Litteraturvetenskap

Because I am a Girl

Because I am a girl I am less likely to go to school. Because I am a girl I am more likely to suffer from malnutrition. Because I am a girl I am more likely to suffer violence in the home. Because I am a girl I am more likely to marry and start a ...

Focus on Vocabulary: Mastering the Academic Word List

Focus on Vocabulary: Mastering the Academic Word List , by Diane Schmitt and Norbert Schmitt, is a research-based vocabulary textbook that gives high-intermediate to advanced students the advantage they need to succeed in academic environments. Th...

Death of a Salesman - Certain Private Conversations in Two Acts and a Requiem

This play tells the story of Willy Loman, an ageing salesman, who is a failure in both his business and private life. Fired by his firm, ignored by his children, his humiliation ends in suicide.

Buddhist Scriptures

While Buddhism has no central text such as the Bible or the Koran, there is a powerful body of scripture from across Asia that encompasses the dharma, or the teachings of Buddha. This rich anthology brings together works from a broad historical an...

Teaching and Learning in the Language Classroom - A guide to current ideas about the theory and practice of English language teaching

Draws on research in a variety of fields and applies it to teaching practice Features topics of current concern, including defining the roles of teachers and learners, critical pedagogy, interactive learning, and using innovative teaching material...

The Oxford Book of American Short Stories

In The Oxford Book of American Short Stories, Joyce Carol Oates offers a sweeping survey of American short fiction, in a collection of fifty-nine tales that combines classic works with many `unexpected gems', and that invites readers to explore a ...

Reading Like a Writer - A Guide for People Who Loves Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them

This book presents an inside look at how the professionals read and write. Long before there were creative writing workshops and degrees, how did aspiring writers learn to write? By reading the work of their predecessors and contemporaries, says t...

New Headway: Pre-Intermediate Third Edition: Student's Book - Six-level general English course for adults

Integrated-skills syllabus and a clear grammar focus Everyday English in every unit Music of English feature - for stress and intonation 12 units Reference material - tapescripts, grammar, word lists, pairwork, irregular verbs, and phonetic symbols

The Elements of Style - United States Edition

This style manual offers practical advice on improving writing skills. This 'little' book can help students communicate more effectively, showing them how to enliven their sentences, put statements in the positive form and write in a clear and sim...

Agatha Christie's Secret Notebooks - Fifty Years of Mysteries in the Making - Includes Two Unpublished Poirot Stories

A fascinating exploration of the contents of Agatha Christie's 73 recently discovered notebooks, including illustrations, deleted extracts, and two unpublished Poirot stories. When Agatha Christie died in 1976, aged 85, she had become the world's ...

Sense And Sensibility

Wide Sargasso Sea: Student Edition

Jean Rhys' late, literary masterpiece "Wide Sargasso Sea" was inspired by Charlotte Bronte's "Jane Eyre", and is set in the lush, beguiling landscape of Jamaica in the 1830s. Born into an oppressive, colonialist society, Creole...

Rory and Ita

"Rory & Ita", Roddy Doyle's first non-fiction book, tells - largely in their own words - the story of his parents' lives. They remember every detail of their Dublin childhoods - the people, the politics, idyllic times in the Wexford ...

How to Live - A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer

How to get on well with people, how to deal with violence, how to adjust to losing someone you love? How to live? This question obsessed Renaissance nobleman Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533-92), who wrote free-roaming explorations of his thought ...

Wuthering Heights

The tale of Heathcliff's and Cathy's ungovernable love and suffering, and the havoc that their passion wreaks on the families of the Earnshaws and the Lintons, shocked the book's first readers, with even Emily's sister Charlotte claiming Whether i...

Jane Eyre

A Victorian governess's love for her mysterious employer is threatened by the tragic secret of his mansion.

Why Read the Classics?

"Why Read the Classics?" is an elegant defence of the value of great literature by one of the finest authors of the last century. Beginning with an essay on the attributes that define a classic (number one - classics are those books that...

The Oxford Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night's Dream

A Midsummer Night's Dream is perhaps the best loved of Shakespeare's plays. It brings together aristocrats, workers, and fairies in a wood outside Athens, and from there the enchantment begins. In the introduction to this edition, Peter Holland pa...

Macbeth

Promised a golden future as ruler of Scotland by three sinister witches, Macbeth murders the king to ensure his ambitions come true. But he soon learns the meaning of terror - killing once, he must kill again and again, and the dead return to haun...

Existentialism: A Very Short Introduction

Sartre, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Kierkegaard, de Beauvoir, Merleau-Ponty and Camus. These were some of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century, and the key existentialist thinkers. This Very Short Introduction provides an accessible ...