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Edgar Allan Poe is one of the first masters of modern short stories and modernist poetry. But he is best remembered for his strange style of horror, with characters who cannot be forgotten. A man who drains away his wife’s life to make his painting seem alive; an animal lover who becomes obsessed by a cat; a young man obsessed by an old man’s blue eye; and a man hypnotized just before he dies who then…

Christmas Fun with its beautiful illustrations, captures that typically ‘English’ Christmas atmosphere. Father Christmas introduces the children to Rudolph, the red-nosed reindeer and his team. He organises an exciting football match between the Reindeer Rangers and the Polar Bear United Football Club. A highly entertaining book filled with songs, games and a wide variety of learning and manual activities, creates a wonderful Christmas feeling both in and outside the classroom.

Dubliners — James Joyce's stories of his native homeland — performed by a cast of 15 different actors originating from Ireland. Unabridged. The fifteen stories that make up this brilliant audio roam over a human landscape that stretches from the bleakest of despair to the most blinding of epiphanies. First published in 1914, the stories are as lucid and accessible as they are memorable poignant. As you listen to the cast of internationally famous stage and screen actors perform Dubliners, both the spiritually deadening atmosphere that drove Joyce from his homeland and the irresistible emotional pull it always kept on him to the end of his days become heartbreakingly beautiful. Dubliners is an audio experience that will only grow in richness with each time you listen.

Today we know a lot about faraway places – we have maps, photographs and detailed descriptions. But the first explorers knew nothing about where they were going. Their courage and determination drove them to explore the unknown, facing terrible dangers and hardships. Who were these remarkable people and why did they risk their lives to explore the unknown? Where is the final frontier and who is ready to explore it? Share the thrill of discovery through the centuries with this exciting book.

Grammar Goals, designed for pre-intermediate to intermediate students, covers the complete grammar syllabus for the Cambridge ESOL First Certificate in English exam (B2 Vantage of the CEFR), and has been updated for the new specifications starting December 2008. Features: • 110 units, each focusing on one area of grammar • 12 Review Sections containing Cambridge ESOL FCE-style questions • 17 Appendices for quick and easy reference • an audio CD/CD-ROM, which contains all the recordings of all the dialogues, other selected exercises, 13 complete tests for the FCE Paper 3, Use of English • a separate Answer Key for teachers

A Halloween Party, with its splendid illustrations and exciting activities, captures children’s attention and holds it. They will look forward to making their own cat-shaped mobile, a puzzle, playing a board game and doing other Halloween-related activities at home and in class! During the last few years Halloween has become much more popular, thanks to television, cinema and comics. Every child knows about this typically Anglo-Saxon festivity so why not combine language learning with fun-filled activities? Children will be happy to meet the Beast family and Sammy the Skeleton, who desperately want to go to the Halloween party, and travel through the desert, cross a river and climb a mountain to get there. Crazy Cat will give children quite a lot to think about in the ghostly cemetery, and Winnie the Witch will take them to an authentic witches’ party in the middle of the forest, where they can sing the witches’ song.

Acknowledged as Wilde's most perfect comedy, brilliant and subversive, The Importance of Being Earnest has even been considered to anticipate the 'drama of the absurd' of the twentieth century. Guided activities and introduction help the student to appreciate this masterpiece.

Rudyard Kipling surprises us again with these five tales from the animal kingdom. Have you ever wondered why elephants have such long noses and why leopards have spots? Do you know why kangaroos hop around Australia? Find out how a clever young sailor tricked a whale and meet many other unforgettable characters.

How many different languages are spoken in London? What’s the Square Mile all about? How did Piccadilly get its name? Book a seat in a haunted theatre and enjoy the show! Get to know this sensational city starting from its glorious history all the way to its captivating present. Discover the magic that is London!

The illustrations in this exciting reader for beginners will enthuse children to the point that they won't want to part with their Mowgli. When Mowgli meets the tiger, Shera Khan and isn’t able to cross the river to escape, he realises that he must learn to swim. With a little help from his friends Baloo, Bagheera, Hathi and the others, Mowgli discovers that swimming isn’t so difficult after all! This simple, yet involving story will enable beginners to develop self-confidence as they read in a foreign language. There are fun activities, a glossary in three languages – Italian, French and German, a list of useful expressions and answers to the exercises. The accompanying CD contains the text recorded in full.

1715: Frank Osbaldistone likes poetry and he does not want to enter the family business. The young man is then sent by his father to the north of England. Frank meets a charismatic Scotsman and an official of the English government. This will be the beginning of his involvement in a rebellion against the British monarchy. In this great historical novel, Frank comes to love and understand the wild world of the Scottish Highlands.

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 with international roots and a terrible murder...

The King and Queen are proud of their baby daughter, Princess Aurora, and they invite everyone to a party, including the Flower Fairies. But one of the Fairies puts a curse on Aurora, and despite the King’s precautions, on her sixteenth birthday she meets an old lady in a tower in the castle…

Snow White’s life is in danger when her father marries again and his new wife, Queen Bella, becomes terribly jealous of Snow White’s beauty. But Queen Bella’s plans fail, and Snow White finds safety at the cottage of the seven dwarfs before becoming reunited with her father.

Three authors reveal the obscure corners of the occult. In LeFanu's Dickon the Devil the narrator discovers that the sinister ghosts of the past have never left Barwyke Hall. Rudyard Kipling tells the story of a man who disappears mysteriously. In Hawthorne's The Minister's Black Veil, the Puritan Reverend Hooper is plagued by a terrible secret sin that forces him to wear a black veil.

Many people all over the world start their day with a cup of coffee. Black or white, espresso or filter – there are so many ways of preparing it. In this book you can learn more about the coffee plant and the history of this popular drink. And you can find a recipe for a frappuccino, too!

A spine-chilling tale of a young governess’s struggle to protect the children in her care from the ghosts of two previous servants. Simple hallucinations perhaps, or external representations of the woman’s inner torments? James’s 19th-century masterpiece of ambiguous narrative is the precursor of the modern psychological thriller.

Selena Willing, a young, beautiful heiress, contacts Richard Boot, a private detective, because she thinks there is a noisy ghost in her stately home. Richard investigates, looking into Selena’s life and discovers that the noise she hears is not a ghost, but something much more real and dangerous…

Together with a group of French friends, students are invited to set off on a discovery tour of Paris. The discovery unfolds in ten stages, in search of the various sides of the capital (Paris artiste, Le Paris des rois, Paris mémoire, Paris nature, Paris triomphe...). Each stage includes an introductory dialogue, a presentation of the topic, a few pages of grammar revision and the presentation of topic-based itineraries.

Exotheque — 900 exercices de grammaire — niveau intermediaire.

A modern-looking girl on the way to her grandmother meets an old-fashioned wolf in the woods. But there’s a happy ending. The girl, her grandmother and a wood-cutter all have tea together, while the wolf runs away, scared but still alive!

In the countryside of Berry, at the start of the 19th century, will Fadette a poor young girl, be able to gain the love of the handsome Landry? To do so she must confront the jealousy of her twin brother Sylvinet and of the most beautiful girl in the village, Madelon The mysterious person George Sand created reflects the hardships faced in country living at the time of the story.

On their journey from Nice to Avignon, four friends discover the countryside, the monuments, the traditions and perfumes of Provence. This journey in eight stages is also a journey in time: the vestiges of Nîmes and Arles speak of Ancient Rome, the Roman churches and Abbeys take us back to the Mediaeval, the magnificent palaces in Avignon remind us of the Great Schism and the grand hotels along the seafront in Nice transmit memories of the first tourists... Each stage includes an introductory dialogue, the presentation of a city or a famous person, a few pages of grammar revision and the presentation of an itinerary.

Jeanne a au départ tout ce qu’il faut pour réussir sa vie. Incapable cependant d’affronter la réalité, cet être sensuel se réfugie dans le rêve et n’a aucune prise sur le présent. C’est Rosalie, la servante, la sœur de lait qui sauvera sa maîtresse de l’indigence totale.