by Louis De Bernieres · Pearson Education · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781405882606
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«Captain Corelli's Mandolin» is the historical novel by Louis De Bernières, published by Pearson Education in paperback (120 pages, in English).
In Greece in 1941, during World War II, the Italian captain Corelli falls in love with Pelagia, a young Greek woman engaged to a guerrilla fighter who fights against the invaders. The story explores love, war and resistance on an occupied island, against the backdrop of wartime tragedy.
Edition adapted for English students as a level 6 graded reader, within the Pearson English Graded Readers series.
Intended for advanced-level English students who want to read a classic love and war story with graded language.
Louis de Bernières is an English novelist. He is known for his 1994 historical war novel Captain Corelli's Mandolin. In 1993 de Bernières was selected as one of the "20 Best of Young British Novelists", part of a promotion in Granta magazine. Captain Corelli's Mandolin was published in the following year, winning the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best Book. It was also shortlisted for the 1994 Sunday Express Book of the Year. It has been translated into at least 11 languages and is an international best-seller.
