Each sonnet is presented with guidance to assist the reader to make his or her own personal response. Help is given with imagery and other features of language, and the editor has included a wide range of classroom-tested activities for individual and group work. This edition aims to give students access to the multiple meanings and responses which each sonnet can evoke, and so discover Shakespeare's delight in language and exploration of personal...

Gwendolen Harleth gambles her happiness when she marries a sadistic aristocrat for his money. Beautiful, neurotic, and self-centered, Gwendolen is trapped in an increasingly destructive relationship, and only her chance encounter with the idealistic Deronda seems to offer the hope of a brighter future. Deronda is searching for a vocation, and in embracing the Jewish cause he finds one that is both visionary and life-changing. Damaged by their pasts,...

Beowulf is one of the most universally studied of the English classics, and considered to be the most important and most often translated works of Old English literature. The title character is a warrior with superhuman strength who honors his king by performing glorious deeds, the first of which is to rescue the royal house of Denmark from two violent monsters. After killing them, he returns triumphantly and rules his people wisely as their King...

Oliver Twist est un excellent exemple de fiction persuasive. C'est l'une des histoires les plus célebres de Charles Dickens. Des personnages comme le maléfique Fagin avec son groupe de voleurs et de méchants. L'histoire d'Oliver Twist, orphelin et bombardé par le mal et le malheur. Le roman est sans aucun doute fascinant, avec beaucoup de mysteres et de tournures insidieuses.

One of George Bernard Shaw's best-known plays, Pygmalion is based on ancient Greek mythology. Pygmalion fell in love with one of his sculptures, which then came to life. The general idea of that myth was a popular subject for Victorian era British playwrights. Shaw's updated and revised version of this ancient Greek legend was first presented in England in 1914. Poking fun of the antiquated British class system, it introduces Henry Higgins, a professor...

Extrait : "JULIETTE : O Roméo ! Roméo ! pourquoi es-tu Roméo ? Renie ton père et abdique ton nom ; ou, si tu ne le veux pas, jure de m'aimer, et je ne serai plus une Capulet. ROMEO, à part : Dois-je l'écouter encore ou lui répondre ? JULIETTE : Ton nom seul est mon ennemi. Tu n'es pas un Montague, tu es toi-même. Qu'est-ce qu'un Montague ? Ce n'est ni une main, ni un pied, ni un bras, ni un visage, ni rien qui fasse partie d'un homme..."

"Considered as one of the classics of twentieth century feminist literature, The Room of One's Own is a book-length essay written by Virginia Woolf. Delineating the basic requirements of a woman to write, the author incorporates detailed revelations of the various power structures that stop a woman to excel and elucidate her creative capabilities. Illustrating the importance of women's literacy through a fictional character named Judith Shakespeare,...

Plongez dans le monde envoûtant du théâtre élisabéthain avec "Le Songe d'une Nuit d'Été" de William Shakespeare. Cette comédie enchanteresse vous transporte dans un tourbillon d'amour, de fantaisie et de magie. Suivez les amours compliquées de quatre jeunes amants perdus dans une forêt mystérieuse, o les fées espiègles se jouent d'eux. Entre quiproquos, malentendus et sorts magiques, cette nuit d'été promet des rebondissements aussi...

Extrait : "Cette fois elle trouva sur la table une petite bouteille (qui certes n'était pas là tout à l'heure). Au cou de cette petite bouteille était attachée une étiquette en papier, avec ces mots « BUVEZ-MOI » admirablement imprimés en grosses lettres. C'est bien facile à dire « Buvez-moi, » mais Alice était trop fine pour obéir à l'aveuglette."

Award-winning author, Peter Goulding writes, with humor and warmth, in his essay 'On Slate', about a group of north-western English punks, who escaped the 80s recession to claim dole in Llanberis and climb the rock faces of former slate quarries.