Andrew Marvell brings together ten recent and critically informed essays by leading scholars on one of the most challenging and important seventeenth-century poets. The essays examine Marvell's poems, from lyrics, such as 'To His Coy Mistress' and 'The Nymph Complaining for the Death of her Fawn', to celebrations of Cromwell and Republican Civil War culture and his biting Restoration satires. Representing the most significant critical trends in Marvell criticism over the last twenty years, the essays and the authoritative editorial work provide an excellent introduction to Marvell's work. Students of Renaissance and seventeenth-century literature, English Civil War writing, and seventeenth-century social and cultural history will find this collection a useful guide to helping them appreciate and understand Marvell's poetry.

Students have everything they need for success in the classroom as well as Self-Study activities and access to On the Move activities and Online Practice to keep learning outside class, wherever they are! The trusted Smart Choice 'one page=one lesson' approach, providing the perfect balance of challenge and support. All-new speaking pages to strengthen fluency through fun games and activities. Smart Choice On The Move activities and games, optimized for use on smartphones, strengthen vocabulary and grammar and provide instant scoring. Smart Choice Online Practice provides up to 30 hours of additional course-correlated practice activities and the chance to keep communicating outside of class with a Discussion Board. The Workbook section provides additional Self-Study practice for all grammar and vocabulary covered plus extra reading, listening, and pronunciation practice.

Andrew Marvell brings together ten recent and critically informed essays by leading scholars on one of the most challenging and important seventeenth-century poets. The essays examine Marvell's poems, from lyrics, such as 'To His Coy Mistress' and 'The Nymph Complaining for the Death of her Fawn', to celebrations of Cromwell and Republican Civil War culture and his biting Restoration satires. Representing the most significant critical trends in Marvell criticism over the last twenty years, the essays and the authoritative editorial work provide an excellent introduction to Marvell's work. Students of Renaissance and seventeenth-century literature, English Civil War writing, and seventeenth-century social and cultural history will find this collection a useful guide to helping them appreciate and understand Marvell's poetry.

Students have everything they need for success in the classroom as well as Self-Study activities and access to On the Move activities and Online Practice to keep learning outside class, wherever they are! The trusted Smart Choice 'one page=one lesson' approach, providing the perfect balance of challenge and support. All-new speaking pages to strengthen fluency through fun games and activities. Smart Choice On The Move activities and games, optimized for use on smartphones and tablets, strengthen vocabulary and grammar and provide instant scoring. Smart Choice Online Practice provides up to 30 hours of additional course-correlated practice activities and the chance to keep communicating outside of class with a Discussion Board. The Workbook section provides additional Self-Study practice for all grammar and vocabulary covered plus extra reading, listening, and pronunciation practice.

Students have everything they need for success in the classroom as well as Self-Study activities and access to On the Move activities and Online Practice to keep learning outside class, wherever they are! The trusted Smart Choice 'one page=one lesson' approach, providing the perfect balance of challenge and support. All-new speaking pages to strengthen fluency through fun games and activities. Smart Choice On The Move activities and games, optimized for use on smartphones and tablets, strengthen vocabulary and grammar and provide instant scoring. Smart Choice Online Practice provides up to 30 hours of additional course-correlated practice activities and the chance to keep communicating outside of class with a Discussion Board. The Workbook section provides additional Self-Study practice for all grammar and vocabulary covered plus extra reading, listening, and pronunciation practice.

Students have everything they need for success in the classroom as well as Self-Study activities and access to On the Move activities and Online Practice to keep learning outside class, wherever they are! The trusted Smart Choice 'one page=one lesson' approach, providing the perfect balance of challenge and support. All-new speaking pages to strengthen fluency through fun games and activities. Smart Choice On The Move activities and games, optimized for use on smartphones and tablets, strengthen vocabulary and grammar and provide instant scoring. Smart Choice Online Practice provides up to 30 hours of additional course-correlated practice activities and the chance to keep communicating outside of class with a Discussion Board. The Workbook section provides additional Self-Study practice for all grammar and vocabulary covered plus extra reading, listening, and pronunciation practice.

The Smart Choice Teacher's Book contains everything you need to teach the course with confidence including notes on how to use each Student Book activity, answer keys and extra ideas. Access to the Smart Choice online Learning Management System is included with the Teacher's Book. You can track individual and class performance and keep in touch with students outside of class with email and the Discussion Board. The Testing Program offers interactive, auto-scored Progress Tests as well as downloadable unit, midterm and final tests that you can adapt to students' needs.

Literature and the English Civil War charts the relationship between literary texts and their historical context during this era of profound change and upheaval for British society and culture. The volume demonstrates that literary texts are not merely passive reflections of the historical events that help to form them. On the contrary, 'history' is fashioned by the way events are named and the language used to describe them. To understand the literature of the English Civil War is to form a vital perspective on this major period of transition. Essays in the volume focus on issues of ideology and genre, often with reference to topical debates about how the events of 1640 1660 can best be characterised. There are pieces on the politics of the masque; lyric and devotional poetry; women's writing and the Civil War; attitudes towards Ireland; colonialism; madness and division; individual writers such as Hobbes, Marvell, and Milton; and other relevant topics. An editorial introduction traces themes and provides a useful overview. This book is a major contribution to our awareness of the conditions of literature during the English Civil War and an important statement in the debate about the relation between literature and history.

The Smart Choice Teacher's Book contains everything you need to teach the course with confidence including notes on how to use each Student Book activity, answer keys and extra ideas. Access to the Smart Choice online Learning Management System is included with the Teacher's Book. You can track individual and class performance and keep in touch with students outside of class with email and the Discussion Board. The Testing Program offers interactive, auto-scored Progress Tests as well as downloadable unit, midterm and final tests that you can adapt to students' needs.

"Smart, acerbic, laconic, with nary an ounce of treacle dripping through Healy's muscular prose. A"--"Entertainment Weekly"

Thomas Healy was a drunk, a fighter, sometimes a writer, often unemployed, and no stranger to the police. His life was going steadily downhill. Then one day he bought a pup--a Doberman. He called him Martin. Gradually man and dog became unshakable allies, the best of friends. They took long walks together, they vacationed together, they even went to church together. Martin, in more ways than one, saved Thomas Healy's life.

"Healy's memoir tells how the love he came to feel for Martin led him to quit drinking and fighting and make a new life. Healy's tone is whimsical more often than sentimental, but that doesn't prevent him from concluding that Martin was 'a gift from God.'"--"The Christian Science Monitor" Thomas Healy grew up in Glasgow in the 1950s. He left school at fifteen and worked as, among other things, a shunter in a railway yard, and a security guard at a meat market. He is the author of a book about boxing, "A Hurting Business", and two novels: "It Might Have Been Jerusalem "and "Rolling". He lives in Glasgow.

The Smart Choice Teacher's Book contains everything you need to teach the course with confidence including notes on how to use each Student Book activity, answer keys and extra ideas. Access to the Smart Choice online Learning Management System is included with the Teacher's Book. You can track individual and class performance and keep in touch with students outside of class with email and the Discussion Board. The Testing Program offers interactive, auto-scored Progress Tests as well as downloadable unit, midterm and final tests that you can adapt to students' needs.

The Smart Choice Teacher's Book contains everything you need to teach the course with confidence including notes on how to use each Student Book activity, answer keys and extra ideas. Access to the Smart Choice online Learning Management System is included with the Teacher's Book. You can track individual and class performance and keep in touch with students outside of class with email and the Discussion Board. The Testing Program offers interactive, auto-scored Progress Tests as well as downloadable unit, midterm and final tests that you can adapt to students' needs.

The Smart Choice Workbook is the perfect Self-Study companion to the Smart Choice Student Book, providing additional practice for all course vocabulary and grammar as well as extra reading, listening, and pronunciation practice. Students can download or stream the Workbook audio from Online Practice (available with every Smart Choice Student Book).

The Smart Choice Workbook is the perfect Self-Study companion to the Smart Choice Student Book, providing additional practice for all course vocabulary and grammar as well as extra reading, listening, and pronunciation practice. Students can download or stream the Workbook audio from Online Practice (available with every Smart Choice Student Book).