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Marcada por su temprana orfandad materna, la escritora británica Charlotte Brontë, que a lo largo de su corta vida acumuló muchos lutos, revela en su obra el apasionado deseo de encontrar un lugar en el mundo. Jane Eyre, la obra que consagró su éxito fulminante, tiene los ingredientes de una novela gótica, pero rebasa con mucho las convenciones del género. Cándido Pérez Gállego explica en la Introducción cómo Jane, la protagonista, es portavoz de un nuevo modo de descubrir la realidad, y su reflexión nos lleva a un viaje hacia la autenticidad. Al valor histórico –Charlotte Brontë logra un cuadro enormemente plástico de la sociedad británica de su época– se unen aquí el valor moral y el literario. Porque, en efecto, superando las técnicas tradicionales de los diálogos, una especie de «comentario mental» abre en Jane Eyre el camino que conducirá a Virginia Woolf. « Amable lector: ¡ojalá no sientas nunca lo que yo sentí entonces! ¡Ojalá no llores nunca las ardientes y tumultuosas lágrimas que yo lloré en aquella ocasión! ¡Ojalá no eleves nunca al cielo una plegaria tan desesperada y angustiosa como la que entonces brotó de mis labios! ¡Ojalá no te veas nunca en el caso de ser instrumento del dolor de aquel a quien amas, como me sucedía a mí!»

A communicative, three-part course for young teenagers with a clear, structural approach and an emphasis on student involvement.

A motivating three-level course with a clear, coherent structure and built-in flexibility. Lifelines combines thorough language presentation and practice with human-interest topics and texts. It provides core material of 70-100 hours per level.

This book introduces students to the Preliminary English Test, helps them to develop the skills required to pass, and provides opportunities to assess their progress through practice test questions. The new edition has been revised to reflect the changes in the Preliminary English Test, 1996.

Lifelines is a three-level English course at elementary, pre-intermediate and intermediate level aimed at adults and young adults. It has been developed in response to the demand for a manageable, easy-to-use coursebook with a strong syllabus and some flexibility, which classes can finish. It offers an alternative to Headway by a very popular author.

This resource offers a systematic approach with a balanced syllabus, ensuring comprehensive coverage of grammar, functional language, vocabulary, and pronunciation, while developing all four language skills. It effectively addresses the challenges of mixed-ability classes. The Student's Book includes six optional projects for self-paced work and two stories with exercises. The Teacher's Book provides additional photocopiable activities for advanced students. Targeted at teenagers, the material is lively and engaging, introducing new language through a motivating photostory featuring British teenagers in everyday situations. Each unit features a colorful 'Grammar' section introducing new concepts in manageable chunks, a 'Vocabulary' page for useful word sets, a 'Communication' section for controlled dialogues related to students' lives, and a 'Skills' section that covers interesting topics to enhance all language skills. An 'English across the Curriculum' section encourages discussions on diverse subjects like music, sports, and science. A 'Progress Diary' and regular 'Study Skills' sections promote learner independence and training. Each unit concludes with a song or chant, and the first two levels are available in practical split editions.

This book introduces students to the Preliminary English Test, helps them to develop the skills required to pass, and provides opportunities to assess their progress through practice test questions. The new edition has been revised to reflect the changes in the Preliminary English Test, 1996.

This introduction to the Preliminary English Test helps students to develop the skills required to pass, and provides opportunities to assess progress through practice test questions. It also offers systematic practice with examination techniques.

En una accidentada zona rural en el interior de Australia, tres generaciones de la familia Cleary se abren paso a través de la alegría y la tristeza, la amarga derrota y el triunfo glorioso. Impulsados por sus sueños, dirigidos por la inusitada fuerza de su carácter, los integrantes de esta familia son finalmente destrozados por sus bajas pasiones, la violencia y un escandaloso legado familiar de amor prohibido. Una emotiva historia de amor, una poderosa épica de lucha y sacrificio y una celebración del espíritu y la individualidad. Hay una leyenda sobre un pájaro que canta sólo una vez en su vida, y lo hace más dulcemente que cualquier otra criatura sobre la faz de la tierra. Desde el momento en que abandona el nido, busca un árbol espinoso y no descansa hasta encontrarlo. Entonces, cantando entre las crueles ramas, se clava él mismo en la espina más larga y afilada. Y, al morir, envuelve su agonía en un canto más bello que el de la alondra y el ruiseñor. Un canto superlativo, al precio de la existencia. Pero todo el mundo enmudece para escuchar, y dios sonríe desde el cielo. Pues lo mejor sólo se compra con grandes dolores# al menos, así lo dice la leyenda.

Al día siguiente de la muerte de su padre, Jim Hawkins descubre casualmente un extraño mapa en el baúl de un viejo pirata que ha muerto en su posada. El mapa será el responsable de una emocionante expedición a una isla desconocida en busca del mítico tesoro del capitán Flint. Pero la aventura será también una especie de «viaje de iniciación» para Jim, que de huérfano desvalido pasará a convertirse en adulto, obligado a tomar decisiones por la fuerza de la adversidad y el deseo del triunfo. Una novela admirablemente construida, tanto por el propio interés de la intriga como por el carácter de sus vigorosos personajes y el lenguaje inconfundible de los mismos.

A communicative, three-part course for young teenagers with a clear, structural approach and an emphasis on student involvement.

Splash is a four-level course for 7 to 12 year-olds, which has been designed to make learning English easy and fun. It combines English with cross-curricular topics chosen for their interest to children. Pupils learn by doing, in pairs and in groups, through stories, games, drama, songs and rhymes, and consolidate what they learn through book-centred activities.

Splash is a four-level course for 7 to 12 year-olds, which has been designed to make learning English easy and fun. It combines English with cross-curricular topics chosen for their interest to children. Pupils learn by doing, in pairs and in groups, through stories, games, drama, songs and rhymes, and consolidate what they learn through book-centred activities.

One of the best-loved animal adventures ever written This Penguin Threads edition of Anna Sewell's moving novel Black Beauty includes a new foreword by Pulitzer Prize winner Jane Smiley, cover art by Jillian Tamaki and deluxe French flaps. Commissioned by award-winning Penguin art director Paul Buckley, the Penguin Threads series debuts with cover art by Jillian Tamaki for three gift-worthy Penguin Classics. Sketched out in a traditional illustrative manner, then hand stitched using needle and thread, the final covers are sculpt embossed for a tactile, textured, and beautiful book design that will appeal to the Etsy(tm)-loving world of handmade crafts. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Four stories set in England and New Zealand. Suitable for literacy and learners of English as a second language.

This is a four-level course for children who are learning English for the first time. Structures and functions have been chosen to equip pupils with useful classroom language and all language is recycled continuously. All four language skills are developed, with special attention given to recognition and formation of letters and words at beginner level.