Sweet And Sour+cd (Interact With Literature)

Description: Sweet and Sour is an involving and varied collection of gripping and enjoyable short stories whose captivating storylines greatly enhance readers’ enjoyment. All of them feature light and dark sides of human nature. Some stories have a devilish or unpredictable twist in the tale, some show how ordinary people are driven to murder, revenge and deceit by unexpected circumstances or odd events.

Sweet and Sour includes stories by
Vivien Alcock, Margery Allingham, Isaac Asimov,
Bernard Capes, Roald Dahl, W. W. Jacobs, Alison Lurie,
Katherine Mansfield, Ruth Rendell, Salman Rushdie and Saki.

INTERACT WITH LITERATURE offers a wide range of original literary texts from intermediate level upwards (unabridged short stories or extracts from novels, as well as complete unabridged plays) from English-speaking countries, designed to introduce students to the world of literature. The aim of these volumes is to familiarise readers with the language of literature and encourage them to formulate their own response to what they read. Each volume concentrates on a particular theme, genre or liter
ary current.

Key features:
• biographical details about each author
• carefully selected texts relevant to the theme of the volume
• linguistic accessibility with numerous footnotes to guide understanding
• stimulating, graded activities ranging from familiarisation and comprehension to stylistic analysis and language development
• dramatised recording of selected extracts by native speakers in American or British English
• Teacher's Book which can be downloaded from the Black Cat website