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'Collins Easy Learning How to Use English' is designed to help learners of all ages use individual words correctly, and choose the right words and structures for the meaning they want to convey. With its clear layout, this book is ideal for learners of English who want to improve their skills for...

Having formed a band of partisans to resist the Nazi forces occupying Italy, Primo Levi was captured and sent to Auschwitz. In these 2 works he describes his time there and his flight away from that hell.

With new coverage of global English, as well as slang, dialect, technical, historical, and literary terms, and rare and obsolete words, this edition allows the general reader access to more than 600,000 words, phrases and definitions.

This large-print dictionary offers a fully up-to-date text covering the core English vocabulary, with a specially commissioned design and layout catering to large-print users in a handy and affordable paperback format.

In this series, a contemporary poet advocates a poet of the past or present whom they have particularly admired. By their selection of verses and their critical reactions, the selectors offer intriguing insights into their own work. Here, Ted Hughes selects Sylvia Plath.

Largely overlooked during his own lifetime, Walter Benjamin is now widely held to have possessed one of the most acute and original minds of the Central European culture decimated by the Nazis. This book contains two of his most famous essays.

This volume of poetry provides a collection of funeral poems, appropriate for reading at a funeral or memorial service.

Improve your grammar with 'Collins Grammar for IELTS' and get the score you need. IELTS is the world's leading test of English for higher education and migration and is recognised by 6000 institutions in over 135 countries.

Detailed notes and commentary accompany the text in this revised edition of Shakespeare's sonnets. Katherine Duncan-Jones tackles the controversies and mysteries surrounding these beautiful poems head on, exploring the issues of sexuality to be found in them.

This edition of Shakespeare's greatest tragedy of love argues that that play is ultimately Juliet's. The play text is expertly edited and the on-page commentary notes discuss issues of staging, theme, meaning and Shakespeare's use of his sources to give the reader deep and engaging insights into ...

Along with Sassoon and Wilfred Owen, Edward Thomas is by any reckoning a major first world war poet. A war poet is not one who chooses to commemorate or celebrate a war, but one who reacts against having a war thrust upon him. His great friend Robert Frost wrote 'His poetry is so very brave, so u...

This text consists of 14 units, each illustrating the language used in a particular situation. The topic-based units cover the language learners need in everyday situations, but also language for more formal situations, such as a seminar or business meeting.

This text consists of 14 units, each illustrating the language used in a particular situation. The topic-based units cover the language learners need in everyday situations, but also language for more formal situations, such as a seminar or business meeting.

'Easy Learning English Verbs' provides an accessible introduction to English verbs, tenses and morphology. With clear, concise explanations of English verb systems, this book provides a guide for the language learner.

This title traces Shakespeare's life and work from the autumn of 1605, when the author came upon an old and anonymous play - 'The True Chronicle History of King Leir' - in one of the bookstalls near his Silver Street lodgings. From there, the author traces the story's transformation into 'King Le...

Steven Pinker uses the latest scientific insights to bring us a style and usage guide for the 21st century. What do skilful writers know about the link between syntax and ideas? How can we overcome the curse of knowledge, the difficulty in imagining what it's like not to know something we do? And...

It is not necessary to memorise large and advanced vocabulary lists in order to speak fluent English. This book includes a list of basic vocabulary that will make it possible to create thousands of sentences in English.

What exactly are the 'weird' and the 'eerie'? In this essay, Mark Fisher argues that some of the most haunting and anomalous fiction of the 20th century belongs to these two modes. The 'weird' and the 'eerie' are closely related but distinct modes, each possessing its own distinct properties. Bot...

Agatha Christie's classic short story collection adapted for English language learners.

Ever tried to learn German and found it too hard? Best-selling language expert Paul Noble has a quick and easy way to get you back on track with his unique tried-and-tested method.