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´Where is my nephew?, asked Mr Jasper, wildly. ´Where is your nephew?´ repeated Neveille. ´Why do you ask me?´ ´I ask you,´ retorted Jasper, ´because you were the last person in his company, and he is not to be found.´ The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Dickens´

An exceptionally strong skills training programme which covers language skills, phonics, and civic education skills.

'I ran to the side of the ship. Help, help! Murder!" I screamed, and my uncle slowly turned to look at me. I did not see any more. Already strong hands were pulling me away. Then something hit my head; I saw a great flash of fire, and fell to the ground ...' And so begin David Balfour's adventures. He is kidnapped, taken to sea, and meets many dangers. He also meets a friend, Alan Breck. But Alan is in danger himself, on the run from the English army across the wild Highlands of Scotland ..."

Jane Eyre is alone in the world. Disliked by her aunt's family, she is sent away to school. Here she learns that a young girl, with neither money nor family to support her, can expect little from the world. She survives, but she wants more from life than simply to survive. She wants respect and love. When she goes to work for Mr Rochester, she feels she has found both at once. But the sound of strange laughter, late at night, behind a locked door, warns her that her troubles are only beginning.

This is story-based course that introduces young children to English first through listening and speaking, and then provides a gentle introduction to reading and writing.

´What dark history is this?´ This is the question that hangs over Dickens´s brooding novel of mayhem and murder in the eighteenth century. Set in London at the time of the anti-Catholic Gordon Riots, Barnaby Rudge tells a story of individuals caught up in

A new level for the Exams Result series with an Online Workbook, and online PET and PET for Schools practice tests. With its fresh design, high-level support for teachers, and multi-media components, PET Result has one clear aim: better exam preparation f

Collocations - common word combinations such as 'bright idea' or 'talk freely' - are the building blocks of natural-sounding English. This dictionary contains over 150,000 collocations for nearly 9,000 headwords. It shows the words that are commonly used in combination with each headword: nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, and prepositions.

This is a new edition with a modified syllabus and extensive new material.

The Super Structures Activity Book provides: Additional reading, writing, and grammar practice for each chapter of the reader Consolidation activities A book review Answers to the activities can be found on the teacher's website

'We have to leave our house in London,' Mother said to the children. 'We're going to live in the country, in a little house near a railway line.' And so begins a new life for Roberta, Peter, and Phyllis. They become the railway children - they know all the trains, Perks the station porter is their best friend, and they have many adventures on the railway line. But why has their father had to go away? Where is he, and will he ever come back?

This is a four-part series designed to meet the needs of secondary students continuing English as well as those starting English for the first time.

Few individuals have shaped their country's civilization more profoundly than the Master Kong (Confucius, 551-479 BC). Compulsory reading in the late Imperial period for all who wished to enter the Civil Service or Government, his sayings and those o f his disciples form the foundation of a distinct social, ethical, and intellectual system. They have retained their freshness and vigour throughout the two and a half millennia of their currency, and are still admired even in today's China. This liv ely new translation with clear explanatory notes by one of the foremost scholars of classical Chinese provides the ideal introduction to the Analects for readers who have no previous knowledge of the Chinese language and philosophical traditions.

The Nether World (1889) is generally regarded as the finest of Gissing's early novels. A fast moving story of highly dramatic, sometimes violent scenes, it depicts life amongst the artisans, factory-girls, and slum-dwellers of Clerkenwell in the 1870 s. But this is not just a novel of documentary realism. It is one man's mordant vision - shaped by bitter personal experience of poverty - of the quality of life endured by a variety of characters in the nether world. With Zolaesque intensity and rel entlessness, Gissing lays bare the economic forces which determine the aspirations and expectations of those born to a life of labour. This is a tale of intrigue, as rapacious schemers try to wrest a fortune out of a mysterious old man who has return ed to their midst, and of thwarted love. There is no sentimentality. This is a world in which the strong exercise power against their own kind, scheming and struggling for survival, a world from which, Gissing bleakly maintains, there can be no escap e.

A Comedy of Errors is Shakespeare's shortest play yet one of his most popular comedies. Here is a new modern-spelling edition, based on the 1623 Folio text with on-page commentary and notes that explain meaning, staging, language and allusions. A detailed and informative introduction describes the play's first performance at Gray's Inn in December 1594, its multiple sources and its uneven critical and theatrical history. Appendices include the complete text of the play's main source, Plautus' Menaechmi, and extracts from Gesta Grayorum and the Geneva Bible. Illustrated with production photographs and related art, this edition vividly brings to life Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors. "Not simply a better text but a new conception of Shakespeare. This is a major achievement of twentieth-century scholarship."--Times Literary SupplementAbout the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

This is a new, up-to-date course where students learn what they need to know for a career in commerce, tourism, nursing, or technology.