Thomas Edison: The Wizard Inventor (What's Their Story?)
Age 6 and up
This biography of Thomas Edison forms part of a series for children aged 6-9 years, featuring great leaders, heroes, pioneers, inventors and scientists from the past. Each biography tells a story about a real person, that can be read either alone or by a parent or teacher. The artwork is designed to stimulate the imagination. The biographies link in with National Curriculum KS1 and KS2, history, English, science and other subjects.
Enjoy Reading 8 / Английский язык. 8 класс. Книга для чтения
The book is addressedto young readerswho enjoythe wonders andadventures, itfeatures worksby FrancisBret Harte"Steppefoundling,"EdgarAllan Poe's"Purloined Letter" and "TwoThousandTaleof Scheherazade,"ThomasMayne Reid"Freelancer"andSir WalterScott's"Talisman".
Literature and Science in the Nineteenth Century: An Anthology
This anthology brings together a generous selection of scientific and literary material to explore the exchanges and interactions between them. It shows how scientists and creative writers alike fed from a common imagination in their language, style, metaphors and imagery. It includes writing by Michael Faraday, Thomas Carlyle, Thomas Hardy, Charles Babbage, Charles Darwin, Louis Pasteur, Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Twain and many others.
Winnie the witch by Valerie Thomas and Korky Paul (Picture Book)
Winnie the Witch is a much-loved character, and along with her black cat, Wilbur, Winnie has been charming readers with her antics since 1987! This is the first book of the series, very suitable for teaching English as a foreign language.
The file is very heavy because it's got high quality images.
"Far from the Madding Crowd" is perhaps the most pastoral of Hardy's Wessex novels. It tells the story of the young farmer Gabriel Oak and his love for and pursuit of the elusive Bathsheba Everdene, whose wayward nature leads her to both tragedy and true love.
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