Le Mariage de Figaro connut en 1784 un triomphe sans précédent. Figaro, valet frondeur qui entend se marier avec Suzanne, y défie son maître Almaviva, qui essaie de son côté par tous les moyens d’obtenir les faveurs de sa fiancée. Cette comédie allègre souleva l’indignation mais aussi l’enthousiasme. Car jamais auparavant on n’avait traité si hardiment des grands, de leurs mœurs et de leurs privilèges ; mais jamais non plus on n’avait si subtilement dépeint la course au...

Engaging, authoritative, and affordably priced, The Bedford Glossary of Critical and Literary Terms is a comprehensive reference that clearly and accessibly defines hundreds of important literary and critical terms from classical times to the present, making them real and relevant to twenty-first century students through examples drawn from contemporary literary and popular culture.

Cal has very few choices in life. He can continue working at the abattoir that sickens him, or join the ranks of the unemployed. He can brood on his past or try to plan a future with Marcella.

Cal is a haunting love story set against the fear and violence of Ulster, where tenderness and innocence must struggle to survive.

Nidali, the rebellious daughter of an Egyptian-Greek mother and a Palestinian father, narrates her story from her childhood in Kuwait, her early teenage years in Egypt, to her family's last flight to Texas.

The Student's Book takes students from the traditional practice of grammar forms through to topic-based practice exercises. Grammar is clearing presented and explained at each level with review sections assessing student understanding and providing extra practice. The CD-ROM contains a glossary, extra practice for each unit and printable tests.

Des formes voluptueuses, un corps parfaitement proportionné, une posture sensuelle… Au premier coup d’œil, le jeune antiquaire venu de Paris pour visiter les ruines du village d’Ille est séduit par la statue découverte dans le domaine de son hôte, M. de Peyrehorade. Mais le visage de cette Vénus a quelque chose d’étrange : son incroyable beauté semble se muer tantôt en ironie, tantôt en froide cruauté – comme si l’idole de bronze était animée d’une vie propre. Gare ...

Vous avez de 6 à 9 ans, vous voulez réussir dans la vie et vous savez qu'il faut pour cela apprendre les langues étrangères. Mais vous ne voulez pas trop vous fatiguer. Alors lisez cette histoire, rencontrez Jean-Charles qui a pu, le même été, apprendre le hollandais, se faire dispenser de devoirs de vacances, se couvrir de gloire et jouer un bon tour a son papa. Un livre pour les enfants qui aiment déjà lire tout seuls.

No single country has had a larger impact on the past century than America; and most experts agree that the role of English as a world language is due in part to the world's largest economy and third largest country, the United States. But the America of today is also a coutnry of contradictions. It is a country born out of peace and progress, but also out of violence and revolt. Aspects of the USA offers students of English and EFL teachers a broad introduction to the United States, includin...

A SUNDAY TIMES TOP 100 NOVEL OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY#11 in the New York Times '100 Best Books of the 21st Century'A ghetto nerd living with his Dominican family in New Jersey, Oscar's sweet but disastrously overweight.

"One of the most provocative, intelligent and original novelists working in Britain today." Irvine Welsh. My dad taught us to be prepared for whatever was coming. He said we should know the facts about how long we could survive without food, water or fresh air, and to remember that we couldn't live at all without hope.

It was better, he said, to be ahead of the game. Better to be ten years too early than one minute too late. That's why he did what he did, on that morning ...

Inspired by her f...