Jennifer Bassett es una autora consumada cuyo extenso trabajo para estudiantes de idiomas tiende un puente entre la narrativa cautivadora y la apreciación literaria. Sus contribuciones como editora de series y escritora prolífica demuestran una profunda comprensión de cómo adaptar y crear narrativas que resuenen con los lectores. La habilidad de Bassett para crear historias accesibles pero significativas la convierte en una figura importante en la literatura educativa. Su dedicación radica en hacer que las diversas experiencias literarias sean accesibles y disfrutables para una audiencia global.
Oxford Bookworms Library
The teacher's handbooks offer an introduction to the Oxford Bookworms Library series with guidance on using graded readers, answers to the exercises in the books, photocopiable tests and an answer key.
"El argumento de la novela Los miserables de Víctor Hugo se centra en la historia de Jean Valjean, condenado a prisión por robar una hogaza de pan para sus sobrinos. Al salir de la cárcel, Valjean reincide en el robo, pero la buena voluntad de un sacerdote lo hace reformar su vida. El inspector Javert se obsesiona con capturarlo de nuevo". Editor
Alone in a new country, wealthy Sara Crewe tries to make friends at boarding school and settle in. But when she learns that she'll never see her beloved father again, her life is turned upside down. Transformed from princess to pauper, she must swap dancing lessons and luxury for drudgery and a room in the attic.
Mientras fuera nieva, Alicia juega al ajedrez con su gatita Kiti y medita sobre cómo será el mundo al otro lado del espejo colgado en la pared de su salón. Se sorprenderá al comprobar que puede atravesarlo. De ese lado le espera otra partida de ajedrez. Esta vez jugará con sus propias reglas: allí las flores hablan, los unicornios pelean con leones, el tiempo avanza en sentido contrario Todo es posible en el mundo al revés
Gabriel Oak is only one of three suitors for the hand of the beautiful and spirited Bathsheba Everdene. He must compete with the dashing young soldier Sergeant Troy and respectable, middle-aged Farmer Boldwood. And while their fates depend upon the choice Bathsheba makes, she discovers the terrible consequences of an inconstant heart.
A U.S. Naval aircraft on a routine weather patrol in the Caribbean encounters 'Mabel', a ferocious hurricane that should, nevertheless, pass harmlessly among the islands. But David Wyatt, civilian weather expert, has developed a sixth sense about hurricanes and is convinced that Mabel will change course and strike the island of San Fernandez and its capital, St Pierre. Scientific evidence is against him, the Commander of the U.S. Base refuses to evacuate, and Wyatt's lone voice is finally overwhelmed when a rebellion against the tyrannical dictator who rules San Fernandez sweeps down on St Pierre. Wyatt is forced to pit himself against insuperable odds, aided only by a small and diverse group of English and American civilians - and by Hurricane Mabel herself.
"Derace Kingsley's wife ran away to Mexico to get a quickie divorce and marry a Casanova-wannabe named Chris Lavery. Or so the note she left her husband insisted. Trouble is, when Philip Marlowe asks Lavery about it he denies everything and sends the private investigator packing with a flea lodged firmly in his ear. But when Marlowe next encounters Lavery, he's denying nothing-- on account of the two bullet holes in his heart. Now Marlowe's on the trail of a killer, who leads him out of smoggy LA all the way to a murky mountain lake..." --
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Alicia está sentada junto a su hermana a la orilla del río. De repente, ve pasar a un Conejo Blanco que va hablando solo y que se mete en su madriguera. Sorprendida, Alicia decide seguirle, pero en su persecución cae por un profundo agujero que la llevará hasta un mundo «maravilloso». Destaca en esta edición la excelente adaptación del estilo y de los juegos lingüísticos empleados en la novela, así como los maravillosos dibujos que acompañan al texto y que ilustran, de un modo excepcional, el espíritu con el que Lewis Carroll escribió su libro. Existe una guía de lectura que se puede descargar gratuitamente en la que, capítulo a capítulo, se ofrece la posibilidad de analizar la obra desde diferentes puntos de vista a través de las actividades.
William Shakespeare. Born April 1564, at Stratford-upon-Avon. Died April 1616. Married Anne Hathaway: two daughters, one son. Actor, poet, famous playwright. Wrote nearly forty plays. But what was he like as a man? What did he think about when he rode into London for the first time ... or when he was writing his plays Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet ... or when his only son died? We know the facts of his life, but we can only guess at his hopes, his fears, his dreams.--Quatrième de couverture
