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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (annotated)
Huckleberry Finn, rebel against school and church, casual inheritor of gold treasure, rafter of the Mississippi, and savior of Jim the runaway slave, is the archetypical American maverick.
Mark Twain defined classic as "a book which people praise and don't read"; Huckleberry Finn is a happy exception to his own rule. Twain's mastery of dialect, coupled with his famous wit, has made Adventures of Huckleberry Finn one of the most loved and distinctly American classics ever written.
About Love and Other Stories (annotated) A unique collection of Chekhov's most lyrical stories in a new translation of great skill and originality, published to coincide with the centenary of Chekhov's death. The stories are arranged chronologically to show the evolution of Chekhov's art and include familiar as well as less well-known works.
Added by: babakinfos | Karma: 2207.37 | Fiction literature | 18 April 2019
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Notre-Dame de Paris (annotated)
At the center of Hugo's classic novel are three extraordinary characters caught in a web of fatal obsession. The grotesque hunchback Quasimodo, bell-ringer of Notre-Dame, owes his life to the austere archdeacon, Claude Frollo, who in turn is bound by a hopeless passion to the gypsy dancer Esmeralda. She, meanwhile, is bewitched by a handsome, empty-headed officer, but by an unthinking act of kindness wins Quasimodo's selfless devotion...
Alban Kraisheimer's new translation offers a fresh approach to this monumental work by France's most celebrated Romantic authors.
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (annotated & illustrated)
Added by: babakinfos | Karma: 2207.37 | Fiction literature | 13 April 2019
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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (annotated & illustrated)
Since its first publication in 1900, L. Frank Baum’s story of a little girl carried away by a tornado to the strange and beautiful Land of Oz has had an extraordinary emotional impact on wide-eyed readers young and old...
Research shows that reading comprehension improves when students have a strong oral and print vocabulary. By providing students with word-study opportunities, students are encouraged to develop a love of language and an ongoing curiosity about words, their origins, and their multiple meanings and usages. The vocabulary word lists, skills-practice exercises, reviews, and tests provided in these Vocabulary Power Workbooks may be used for systematic vocabulary instruction, enabling students to expand their vocabularies, develop a deeper understanding of language, and improve their reading comprehension.
