A delightful story of a special dog and the magical place he calls home. Follow Hadrian the Dog of Pompeii amid famous ruins and friendly tourists, and experience the adventure that changed his life. Discover more about Pompeii in the historical sections of the book and the location map. Suitable for all children with a love of animals, and for parents and educators seeking an entertaining way to introduce the subjects of travel, history, archeology, and geography. The Italian text followed by the English translation on every page make the book a fun tool for language students and teachers as well. Fully illustrated. Large print. Ages: 3+

The short stories in this bilingual anthology are from the works of some of the great masters of the German literary tradition - including Goethe, Glister, Mann, and Kafka - and offer a representative collection illustrating the development of German fiction from the late eighteenth to the late twentieth centuries.

This anthology introduces 50 legendary writers -- Voltaire, Balzac, Baudelaire, Proust, more -- through passages from "The Red and the Black, Les Miserables, Madame Bovary, " and other classics. Original French text plus English translation on facing pages.

The Oxford Grammar of Classical Greek gives clear, concise, and easily understood explanations of all the key points of Classical Greek grammar. With additional features such as a glossary of grammatical terms, a vocabulary list covering all the Greek words found in the main text, study tips, and practice exercises to help develop knowledge and gain confidence, this invaluable resource ensures that students have all the support they need to complement their language learning. The Oxford Grammar of Classical Greek also offers hundreds of example sentences illustrating grammatical points, an explanation of literary terms, and a guide to how Classical Greek was pronounced. The first book of grammar dedicated to Classical Greek for students in almost a century, this handy reference will replace existing Greek grammars and help students bring this ancient language to life.

This second edition, like the earlier first edition, introduces some of the main varieties of Chinese as found before and after the establishment of the People's Republic of China in 1949. While continuing to stress the basic importance of the traditional usages, such as the regular characters to be found in all materials published before the adoption of the simplified forms in 1956 and still in use in some areas, the present revision goes further in contrasting variant usages and in providing additional material relevant to the PRC. Closely related with the author's Beginning Chinese and its companion volume, Character Text for Beginning Chinese, this text is based on a new approach which not only takes into account the advantages of the oral-aural method but gets the student more quickly into material that he is likely to encounter in actual written Chinese. Unique features are the emphasis on compounds and their extensive use in various types of exercises. The 1,200 combinations are based on 400 characters; in all, the book contains 120,000 characters of running text. All compounds appear in illustrative sentences accompanied by English translations, in dialogues as a means of audio-lingual reinforcement, and in narrative or expository form. Additional exercises include maps, booksellers' book lists, correspondence, poems, table of contents, and brief passages from the works of outstanding writers such as Sun Yatsen, Hu Shih, Mao Tse-tung, and Lu Hsun. Supplementary lessons present reading material using the simplified characters adopted in mainland China. To suit the needs of the beginner, characters are introduced in large size, and tables indicate the sequence of strokes used in their formation. In addition to a pinyin index, there are three summary charts in which the characters are arranged by lesson, by number of strokes, and by radical. A fourth chart contrasts regular and simplified characters; a fifth chart presents variant forms of the same character. Because of the large characters and extensive material, the book is issued in two volumes, Part I and Part II. This work was supported by a contract with the United States Office of Education.

8 essays by leading Japanese writers (including Banana Yoshimoto and Haruki Murakami) presented in vertical format with translation on facing page and a series of notes that elucidate nuance, grammar, culture. At the back is a Japanese-English dictionary tailor-made to cover all the words included in the essays, and the book comes with a free audio download that contains a professional nar ration of all the works, to familiarise you with the sound, rhythm and speed at which the language is spoken. By turns humorous, serious, beautiful and biting, all have been selected on the basis of their appeal. They are stimulating works that will motivate readers to want more.

This series uses the integration of films to develop linguistic competencies through progressive acquisition of vocabulary and grammar structures. A variety of activities target the four communicative goals: listening, speaking, reading and writing.

This is the instructor's manual to accompany Cine-Module 2: Manon des Sources.

Jean Cocteau resume en su fertil actividad creadora todos los aciertos y contradicciones de la primera mitad del siglo xx. Su obra nos trasmite la vitalidad de una existencia hecha para la imagen y la alquimia a partir de la fantasia y el ensueno. Los ninos terribles plantea el imposible acuerdo entre realidad e imaginacion, placer y deber, orden y aventura, Eros y Thanatos. Su doble estructura, lineal y circular a la vez, recrea las claves de la antigua tragedia en la levedad de unos ninos que se niegan a ser adultos.