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\"I was confidently able to read, write and even pronounce new words [...] in a much shorter time than I ever expected. It actually became natural before I knew it. I highly recommend this!\" - Benny Lewis, bestselling author of Language Hacking and Fluent in 3 MonthsWhether you\'re travelling and want to understand the words around you, or preparing to learn Greek and want to master the basics, this is the book for you.In this book you will find:· An introduction to Greek script· Plenty of practice activities to help you recognise each letter of the alphabet· Helpful mnemonics to make you remember the shape of each letter· Accompanying audio files so you know how to pronounce letters and words· Handy tips to help you decipher common and familiar wordsThe audio for this course can be downloaded from the Teach Yourself Library app or streamed at library.teachyourself.com.Rely on Teach Yourself, trusted by language learners for over 85 years. Σελίδες: 128, Έτος Έκδοσης: 0212, Διαστάσεις: 12.8x12.8cm

A TLS, SPECTATOR AND TIME MAGAZINE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023FINALIST FOR THE NBCC AWARD FOR POETRY 2023\'Celebrating the incredible moral clarity, beauty, fearlessness and power of the spirit of Saskia Hamilton - and of her poetry\' Jorie Graham\'Full of delicate and muscular truths and graced with rare intelligence, this posthumous volume offers the gifts of a uniquely sensitive mind\' Publisher\'s Weekly (starred review)\'To read Saskia Hamilton\'s opening poem in her forthcoming collection, All Souls, is to move through time in acts of seeing and of noting what is seen . . . For now, the day seems to say, Let the ordinary amaze, it\'s the grace we hold . . . Hamilton rests her sights on what can be apprehended from a bed, sofa, chair, or window, and named in the quotidian. These small recognitions ensure a life\'s weightiness, wariness, worthiness\' Claudia RankineWho becomes familiar with mortalillness for very long. I was a stranger, &c.Not everyone appreciates it, noone finds being the third personbecoming, it\'s never accurate,and then one is headed for the past tense.Futurity that was once a lark, a gamble,a chance messenger, traffic and trade, under sail.The boy touches your arm in his sleepfor ballast. It\'s warm in the hold. Betweenship and sky, the bounds of sightalone, sphere so bounded.-from \'All Souls\'In All Souls, Saskia Hamilton transforms compassion, fear, expectation, and memory into art of the highest order. Judgment is suspended as the poems and lyric fragments make an inventory of truths that carry us through night\'s reckoning with mortal hope into daylight. But even daylight - with its escapements and unbreakable numbers, \'restless, / irregular light and shadow, awakened\' - can\'t appease the crisis of survival at the heart of this collection. Marked with a new openness and freedom - a new way of saying that is itself a study of what can and can\'t be said-the poems give way to Hamilton\'s mind, and her unerring descriptions of everyday life: \'the asphalt velvety in the rain.\'The central suite of poems vibrates with a ghostly radioactive attentiveness, with care unbounded by time or space. Its impossible charge is to acknowledge and ease suffering with a gaze that both widens and narrows its aperture. Lightly told, told without sentimentality, the story is devastating. A mother prepares to take leave of a young son. Impossible departure. \'A disturbance within the order of moments.\' One that can\'t be stopped, though in these poems language does arrest and in some essential ways fix time.Tenderness, courage, refusal, and acceptance infuse this work, illuminating what Elizabeth Hardwick called \'the universal unsealed wound of existence.\' Σελίδες: 96, Έτος Έκδοσης: 1212, Διαστάσεις: 15.2x15.2cm

An unmissable collection of eight unconventional and captivating short stories for young adult and adult intermediate learners of English.Olly\'s top-notch language-learning insights are right in line with the best of what we know from neuroscience and cognitive psychology about how to learn effectively. I love his work - and you will too! - Barbara Oakley, PhD, Author of New York Times bestseller A Mind for NumbersShort Stories in English for Intermediate Learners has been written especially for students from a low-intermediate to intermediate level, designed to give a sense of achievement, and most importantly - enjoyment! Mapped to B1-B2 on the Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR) for languages, these eight captivating stories will both entertain you and give you a feeling of progress when reading.What does this book give you?· Eight stories in a variety of exciting genres, from science fiction and crime to history and thriller - making reading fun, while you learn a wide range of new vocabulary· Controlled language at your level to help you progress confidently· Realistic spoken dialogues, to help you learn conversational expressions and improve your speaking ability· Accessible grammar so you learn new structures naturally, in a stress-free way· Beautiful illustrations accompanying each story, to set the scene and support your understanding· Pleasure! Research shows that if you\'re enjoying reading in a foreign language, you won\'t experience the usual feelings of frustration - \'It\'s too hard!\' \'I don\'t understand!\'With intriguing plots that will spark your imagination and keep you reading, Short Stories in English for Intermediate Learners will take your grasp of English to the next level with key features to support and consolidate your progress, including:· A glossary for bolded words in each text· A bilingual word list· Full plot summary· Comprehension questions after each chapter. As a result, you will be able to focus on enjoying reading, delighting in your improved range of vocabulary and grasp of the language, without ever feeling overwhelmed or frustrated. From science fiction to fantasy, to crime and thrillers, Short Stories in English for Intermediate Learners uses reading as the perfect tool to not only delight in learning English, but to accelerate your journey towards fluency. Σελίδες: 256, Έτος Έκδοσης: 1128, Διαστάσεις: 12.8x12.8cm

ONE OF THE NEW YORKER\'S BEST BOOKS OF 2023\'Deborah Landau\'s poems make me feel alive. They are the city, the body, the evening drink transformed into pure essence. If you want to be returned to your senses and remember the pleasures of the world, this book is for you\' Alex Dimitrov\'Landau\'s stunning collection Skeletons opens: \"So whatever\'s the opposite of a Buddhist that\'s what I am\", and these are poems wonderfully full of attachments, in love with love, friends, sex, flavours and vistas and language, because \"isolation it burns\". Behind it is all is rage against \"death, incessant klepto\", but Landau is a first-rate phrasemaker and gets down in words \"life, the full force of it / pressing us together good and hard.\"\' Nick Laird\'Landau captures the ways humans persist, despite our collective anxiety, in our longing for \"something tender, something that might bloom\"\' Publishers Weekly (starred review)\'Landau\'s killer wit evokes Dorothy Parker crossed with Sylvia Plath - leaping spark after spark, growing to deadly dark fire\' Los Angeles Times\'Deborah Landau has developed a style of writing poetry that reminds me of Maggie Nelson and Anne Carson, these long poems that feel dreamy because they are so lyrical\' Boston GlobeExistentialism takes on a glamorous flair in Deborah Landau\'s dazzling new collection. Through a series of poems preoccupied with loneliness and mortality, Skeletons flashes with prismatic effect across the persistent allure of the flesh. Initiated during Brooklyn\'s early lockdown, the book reflects the increasingly troubling simultaneity of Eros and Thanatos, and the discontents of our virtual lives amidst the threats of a pandemic and corrosive politics. Spring blooms relentlessly while the ambulances siren by. Against the mounting pressure that propels the acrostic \'Skeletons\', a series of interstitial companion poems titled \'Flesh\' negotiate intimacy and desire. The collection culminates in an ecstatic sequence celebrating the love and connection that persist despite our fraught present moment. Shrugging off her own anxiety and disillusionment with characteristic humour and pitch-perfect cadence, Landau finds levity in pyrotechnic lines, sonic play, and a wholly original language, asking: \'Any way outta this bag of bones?\' Σελίδες: 96, Έτος Έκδοσης: 0903, Διαστάσεις: 12.6x12.6cm

Finalist for the NBCC Award for Criticism‘Nothing about Jenny Diski is conventional. Diski does not do linear, or normal, or boring ... highly intelligent, furiously funny’ Sunday Times\'Funny, heartbreaking, insightful and wise\' Emilia Clarke‘She expanded notions about what nonfiction, as an art form, could do and could be’ New YorkerJenny Diski was a fearless writer, for whom no subject was too difficult, even her own cancer diagnosis. Her columns in the London Review of Books – selected here by her editor and friend Mary-Kay Wilmers, on subjects as various as death, motherhood, sexual politics and the joys of solitude – have been described as ‘virtuoso performances’, and ‘small masterpieces’.From Highgate Cemetery to the interior of a psychiatric hospital, from Tottenham Court Road to the icebergs of Antarctica, Why Didn’t You Just Do What You Were Told? is a collective interrogation of the universal experience from a very particular psyche: original, opinionated – and mordantly funny. Σελίδες: 448, Έτος Έκδοσης: 0301, Διαστάσεις: 12.9x12.9cm

Inside every adolescent brain, 86 billion neurons connect and collide to produce the most frustrating, chaotic, and exhilarating changes that will ever happen to us. The play is designed to be created and performed by a company of teenagers, drawing directly on their personal experiences. This edition contains a series of exercises, resources and activities to help create your own Brainstorm. Σελίδες: 96, Διαστάσεις: 12.9x12.9cm

“I’m walking down the street and there’s a door in the fence open and inside there are three women I’ve seen before.” Three old friends and a neighbour. A summer of afternoons in the back yard. Tea and catastrophe. Caryl Churchill\'s play Escaped Alone premiered at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in 2016, in a production directed by James Macdonald. It was named Best Play at the 2017 Writers\' Guild Awards. Σελίδες: 64, Διαστάσεις: 12.9x12.9cm

A dark and visceral coming-of-age vampire love story, based on the acclaimed novel and film. Oskar is a bullied, lonely, teenage boy living with his mother on a housing estate at the edge of town, when a spate of sinister killings rocks the neighbourhood. Eli is the young girl who has just moved in next door. She doesn\'t go to school and never leaves the flat by day. Sensing in each other a kindred spirit, the two become devoted friends. What Oskar doesn\'t know is that Eli has been a teenager for a very long time… Jack Thorne\'s adaptation of Let The Right One In, based on the novel by John Ajvide Lindqvist, premiered in June 2013 at the Dundee Rep Theatre in a production by the National Theatre of Scotland, before transferring to London\'s Royal Court Theatre in November 2013. It won the South Bank Sky Arts Award for Theatre in 2014. Σελίδες: 88, Διαστάσεις: 12.9x12.9cm

In late 2006 the everyday life of the quiet rural town of Ipswich was shattered by the discovery of the bodies of five women. The residents of London Road had struggled for years with the soliciting and kerb-crawling that they frequently encountered. As Steve Wright, the occupant of No. 79, was arrested, charged and then convicted of the murders, the immediate community grappled with the media frenzy and what it meant to be at the epicentre of this tragedy. London Road is a verbatim-theatre musical based on those events, with book and lyrics by Alecky Blythe, who recorded extensive interviews with the people of Ipswich, and music by Adam Cork, whose score is a response to the melodic and rhythmic speech patterns captured on those recordings. The musical was developed by the National Theatre, London, and first performed there in the Cottesloe auditorium in April 2011. It won the 2011 Critics\' Circle Award for Best Musical. London Road is an experimental and challenging work which reveals the ways in which even the darkest experiences can engender a greater sense of our mutual dependence. Σελίδες: 96, Διαστάσεις: 12.9x12.9cm

A love story about transition, testosterone, and James Dean. Josh and Isabella are childhood sweethearts. They were meant to spend their gap year together, they were meant to be together forever. But Isabella has now become a boy. Pronoun was commissioned as part of the 2014 National Theatre Connections Festival and premiered by youth theatres across the UK. Especially written for young actors, the play can be performed by a cast of seven, with some doubling of roles, or a much larger cast. Σελίδες: 96, Διαστάσεις: 12.9x12.9cm

A powerful, provocative play about international relations and the shifting balance of power between East and West. Winner of the Olivier Award for Best New Play (2014), the Evening Standard Best Play Award (2013), the Critics\' Circle Best New Play Award (2014), and the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize. Tiananmen Square, 1989. As tanks roll through Beijing and soldiers hammer on his hotel door, Joe – a young American photojournalist – captures a piece of history. New York, 2012. Joe is covering a presidential election, marred by debate over cheap labour and the outsourcing of American jobs to Chinese factories. When a cryptic message is left in a Beijing newspaper, Joe is driven to discover the truth behind the unknown hero he captured on film. Who was he? What happened to him? And could he still be alive? A gripping political examination and an engaging personal drama, Chimerica examines the changing fortunes of two countries whose futures will shape the whole world. Lucy Kirkwood\'s play Chimerica was first performed at the Almeida Theatre, London, in 2013 before transferring to the Harold Pinter Theatre in the West End. Σελίδες: 136, Διαστάσεις: 12.9x12.9cm

An urgent and explosive play that explores of the pressures on young people today in the wake of advancing technology. When a naked photograph of Scarlett goes viral, she becomes the centre of attention for all the wrong reasons. But while rumours run wild and everyone forms an opinion, Scarlett just stays silent... With roles for up to twenty-four young female actors (though it can also be performed by a smaller cast), the play is perfect for any schools, youth theatres or drama groups looking to tackle a contemporary subject in a theatrically exciting way. Specially commissioned by Birmingham Repertory Theatre, Theatre Royal Plymouth and West Yorkshire Playhouse, Evan Placey\'s play Girls Like That was developed through work with young people from the three theatres and first performed by their youth theatre companies in 2013. It was revived at the Unicorn Theatre, London, in November 2014. Girls Like That was named Best Play for Young Audiences at the Writers\' Guild of Great Britain Awards 2015. Σελίδες: 80, Διαστάσεις: 12.9x12.9cm

\'Love or knowledge: which would you choose?\' A moving, comical and eye-opening story of four young women fighting for education and self-determination against the larger backdrop of women’s suffrage. 1896. Girton College, Cambridge, the first college in Britain to admit women. The Girton girls study ferociously and match their male peers grade for grade. Yet, when the men graduate, the women leave with nothing but the stigma of being a \'blue stocking\' - an unnatural, educated woman. They are denied degrees and go home unqualified and unmarriageable. In Jessica Swale\'s debut play, Blue Stockings, Tess Moffat and her fellow first years are determined to win the right to graduate. But little do they anticipate the hurdles in their way: the distractions of love, the cruelty of the class divide or the strength of the opposition, who will do anything to stop them. The play follows them over one tumultuous academic year, in their fight to change the future of education. Blue Stockings received its professional premiere at Shakespeare\'s Globe, London, in August 2013, directed by John Dove. Σελίδες: 120, Διαστάσεις: 12.9x12.9cm

A thrilling, funny and spectacular adaptation of Joan Aiken\'s classic children\'s novel, perfectly suited to performance by theatre companies and drama groups of any size. A thrilling adventure set in an alternative history of England, The Wolves of Willoughby Chase tells the story of two brave and determined girls as they fight against ferocious wolves, snowy wastelands and their very evil guardian, Miss Slighcarp. The opening of the Channel Tunnel has led to dangerous wolves roaming Britain, but this is not the only danger that cousins Bonnie and Sylvia, and their friend Simon the Goose-boy, must face as they encounter unforgettable characters and mysterious scheming. Russ Tunney\'s magical adaptation of The Wolves of Willoughby Chase was first performed at the Layard Theatre, Wimbourne, in 2010. It was originally performed by a cast of five, but it has also been staged by – and is suitable for – much larger casts. Featuring a chorus who narrate, sing and comment on the action, and plenty of opportunities for song and dance, this version will suit any theatre company, youth theatre or drama group wanting to exercise their theatrical imagination. Σελίδες: 80, Διαστάσεις: 12.9x12.9cm

Someone sneezes. Someone can\'t get a signal. Someone shares a secret. Someone won\'t answer the door. Someone put an elephant on the stairs. Someone\'s not ready to talk. Someone is her brother\'s mother. Someone hates irrational numbers. Someone told the police. Someone got a message from the traffic light. Someone\'s never felt like this before. In this fast moving kaleidoscope, more than a hundred characters try to make sense of what they know. Caryl Churchill\'s play Love and Information was first performed at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in September 2012. Σελίδες: 96, Διαστάσεις: 12.9x12.9cm

\'I\'m a dying man who can\'t die.\' Thomas Newton came to Earth seeking water for his drought-ridden planet. Years later he\'s still stranded here, soaked in cheap gin and haunted by a past love. But the arrival of another lost soul brings one last chance of freedom... Inspired by the book The Man Who Fell to Earth by Walter Tevis and its cult film adaptation starring David Bowie, Lazarus brings the story of Thomas Newton to its devastating conclusion. Written by Bowie with the playwright Enda Walsh, and incorporating some of Bowie\'s most iconic songs, Lazarus was first performed at New York Theatre Workshop in 2015, starring Michael C. Hall and directed by Ivo Van Hove. The production transferred to London in 2016. Σελίδες: 96, Διαστάσεις: 12.9x12.9cm

The Fleabag bites back. A rip-roaring account of some sort of female living her sort of life. Phoebe Waller-Bridge\'s debut play is an outrageously funny monologue for a female performer. It premiered at the 2013 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, performed by Phoebe herself, before transferring to Soho Theatre, London, for several successful runs, followed by a UK tour. It won a Fringe First Award in Edinburgh, the Most Promising New Playwright and Best Female Performance at the Off West End Theatre Awards, The Stage Award for Best Solo Performer and the Critics\' Circle Award for Most Promising Playwright. It received a Special Commendation in the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize and was nominated for the Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in an Affiliate Theatre. In 2016 it was turned into a wildly successful and \'utterly riveting\' (Guardian) BBC television series. This edition also features an introduction by the author. Σελίδες: 48, Διαστάσεις: 12.9x12.9cm

A touching and provocative story of first love though the eyes of a gender-curious teen, Scorch was inspired by recent UK cases of \'gender fraud\'. For those who feel they\'re not living the right life, online is a place to be yourself. \'More real than real life. I\'m honest on there. I\'m being honest. That\'s important.\' Out in the real world, though, things can be very different. Stacey Gregg\'s play for a solo performer premiered at the Outburst Queer Arts Festival, Belfast, in 2015, co-produced by Prime Cut, MAC and Outburst. It won the Irish Times Theatre Award for Best New Play and the Writers Guild of Ireland ZeBBie Award for Best Theatre Script. It was presented in Paines Plough\'s Roundabout at the 2016 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, where it won a Fringe First Award. It then toured Ireland. Σελίδες: 56, Διαστάσεις: 12.9x12.9cm

\'Let\'s just talk until it goes.\' The average person will speak 123,205,750 words in a lifetime. But what if there were a limit? Oliver and Bernadette are about to find out. Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons imagines a world where we\'re forced to say less. It\'s about what we say and how we say it; about the things we can only hear in the silence; about dead cats, activism, eye contact and lemons, lemons, lemons, lemons, lemons. Sam Steiner\'s play premiered at Warwick Arts Centre in 2015 and won three Judges\' Awards at the National Student Drama Festival, before appearing at Latitude Festival, the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and Camden People\'s Theatre, London. Σελίδες: 72, Διαστάσεις: 12.9x12.9cm

A razor-sharp, acid-tongued play by Mike Bartlett, one of the UK\'s most exciting and inventive young writers. Two jobs. Three candidates. This would be a really bad time to have a stain on your shirt...Bull opened at Crucible Studio Theatre, Sheffield, in February 2013 in a Sheffield Theatres Production, winning the 2013 UK Theatre Award for Best New Play. This edition is published alongside its production at the Young Vic Theatre, London. Winner of the 2015 Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in an Affiliate Theatre. Σελίδες: 64, Διαστάσεις: 12.9x12.9cm

\'I saved lives and I got rewarded and I\'m bloody well not going to apologise for it.\' Sir Neil Marriot had a \'good pandemic\', becoming familiar to millions from his TV appearances as a government medical advisor. His service even earned him a knighthood, and he is now rewarding himself with a lavish birthday party. But, amidst the oak panelling, the champagne and the silver service, his family are at one another\'s throats again, and he thinks there\'s something familiar – and somehow unsettling – about one of the catering staff... The Snail House is a play about how the past impacts on the present, and how overconfidence can have disastrous consequences. Written and directed by Richard Eyre, it premiered at Hampstead Theatre, London, in September 2022. Σελίδες: 80, Διαστάσεις: 12.9x12.9cm

A TIME MUST-READ FOR 2024Named a most-anticipated book of 2024 by the Sunday Times, Financial Times, Stylist, Vogue, NPR.org, Oprah Daily, Town & Country and more.‘A moving story of how easily a life can be submerged by work, and what it takes to regain one\'s soul’ Oliver Burkeman, bestselling author of Four Thousand WeeksWhat are you willing to sacrifice to get to the top?What it might take to break free and leave it all behind?Carrie Sun can’t shake the feeling that she’s wasting her life. At twenty-nine, she’s left her job, dropped out of an MBA program and is trapped in an unhappy engagement. So when she gets the opportunity to work at one of the most prestigious hedge funds in the world, she can’t say no. Carrie is the sole assistant to the ¬firm’s billionaire founder: she manages his work life, becomes his right hand and learns that money can solve nearly everything.But amid the ultimate winners in our winner-take-all economy, Carrie soon¬ finds her identity swallowed whole. With her physical and mental health deteriorating, she begins to rethink what it actually means to waste one’s life. A searing examination of our relationship to work, Private Equity is a universal tale of self-invention from a dazzling new voice.----------------------‘A penetrating but all the more necessary critique of extreme wealth and toxic work culture as [Sun] questions what it really means to waste one’s life’ Oprah Daily, The Most Anticipated Books of 2024‘Bound to fascinate and terrify titans of finance in equal measure. That\'s because Sun writes of her own experience as the right hand to a billionaire banker, and shares incredible insights from the world that he inhabited, and in which she herself got lost. It\'s an observant, fascinating look at a rarefied space of power and privilege that\'s rarely on public view, and an unparalleled peek inside a system that shapes us all, whether we know it or not.’ Town & Country, Must-Read Books of Winter 2024 Σελίδες: 352, Διαστάσεις: 12.9x12.9cm

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead is a play which, as it were, takes place in the wings of Hamlet, and finds both humour and poignancy in the situation of the ill-fated attendant lords. The National Theatre production in April 1967 made Tom Stoppard\'s reputation virtually overnight. Its wit, stagecraft and verbal verve remain as exhilarating as they were then and the play has become a contemporary classic. Σελίδες: 128, Διαστάσεις: 12.6x12.6cm

\'The first duty of a storyteller is to tell a story.\' Or was it \'The only duty of a storyteller is to tell a story\'?A writer in a totalitarian state is interrogated about the gruesome content of his short stories and their similarities to a number of child-murders that are happening in his town.\'Sometimes you don\'t even know what you\'ve been craving until the real thing comes along.\' New York Times\'McDonagh is more than just a very clever theatrical stylist. His tricks and turns have a purpose. They are bridges over a deep pit of sympathy and sorrow, illuminated by a tragic vision of stunted and frustrated lives.\' Fintan O\'Toole, Irish TimesMartin McDonagh\'s searingly brilliant play premiered at the National Theatre, London in November 2003. It was revived at the Duke of York\'s Theatre, London, in June 2023. Σελίδες: 112, Διαστάσεις: 12.9x12.9cm

Fed up with the dreary round of life in Ballybeg, with his uncommunicative father and the humiliating job in his father\'s grocery shop, with his frustrated love for Kathy Doogan who married a richer, more successful young man and with the total absence of prospect and opportunity in his life at home, Gareth O\'Donnell has accepted his aunt\'s invitation to come to Philadelphia. Now, on the eve of his departure, he is not happy to be leaving Ballybeg.With this play Brian Friel made his reputation and it is now an acknowledged classic of modern drama. Σελίδες: 112, Διαστάσεις: 12.6x12.6cm

Anyone who\'s never watched someone die is suffering from a pretty bad case of virginity. Look Back in Anger premiered at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in 1956. \'John Osborne didn\'t contribute to British theatre: he set off a landmine called Look Back in Anger and blew most of it up.\' Alan Sillitoe \'A story of youthful insecurity inflamed by lack of opportunity and the terrifying, destabilizing force of love . . . Jimmy Porter could fill an opera house with his bellowing hunger for a bigger, better life and a loyal love to share it with.\' New York Times \'Look Back in Anger presents post-war youth as it really is. To have done this at all would be a signal achievement; to have done it in a first play is a minor miracle. All the qualities are there, qualities one had despaired of ever seeing on the stage - the drift towards anarchy, the instinctive leftishness, the automatic rejection of \"official\" attitudes, the surrealist sense of humour, the casual promiscuity, the sense of lacking a crusade worth fighting for and, underlying all these, the determination that no one who dies shall go unmourned . . . I doubt if I could love anyone who did not wish to see Look Back in Anger. It is the best young play of its decade.\' Kenneth Tynan, Observer \'How bracing, and, yes, even shocking, its white-hot fury remains.\' The Times This edition includes an introduction by Michael Billington and an afterword by David Hare. Σελίδες: 144, Διαστάσεις: 12.1x12.1cm

Playwright and novelist Nigel Williams\'s stage adaptation of William Golding\'s story was first professionally produced by the Royal Shakespeare Company at Stratford-upon-Avon in July 1995. \'Remarkably true to the novel in spirit . . . the theatre lends itself particularly well to the ritualistic aspects of the story - chanting, dancing, marching, forming a circle round the victim, stamping out a fire . . . You end up feeling you have seen a fable of infinite implications enacted in a little room.\' Sunday TelegraphThis special acting edition, particularly suitable for schools and amateur groups, contains the full playtext as well as notes on staging, a full properties list and lighting and sound cues. Σελίδες: 144, Διαστάσεις: 13x13cm

A classic of literary criticism from one of the world\'s greatest novelists and author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being.\'A great novelist who is also a great critic.\' GuardianCervantes, Joyce, Flaubert, Broch, Tolstoy, Kafka. What distinguishes the world and work of a truly great novelist? In these stunning philosophical reflections on the history, practice and morality of the novel, Kundera mines his personal experience as an author to argue that the European novel is \'an art born of the laughter of God\'. Encompassing the role of historical events, the creation of character and the meaning of action in fiction, the result is a modern classic of literary criticism from one of the world\'s finest novelists - philosophical, playful and profound. Σελίδες: 176, Διαστάσεις: 12.7x12.7cm

The action takes place in late August 1833 at a hedge-school in the townland of Baile Beag, an Irish-speaking community in County Donegal. In a nearby field camps a recently arrived detachment of the Royal Engineers, making the first Ordnance Survey. For the purposes of cartography, the local Gaelic place names have to be recorded and rendered into English. In examining the effects of this operation on the lives of a small group, Brian Friel skilfully reveals the far-reaching personal and cultural effects of an action which is at first sight purely administrative. Σελίδες: 112, Διαστάσεις: 12.6x12.6cm

Anglo-English Attitudes brings together Geoff Dyer\'s best journalism and other writing from 1984-99. There are studied meditations on photographers (Robert Capa, William Gedney, Cartier-Bresson), painters (Bonnard, Gauguin), musicians (Coltrane, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan), and close critical engagements with writers including Camus, Michael Ondaatje and Martin Amis. Also here are idiosyncratic reflections on boxing, comics, Airfix models and Action Man, and often hilarious accounts of his \'misadventures\'. Σελίδες: 384, Διαστάσεις: 12.9x12.9cm

Transform your down time into \'do time\'.The most successful language learners create a habit of studying on a regular basis. 50 Italian Coffee Breaks makes it easy to master a simple routine of improving your Italian by effortlessly integrating it with your calming daily ritual - from a 5-minute espresso to a 15-minute latte.Organised by 5, 10 and 15 minutes, these 50 varied and lively activities - from anagrams and idiom challenges to recipes and quotations - are created for high-beginner to intermediate adult and young-adult learners and designed to keep you motivated while building your skills in key areas. · Reading comprehension · Writing skills · Grammar confidence · Translation abilities · Vocabulary expansion · Cultural awareness By practising Italian in a fun and relaxed way in the time you have, you will stay on track to achieve your language-learning aspirations. So, pick up your preferred brew and this practical book, and make learning the most pleasant and productive part of your busy day. For 15 years Coffee Break Languages has helped make it possible for millions of people to learn a language in a way that fits into their everyday life: whether that\'s while walking the dog, at the gym, or on their coffee break!Teach Yourself has collaborated with Coffee Break Languages to bring their brilliant method to a wider audience by producing their first-ever printed product. All the activities are written by long-time teachers of the language in Coffee Break\'s characteristically friendly and conversational style. It\'s the perfect complement to your studies.The activities are levelled for high-beginner to low-intermediate learners: CEFR A2-B1 and ACTFL Intermediate-low/mid Σελίδες: 272, Έτος Έκδοσης: 0609, Διαστάσεις: 12.8x12.8cm

Transform your down time into \'do time\'.The most successful language learners create a habit of studying on a regular basis. 50 German Coffee Breaks makes it easy to master a simple routine of improving your German by effortlessly integrating it with your calming daily ritual - from a 5-minute espresso to a 15-minute latte.Organised by 5, 10 and 15 minutes, these 50 varied and lively activities - from anagrams and idiom challenges to recipes and quotations - are created for high-beginner to intermediate adult and young-adult learners and designed to keep you motivated while building your skills in key areas. · Reading comprehension · Writing skills · Grammar confidence · Translation abilities · Vocabulary expansion · Cultural awareness By practising German in a fun and relaxed way in the time you have, you will stay on track to achieve your language-learning aspirations. So, pick up your preferred brew and this practical book, and make learning the most pleasant and productive part of your busy day. For 15 years Coffee Break Languages has helped make it possible for millions of people to learn a language in a way that fits into their everyday life: whether that\'s while walking the dog, at the gym, or on their coffee break!Teach Yourself has collaborated with Coffee Break Languages to bring their brilliant method to a wider audience by producing their first-ever printed product. All the activities are written by long-time teachers of the language in Coffee Break\'s characteristically friendly and conversational style. It\'s the perfect complement to your studies.The activities are levelled for high-beginner to low-intermediate learners: CEFR A2-B1 and ACTFL Intermediate-low/mid Σελίδες: 272, Έτος Έκδοσης: 0609, Διαστάσεις: 12.8x12.8cm

A fascinating journey into the life of H.G. Wells, from one of Britain\'s best biographersHow did the first forty years of H. G. Wells\' life shape the father of science fiction?From his impoverished childhood in a working-class English family, to his determination to educate himself at any cost, to the serious ill health that dominated his twenties and thirties, his complicated marriages, and love affair with socialism, the first forty years of H. G. Wells\' extraordinary life would set him on a path to become one of the world\'s most influential writers. The sudden success of The Time Machine and The War of The Worlds transformed his life and catapulted him to international fame; he became the writer who most inspired Orwell and countless others, and predicted men walking on the moon seventy years before it happened.In this remarkable, empathetic biography, Claire Tomalin paints a fascinating portrait of a man like no other, driven by curiosity and desiring reform, a socialist and a futurist whose new and imaginative worlds continue to inspire today.\'The finest of biographers\' Hilary Mantel\'A most intelligent and sympathetic biographer\' Daily Telegraph\'One of the best biographers of her generation\' Guardian Σελίδες: 272, Διαστάσεις: 12.9x12.9cm

Transform your down time into \'do time\'.The most successful language learners create a habit of studying on a regular basis. 50 Spanish Coffee Breaks makes it easy to master a simple routine of improving your Spanish by effortlessly integrating it with your calming daily ritual -from a 5-minute espresso to a 15-minute latte.Organised by 5, 10 and 15 minutes, these 50 varied and lively activities - from anagrams and idiom challenges to recipes and quotations - are created for high-beginner to intermediate adult and young-adult learners and designed to keep you motivated while building your skills in key areas. · Reading comprehension · Writing skills · Grammar confidence · Translation abilities · Vocabulary expansion · Cultural awareness By practising Spanish in a fun and relaxed way in the time you have, you will stay on track to achieve your language-learning aspirations. So, pick up your preferred brew and this practical book, and make learning the most pleasant and productive part of your busy day.The Spanish used in this book includes a variety of sources and contexts including both Peninsular Spanish and Latin American Spanish, making the book a valuable tool for learners of both.For 15 years Coffee Break Languages has helped make it possible for millions of people to learn a language in a way that fits into their everyday life: whether that\'s while walking the dog, at the gym, or on their coffee break!Teach Yourself has collaborated with Coffee Break Languages to bring their brilliant method to a wider audience by producing their first-ever printed product. All the activities are written by long-time teachers of the language in Coffee Break\'s characteristically friendly and conversational style. It\'s the perfect complement to your studies.The activities are levelled for high-beginner to low-intermediate learners: CEFR A2-B1 and ACTFL Intermediate-low/mid Σελίδες: 272, Έτος Έκδοσης: 0609, Διαστάσεις: 12.8x12.8cm

Alan Bennett sealed his reputation as the master of observation with this series of 12 groundbreaking monologues, originally filmed for BBC Television. At once darkly comic, tragically poignant and wonderfully uplifting, Talking Heads is widely regarded as a modern classic. This edition, which contains the complete collection of Talking Heads, as well as his earlier monologue, A Woman of No Importance, is a celebration of Alan Bennett\'s finest work. Σελίδες: 272, Διαστάσεις: 12.6x12.6cm

The wilderness is much closer than you think. Passed through, negotiated, unnamed, unacknowledged: the edgelands - those familiar yet ignored spaces which are neither city nor countryside - have become the great wild places on our doorsteps. In the same way the Romantic writers taught us to look at hills, lakes and rivers, poets Paul Farley and Michael Symmons Roberts write about mobile masts and gravel pits, business parks and landfill sites, taking the reader on a journey to marvel at these richly mysterious, forgotten regions in our midst. Edgelands forms a critique of what we value as \'wild\', and allows our allotments, railways, motorways, wasteland and water a presence in the world, and a strange beauty all of their own. Σελίδες: 272, Διαστάσεις: 13x13cm