This classic novel by Charles Dickens begins in 1775, and is set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution, a dangerous, violent time. Revolutionary peasants capture French aristocrat Charles Darnay and sentence him to death. Only his look-alike, English lawyer Sydney Carton, can save him. But both men love the same woman. How will it all end?
Oxford University Press España, S.A. 9780194792288
Ideal for confident learners of English looking to improve or consolidate their English. The book is filled with useful vocabulary that is carefully graded to level, it also comes with audio, so that you can listen to the story at the same time as reading.A human being is a soft, weak creature. It needs constant supplies of air, water and food; it has to spend a third of its life asleep, and it can't work if the temperature is too hot or too cold.But a robot is made of strong metal. It uses electrical energy directly, never sleeps, and can work in any temperature. It is stronger, more efficient - and sometimes more human than human beings.Isaac Asimov was one of the greatest science-fiction writers, and these short stories give us an unforgettable and terrifying vision of the future.
Oxford University Press España, S.A. 9780194792202
Ideal for confident learners of English looking to improve or consolidate their English. The book is filled with useful vocabulary that is carefully graded to level, it also comes with audio, so that you can listen to the story at the same time as reading.Chief Inspector Morse is drinking a pint of beer. He is thinking about an attractive woman who lives not far away. The woman he is thinking of is hanging, dead, from the ceiling of her kitchen. On the floor lies a chair, almost two metres away from the woman's feet.Chief Inspector Morse finishes his pint, and orders another. Perhaps he will visit Anne, after all. But he is in no particular hurry.Meanwhile, Anne is still hanging in her kitchen, waiting for the police to come and cut her down. She is in no hurry, either.
Oxford University Press España, S.A. 9780194791199
Tim Vicary London: November. Terrorists blow up the Queen's coach outside Parliament. The Queen escapes, but five people are killed, and forty others badly hurt - ordinary, innocent people, like Alan Cole, the Queen's coachman, who loses his leg in the bombing. And for Alan and his daughter Jane there is more terror to come, in the search for the truth behind the bombing. Will the terrorists be caught and brought to justice? But what kind of justice? What can give Alan Cole his leg back, or give life back to people who have been blown to pieces by a bomb?
Oxford University Press España, S.A. 9780194792714
A mysterious incident at the Marabar Caves, involving Adela Quested, newly arrived from England, and Dr Aziz, an Indian doctor, leads to a drama that divides the British and Indian communities in anger, distrust, and fear. Forsters great novel brings to life all the dangers and misunderstandings of colonialism but, as Forster himself wrote, the story is about something wider than politics, about the search of the human race for a more lasting home, about the universe as embodied in the Indian earth and the Indian sky, about the horror lurking in the Marabar Caves...
Scott Fitzgerald's third novel was published in 1925 and has justifiably become a 20th century literary classic.Topics: Love, Society'Gatsby?' asked Daisy urgently. 'What Gatsby?' Could it be the same young army lieutenant whom Daisy Fay met five years ago - and who owns a sumptuous house on Long Island, where New York society enjoys the best parties on offer? Is it just coincidence that Gatsby lives across the bay from Daisy - now married to wealthy polo-player Tom Buchanan? Midwesterner Nick Carraway is drawn into the dark world of Gatsby's past and present - a world of hidden frustrations and superficial relationships which perfectly illustrates the 'careless and confused' nature of America's Jazz Age.
