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Tom Sawyer loves adventures. He has them at home, at school, and with his friends —Huck Finn, Joe Harper, and Becky Thatcher. Tom has one adventure in a graveyard, one in an old house, one in a cave. Who does he see in those places—and why is he afraid?
Rip Van Winkle walks into the mountains one day and meets some strange old men. He comes home twenty years later. One dark night, Ichabod Crane is riding home and sees a man on a black horse behind him. The man has no head. Are there ghosts in these stories? What do you think?
Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever and rich, has a perfect life. She has decided never to get married but to live as the mistress of Hartfield, her father’s house in the beautiful English countryside. But when she starts matchmaking she finds that her imagination has led her into danger. *FCE-style exercises *Trinity-style exercises *Wide range of...
When the superbly handsome Dorian Gray sees his portrait he makes a terrible wish: that the portrait will grow older and that he will remain young forever. But what happens to the portrait that no one ever sees? A brilliant and disturbing story of a man who is willing to sell his soul for eternal youth, while he pursues pleasure and passion.*Wide...
‘Lock me in any cell in any prison anywhere at any time, wearing only normal clothes and I’ll escape in a week.’ For Professor Van Dusen, otherwise known as ‘The Thinking Machine’, nothing is impossible. Logic is his passion. One hour later he finds himself locked up in Chisholm prison and has to use all his mental resources...
When the captain tells Robinson, ‘Young man, you should never go to sea again… , Robinson ignores his advice and goes to sea again, with terrible consequences. He is forced into slavery and escapes, but he is then shipwrecked on a desert island where he manages to survive through resourcefulness and luck. *Wide range of activities on the four...
Baptista’s two beautiful daughters are ready for marriage. Bianca, pursued in love by three different suitors, cannot marry until someone dares to marry her sister, the proud and contemptuous Katharine. Then Petruchio arrives in Padua and proposes to Katharine. Will he be able to turn her into a model of devotion and obedience?*Wide range of...
The fascinating character of Maggie Tulliver and her relationship with her brother Tom is at the centre of this moving story of rural Victorian England. As she grows up, the intelligent and imaginative Maggie is oppressed by the limited role offered to women and is eventually ostracised by her family and local society. George Eliot gives a deep...
David is looking forward to a quiet week by the sea with his girlfriend – but things don’t turn out as expected... Who stole the diamond necklace? Inspector Baker has been promised promotion if he can solve the case. Will he succeed?... Trudy is depressed and miserable. She isn’t getting on with her parents. She’s not the only one...
A group of pilgrims travelling to the shrine of Thomas Becket in Canterbury decide that each traveller should tell a story. Read about tales by the Knight, the Nun’s Priest, the Pardoner, the Wife of Bath and the Franklin. *Wide range of activities covering the four skills *FCE-style exercises *Trinity-style exercises *Dossiers on Chaucer and his...
Mean, old Ebenezer Scrooge doesn’t like Christmas. He doesn’t like people. He only likes money. But when the ghost of his friend, Old Marley, visits him on Christmas Eve, it’s the beginning of a very strange night. Next morning he wishes everybody a Merry Christmas! So what has changed bad, old Scrooge? *FCE-style activities...
Lemuel Gulliver tells the story of his fantastic adventures on the island of Lilliput where the people are tiny, and their self-importance laughable; in Brobdingnag where the people are giants and Gulliver is made to feel his own insignificance; in Laputa, the land of futile science; and finally in the land of the Houyhnhnms, where horses are endowed with...
Maisie King lives in the Bahamas. Her mother and father work at an Animal Hospital. Maisie has a new friend. His name is Ben and he’s a dolphin. Ben is very ill. Maisie helps him. Then Maisie has a big problem. Can Ben help her?
Marcel is a French mouse, and a detective. One evening, at the Louvre museum, he sees a man steal a famous painting – the Mona Lisa. Marcel follows the thief to Venice and risks his life to get the painting back again.
The houses in Newton Road are small, but people are very happy there. Then a civil engineer wants to knock down the houses and build a new road. The people of Newton Road are very angry. But can they win the battle?
Marcel visits his friend, Henry, in London. Henry knows a professor and he has some very interesting letters – by William Shakespeare! Marcel and Henry want to see the letters, but they are not in the professor’s flat. Marcel is a detective. Can he find them?