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Perhaps the most brilliantly successful ghost story ever written, The Turn of the Screw creates a terrifyingly believable impression of children so corrupted by evil that they remain deceptive pictures of innocent beauty.

Before you is a timeless classic that will never cease to warm your heart and fill the long winter evenings with anticipated wonders and merry celebrations. This collection of Christmas stories by famous authors is the best gift for the holidays. These festive stories range from touching and magical to funny and sad. They include the best classic works of literature; whose themes involve the nativity and the magic of Christmas. Prepare yourself to experience true holiday magic and create new Christmas traditions as you read through these classics year after year.

El poder de los piratas del Mediterráneo está en su apogeo en el siglo I a. C., y ningún país de las costas del mar se encuentra a salvo. Un joven Julio César, el futuro conquistador de la Galia, se dirige a la isla de Rodas para mejorar sus habilidades oratorias con el famoso maestro Apolonio Molón. Sin embargo, el barco en el que viaja se ve interceptado por el pirata Espártakos y su tripulación, que lo mantendrán secuestrado hasta que se pague un rescate acorde al rango del joven noble romano. Este relato novelado se basa en la historia real recogida por Plutarco y otros ...

“A great teacher,” Jeremy Paxman, BBC’s Newsnight. “Clearly Francis Gilbert is a gifted and charismatic teacher,” Philip Pullman, author of Northern Lights. “Gilbert writes so well that you half-suspect he could give up the day job,” The Independent. Are you a student struggling to understand Henry James’s classic novel The Turn of the Screw? Or are you an educator wanting ready-made exercises and guidance to help you teach this difficult text? Do your students need support to understand the language properly and work independently on the book? This edition of James’s ...