I'M The King Of The Castle. Intermediate Level - Couverture souple

Hill, Susan

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0435272225 ISBN 13 : 9780435272227

Editeur : Macmillan Education, 1992

Synopsis

This is an Intermediate Level story in a series of ELT readers comprising a wide range of titles - some original and some simplified - from modern and classic novels, and designed to appeal to all age-groups, tastes and cultures. The books are divided into five levels: Starter Level, with about 300 basic words; Beginner Level (600 basic words); Elementary Level (1100); Intermediate Level (1600); and Upper Level (2200). Some of the titles are also available on cassette.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

I'm the King of the Castle is Susan Hill's spellbinding novel of childhood cruelty.With an introduction by Esther Freud.Susan Hill's I'm King of the Castle was first published in 1970. Telling the story of two boys forced to live together by their widowed parents, it is a chilling portrayal of childhood cruelty and persecution, of parental blindness and of our own ambivalence to what are supposed to be the happiest days of our lives.'Hill's exploration of a juvenile ghoul and his natural prey is a brilliant tour de force'Guardian'Equalled for poignancy and horror only in Lord of the Flies'Sunday TelegraphSusan Hill's novels include Strange Meeting, The Woman in Black, and Mrs de Winter, a sequel to Du Maurier's Rebecca. She is also well known for her children's books (including Can It Be True?, which won the Smarties Prize). She has written non-fiction and autobiography and is a regular broadcaster and reviewer. She is married to the Shakespeare scholar Stanely Wells, and they live in a Gloucestershire village from which she runs a small publishing company called Long Barn Books. You can see her website at www.susan-hill.com.

Présentation de l'éditeur

'I didn't want you to come here.' So says the note that the boy Edmund Hooper passes to Charles Kingshaw upon his arrival at Warings. But young Kingshaw and his mother have come to live with Hooper and his father in the ugly, isolated Victorian house for good. To Hooper, Kingshaw is an intruder, a boy to be subtly persecuted, and Kingshaw finds that even the most ordinary object can be turned by Hooper into a source of terror. In Hang Wood their roles are briefly reversed, but Kingshaw knows Hooper will never let him be. Kingshaw cannot win, not in the last resort. He knows it, and so does Hooper. And the worst is still to come. This extraordinary, evocative novel boils over with the terrors of childhood and won the Somerset Maugham Award. 'Hill's exploration of a juvenile ghoul and his natural prey is a brilliant tour de force' Guardian

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Macmillan Education
• Date d'édition: 1992
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0435272225
• ISBN 13: 9780435272227
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 80
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible