Diane Mowat Livres

Suitable for younger learners Word count 18,055 Bestseller

Nouvelle approche, C'est : Un nouvel art de lire... ou de relire. Un nouvel art d'aborder les textes, Même les plus intimidants. Echoué sur une île déserte avec pour tous bagages quelques graines de blé et d'orge, un mousquet, de la poudre et des balles, Robinson n'entrevoit d'abord que la faim et la mort. Mais il va tout réinventer : le feu, le pain, le fromage, l'amitié et le bonheur. Le premier roman anglais, le premier et le seul roman écologique à suspens.

Jonathan Marker, jeune et brillant clerc de notaire, se rend pour affaires dans les Carpates, où réside son client, le comte Dracula. Celui-ci se révèle un hôte chaleureux et prévenant, mais la curiosité incite Jonathan à pousser son exploration de l'immense château toujours un peu plus loin. A travers les lettres qu'il lui envoie presque chaque jour, Mina, sa jeune épouse restée à Londres, découvre qu'une effroyable réalité se tapit dans l'ombre de la légende...

This series of "Bookworms" offers younger readers the chance to enjoy lively and accessible adaptations of the best classic and modern fiction. Each title is highly illustrated to engage the reader in the world of the book and help with specific vocabulary.

Suitable for younger learners Word count 5,945

Now The Children of Green Knowe and River at Green Knowe are available in one edition. Children of Green KnoweTolly's great grandmother isn't a witch, but both she and her old house, Green Knowe, are full of a very special kind of magic.

Part of a series designed to provide English language students at all levels of comprehension with the opportunity to extend their reading and appreciation of English, this adventure novel at Level 4 is set in Greece.

Suitable for younger learners Word count 6,580

This award-winning collection of adapted classic literature and original stories develops reading skills for low-beginning through advanced students. Accessible language and carefully controlled vocabulary build students' reading confidence. Introductions at the beginning of each story, illustrations throughout, and glossaries help build comprehension. Before, during, and after reading activities included in the back of each book strengthen student comprehension. Audio versions of selected titles provide great models of intonation and pronunciation of difficult words.

Een Engelsman neemt de plaats in van zijn neef, de koning van Ruritanië.

This series of readers is aimed at students at 6 levels from elementary to advanced. All stages have exercises for classroom or private use, plus a glossary to help with vocabulary. The approximate vocabulary count for stage 1 is 400 words. This is a ghost story.

"If you wake up in the night and hear a tap running somewhere in the house, what to you do? You get up, of course, and go and turn the tap off. A little later you hear the tap running again. You are alone in the house, and you know you turned the tap off. What do you think? The ghosts in these stories all have unfinished business with the living world. They come back from the grave to continue their work, to keep a promise, to look for something they have lost. Sometimes they want to help people, sometimes they want to punish them - or kill them."--Back cover

This series of readers is aimed at students at 6 levels from elementary to advanced. All stages have exercises for classroom or private use, plus a glossary to help with vocabulary. This elementary level book features a collection of short stories from the American humourist, O. Henry.

When a group of English schoolchildren are told that they are to be in a tetrathlon (swimming, running, shooting and riding) against the perfect Greycoats school, they are totally unenthusiastic but rally when a teacher encourages them.

A Florence, la veille de Noël, Langley Smythe, un diplomate retraité d'origine anglaise, est découvert mort dans son appartement. Au terme de son enquête, l'adjudant Guarnaccia, malgré une grippe envahissante et un stagiaire encombrant, va mettre au jour une sombre affaire de trafic d'objets d'art. Ce Maigret florentin (il officie au palais Pitti où il commande les carabiniers) est d'origine sicilienne. Gastronome notoire, doté d'un tempérament réservé, il compense son flegme inattendu par une opiniâtreté tenace. En mettant en scène dans le cadre enchanteur de Florence - ses ruelles encombrées, ses petits commerçants de quartier - ce personnage, héros depuis 1981 d'une douzaine d'enquêtes, sa mère spirituelle s'est attiré les louanges, d'autant plus flatteuses que rares, de Georges Simenon soi-même !

These autobiographies of Afro-American ex-slaves comprise the largest body of literature produced by slaves in human history. The book consists of three sections: selected reviews of slave narratives, dating from 1750 to 1861; essays examining how such narratives serve as historical material; and essays exploring the narratives as literary artifacts.

Suitable for younger learners Word count 5,310

Greg is a teenager with a problem - his father. After the death of Greg's mother in an accident, his father takes no interest in life at all. Greg tries hard to help him. His father is too old to rock and roll, of course . . . or is he? These short stories by Jan Mark look at life, love, and friendship through teenagers' eyes.

Suitable for younger learners Word count 5,310

Dumas séduit, fascine, intéresse, amuse, enseigne.Victor Hugo.Tout le monde connaît la verve prodigieuse de M. Dumas, son entrain facile, son bonheur de mise en scène, son dialogue spirituel et toujours en mouvement, ce récit léger qui court sans cesse et qui sait enlever l’obstacle et l’espace sans jamais faiblir. Il couvre d’immenses toiles sans jamais fatiguer ni son pinceau, ni son lecteur.Sainte-Beuve.Les Trois Mousquetaires... notre seule épopée depuis le Moyen Âge.Roger Nimier.Les Trois Mousquetaires forment le plus divertissant des romans d’aventures. Leurs personnages, Athos, Porthos, Aramis et d’Artagnan, sont sortis des bibliothèques pour descendre dans la rue. Ils ont enseigné l’insolence et l’amitié à beaucoup de jeunes Français qui ont aussi découvert les fatalités de l’amour en rêvant aux belles épaules de Milady et à ses regards de perdition.Kléber Haedens.