Moby Dick Student's Pack

Butler, Dominic

Dirigido a estudiantes de nivel A1 del MCER.20 lecturas sobre la vida cotidiana para leer en 5 minutos y 20 mapas mentales para aprender vocabulario. Estructura del libro. Cada libro consta de 20 lecturas cortas de 4 páginas. Las palabras difíciles o interesantes (marcadas en negro o rojo) se traducen sobre el texto para facilitar la lectura sin necesidad de diccionario. Ofrec...

Hannam, Joyce

In the Indian jungle, a boy lives like a young wolf.Mowgli grows up with his wolf brothers, but there are many other animals here, friends like Baloo the bear and Bagheera the panther. But Shere Kahn the tiger is a man-killer, so there are big dangers too...Enjoy the classic Rudyard Kipling stories as an exciting comic.Word count: 2717 ...

Conan Doyle , Sir Arthur

Text adaptation by Jeremy PageVisitors come to ask Sherlock Holmes for his help. He sends Dr Watson to Dartmoor to begin the investigation. It is a dark and lonely place where Sir Charles Baskerville died - was it murder? The clues are worrying. An enormous wild dog killed Sir Charles's ancestor there many years earlier. Suddenly people hear terrible howls again!Word count 8714...

Bagley, Desmond

On a beautiful summer evening in the quiet town of Marlow, a young woman is walking home from church. She passes a man who is looking at the engine of his car. He turns round, smiles at her? and throws acid into her face. Then her father, the scientist George Ashton, disappears. And her sister, Penny, discovers that her husband-to-be, Malcolm, is a government agent. Why has As...

Rollason, Jane

The Doctor and Clara have to save a Viking village from space warriors from the future, the Mire. But without the fighters or technology of the Mire, how can they win? ...

Bowler, Bill

Ideal for elementary learners of English looking to improve and 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.It's Gromit the dog's birthday, and his friend Wallace gives him an unusual present - a pair of Techno-torusers...

Herman Melville

"Moby Dick" is the work of American writer and poet, Herman Melville (1819-1891). The novel narrates the story of Ahab, Captain of the whaler Pequod and his quest to kill the great white whale that gives the novel its name, as revenge for sinking his previous vessel and losing one of his legs. "Moby Dick" has remained to this day as one of the great American novels, becoming a ...

Herman Melville

«El lector, sin duda algo aturdido por su larga navegación, se encuentra abrumado en el trágico final: más adelante, cuando vuelva a abrir Moby Dick, por el comienzo o no, aunque ya sepa todo el desarrollo, no dejará de sentirse de nuevo arrastrado por la voz de Melville a navegar de nuevo, páginas y páginas. Es eso, en definitiva, lo que hace que algunas raras obras sean verda...

Herman Melville

Herman Melville (1819-1891) es uno de los más importantes escritores de la literatura estadounidense. En esta obra, pequeña en extensión pero un referente en la literatura universal, crea un personaje anodino, sin experiencias, sin motivaciones, al que nada ni nadie da o resta sentido a su vida cotidiana. Quien narra su historia es nada menos que su jefe, un hombre que verá rot...

Herman Melville

Moby Dick es la novela más ambiciosa de Melville. Narra la obsesión de un hombre, el capitán Ahab, por matar a Moby Dick, una ballena en la que ve la encarnación del Mal. Ahab actúa movido por el odio hacia el animal que, una vez, le arrancó una pierna. Pero, por encima del resentimiento, predomina su convicción de que Moby Dick es un ser maléfico que el destino ha decidido pon...