Dominoes Starter. Rip Van Winkle & The Legend Of The Sleepy Hollow Digital Pack

Stewart, Mary

Ideal for confident learners of English looking to improve or consolidate their English. The book is filled with useful vocabulary that is carefully graded to level, it also comes with audio, so that you can listen to the story at the same time as reading.The Greek island of Corfu lies like a jewel, green and gold, in the Ionian sea, where dolphins swim in the sparkling blue wa...

Trollope, Anthony

Mrs Proudie, the warlike wife of the new Bishop of Barchester, brings the Reverend Slope into the Bishop's Palace to help dominate her husband and rule the local clergy. But Slope is a snake in the grass, determined to find a rich wife, to win advancement for himself, even to fight Mrs Proudie if necessary. Their battle becomes a furious dance, involving rich, pretty Widow Bold...

Sewell, Anna

Ideal for intermediate and more confident learners of English looking to improve or practise their English. The book is filled with useful vocabulary that is carefully graded and easy to understand, it also comes with audio, so that you can listen to the story at the same time as reading.When Black Beauty is trained to carry a rider on his back, or to pull a carriage behind him...

Verne, Jules

Dr Aronnax joins the search for the 'monster', hoping for an exciting adventure. But when he meets the mysterious Captain Nemo, his adventure becomes more extraordinary than he had ever imagined, and he discovers a new underwater world, full of wonders, but of strange dangers too... ...

Vicary, Tim

Ideal for intermediate learners of English looking to improve or practise their English. The book is filled with useful vocabulary that is carefully graded and easy to understand, it also comes with audio, so that you can listen to the story at the same time as reading. The job was too good. There had to be a problem - and there was.John Duncan was an honest man, but he needed ...

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

Ideal for confident learners of English looking to improve or consolidate their English. The book is filled with useful vocabulary that is carefully graded to level, it also comes with audio, so that you can listen to the story at the same time as reading.Gatsby's mansion on Long Island blazes with light, and the beautiful, the wealthy, and the famous drive out from New York to...

Irving, Washington

Washington Irving viajó mucho a lo largo de su vida y residió en diferentes ciudades europeas, entre ellas varias españolas. Aquí desarrolló labores diplomáticas y estudió la historia, la literatura y el folklore, sobre lo cual escribió varios libros, entre los que destaca "Cuentos de la Alhambra". Esta labor hizo que fuera considerado el primer hispanista extranjero. Una delic...

Irving, Washington

Irving, Washington

Irving, Washington

Ichabod Crane, un humilde maestro de escuela que ambiciona progresar, es destinado a Sleepy Hollow, un remoto valle del estado de Nueva York rico en leyendas fantásticas y sobrenaturales, muy especialmente la del terrorífico Jinete sin Cabeza que vaga por las noches por el lugar. Su decisión de cortejar a la joven Katrina Van Tassel, la hermosa hija de un acaudalado granjero, l...

Irving, Washington

La leyenda de Sleepy Hollow es un relato corto de terror y romanticismo, escrito por Washington Irving en 1820, en su colección de ensayos e historias cortas The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon. La historia se sitúa en 1784, en los alrededores del asentamiento neerlandés de Tarry Town (Tarrytown, Nueva York), en un apartado valle llamado Sleepy Hollow conocido por sus historias ...

Irving, Washington

Parejas de enamorados, jinetes sin cabeza y aldeanos que duermen siestas de décadas confluyen en un díptico que parece al mismo tiempo realismo mágico y terror costumbrista. En estos dos relatos, Sleepy Hollow, o La leyenda del jinete sin cabeza, y Rip van Winkle, se encuentra la simiente del llamado Gótico Americano, que convirtió a Washington Irving en el primer escritor de u...