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J. Y. K. Kerr

    Sherlock Holmes and the Mystery of Boscombe Pool
    Cranford
    The Warden
    Simply Stories - 2: Mrs. Dalloway
    Penguin Readers - 5: Sons and Lovers
    Penguin Readers - 3: Ring of Bright Water New Edition
    • Penguin Readers: Simply Suspense

      w. Audio-CD

      • 37 stránok
      • 2 hodiny čítania

      [ Penguin Readers Level 2 ] Classic / British English There are three exciting short stories in this book. They are all about ... fear! Three people are in dangerous places. What can they do? Will anybody help them?

      Penguin Readers: Simply Suspense2008
    • This is the story of the author's life in Camusfearna, a wild and remote area of Scotland, and of three otters, Chahala, Mijbil and Edal, who became his constant companions.

      Penguin Readers - 3: Ring of Bright Water New Edition1999
      3,4
    • Sons and lovers

      • 400 stránok
      • 14 hodin čítania

      A semi-autobiographical novel that explores the emotional conflicts through the protagonist, Paul Morel, and the suffocating relationships with a demanding mother and two very different lovers. It is a pre-Freudian exploration of love and possessiveness

      Sons and lovers1998
      3,7
    • Cranford

      • 324 stránok
      • 12 hodin čítania

      Cranford is a rich, comic and illuminating portrait of life in a small town in early Victorian times. Mrs Gaskell presents us with a society that was disappearing because of the onward march of the Industrial Revolution. While the dark clouds of urbanisation and the advance of the railway hover threateningly on the horizon, the inhabitants of Cranford, predominantly women, resolutely refuse to embrace change. Gaskell shows that in their apparently simple ordered lives they face many emotional dilemmas and upheavals. It is the drama of the minutiae that is both appealing and illuminating, revealing as it does that great emotions can by stirred by what to the outside world are minor matters.

      Cranford1997
      3,9
    • Penguin Readers - 5: Sons and Lovers

      • 80 stránok
      • 3 hodiny čítania

      [Penguin Readers Level 5]“She was a brazen hussy.”“She wasn’t. And she was pretty, wasn't she?”“I didn’t look. . . . And tell your girls, my son, that when they’re running after you, they’re not to come and ask your mother for you—tell them that—brazen baggages you meet at dancing classes.”The marriage of Gertrude and Walter Morel has become a battleground. Repelled by her uneducated and sometimes violent husband, delicate Gertrude devotes her life to her children, especially to her sons, William and Paul—determined they will not follow their father into working down the coal mines. But conflict is evitable when Paul seeks to escape his mother’s suffocating grasp through relationships with women his own age. Set in Lawrence’s native Nottinghamshire, Sons and Lovers is a highly autobiographical and compelling portrayal of childhood, adolescence and the clash of generations.

      Penguin Readers - 5: Sons and Lovers1996
      3,3
    • The Warden

      • 224 stránok
      • 8 hodin čítania

      Mr Harding is a good man, the warden to an alms house which provides a peaceful home to twelve old men. The young and zealous John Bold is also a good man, but he believes he sees in Harding's comfortable existence an injustice which must be exposed. The law, the church and the self-righteous press all have their say in the scandal that ensues.

      The Warden1995
      3,4
    • Madame Doubtfire

      • 48 stránok
      • 2 hodiny čítania

      Miranda Hilliard and her husband Daniel are divorced, but he doesn't see their children very often. One day Madame Doubtfire comes to work for Miranda as a nanny, but she seems to behave much more like a man than a woman.

      Madame Doubtfire1995
      3,1
    • [Penguin Readers Level 6]When Loona Bimberton pulls off a coup with her celebrated 'Algerian aviator', Mrs Packletide feels compelled to respond.

      Mrs Packletide's tiger and other stories1993
      3,6
    • Simply Stories - 2: Mrs. Dalloway

      • 48 stránok
      • 2 hodiny čítania

      Stream of consciousness novel has events taking place in a single day, as Clarissa prepares for a party she is giving. An adaptation of a novel first published in 1925. Suitable for adult literacy learners of English as a second language.

      Simply Stories - 2: Mrs. Dalloway1992
      3,6