| Publication |
Great Britain, Cambridge University Press, 2007.
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| Description |
246pBrown Spine
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| Series |
Cambridge collections
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| Summary/Abstract |
A collection of extracts from novels, newspaper articles, poems and short stories. Covers a variety of themes such as adventures, childhood, urbanisation and relationships.
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| Contents |
Adventures -
The water babies - Charles Kingsley
Around the world in eighty days - Jules Verne
How to reach the pole - The Graphic
Messages without wires - Guglielmo Marconi
A lady's fire in the rocky mountains - Isabella Bird
The war of the worlds - H.G. Wells
Activities
Childhood -
The way of all flesh - Samuel Butler
The adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
Ragged schools - The illustrated London news
A London child of the seventies - Molly Vivian Hughes
A horseman in the sky - Ambrose Bierce
War and peace - Leo Tolstoy
Activities
Urbanisation -
Children in the coal mines : The 1842 report - R.H. Horne
The cry of the children - Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Narrative of a pickpocket - Henry Mayhew
Song of the shirt - Thomas Hood
Mary Barton - Mrs Gaskell
The disturbances in the manufacturing districts - The Illustrated London News
1851; or the adventures of Mr and Mrs Sandboys - Henry Mayhew
Bleak house - Charles Dickens
Activities
Relationships -
The pickwick papers - Charles Dickens
The son's veto - Thomas Hardy
Laws concerning woman - Barbara Bodichon
The small house at Allington - Anthony Trollope
Definition of a gentleman - John Henry Newman
Adam Bede - George Eliot
The book of household management - Mrs Isabella Beeton
My rights - Susan Coolidge
A doll's house - Henrik Ibsen
Activities
Notes on authors
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| Standard Number |
97805521703178 Pb.
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