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Elizabeth Walker

    David Copperfield
    Vanity Fair
    Sense and Sensibility
    The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
    Rendezvous with Rama
    The Wizard of Oz
    • 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 Resilience2020
    • David Copperfield

      • 996 pages
      • 35 hours of reading

      Now a major film directed by Armando Iannucci, starring Dev Patel, Tilda Swinton, Hugh Laurie, Peter Capaldi and Ben Whishaw Dickens's epic, exuberant novel is one of the greatest coming-of-age stories in literature. It chronicles David Copperfield's extraordinary journey through life, as he encounters villains, saviours, eccentrics and grotesques, including the wicked Mr Murdstone, stout-hearted Peggotty, formidable Betsey Trotwood, impecunious Micawber and odious Uriah Heep. Dickens's great Bildungsroman (based, in part, on his own boyhood, and which he described as a 'favourite child') is a work filled with life, both comic and tragic.

      David Copperfield2008
      3.9
    • First published in 1848, a novel in which a woman flees from a disastrous marriage with her child to a desolate moorland mansion. It portrays one woman's struggle for independence at a time when law and society defined a married woman as her husband's property.

      The Tenant of Wildfell Hall2007
      4.1
    • 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 Fair2007
      3.4
    • The Wizard of Oz

      Teacher's Edition

      When Dorothy and her little dog Toto are caught in a tornado, they and their Kansas farmhouse are suddenly transported to Oz, where Munchkins live, monkeys fly and Wicked Witches rule. Desperate to return home, and with the Wicked Witch of the West on their trail, Dorothy and Toto - together with new friends the Tin Woodsman, Scarecrow and cowardly Lion - embark on a fantastic quest along the Yellow Brick Road in search of the Emerald City. There they hope to meet the legendary, all-powerful Wizard of Oz, who alone may hold the power to grant their every wish. Just as captivating as it was a hundred years ago, this is a story that all ages will love.

      The Wizard of Oz2007
      4.5
    • Rendezvous with Rama

      • 112 pages
      • 4 hours of reading

      NOT THE ORIGINAL -- THIS IS A CHILDREN'S VERSION. A simplified edition of the classic novel by Arthur C. Clarke. In the year 2131, a fast-moving object is detected heading for Earth. Not a dead lump of rock but a huge hollow cylinder spinning along a planned trajectory. Who or what built "Rama" and why? This is an intermediate-level story in a series of ELT readers comprising a wide range of titles - some original and some simplified - from modern and classic novels, and designed to appeal to all age groups, tastes and cultures.

      Rendezvous with Rama2005
      4.1
    • Sense and Sensibility

      • 320 pages
      • 12 hours of reading

      Introduction and Notes by Professor Stephen Arkin, San Francisco University. 'Young women who have no economic or political power must attend to the serious business of contriving material security'. Jane Austen's sardonic humour lays bare the stratagems, the hypocrisy and the poignancy inherent in the struggle of two very different sisters to achieve respectability. Sense and Sensibility is a delightful comedy of manners in which the sisters Elinor and Marianne represent these two qualities. Elinor's character is one of Augustan detachment, while Marianne, a fervent disciple of the Romantic Age, learns to curb her passionate nature in the interests of survival. This book, the first of Austen's novels to be published, remains as fresh a cautionary tale today as it ever was.

      Sense and Sensibility2005
      4.1
    • Pokušenie

      • 224 pages
      • 8 hours of reading

      Príbeh mladej lekárky a skúseného chirurga potvrdzuje, že aj tie najväčšie protiklady sa priťahujú...

      Pokušenie1998
      3.0
    • Príznaky vášne

      • 225 pages
      • 8 hours of reading

      Je to príbeh o životných osudoch pracovníkov prestížnej Fieldingovej kliniky v San Franciscu. Autorka si vzala na mušku lekársku dvojicu, ktorú tvoria neurologička Nan LeBaronová a šéf pohotovosti Steven Winstead. Obaja musia čeliť obvineniu zo zanedbania lekárskej starostlivosti, hoci na záchranu pacientovho života vynaložili všetky sily a odborné vedomosti. To však nie je ich jediný problém. Dramatickú obhajobu výsledkov spoločného úsilia komplikuje ich vzájomný vzťah.

      Príznaky vášne1998
      3.0
    • Le château des Melville

      • 456 pages
      • 16 hours of reading

      À la mort du comte de Melville, ses quatre enfants héritent du château ancestral de Whitecastle. Cadeau empoisonné car la demeure est délabrée et les milliers d'hectares de lande sont hypothéqués. Pour protéger le bien familial, chacun rassemble ses forces. Mara, la fille aînée, n'hésite pas à user de ses charmes dans l'espoir de faire un riche mariage, au risque de faire scandale. Lisa, sa sœur, croit voir en Toby le sauveur du domaine, sans remarquer que ce beau parleur cherche avant tout à s'acheter un titre de noblesse. Alors qu'Angus tente de faire ses débuts dans la politique, il est bientôt contraint de démissionner en raison de la maladie de son frère jumeau, Marcus.

      Le château des Melville1995
    • The four highly visible, much-talked-about Hellyn children, heirs to their crumbling family edifice, The Court, struggle with their own, individual problems while trying to save their ancestral home

      The Court1990
      2.9