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Elizabeth Walker

    David Copperfield
    Vanity Fair
    Sense and Sensibility
    The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
    Rendezvous with Rama
    The Wonderful 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

      • 104 pages
      • 4 hours of reading

      Dickens wrote of David Copperfield: 'Of all my books I like this the best'. Millions of readers in almost every language on earth have subsequently come to share the author's own enthusiasm for this greatly loved classic, possibly because of its autobiographical form.

      David Copperfield2008
      3.9
    • 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 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
    • After a cyclone transports her to the land of Oz, Dorothy must seek out the great wizard in order to return to Kansas.

      The Wonderful 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

      • 104 pages
      • 4 hours of reading

      In nineteenth-century England, two sisters are drawn into unhappy romances despite the cool judgment of one and the emotional intensity of the other.

      Sense and Sensibility2005
      4.1