Philip Pullman: The Tiger in the Well

The Tiger in the Well


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Sally Lockhart is 25, and somebody wants to destroy her. She receives divorce papers from a man she has never met, let alone married - yet this trap is so well laid that she is powerless to prove otherwise. When custody of her precious daughter is awarded to his evil stranger, it is the beginning of a terrifying struggle in which Sally will have to fight, and kill if necessary, for the freedom of her family. Philip Pullman's ever-popular, action-packed Victorian melodramas are rejacketed for the bicentenary of Charles Dickens in 2012.

When the apprentices of a Paris printing shop in the 1730s held a series of mock trials and then hanged all the cats they could lay their hands on, why did they find it so hilariously funny that they choked with laughter when they reenacted it in pantomime some twenty times? Why A Million Worlds with You free pdf in the eighteenth-century version of Little Red Riding Hood did the wolf eat the child at the end? What did the anonymous townsman of Montpelier have in mind when he kept an exhaustive dossier on all the activities of his native city? These are some of the provocative questions Robert Darnton answers in this classic work of European history in what we like to call "The Age of Enlightenment." After solving "The Grendel Affair," the agents have another SPI File to investigate... Two full-length sections: English to Italian and Italian to English American-style English translations of all Italian entries Headwords printed in a second color for easy reference with translations, parts of speech, and pronunciation guide printed in black Exemplary phrases using headwords in standard contexts Separate bilingual lists for numerals, phonetics symbols, abbreviations, and geographical names


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Author: Philip Pullman
Number of Pages: 448 pages
Published Date: 02 Feb 2012
Publisher: Scholastic
Publication Country: London, United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN: 9781407130569
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