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Myths of the Underworld Journey: Plato, Aristophanes, and the "Orphic" Gold Tablets

Radcliffe G. Edmonds

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Plato, Aristophanes, and the creators of the "Orphic" gold tablets employ the traditional tale of a journey to the realm of the dead to redefine, within the mythic narrati...

The Legends of Sleepy Hollow and Rip Van Winkle

Washington Irving

3,8

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Sleepy Hollow: "The horseman's head still lies somewhere on the battlefield," the people of Sleepy Hollow said. "Every night, he rides back to the battlefield to look for...

Moby Dick

Herman Melville, Джон Эскотт

3,8

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Retold by John Escott for upper-intermediate students of English. Ishmael and his friend join the crew of the Pequod, a whaling ship, unaware that its captain, the mysteri...

A Tale of Two Cities

Charles Dickens, Jenny Dooley

3,4

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How does fate join the paths of three different lives? How much is one of them willing to sacrifice when the French Revolution breaks out. The height of human goodness and...

Tales from King Arthur

Без автора

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In this selection of tales by the master folklorist Andrew Lang, the reader is taken into the romantic world of the gallant Knights of the Round Table and their courageous...

Mythology

Филипп Вилкинсон, Neil Philip

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Undertake a quest of discovery - and learn about some of the greatest myths and characters the world has ever known - without leaving your armchair. Get the story behin...

Three Musketeers

Александр Дюма, Diane Mowat

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[Penguin Readers Level 2] Classic / British English D'Artagnan wants to be a musketeer. He wants to fight for his king and his country. But the Queen has a problem with...

The Importance of Being Earnest

Оскар Уайльд, F. H. Cornish

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One of a graded series of retold versions of popular classic and contemporary titles and specially written stories, The Importance of Being Earnest is Oscar Wilde's comic ...

Outstanding Short Stories

G. C. Thornley

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Classic / British English This collection brings together some of the best examples of late nineteenth and early twentieth-century short stories. Some are about ordinar...

Dr Jekyl & Mr Hide

Robert Louis Stevenson, Pauline Francis

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The Fast Track Classics series enables students to experience the pleasure of reading well-known classic novels. These shortened classic novels cater for every taste whet...

The Tale of Troy

Roger Lancelyn Green

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A masterful retelling of the last great legend of the Heroic age! This is the story of Helen and the judgment of Paris; of the gathering of the heroes and the siege of Tro...

Twenty Thousand Leagues under Sea

Жюль Верн, Fiona Beddall

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This is the story of Captain Nemo and his submarine, the Nautilus. One day, Nemo finds three men in the sea. For months the men live on the Nautilus. They find a town on t...

Round the World in Eighty Days

Жюль Верн, E. H. Palmer

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Phileas Fogg is living quietly in London. Then he makes a bet that he can travel around the world in eighty days. The result is a crazy, exciting race against time across ...

Childrens Ramayana

Mathuram Bhoothalingam

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In this book, meant for the children of today, the author has tried to tell as simply as possible the main story of the great epic, the Ramayana. The sage Valmiki was th...

The Black Cat and Other Stories

Эдгар Аллан По, David Wharry

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Are you brave enough to read four of Poe's famous horror stories? Edgar Allan Poe wrote strange stories about terrible people and evil crimes. Don't read this book late at...

A Christmas Carol

Michael Dean, Charles Dickens

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Classic / British English Scrooge is a cold, hard man. He loves money, and he doesn't like people. He really doesn't like Christmas. But when some ghosts visit him, th...

Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

Роберт Льюис Стивенсон, Джон Эскотт

4,1

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Why is the frightening Mr Hyde a friend of the nice Dr Jekyll? Who is the evil little man? And why does he seem to have power over the doctor? After a terrible murder, eve...

Beowulf

Майкл Морпурго

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The acclaimed author and illustrator of SIR GAWAIN AND THE GREEN KNIGHT return with an exhilarating edition of Britain's oldest epic. Long ago there was a Scandinavian ...

D'Aulaires' Book of Trolls

Ingri and Edgar Parin d'Aulaire

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In this spectacular follow-up to their beloved Book of Norse Myths, the husband-and-wife team of Ingri and Edgar Parin d’Aulaire explore the uncanny reaches of Norse mytho...

Grendel

John Gardner

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The first and most terrifying monster in English literature, from the great early epic Beowulf, tells his own side of the story in this frequently banned book. This classi...

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