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Twelfth Night
2014 || Paperback || William Shakespeare || Cambridge University Press
An improved, larger-format edition of the Cambridge School Shakespeare plays, extensively rewritten, expanded and produced in an attractive new design. An active approach to classroom Shakespeare enables students to inhabit Shakespeare's imaginative world in accessible and creative ways. Students are encouraged to share Shakespeare's love of language, interest in character and sense of theatre.
Substantially revised and extended in full colour, classroom activities are thematically organised ...
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
2014 || Paperback || William Shakespeare || Cambridge University Press
An improved, larger-format edition of the Cambridge School Shakespeare plays, extensively rewritten, expanded and produced in an attractive new design. An active approach to classroom Shakespeare enables students to inhabit Shakespeare's imaginative world in accessible and creative ways. Students are encouraged to share Shakespeare's love of language, interest in character and sense of theatre.
Substantially revised and extended in full colour, classroom activities are thematically organised ...
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Van den vos Reynaerde en Reinaert de vos
tweetalige studie-editie van de middeleeuwse satire
2014 || Paperback || Ernst Van Altena || Lalito
Reinaert de vos is vaker in modern Nederlands vertaald. De literaire hertaling van Ernst van Altena doet recht aan de Reinaert. Bij hém blijven stijl en ritme in het spoor van de Vlaamse Reinaert en de middeleeuws-Franse Roman de Renart. In deze tweetalige studie-editie van de middeleeuwse satire staat de Middelnederlandse versie uit het Comburgs handschrift naast de literaire hertaling in modern Nederlands. De uitgave is uitermate geschikt voor gebruik in het hoger onderwijs. Ernst van Alte...
Voyageur malgré lui
2014 || Paperback || Minh Tran Huy || Flammarion
Un été, au hasard de ses déambulations new-yorkaises, Line découvre dans un musée l'existence d'Albert Dadas, premier cas, au XIXe siècle, de "tourisme pathologique". L'histoire de ce fugueur maladif, sans cesse jeté sur les routes par son Impérieuse soif d'ailleurs, fait remonter en Line d'autres souvenirs, liés aux "voyageurs malgré eux" de sa propre famille : Thinh, l'oncle si étrange, Hoai, la cousine disparue et, surtout, son père. Cet homme bousculé par l'Histoire, cet immi...
Americanah
2014 || Paperback || Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie || Harper Collins
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILEY'S WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2014.From the award-winning author of 'Half of a Yellow Sun,' a powerful story of love, race and identity.As teenagers in Lagos, Ifemelu and Obinze fall in love. Their Nigeria is under military dictatorship, and people are fleeing the country if they can. The self-assured Ifemelu departs for America. There she suffers defeats and triumphs, finds and loses relationships, all the while feeling the weight of something she never thought of ba...
Almost English
2014 || Paperback || Charlotte Mendelson || Macmillan
Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2013 and the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction 2014Home is a foreign country: they do things differently there . . .
In a tiny flat in West London, sixteen-year-old Marina lives with her emotionally delicate mother, Laura, and three ancient Hungarian relatives. Imprisoned by her family's crushing expectations and their fierce unEnglish pride, by their strange traditions and stranger foods, she knows she must escape. But the place she runs to makes her feel ...
Watchmen: International Edition
2014 || Paperback || Alan Moore || DC Comics
In an alternate world where the mere presence of American superheroeschanged history, the US won the Vietnam War, Nixon is still president, and thecold war is in full effect. Watchmen begins as a murder-mystery, butsoon unfolds into a planet-altering conspiracy. As the resolution comes to ahead, the unlikely group of reunited heroes - Rorschach, Nite Owl, Silk Spectre,Dr. Manhattan and Ozymandias - have to test the limits of their convictions and ask themselves where the true line is between ...
One Hundred Years of Solitude
2014 || Paperback || Gabriel Garcia Marquez || Penguin
Blending political reality with magic realism, fantasy and comic invention, this book is one of the most daringly original works of the twentieth century.
Bridget Jones's Diary
the hilarious and addictive smash-hit from the original singleton
2014 || Paperback || Helen Fielding || Macmillan
The multi-million copy number one Bestseller. A dazzlingly urban satire on modern relationships? An ironic, tragic insight into the demise of the nuclear family?Or the confused ramblings of a pissed thirty-something? As Bridget documents her struggles through the social minefield of her thirties and tries to weigh up the eternal question (Daniel Cleaver or Mark Darcy?), she turns for support to four indispensable friends: Shazzer, Jude, Tom and a bottle of chardonnay. Welcome to Bridget's fir...
The Italian Girl
An unforgettable story of love and betrayal from the bestselling author of The Seven Sisters series
2014 || Paperback || Lucinda Riley || Macmillan
The Italian Girl is an intoxicating tale of passion and destiny, from Lucinda Riley, #1 bestselling author of the Seven Sisters series. Nothing sings as sweetly as love, or burns quite like betrayal . .
. Rosanna Menici is just a girl when she meets Roberto Rossini – the man who will change her life forever. In the years that follow, their destinies become bound together, both by their extraordinary talents as opera singers, and by their enduring, obsessive love.
Their passion will ult...