Easy and enjoyable to teach, Touchstone offers a fresh approach to the teaching and learning of English. Full Contact includes five key components of the Touchstone series: Student's Book, Workbook, Video Activity Pages, Self-study Audio CD/CD-ROM, and NTSC DVD.
Easy and enjoyable to teach, Touchstone offers a fresh approach to the teaching and learning of English. Full Contact includes five key components of the Touchstone series: Student's Book, Workbook, Video Activity Pages, Self-study Audio CD/CD-ROM, and NTSC DVD.
Easy and enjoyable to teach, Touchstone offers a fresh approach to the teaching and learning of English. Full Contact includes five key components of the Touchstone series: Student's Book, Workbook, Video Activity Pages, Self-study Audio CD/CD-ROM, and NTSC DVD.
Easy and enjoyable to teach, Touchstone offers a fresh approach to the teaching and learning of English. Full Contact includes five key components of the Touchstone series: Student's Book, Workbook, Video Activity Pages, Self-study Audio CD/CD-ROM, and NTSC DVD.
This book contains Edith Wharton's first novella and the second book she ever wrote, 'The Touchstone'. This narrative follows Stephen Glennard, a young man whose destitution leads him into a dubious money-making scheme which he embarks on so that he can afford to marry the woman he loves. After seeing an advertisement seeking any papers or correspondences related to a recently deceased author that he had been in communication with, he snaps up the opportunity. A tale of how social strata, money, and self-deprecation can impact love, 'The Touchstone' is well worth a read and is not to be missed by fans and collectors of Wharton's prolific work. This classic text has been chosen for its immense literary value, and we are proud to republish it here, complete with a new introductory biography of the author. Edith Wharton was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, short story writer, and designer.
“As finely worked as a Swiss watch and as funny as the human condition permits ... the zigzag brilliance of the text as the clunky lines of the farce-within-a-farce rub against the sharp dialogue of reality.” The Guardian A play-within-a-play following a touring theatre company who are rehearsing and performing a comedy called Nothing On, results in a riotous double-bill of comedic craft and dramatic skill. Hurtling along at breakneck speed it shows the backstage antics as they stumble through the dress-rehearsal at Weston-super-Mare, then on to a disastrous matinee at Ashton-under-Lyne, followed by a total meltdown in Stockton-on-Tees. Michael Frayn's irresistible, multi-award-winning backstage farce has been enjoyed by millions of people worldwide since it premiered in 1982 and has been hailed as one of the greatest British comedies ever written. Winner of both Olivier and Evening Standard Awards for Best Comedy. This edition features a new introduction by Michael Blakemore.