This witty and amusing collection of short pieces shows Dickens liberated from the more formal and sustained demands of the novel and experimenting with a diverse range of fictional techniques. In his tales of the supernatural, he creates frighteningly believable, spine-tingling stories of prophetic dreams and visions, as well as more fantastical adventures with goblins and apparitions. Impressionistic sketches combine imaginatively heightened travel journals with wry observations of home and abroad, while in his dramatic monologues, Dickens demonstrates his talent for exploring the secret workings of the human mind.
Peter Parker has lots of problems. He loves Mary Jane, but he can't tell her. And his uncle Ben died because of him. But Peter Parker is also Spider-Man and he must save New York from the Green Goblin. Can he do it?
Scholastic Readers are a unique blend of contemporary teenage fiction and magazine-style Fact Files, simplified for students of English. Each story focuses on issues that will motivate and engage teenage classes and the Fact Files explore the themes raised in each story. They are published at four levels from Starter to Intermediate.
From the two-term Poet Laureate of the United States Billy Collins comes his first volume of new and selected poems in twelve years. Aimless Love combines fifty new poems with generous selections from his four most recent books—Nine Horses, The Trouble with Poetry, Ballistics, and Horoscopes for the Dead. Collins’s unmistakable voice, which brings together plain speech with imaginative surprise, is clearly heard on every page, reminding us how he has managed to enrich the tapestry of contemporary poetry and greatly expand its audience.
Sherlock Holmes and The Red Circle - Green Apple Stage 1 (Book+MP3)
Mystery & horror A mysterious lodger has just rented rooms at Mrs Warren’s lodging house. She is frightened by this strange individual, so she asks Sherlock Holmes to help. He and Dr Watson discover cryptic messages, a sinister secret society and a terrible murder…
A Midsummer Night's Dream - Green Apple Stage 1 (Book+MP3+CDROM)
Hermia and Lysander are in love, but Hermia’s father wants Demetrius to marry his daughter, so Hermia and Lysander decide to run away to get married. But in the wood some fairies perform some magic and some strange things start to happen...
