Jekyll and Hyde: Stage 4 (Oxford Bookworms Library) - Softcover

Stevenson, Robert Louis

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0194237567 ISBN 13: 9780194237567

Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr, 2007

Synopsis

This award-winning collection of adapted classic literature and original stories develops reading skills for low-beginning through advanced students.

Accessible language and carefully controlled vocabulary build students' reading confidence.

Introductions at the beginning of each story, illustrations throughout, and glossaries help build comprehension.

Before, during, and after reading activities included in the back of each book strengthen student comprehension.

Audio versions of selected titles provide great models of intonation and pronunciation of difficult words.

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Review

"Pull[s] out all the stops."-"New Yorker" "Moser's small, stirring wood engravings will help draw horror fans to the classic novel that has popularized the concept of the double. . . . If you haven't reread it recently, you may be astonished by its suspensefulness and its disquieting power."-"Booklist" "Pull[s] out all the stops."2; "New Yorker" "The dozen wood engravings by Moser will knock you out. . . . You must own it!"2; "Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction" "Moser7;s small, stirring wood engravings will help draw horror fans to the classic novel that has popularized the concept of the double. . . . If you haven7;t reread it recently, you may be astonished by its suspensefulness and its disquieting power."2; "Booklist" "This classic tale . . . addresses the duality in man7;s nature and is here illustrated with twelve atmospheric woodcuts by Barry Moser that underscore the darkness of Stevenson7;s tale and continue Moser7;s legacy of bringing new life to the classics."2; "Bloomsbury Review" "Moser's small, stirring wood engravings will help draw horror fans to the classic novel that has popularized the concept of the double. . . . If you haven't reread it recently, you may be astonished by its suspensefulness and its disquieting power."--"Booklist" "Pull[s] out all the stops."--"New Yorker"

From the Publisher

The Broadview Editions series is an effort to represent the ever-changing canon of literature in English by bringing together texts long regarded as classics with valuable, lesser-known literature. Newly type-set and produced on high-quality paper in trade paperback format, the Broadview Editions series is a delight to handle as well as to read.

Each volume includes a full introduction, chronology, bibliography, and explanatory notes along with a variety of documents from the period, giving readers a rich sense of the world from which the work emerged.

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0194237567
• ISBN 13: 9780194237567
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 88