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'Phileas Fogg was one of those mathematically exact people, who, never hurried and always ready, are economical of their steps and their motions. He never made one stride too many, always going by the

The text consists of 14 units, each illustrating the language used in a particular situation. The topic-based units cover the language learners need in everyday situations, but also language for more formal situations, such as a seminar or business meeting.Each section contains a list of the most useful phrases, with information on where and when they should be used, and a short sample of a conversation, showing the learner how a typical conversation flows in English.An audio CD contains all the conversations from the book, and allows the user to practice what they have learnt. In addition, the supplement contains all the everyday expressions and language structures that learners need to speak in natural English, organized by function.Each section also contains a glossary of useful vocabulary, making Collins Easy Learning English Conversation: Book 2 an indispensible resource for students who want to build on their conversation skills so that they can speak English fluently and with co

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Share in fifty years of magic... The classic story of Sophie and her extraordinary teatime guest is loved by millions of children and was first published fifty years ago. Now available in a new, cased

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′It′s a poor sort of memory that only works backward.′In Carroll′s sequel to Alice′s Adventures in Wonderland, Alice once again finds herself in a bizarre and nonsensical place when she passes through

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The House of Mirth tells the story of Lily Bart, aged 29, beautiful, impoverished and in need of a rich husband to safeguard her place in the social elite, and to support her expensive habits - her cl

‘I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation. That is why I have chosen my own particular profession, or rather created it, for I am the only one in the world…’ In London, 188

This book is pretty much our official story so far. It really does only seem like last week we played our first gig in at the Annandale hotel in Sydney. Since then we’ve been given the opportunity to

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In 1913, Rabindranath Tagore became the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, and he remains one of the most important voices of Bengali culture to this day. These short stories, wr

IVANHOE is a historical novel by Sir Walter Scott published in 1820, and set in 12th-century England. Ivanhoe is sometimes credited for increasing interest in Romanticism and Medievalism.

THE LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW is a gothic short story by Washington Irving contained in his collection The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., written while he was living in Birmingham, England, and

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′I′ve worn that mask so long I don′t feel safe without it.′The Man in the Iron Mask sees D′Artagnan, Athos, Porthos and Aramis return to meet their destinies in their final adventure. D′Artagnan still

′Welcome, O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race.′Autobiographical in tone, Joyce′s tale o

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′"I′ll not listen to reason," she said, now in full possession of her voice, which had been rather choked with sobbing. "Reason always means what someone else has got to say."′First published in seria

′My true name is so well known in the Records or Registers at Newgate, and in the Old Bailey, and there are some things of such consequence still depending there, relating to my particular conduct, th

′Death and honour are thought to be the same, but today I have learned that sometimes they are not.′Set in frontier America in the midst of the French-Indian war, as the French are attempting to overt

′There was one place in the world that stood solid and did not melt into unreality: the place where his mother was. Everybody else could grow shadowy, almost non-existent to him, but she could not.′In

In 1960s Nigeria, a country blighted by civil war, three lives intersect.

'Fifteen men on the dead man's chest –Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!'Upon finding a map in his parents' inn, young Jim Hawkins joins a crew on route to the Caribbean to find buried treasure. One of hi

本套《The Collected Poems of J.R.R. Tolkien》為全球首部托爾金詩作全集，跨越近七十年的創作歷程。詩作題材多元，從愛情、友情、信仰，到自然景物與奇幻傳說，既獨立成篇，也與《The Hobbit》與《The Lord of the Rings》緊密相連。收錄作品中，包含一戰期間創作的思鄉之作，以及融合《The Silmarillion》世界觀的史詩詩篇。由 Christina Scull 與 Wayne G. Hammond 編輯與註解，為讀者帶來文學與人生交織的詩歌全景。跨越托爾金一生的重要詩作全收錄揭示詩作背後的創作背景與生平故事兼具文學價值與典藏意義的三卷精裝套書Award-winning world first publication of the collected poems of J.R.R. Tolkien, spanning almost seven decades of the author’s life and presented in an elegant three-volume hardback boxed set. Winner of the 2025 Mythopoeic Scholarship Award in Inkling Studies J.R.R.Tolkien aspired to be a poet in the first instance, and poetry was part of his creative life no less than his prose, his languages, and his art. Although Tolkien’s readers are aware that he wrote poetry, if only from verses in The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, its extent is not well known, and its qualities are underappreciated. Within his larger works of fiction, poems help to establish character and place as well as furth

From million-copy bestselling author David Walliams comes a laugh-out-loud animal space adventure.Chump the chimpanzee was always being silly. He would:- make rude noises from BOTH ENDS...- pick his nose with his little toe...- eat the skins of bananas, hurling out the tasty part inside.NASA's scientists thought he'd be the PERFECT chimp to send into space. Little did Chump know that he had been selected for a deadly-dangerous mission.If a chimp could orbit Earth, then chances were a human could too.With Chump the chimp at the controls of a spacecraft, what could possibly go wrong? As it turned out, EVERYTHING.Blast off with Chump, and encounter dog space pirates, evil insects, and the silliest chimpanzee who ever lived in this wildly funny space opera, fully illustrated in fantastic colour.David Walliams was most recently Children's number one bestseller with The Blunders TCM Chart, 14 October 2023).

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HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.Young Charlotte Heywood arrives in Sanditon, a newly established seaside resort, with the Parkers: patrons and

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‘“Come along, Toto,” she said. “We will go to the Emerald City and ask the Great Oz how to get back to Kansas again.”’Swept away from her home in Kansas by a tornado, Dorothy and her dog Toto find the

′They all agreed that it was a huge creature, luminous, ghastly and spectral.′Originally serialised in The Strand Magazine, Conan Doyle′s ′The Hound of the Baskervilles′ follows the infamous Sherlock

The Marble Collector tells the story of a woman who discovers a collection of marbles in her father's belongings. On learning that part of the collection is missing, she embarks on a quest to relocate

Born as twins. Raised as enemies. One strong Alpha twin and one mutated Omega; the only thing they share is the moment of their death. The Omegas live in segregation, cast out by their families as soo

‘The girl he had come across … that human being so near and still so strange, gave him a greater sense of his own reality than he had ever known in all his life.’ Damaged by his father’s nihilistic ph