Black Cat Reading Classics C1-c2: Four Continents + Audio CD + online Teacher's Book

Henry Lawson, V. S. Naipaul, Nadine Gordimer and Chinua Achebe are respectively Australian, Caribbean, South African and Nigerian, yet they all write in English. The ‘English’ literature of the ex-colonies is proving to be the most interesting and innovative of our times: this volume offers a significant example of its vitality and originality. As Salman Rushdi said, ‘the Empire writes back’.


Key Features:
* Extensive introduction placing the author and his/her work into context
* in-depth bibliography providing a springboard for further study
* detailed chronology giving a complete view of the author´s life and works
* wide the variety of activities encouraging response to the text and aiding language acquistion
* numerous footnotes with phonetic transriptions of some difficult words
* Dramatised recording of selected extracts by native speakers in American of British English
* Teacher´s Book, which can be downloaded from our website