town centre market gardens are car parks, and we can only produce enough to feed half our ever expanding population. The endless economic growth promised has turned sour. Environmentalists argue with politicians, scientists with religious leaders. Resource wars flare up worldwide. However serious the situation is, however impossible a solution seems, we arrived here slowly, one piece of shopping at a time. We need to take back our power and make new choices. There's no time to lose. The Handbook of Practical Resilience outlines how to proceed in an immediate and realistic way. Accessible ground level strategies are combined, and every positive effort counts. This second edition includes your personal resilience assessment and details on constructing a plan to increase this. Simple tasks, adventures and research lead you on the journey to a future with better quality of life, natural harmony, and hope. Resilience expert Elizabeth J Walker is the author of 'Recipes for Resilience - Common Sense Cooking for the 21st Century'.

      The Handbook of Practical Resilience