522 Ergebnisse - Zeige 21 von 40.

Gulliver's misadventures begin when he is first shipwrecked, then abandoned, then attacked by strangers, then attacked by his own crew. Gulliver's attitude hardens as the book progresses. Throughout, Gulliver is presented as being gullible, he believes what he is told, never perceives deeper meanings, is an honest man, and expects others to be honest. This makes for fun and irony, what Gulliver says can be trusted to be accurate, and he does n...

The Charles Dickens Collection includes three novels, A Tale of Two Cities, Great Expectations, and A Christmas Carol. A Tale of Two Cities, depicts the plight of the French peasantry demoralized by the French aristocracy in the years leading up to the French revolution. It follows the lives of several characters through these events. Great Expectations, depicts the personal growth and development of an orphan nicknamed Pip. The novel is full ...

Description The publication explains how the world was saved and highlights why. The book also, tells the truth behind films such as the Blaire Witch Project, Factory X, Mr Nice, and It's All Gone Pete Tong the Legend of Frankie Wilde the Deaf DJ. About the author The author James Cambell Beswick was born on 11th November 1978 in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. He and his mother soon moved to Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands. At the age of eleve...

When Charles Marlow accepts the captaincy of a steamship in the Congo, he witnesses the brutality with which the colonialists treat the African people. Setting off with a crew of cannibals, Marlow is tasked with transporting ivory downriver and rescuing a renowned ivory trader. On his journey Marlow encounters the darkness of the Congo wilderness, the darkness of the Europeans' cruel treatment of the natives, and the darkness within every huma...

On the night of Christmas Eve, Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by three Christmas spirits. The Ghost of Christmas Past confronts Scrooge with his youth, the Ghost of Christmas Present reveals the Cratchits' struggle amid poverty, and the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come harrows Scrooge with dire visions of the future if he does not learn to treat his fellow man with kindness, generosity and compassion. A Christmas Carol remains one of the most belov...

Crime and Punishment follows the mental anguish and moral dilemmas of Rodion Raskolnikov, an impoverished ex-student in St. Petersburg who formulates and executes a plan to kill an unscrupulous pawnbroker for her cash. Raskolnikov, in attempts to defend his actions, argues that with the pawnbroker's money he can perform good deeds to counterbalance the crime, while ridding the world of a vermin. He also commits the murder to test a theory of h...

Testing his time machine for the first time, a Victorian scientist finds himself in the year 802, 701 AD. Encountering a childlike people called the Eloi, who live in futuristic buildings and have no need of work, the Time Traveller speculates that the human race has evolved to live in a peaceful utopian society. But when his time machine is stolen by a brutish subterranean people called the Morlock, the Time Traveller must enter their realm i...

A Tale of Two Cities is set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. The novel depicts the plight of the French peasantry demoralized by the French aristocracy in the years leading up to the revolution, the corresponding brutality demonstrated by the revolutionaries toward the former aristocrats in the early years of the revolution, and many unflattering social parallels with life in London during the same period. It follow...

Sometimes it's not a question of right or wrong, but what you think you can get away with. Dara Martin is an untrained witch with strong natural power, and while she knows she deserves formal education from the Academy, it will take years of grueling study and hard slog for this half-blood to be accepted by the Kin. On the other hand, Willem the sorcerer may hold the secret to her lost mother, and he promises to fast-track her power beyond...

Get in. Get proof. Get out alive. Easy, right? All Hisato Shibata had ever wanted to be was a police officer, to work his way through the ranks like his father had. Wanted to be known as an officer who upheld the oaths he'd sworn and keep the streets of Tokyo free of men like Tatsuo Ogawa-Shinjuku Ward boss for the Yamashita Organisation. Going undercover had never been a part of his plans, but when his superiors put the assignment in front ...

This book is meant as a revision resource for GCSE French. It can be used independently by students as well as for teacher-directed classroom practice. It contains 16 units which focus mainly on the themes: myself, family and relationships, daily activities, my role model, hobbies and leisure. Each unit consists of a knowledge organiser recapping the target sentence patterns and lexical items, a series of receptive vocabulary building activiti...

In this collection of over three hundred fables, Aesop masterfully unravels the morals behind every action in human nature. Included are the favouries "The Shepherd-Boy and the Wolf, " "The Tortoise and the Hare, " and "The Dog and the Shadow." These time-honoured morals teach children that persuasion is better than force, slow but steady wins the race, and to look before you leap. A fable is often thought of as a story intended to help childr...

Twelve melodramatic tales, variously set upon the River Thames and its banks between Thames Head and Putney, the Weybridge Sailing Club Monologues were written for recitation and have all been performed as after-dinner entertainment. The monologues have since been published in two illustrated volumes. In this book the complete illustrations from both volumes are presented in the order and to the scale in which they were originally drawn. Each ...

This slim volume is a collection of vignettes, musings and meditations on current and past events that have impacted the author. The essays in this collection are reflections of an approximated reality, an attempt at teasing out lessons and thoughts, unraveling and sorting out reactions to events that have in some way helped shape this writer's life. Some of these contemplations revolve around memories, some long-buried, others blurred and occ...

This book explores the shifting geographies and contexts of children's play and learning. The author examines both free and guided play through the lenses of class, gender and disability, drawing links between face-to-face and online interactions. As young people increasingly spend time in virtual environments it is important to adjust understandings of how, and when, they engage with learning. The book examines play as a continuum of activiti...

Keine Beschreibung.

Keine Beschreibung.

Keine Beschreibung.

Keine Beschreibung.

A timely collection of over 200 essays and articles from writer Raymond Burke. Written between 2007-2011 in order to fill the time during a period of unemployment, it quickly evolved into a pursuit to satiate his infovore nature. Now in print for the first time, the thought-provoking musings on diverse subjects such as Arts & Humanities, Science, Religion, Politics, Society & Lifestyle, and more, reveal his inner thoughts and big ideas, some...