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Abstract: As the the bicentennary of the French Revolution draws near, Dickens' historical novel serves as a timely reminder of nineteenth-century reactions to that great upheaval. Set between 1757 and 1793, A Tale of Two Cities views the causes and effects of the Revolution from an essentially private point of view, showing how private experience relates to public history. Dickens' characters are fictional, and their political activity is minimal, yet all are drawn towards the Paris of the Terror, and all become caught up in its web of human suffering and human sacrifice. This edition includes extensive explanatory notes giving crucial background information about the Revolution and Dickens' sources. `the best story I have written' Charles Dickens ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range 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, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

Abstract: Writing at the very moment when the foundations of Western thought were being challenged and undermined, George Eliot fashions in Middlemarch (1871-2) the quintessential Victorian novel, a concept of life and society free from the dogma of the past yet able to confront the scepticism that was taking over the age. In a panoramic sweep of English life during thr years leading up to the First Reform Bill of 1832, Eliot explores nearly every subject of concern to modern life: art, religion, science, politics, self, society, human relationships. Among her characters are some of the most remarkable portraits in English literature: Dorothea Brooke, the heroine, idealistic but näive; Rosamond Vincy, beautiful and egoistic: Edward Casaubon, the dry-as-dust scholar: Tertius Lydgate, the brilliant but morally-flawed physician: the passionate artist Will Ladislaw: and Fred Vincey and Mary Garth, childhood sweethearts whose charming courtship is one of the many humorous elements in the novel's rich comic vein. Felicia Bonaparte has provided a new Introduction for this updated edition, the text of which is taken from David Carroll's Clarendon Middlemarch (1986), the first critical edition. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range 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, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

Abstract: A Londra è notte, I signori Darling sono a una festa e i tre figli, Wendy, Gianni e il piccolo Michele, dormono nella loro stanza. Ma nel buio si sente un gran baccano. È Peter Pan che, con la sua inseparabile amica Trilli, è alla ricerca della sua ombra. Qualche giorno prima, infatti, era entrato in quella camera per ascoltare i racconti di Wendy ai fratelli e il loro cane Nana era riuscito ad acciuffare la sua ombra. Wendy si sveglia e, mentre ricuce l'ombra, capisce che il protagonista dei suoi lunghi racconti è diventato realtà. Qui inizia la meravigliosa avventura dei fratelli Darling accompagnati in volo da Peter Pan all'lsolachenoncè, il luogo incantato dove non si diventa mai grandi. Il luogo delle spruzzatine di polvere magica della fata Trilli, dei ragazzi della foresta che trovano in Wendy una mamma, del temibile Capitan Uncino, e delle agili mosse dello spaccone Peter Pan per sconfiggerlo.

Abstract: The books are graded at six vocabulary levels, ranging from 400 words (Beginning) to 2,500 words (Advanced.)