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Crime and Punishment
Fëdor Michailovic Dostoevskij
Raskolnikoff, a young student, is forced to give up university studies because of lack of money. He withdraws from society and develops a plan to murder a greedy old moneylender. Surely the murder of one worthless old woman would be excused if it made possible a thousand good deeds? But this crime is just the beginning of the story...
Area Secondaria di secondo grado / Private Language SchoolsCategoria Discipline lingue moderneMateria INGLESE - NarrativaFamous Women in Business
David Evans
This book tells the business success stories of five remarkable women: Coco Chanel, Hanae Mori, Anita Roddick, Oprah Winfrey and Madonna.
Area Secondaria di secondo grado / Private Language SchoolsCategoria Discipline lingue moderneMateria INGLESE - NarrativaStranger Than Fiction: Urban Myths
Phil Healey, Rick Glanvill
A man fell from a very tall building. Why didn’t he die? Why did a dead woman have a frozen chicken under her hat? What fell out of an old man’s ear, and why did everybody laugh? And how did a cow fly? Find the answers in these strange stories.
Area Secondaria di secondo grado / Private Language SchoolsCategoria Discipline lingue moderneMateria INGLESE - NarrativaThe Prince and the Pauper
Mark Twain
Two babies are born on the same day in England. One boy is a prince and the other boy is from a very poor family. Ten years later, they change places for a game. But then the old king dies and they cannot change back. Will the poor boy be the new King of England?
Area Secondaria di secondo grado / Private Language Schools / Secondaria di primo gradoCategoria Discipline lingue moderneMateria INGLESE - NarrativaGandhi
Jane Rollason
Mahatma Gandhi is famous for his protests without violence. He fought for change in South Africa and then at home in India. Read the inspirational story of the man who changed the world.
Area Secondaria di secondo grado / Private Language SchoolsCategoria Discipline lingue moderneMateria INGLESE - NarrativaInventions that Changed the World
David Maule
Inventors are special people. They see everyday objects and imagine something better. They solve old problems with new ideas. Their inventions can help people or destroy them, but only the greatest ideas will change the world. This book has many of the most interesting and important inventions from 2,500 years ago to the present day.
Area Secondaria di secondo grado / Private Language SchoolsCategoria Discipline lingue moderneMateria INGLESE - NarrativaA Christmas Carol
Charles Dickens
Ebenezer Scrooge is rich but he is a mean old man with no friends. It is Christmas Eve but he’s still in his office counting money. He doesn’t like Christmas – it costs too much! Later that night, Scrooge is visited by three ghosts. They show him scenes from his life. They show him the present, Christmas Eve in Victorian England where both rich and poor are enjoying Christmas with family and friends. They show him a frightening, lonely future. In this famous story by Charles Dickens, Christmas brings a surprising change in Ebenezer Scrooge…
Area Secondaria di secondo grado / Private Language Schools / Secondaria di primo gradoCategoria Discipline lingue moderneMateria INGLESE - NarrativaVanity Fair
William M. Thackeray
Becky Sharp, an intelligent young lady with no family or money, becomes a governess. But this type of life is not enough for her. She has big plans for herself. Is she clever enough to find success? Will she marry and be happy? Or will life be unkind to her?
Area Secondaria di secondo grado / Private Language SchoolsCategoria Discipline lingue moderneMateria INGLESE - NarrativaDoctor Who: Face the Raven
Aa.Vv.
The Doctor and Clara, with their friend Rigsy, find themselves in an alien world, on a street hidden in the heart of London. Inside there are some of the most frightening beings imaginable, and Ashildr! The visitors are faced with a death sentence.
Area Secondaria di secondo grado / Private Language Schools / Secondaria di primo gradoCategoria Discipline lingue moderneMateria INGLESE - NarrativaA Dangerous Game
Alessandra Brunetti, Janet Harmer
Northern Ireland, 2000. Fiona is the 16-yearold captain of the ARG, a female rugby team taking part in a peace project. The project aims at uniting Protestant and Catholic students in sport. However, old and new conflicts emerge when Colin, an English boy, falls in love with Fiona. Will sport and friendship be able to overcome religious and political divisions?
Area Secondaria di secondo grado / Secondaria di primo gradoCategoria Discipline lingue moderneMateria INGLESE - NarrativaDoctor Who: The Girl Who Died
Aa.Vv.
The Doctor and Clara have to save a Viking village from space warriors from the future, the Mire. Without the villagers’ best fighters, or the technology of the Mire, how can they win? And why is the Doctor so interested in one Viking girl?
Area Secondaria di secondo grado / Private Language Schools / Secondaria di primo gradoCategoria Discipline lingue moderneMateria INGLESE - NarrativaPersuasion
Jane Austen
When they were young, Anne Elliot and Captain Wentworth were in love. Though Wentworth wanted a life together with her, Anne was persuaded not to marry him. Many years later they meet again, but have their feelings changed?
Area Secondaria di secondo grado / Private Language SchoolsCategoria Discipline lingue moderneMateria INGLESE - NarrativaExtreme Sports
Michael Dean
Up in the air! Down on the ground! Under the water! Extreme sports are new, exciting, and dangerous! Learn about extreme sports from aerial ballet to zorbing. Read about the crazy people who love extreme sports. Are extreme sports for you?
Area Secondaria di secondo grado / Private Language Schools / Secondaria di primo gradoCategoria Discipline lingue moderneMateria INGLESE - NarrativaThe Bourne Identity
Robert Ludlum
The man has been shot many times, but he lives. Who wants to kill him, and why? The man can’t remember. He can’t even remember his name. As he begins to learn about his past, he becomes even more confused. Read the thrilling novel that was adapted into the hit movie starring Matthew Damon.
Area Secondaria di secondo grado / Private Language SchoolsCategoria Discipline lingue moderneMateria INGLESE - NarrativaThe Importance of Being Earnest
Oscar Wilde
Gwendolen thinks that she loves Ernest. Cecily thinks that she loves Ernest too. But who is Ernest really? What kind of man is he? This is a wonderfully funny play by one of the greatest writers of his time. This book is written in a play script format.
Area Secondaria di secondo grado / Private Language SchoolsCategoria Discipline lingue moderneMateria INGLESE - NarrativaOn the Road
Jack Kerouac
One of the most famous books of the twentieth century, this book contains love, jazz, and excitement! These are all part of Sal Paradise’s adventures on the road with wild friend Dean Moriarty and their crazy companions as they travel across the USA.
Area Secondaria di secondo grado / Private Language SchoolsCategoria Discipline lingue moderneMateria INGLESE - NarrativaFour Weddings and a Funeral
Richard Curtis
It’s a Saturday morning, and Charles is still asleep. He should be on his way to Angus and Laura’s wedding! Charles is always late, and he is worried that he will never find the right woman to marry. Then he meets Carrie…
Area Secondaria di secondo grado / Private Language SchoolsCategoria Discipline lingue moderneMateria INGLESE - NarrativaMisery
Stephen King
Paul Sheldon is Annie Wilkes’s favorite writer. She loves all his books about Misery Chastain. When Annie finds Paul after a car accident, she takes him home to look after him. Then Annie discovers that Paul wants to kill Misery and write a different kind of book. She is determined to stop him, and Paul becomes her prisoner.
Area Secondaria di secondo grado / Private Language SchoolsCategoria Discipline lingue moderneMateria INGLESE - NarrativaDangerous Game
William Harris
William Harris enjoys the company of a friendly poltergeist he names ‘Poldy’. At the beginning, William and Poldy play a friendly game every night, but then the game begins to change. It becomes a dangerous game. Who will win?
Area Secondaria di secondo grado / Private Language SchoolsCategoria Discipline lingue moderneMateria INGLESE - NarrativaThe Phantom of the Opera
Gaston Leroux
There is a climate of secrecy and fear at the Paris Opera. People are dying and a beautiful, talented young singer has disappeared. Is this the work of the Opera ghost? Is the ghost a man or a monster? And what else will he do to get what he wants?
Area Secondaria di secondo grado / Private Language SchoolsCategoria Discipline lingue moderneMateria INGLESE - NarrativaGreat Expectations
Charles Dickens
Pip is a poor orphan whose life is changed forever by two very different meetings, one with an escaped convict, and the other with an eccentric old lady and the beautiful girl who lives with her. And who is the mysterious person who leaves him a fortune?
Area Secondaria di secondo grado / Private Language SchoolsCategoria Discipline lingue moderneMateria INGLESE - NarrativaDoctor Who: The Woman Who Lived
Aa.Vv.
England, 1651. The Knightmare is a highwayman who is feared in the dark streets of London. With the help of a mysterious assistant, the Knightmare is searching for jewellery from another world and comes face to face with the Doctor.
Area Secondaria di secondo grado / Private Language Schools / Secondaria di primo gradoCategoria Discipline lingue moderneMateria INGLESE - NarrativaDr Zhivago
Boris Pasternak
The Russian Revolution. Four young people, Yury, Tonya, Lara and Pasha, find love and lose it in this extraordinary time. Their heartbreaking stories make Dr Zhivago one of the greatest romantic books, and films, of the twentieth century.
Area Secondaria di secondo grado / Private Language SchoolsCategoria Discipline lingue moderneMateria INGLESE - NarrativaThe Last of the Mohicans
James Fenimore Cooper
Uncas is the last of the Mohican Indians. He is with his father and Hawkeye when they meet Heyward. Heyward is taking the two young daughters of a British colonel to their father. But a Huron Indian who hates the British is near. Will the girls see their father again?
Area Secondaria di secondo grado / Private Language Schools / Secondaria di primo gradoCategoria Discipline lingue moderneMateria INGLESE - Narrativa