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A GREAT BOOK FOR SHOP-ASSISTANTS AND SHOPPERSThis book contains 50 English dialogues representing different situations with real-life shopping scenarios. The book deals with all the topics in shopping: selling and buying processes."Shopping Dialogues" contains more than 500 useful shopping phrases and covers a wide spectrum of communicative functions Each dialogue in the book is accompanied by a set of questions, providing valuable insights into vocabulary,...

Six years on from a failed marriage and with her son Ben now enjoying University life, Cassie finds herself at an inevitable crossroads and struggling to work out what her purpose is. Counting Ben as her only successful achievement in her life so far doesn't give her a great track record; but it also means she has nothing to lose by putting everything into a move to Brighton. Actively encouraged by Ben and her closest friend Lucy she goes looking...

Twenty (1918) is a poetry collection by Stella Benson. Largely recognized for her work as an activist in the women's suffrage movement and for her popular novels, Benson was also an accomplished poet. Twenty, her debut volume, is a collection indebted to symbolism in which Benson reflects on her experiences as a young woman in a rapidly changing world.

The controversial comedic play from a master dramatist that shattered social conventions in England. Oscar Wilde's most brilliant tour de force, a witty and buoyant comedy of manners, has delighted millions with countless productions since its first performance at London's St. James' Theatre in 1895. The Importance of Being Earnest is celebrated not only for the lighthearted ingenuity of its plot, but also for its inspired dialogue, rich with scintillating...

I Forget How Nelson Died, under the title Different Circumstances, was first staged in Oxford in 1974. The play is centred on a reimagined Lord Nelson and Lady Hamilton, relocated in place and time to a remote island paradise mid-twentieth century. There a helicopter lands, and its crew disembarks, with the task of wooing the fatigued man of inaction back to England and to war. It's an unlikely collision of modern and eighteenth-century sensibilities,...

Experience the wit of Wilde in these four delightfully satiric plays-including his masterpiece, The Importance of Being Earnest. In the late nineteenth century, Oscar Wilde's plays were the toast of London, celebrated for the Irish playwright's mischievous wit, pointed social satire, and gift for energetic farce. Lady Windermere's Fan: Gossip leads Lady Windermere to believe her husband is having an affair, and when the woman in question appears at...

Condemned to death and hanged in 1947, Hans Frank's public repentance was unique among the leading Nazi criminals tried at Nuremberg. One psychiatrist pointed out Frank's 'beatific tranquillity merely hid his own tensions'. But what of such carefully acted out piety? Didn't this hastily cultivated yet forceful and theatrical piety have something about it which was so patently flimsy compared to the much more formidable integrity and long studied piety...

Opus Thirty Three Bagatelles', a collection of finely crafted miniatures, haikuesque in character, sees each little poem designed to be read as a single screen. 'To be honest / all I recall / of home / is an array / of tiny / fruit trees / grown in endless / tidyrows.'