Called the most widely read English novel of the twentieth century, D.H.Lawrence`s largely autobiographical Sons and Lovers tells the story of Paul Morel, a young artisit growing into manhood in a British working-class community near the Nottingham coalfields

This book provides learners of English with high-interest reading passages, many of them adapted from authentic sources. These passages act as springboards into reading comprehension activities, reading skills development, vocabulary building, grammatical analysis and practice, and thought-provoking discussion and writing

This book provides learners of English with high-interest reading passages, many of them adapted from authentic sources. These passages act as springboards into reading comprehension activities, reading skills development, vocabulary building, grammatical analysis and practice, and thought-provoking discussion and writing

This is a four-level course with international appeal, for adult learners of English

Dreiser`s first novel, Sister Carrie (1900) was inspired by the life of one of his own sisters, who had eloped to New York with her disreputable lover. Particularly in the unflinching tragedy of its final chapters, the novel broke new ground in American Fiction for its gritty realism and for the character of Carrie, who begins "a half-equipped little knight" and becomes a truly modern woman

This is a four-level course with international appeal, for adult learners of English

New Hotline is a revised edition of Hotline, the highly successful English four-level course for teenagers. New Hotline retains all the strengths of the original course reinforced and updated with the addition of new and improved features

George Eliot`s third novel, Silas Marner (1861) is a powerful and moving tale about one man`s journey from exile and loneliness to the warmth and joy of family

In April 1895, at the age of fifty-one, Joshua Slocum departed Boston in his thirty-six-foot sloopy Spray, a derelict boat he had rebuilt himself. Three years and 46,000 miles later, he returned, and wrote this remarkable account of his voyage. An instant besy-seller, Sailing Alone Around the World is now regarded as one of the literature`s greatest voyage narratives.

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