Penguin Readers Level 5. Wuthering Heights

Jane goes to work at Thornfield Hall as a governess for the strange Mr Rochester. They become friends and she is finally happy. But Mr Rochester is going to marry the beautiful Blanche Ingram and soon Jane must leave Thornfield forever. Penguin Readers is a series of popular classics, exciting contemporary fiction, and thought-provoking non-fiction written for learners of English as a foreign language. Beautifully illustrated and carefully adapted, the series introduces language learners around the world to the bestselling authors and most compelling content from Penguin Random House. The eight levels of Penguin Readers follow the Common European Framework and include language activitiesthat help readers to develop key skills.

Emma Woodhouse is beautiful, clever and rich, and she has everything she wants. She does not want a husband for herself, but she loves match-making for her friends. But is Emma really as clever as she thinks? And what will she do when things start to go wrong?

With carefully adapted text, new illustrations, language practise activities and additional online resources, the Penguin Readers series introduces language learners to bestselling authors and compelling content. Titles include popular classics, exciting contemporary fiction, and thought-provoking non-fiction. Sense and Sensibility, a Level 5 Reader, is B1 in the CEFR framework. The text is made up of sentences with up to four clauses, introducing present perfect continuous, past perfect, reported speech and second conditional. It is well supported by illustrations, which appear regularly. Elinor and Marianne Dashwood are sisters. After the death of their father and losing their home and money, they have to move to a small cottage across the country. There, both their lives completely chan...

Książka daje nam nie tylko nowe zrozumienie ludzkiej podróży we wszechświecie, ale też pokazuje nam miejsce, w którym my sami i nasi bliźni znajdujemy się na drabinie duchowego oświecenia oraz odnośnie naszej własnej, osobistej podróży do stania się tym, kim moglibyśmy się stać. Opisany w książce rozkład poziomów mocy w relacjach ludzkich odsłania niezwykłe rozróżnienie między mocą a siłą oraz ich odpowiednimi jakościami. Ta anatomia świadomości oddaje kształt całej ludzkiej kondycji, pozwalając na wykorzystanie obszernej analizy emocjonalnego i duchowego rozwoju jednostek, społeczeństw i rasy ludzkiej w ogóle.

The perennially beloved and treacly account of growing up in a small Southern town during the Depression....To read the novel is, for most, an exercise in wish-fulfillment and self-congratulation, a chance to consider thorny issues of race and prejudice from a safe distance and with the comfortable certainty that the reader would never harbor the racist attitudes espoused by the lowlifes in the novel.

Emma is young, rich and independent. She has decided not to get married and instead spends her time organising her acquaintances' love affairs. Her plans for the matrimonial success of her new friend Harriet, however, lead her into complications that ultimately test her own detachment from the world of romance.

Perfectly preserving the tone and mood of the novel whilst condensing it into two acts, David Malouf, with the gift for language already evident from his novels and poetry, presents afresh the timeless story of Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre, one of the most enduring literary classics of all time. The love between Jane and Mr Rochester, and the mystery of the woman behind the locked door, are here set to music in the opera composed by Michael Berkeley.

Wuthering Heights is the tale of two families both joined and riven by love and hate. Cathy is a beautiful and wilful young woman torn between her soft-hearted husband and Heathcliff, the passionate and resentful man who has loved her since childhood. The power of their bond creates a maelstrom of cruelty and violence which will leave one of them dead and cast a shadow over the lives of their children. Emily Brontë's novel is a stunningly original and shocking exploration of obsessive passion.

A carefree Russian official has what seems to be a trivial accident... One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946. Each book gives readers a taste of the Classics' huge range and diversity, with works from around the world and across the centuries - including fables, decadence, heartbreak, tall tales, satire, ghosts, battles and elephants.

Victor Frankenstein wants to make his own creature from stolen body parts. But when the creature is finished, Frankenstein is shocked by his creation and runs away. Lonely and angry, the creature plans to kill his maker and all the people that Frankenstein loves. Penguin Readers is a series of popular classics, exciting contemporary fiction, and thought-provoking non-fiction written for learners of English as a foreign language. Beautifully illustrated and carefully adapted, the series introduces language learners around the world to the bestselling authors and most compelling content from Penguin Random House. The eight levels of Penguin Readers follow the Common European Framework and include language activitiesthat help readers to develop key skills.

Oliver Twist's parents are dead and he grows up in the workhouse, where life is very hard. One day Oliver runs away to London. There, he enters a life of crime with the old man Fagin, the Artful Dodger, frightening Bill Sykes and kind-hearted Nancy. How will Oliver live in this dangerous world? Penguin Readers is a series of popular classics, exciting contemporary fiction, and thought-provoking non-fiction written for learners of English as a foreign language. Beautifully illustrated and carefully adapted, the series introduces language learners around the world to the bestselling authors and most compelling content from Penguin Random House. The eight levels of Penguin Readers follow the Common European Framework and include language activitiesthat help readers to develop key skills.

With carefully adapted text, new illustrations, language practise activities and additional online resources, the Penguin Readers series introduces language learners to bestselling authors and compelling content. Titles include popular classics, exciting contemporary fiction, and thought-provoking non-fiction. The Secret Life of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 ?, a Level 3 Reader, is A2 in the CEFR framework. The text is made up of sentences with up to three clauses, introducing first conditional, past continuous and present perfect simple for general experience. It is well supported by illustrations, which appear on most pages. Adrian Mole is a 13-year-old boy. Adrian writes a diary about his school, his family and, of course, love. "There's a new girl in our class . . . I think I might love her. I...

Kolejne cztery tytuły w ekskluzywnej serii, w której ukazało się już 18 tytułów, w tym proza polska i zagraniczna oraz zbiory najpiękniejszych wierszy.

Akcja Wichrowych Wzgórz rozgrywa się na przełomie XVIII i XIX w. Earnshaw, właściciel majątku Wuthering Heights (tytułowe Wichrowe Wzgórza), przywozi do domu bezdomnego, cygańskiego chłopca, którego znalazł na ulicach Liverpoolu i nakazuje własnym dzieciom traktować go jak brata. Pomiędzy przybyszem a małą Cathy rodzi się więź tak silna, że z czasem przestają się liczyć nie tylko z konwenansami, ale i z ludźmi, wśród których żyją. Namiętność Heathcliffa i Catherine obnaża mroczną stronę ludzkiej natury, jest mściwa, wszechogarniająca i dzika jak wrzosowiska Yorkshire. Bohaterowie powieści Brontë płacą za to najwyższą cenę, a za ich błędy musi odpokutować następne pokolenie.

Historia tragicznej miłości i zemsty osnuta na tle dziejów trzech pokoleń dwóch ziemiańskich rodzin, opowieść, której scenerię stanowią tajemnicze i urzekające wrzosowiska północnej Anglii „Piekielna to była wyobraźnia i piekło musiała nosić w sobie ta spokojna pozornie dziewczyna. Dla nas pozostała tajemniczym, zachwycającym zjawiskiem”. – Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz Mały chłopiec, Heathcliff, jako osierocone dziecko trafia do domu Earnshawów. Wychowując się w tej zamożnej rodzinie, obdarza odwzajemnioną miłością Katarzynę, córkę swoich przybranych rodziców. Prześladowany przez przyszłego dziedzica Hindleya, poznaje też smak nienawiści. Gdy przekonuje się, że konwenanse mogą pokonać nawet najsilniejszą miłość, znika na trzy lata, aby powró...

Historia tragicznej miłości i zemsty osnuta na tle dziejów trzech pokoleń dwóch ziemiańskich rodzin, opowieść, której scenerię stanowią tajemnicze i urzekające wrzosowiska północnej Anglii. „Piekielna to była wyobraźnia i piekło musiała nosić w sobie ta spokojna pozornie dziewczyna. Dla nas pozostała tajemniczym, zachwycającym zjawiskiem”. – Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz Mały chłopiec, Heathcliff, jako osierocone dziecko trafia do domu Earnshawów. Wychowując się w tej zamożnej rodzinie, obdarza odwzajemnioną miłością Katarzynę, córkę swoich przybranych rodziców. Prześladowany przez przyszłego dziedzica Hindleya, poznaje też smak nienawiści. Gdy przekonuje się, że konwenanse mogą pokonać nawet najsilniejszą miłość, znika na trzy lata, aby powró...

This boxset contains seven books, together creating a comprehensive collection of the Brontë Sisters? best and much-loved works. Beautifully packaged in a ridged, matt-laminated slipcase with metallic detailing, complete with strikingly attractive, bespoke artwork, this is the perfect gift for any Brontë Sisters lover. Includes: Agnes Grey The Tenant of Wildfell Hall Jane Eyre The Professor Shirley Villette Wuthering Heights

One of the great novels of the nineteenth century, Emily Brontë's haunting tale of passion and greed remains unsurpassed in its depiction of destructive love. Part of the Macmillan Collector?s Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket-sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. This edition of Wuthering Heights features an afterword by David Pinching. One wild, snowy night on the Yorkshire moors, a gentleman asks about Wuthering Heights, the remote farmhouse inhabited by his mysterious landlord. He is told about the tragic romance of the beautiful, headstrong Cathy and the orphan Heathcliff, who ? although desperately in love with her ? is rejected in favour of a rich suitor. But Cathy cannot for...

Wuthering Heights is the tale of two families both joined and riven by love and hate. Cathy is a beautiful and wilful young woman torn between her soft-hearted husband and Heathcliff, the passionate and resentful man who has loved her since childhood. The power of their bond creates a maelstrom of cruelty and violence which will leave one of them dead and cast a shadow over the lives of their children. Emily Brontë's novel is a stunningly original and shocking exploration of obsessive passion.