Diane Mowat Livres

Suitable for younger learners Word count 18,055 Bestseller

Jonathan Harker, jeune notaire, est envoyé en Transylvanie pour rencontrer un client encore inconnu, le comte Dracula. L'homme qu'il découvre est une créature démoniaque, un mort-vivant qui se nourrit du sang de ses victimes.

" Robinson Crusoé " est un de ces rares livres écrits pour les adultes adoptés par les jeunes, régal de tous les âges. Dans un foisonnement d'aventures, de décors exotiques, voilà Robinson naufragé sur une île perdue au cœur des océans. Seul dans la géante nature, il survit, prospère même en rencontre Vendredi, le " bon sauvage ", son compagnon d'infortune... Comment ne pas lire ou relire ce grand classique, ce pur chef-d'œuvre ? Cette édition nous entraîne, en outre, dans la suite des aventures de Robinson ; elle présente, en effet, la version intégrale de l'ouvrage. Après avoir mené pendant quelques années une vie familiale calme et fortunée, notre héros repart en voyage : " Ma maladie de courir le monde s'était de nouveau emparée de moi. " Nous le suivons avec passion dans les nombreuses péripéties de ses voyages à Madagascar, aux Indes, en Chine jusqu'à son retour à Londres, après une traversée de l'Asie, de Pékin à Arkhangelsk.

This additional series of "Oxford Bookworms" offers young readers at an elementary level of the English language the chance to enjoy accessible adaptations of classic and modern fiction. This is the tale of a sand fairy who grants five children a daily wish

Nicola Ferris, on leave from her job as a secretary in Athens, has been looking forward to a quiet week's holiday in Crete, enjoying the wild flowers and the company of her cousin Frances. But before she even reaches her destination Nicola stumbles on evidence of a murderous crime involving a young Englishman and a group of people tied together by blood and the bonds of greed. For the first time in her life Nicola meets a man and a situation she cannot deal with . . .

Matty is fifteen and is leaving school in a few weeks' time. He wants to work with animals, and would like to get a job on a farm. But his parents say he's too young to leave home - he must stay in the town and get a job in ship-building, like his father. They also say he can't go on a campingholiday with his friends. And they say he can't keep his dog, Nelson, because Nelson barks all day and eats his father's shoes. But it is because of Nelson that Matty finds a new life . . .

Vanity Fair, Thackeray's panoramic, satirical saga of corruption at all levels of English society, was published in 1847 but set during the Napoleonic Wars. It chronicles the lives of two women who could not be more different: Becky Sharp, an orphan whose only resources are her vast ambitions, her native wit, and her loose morals; and her schoolmate Amelia Sedley, a typically naive Victorian heroine, the pampered daughter of a wealthy family. Becky's fluctuating fortunes eventually bring her to an affair with Amelia's dissolute husband; when he is killed at Waterloo, Amelia and her child are left penniless, while Becky and her husband Rawdon Crawley rise in the world, managing to lead a high life in London solely on the basis of their shrewdness. (The chapter entitled "How to Live on Nothing" is a classic.) Thackeray's subtitle, "A Novel Without a Hero," is understating the case; his view of humanity in this novel is distinctly bleak and deliberately antiheroic. Critics of the time misunderstood the book, decrying it as (among other things) vicious, vile, and odious. But VANITY FAIR has endured as one of the great comic novels of all time, and a landmark in the history of realism in fiction.

Suitable for younger learners Word count 10,710 Bestseller

Pack of ten best-selling iBookworms/i and– ideal for building up class libraries. Each Pack contains one copy of each listed title.liThe Adventures of Tom Sawyer/libr / liThe Elephant Man/libr /liA Little Princess/libr / liLove or Money?/libr / liThe Monkey's Paw/libr / liThe Phantom of the Opera/libr / liThe President's Murderer/libr / liSherlock Holmes and the Duke's Son/libr / liWhite Death/libr / liThe Wizard ofOz/li

"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