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Adventure stories / edited by Jo Hathaway with Mark Irvine.

This series of Readers containing original, unsimplified stories written by famous classic and modern writers, now features four new titles. All the collections come with substantial support material for each story, including a short summary, a description of major themes, pre-reading vocabulary activities, post-reading language and comprehension exercises, a literary analysis section and essay questions. The Macmillan Literature Collections will help ease students' transition from graded Readers to authentic reading, giving them the joy of feeling that they are finally reading and studying literature just as it was written.

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Barcode Shelf Location Collection Volume Ref. Branch Status Due Date Res.
C9007664538 428.6 ADV
Adult nonfiction   City Branch . . Available .  
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ISBN 9780230408548 (pbk.)
0230408540 (pbk.)
Dewey 428.6
Title Adventure stories / edited by Jo Hathaway with Mark Irvine.
Published Oxford : Macmillan ELT, 2011.
Physical description 200 pages ; 20 cm.
Series Macmillan readers. Proficiency level
Contents note To build a fire / by Jack London -- A fight with a cannon / by Victor Hugo -- The old chief Mshlanga / by Doris Lessing -- The adventure of the hansom cab / by Robert Louis Stevenson -- The sun rises twice / by H.E. Bates.
Summary This series of Readers containing original, unsimplified stories written by famous classic and modern writers, now features four new titles. All the collections come with substantial support material for each story, including a short summary, a description of major themes, pre-reading vocabulary activities, post-reading language and comprehension exercises, a literary analysis section and essay questions. The Macmillan Literature Collections will help ease students' transition from graded Readers to authentic reading, giving them the joy of feeling that they are finally reading and studying literature just as it was written.
Subject Adventure and adventurers -- Fiction
Short stories, English
Readers for new literates
English language -- Textbooks for foreign speakers
Readers (Adult)
Adult literacy
Additional author Hathaway, Jo editor.
Irvine, Mark editor.
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