from the back cover: A warm summer night. The moon shines down on the quiet houses and gardens. Everyone is asleep. Everyone except the man in pyjamas and slippers, standing on the wet grass at the end of his garden, watching and waiting . . . In these three short stories, H. E. Bates presents ordinary people like you and me. But as we get to know them better, we see that their feelings are…
Good luck in Malaysia, bad news in New Zealand, a chicken and a jug of cider in Britain, a goat and a pumpkin in India, fun and games in a cyber café in Nigeria ... The countries change, but people's lives are always strange and wonderful in any place. Bookworms World Stories collect stories written in English from around the world. These stories are by Shahana Chaudhury, Mary McCluskey, Na…
What does it feel like to be achild? Learning how to negotiate with the unpredictable adult world, learning how to pick a path through life's traps and hazards, learning when the time has come to put away childish things. The writers of these short stories show us the world as seen from the far side of the child-adult divide, a gap that is sometimes small, and sometimes small, and sometimes an …
Essential skills practice for better reading and writing Part of three separate series, focusing on comprehension, spelling and grammar to help focus teaching on the skills the children most need to improve. All three series offer comprehensive support for assessment and marking.
Salah satu cerita terbaik Nikolai Gogol. Cerita ini ringan dan penuh dengan kisah-kisah lucu. Naskah ini pertama kali dipublikasikan tahun 1842, ketika sastra Rusia mencapai puncak keemasannya. Karya ini sekaligus menjadi titik balik naturalisme Rusia, sebuah gerakan yang kemudian mendominasi sastra Rusia. Karya-karya Gogol dilihat sebagai jembatan antara genre romantisme dan realisme dalam sa…