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''Factfiles'' are a sub-series of ''Bookworms'' with a non-fiction angle providing factual information for students on a wide variety of themes. Exercises at the back of each book check students'' understanding of the text and provide ideas for activities and project work.

Nathaniel HawthorneScarlet is the colour of sin, and the letter 'A' stands for 'Adultery'. In the 1600s, in Boston, Massachusetts, love was allowed only between a husband and a wife. A child born outside marriage was a child of sin. Hester Prynne must wear the scarlet letter on her dress for the rest of her life. How can she ever escape from this public shame? What will happen to her child, growing up in the shadow of the scarlet letter? The future holds no joy for Hester Prynne. And what will happen to her sinful lover - the father of her child?

Ana Tavares - Coordenação de Renato Borges de Sousa Esta obra faz parte de um Curso de Português Língua Estrangeira, estruturado em 3 níveis, que tem como objectivo a aprendizagem da língua portugues

Las mejores guías para los estudiantes de italiano y portugués de todos los niveles: fonética y pronunciación, formación de género y número, formas y usos de los distintos elementos de la oración, glosario de términos gramaticales, modelos de conjugación, etc.

When you find yourself on a busy feast day in Chios, in a smoky Maltese kazin, or courtside at a Basque pelota match, don't let the moment escape - say something! Covers the basics in: Danish, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish & Turkish.

Peter Dainty All he wanted to do was to marry the woman he loved. But his country said 'No!' He was Edward VIII, King of Great Britain, King of India, King of Australia, and King of thirty-nine other countries. And he loved the wrong woman. She was beautiful and she loved him - but she was already married to another man. It was a love story that shook the world. The King had to choose: to be King, or to have love . . . and leave his country, never to return.

In einer Kleinstadt lebt der 12-jahrige Realschuler Emil Tischbein mit seiner Mutter unter sparsamen Verhaltnissen. Er soll eine Woche bei seinen Verwandten in Berlin verbringen. Im Zug wird ihm das Geld fur die GroBmutter gestohlen. Emil verfolgt den Dieb im Berliner StraBenverkehr und bekommt unerwartete Hilfe von Gustav und seiner Wilmersdorfer Jungenbande. Eine wohlorganisierte Jagd auf den Dieb kann beginnen.

Offering an easy pronunciation guide throughout, this title includes a feature of a mini dictionary for each of the six key languages.

Dutch language phrasebook that includes an extensive two-way 3500 word dictionary, simple & easy pronunciations throughout, plus a comprehensive food section to make sure you get the most out of

Jonathan Swift'Soon I felt something alive moving along my leg and up my body to my face, and when I looked down, I saw a very small human being, only fifteen centimetres tall . . . I was so surprised that I gave a great shout.' But that is only the first of many surprises which Gulliver has on his travels. He visits a land of giants and a flying island, meets ghosts from the past and horses which talk...

Thomas Hardy Tony Kytes is a favourite with the girls but he's not terribly clever. If you meet an old girlfriend and she asks for a ride home in your wagon, do you say yes? And then if you meet the girl you are planning to marry, what do you do? Very soon, Tony is in a great muddle, and does not know how to escape from it. These stories are set in an English country village of the nineteenth century, but Hardy's tales of mistakes and muddles and marriages belong in any place, at any time.

Emily BronteThe wind is strong on the Yorkshire moors. There are few trees, and fewer houses, to block its path. There is one house, however, that does not hide from the wind. It stands out from the hill and challenges the wind to do its worst. The house is called Wuthering Heights. When Mr Earnshaw brings a strange, small, dark child back home to Wuthering Heights, it seems he has opened his doors to trouble. He has invited in something that, like the wind, is safer kept out of the house.

Retold by Sue ArengoA retelling of the classic story for young learners of English. Prince Harold wants a real princess, but he can't find one. A strange girl comes to the palace claiming to be a real princess, how can he tell if she is? 'Classic Tales' bring the magic of traditional storytelling into the language classroom. The stories have been carefully graded to provide easy and enjoyable reading practice. Colourful illustrations on every page work closely with the text to help understanding. Each 'Classic Tale' also includes an illustrated glossary and questions and puzzles related to the story. Prince Harold is searching for a princess. A real princess. The King and Queen try hard to find him one, but Prince Harold doesn't like any of the princesses he meets. Then one stormy night, a beautiful girl comes to the castle. But is she a real princess? The Queen wants to find out. So she puts a pea under the girl's mattresses before she goes to bed. Can the girl feel the pea and show she is a real princess?

Washington Irving, Robert Louis Stevenson Keawe, el protagonista, es oriundo de Hawái. Un día siente la necesidad de conocer otras tierras, así que se dirige a San Francisco. Allí ve una casa preciosa, pero el dueño es un viejo que parece triste. Keawe se pregunta como el dueño de una casa tan hermosa puede ser tan infeliz. Entonces el viejo le muestra una botella de vidrio blanco, pero que en su interior se podian ver los colores cambiantes del arco iris. El anciano le dice que en el interior de la botella habita un demonio, y que ese demonio le concederia cualquier deseo, excepto alargarle la vida. Pero tener la botella tenia sus consecuencias: si el dueño de la botella moria sin venderla seria llevado al Infierno. Ademas para vender la botella habia unos requisitos: tenia que venderla a un valor menor del que la habia comprado, el valor solo podia ser pagado en monedas y tenia que ser con el libre consentimiento del comprador. Al adquirir la botella, Keawe desea ser el dueño de una gran mansion en Hawaii. Su deseo le es concedido, pero a un costo: Su tio y su primo mueren en un accidente, lo cual lo deja como el heredero de una gran fortuna, que utiliza para construir su casa soñada. Keawe decide venderle la botella a un amigo y contentarse con su gran mansion, a la cual llama "La Casa Luminosa". Keawe conoce a una bella mujer con quien desea casarse, pero pronto descubre que, en sus viajes, se ha contagiado de lepra (la maldicion china). Enfrentando la posibilidad de renunciar a su amada y a su mansion para vivir en una colonia de leprosos, Keawe busca comprar de vuelta la botella. Pero hay un problema: Luego de haber pasado de mano en mano en numerosas ocasiones, la botella ahora solo vale un centavo. Comprendiendo que no podra volver a deshacerse de ella, Keawe la compra, decidido a que su mujer bien vale condenarse al infierno. La mujer de Keawe nota su angustia y descubre su secreto. Ella le propone una posible solucion: Ambos viajaran a Tahiti, en donde cuatro centimos son un poco menos que un centavo. .....

Charles Dickens London in the 1830s was no place to be if you were a hungry ten-year-old boy, an orphan without friends or family, with no home to go to, and only a penny in your pocket to buy a piece of bread. But Oliver Twist finds some friends - Fagin, the Artful Dodger, and Charley Bates. They give him food and shelter, and play games with him, but it is not until some days later that Oliver finds out what kind of friends they are and what kind of 'games' they play . . .