Bleak House - Couverture souple

Dickens, Charles

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1906230048 ISBN 13 : 9781906230043

Editeur : Real Reads, 2007

Synopsis

Unusual book

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Real Reads -- the classics retold and beautifully illustrated. Real Reads are a new and exciting way of presenting our literary heritage to a new audience: bright young primary readers, children who have seen the films and now want the books, teenagers who want to read the classics but aren't yet ready for the original, grown-up readers who want a quick fix of their favourite classical author, less confident readers who don't want to be left out of real books, learners of English who want to explore the classics everyone talks about. For more information, please visit RealReads.co.uk. 'It would have been far better if you had never been born.' Esther, at fourteen, has never known love. Determined to live well, earn some love and overcome the shadow of her birth, she takes her first steps into an unknown world. A family curse, a manipulating lawyer, poverty and secrets threaten to destroy Esther's world. Are the walls of Bleak House strong enough to protect her and her new friends from such powerful forces? The reader will be caught up in an unfolding mystery, full of surprises. Perhaps the biggest mystery of all is: Who is Nemo?

Revue de presse :

Miniature Masterpieces --BBC Radio 4 Open Book

Like other Real Reads, too, the novels are not designed to replace the originals, but to complement them. The publisher s hope is that for some readers, the Real Reads are a springboard into the original texts; for others it is to broaden their range of cultural experience and introduce them to a world of wonderful plots and characters. What makes these retellings particularly appealing from a classroom point of view is that significant attention is paid to the language use characteristic of the authors. The novels are retold with some integrity to the original that is that some of the cadence of Dickens is retained; that some of the vocabulary remains authentic, and that some of those seminal passages remain relatively unaltered. --(Extract) Jane Campion in Use of English Nov 2012. The magazine of The English Association

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Real Reads
• Date d'édition: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1906230048
• ISBN 13: 9781906230043
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 64
• Illustrateur: Donnelly Karen