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Dickens at Christmas
0It is said that Charles Dickens invented Christmas, and within these pages you’ll certainly find all the elements of a quintessential traditional Christmas brought to vivid life: snowy rooftops, gleaming shop windows, steaming bowls of punch, plum puddings like speckled cannon balls, sage and onion stuffing, miracles, magic, charity and goodwill.
This Vintage Classics edition gathers together not only Dickens’ Christmas Books (‘A Christmas Carol’, ‘The Chimes’, ‘The Battle of Life’,’The Cricket on the Hearth’ and ‘The Haunted Man’) but also stories that Dickens wrote for the special seasonal editions of his periodicals All the Year Round and Household Words, and a festive tale from The Pickwick Papers.
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Homage to Catalonia
0Both a memoir of Orwell’s experiences during the Spanish Civil War and a heartfelt tribute to those who died, Homage to Catalonia is an extraordinary first-hand record of him time on the frontline. Written with all of the depth, passion and deep human understanding that defines Orwell’s writing this is a vivid account of the battles that were faced by ordinary working people as they fought for both their lives and their ideologies.
Although Orwell was himself near-fatally wounded he finds both bleak and comic notes in his experience which is recorded with such clarity and depth that this short work has become one of his best known.
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Gulliver’s Travels
0In the course of his famous travels, Gulliver is captured by miniature people who wage war on each other because of religious disagreement over how to crack eggs, is sexually assaulted by giants, visits a floating island, and decides that the society of horses is better than that of his fellow man. Swift’s tough, filthy and incisive satire has much to say about the state of the world today and is presented here in its unexpurgated entirety.
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Latin LCA 2de Via Latina – Livre de l’élève
0– Un support livre-cahier, plus pratique pour le travail sur les textes et sur la langue. – Une grande variété de textes antiques, modernes et contemporains. – Une approche différenciée des modes de lecture des textes, pour les élèves latinistes débutants et confirmés. – Le lexique et la grammaire abordés en lien avec les thèmes et les textes. – Un entraînement à la traduction adapté à tous les niveaux.
– Des conseils pour l’élaboration du portfolio et des propositions de confrontation entre oeuvres latines et oeuvres contemporaines. -
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