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On a stormy winter night, a stranger knocks at the door of a shepherd's cottage. He is cold and hungry, and wants to get out of the rain. He is welcomed inside, but he does not give his name or his business. Who is he, and where has he come from? And he is only the first visitor to call at the cottage that night ...In these three short stories, Thomas Hardy gives us pictures of the lives of shepherds and hangmen, dukes and teachers. But rich or poor, young or old, they all have the same feelings of fear, hope, love, jealousy ... Classics

It is 1866, and there is trouble in the world's oeans. What is the extraordinary thing that people have seen there, travelling faster than a whale and cutting holes in the bottom of the strongest ships? Professor Aronnax joins the search for the 'monster'., hoping for an exciting adventure. But when he meets the mysterious Captain Nemo, his adventure becomes more extraordinary than he had ever imagined, and he discovers a new underwater world, full of wonders, but of strange dangers too...

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Oxford Read and Imagine graded readers are at eight levels (Starter, Beginner, and Levels 1 to 6) for students from age 4 and older. They offer great stories to read and enjoy. Activities provide Cambridge Young Learner Exams preparation.
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Oxford Read and Imagine graded readers are at eight levels (Starter, Beginner, and Levels 1 to 6) for students from age 4 and older. They offer great stories to read and enjoy. Activities provide Cambridge Young Learner Exams preparation.
At Levels 1 to 6, every storybook reader links to an Oxford Read and Discover non-fiction reader.

Audio in a choice of American and British English is available for every reader.
At Levels 1 to 6, audio is available in CD packs for every reader.

A marketing executive from Mickey’s – a fast food US burger chain – discovers that contaminated meat is getting into the burgers, and heads down to Colorado to investigate. What he discovers proves to be more shocking than he could ever have imagined.

With Fact Files on ‘Fast Food Nation: from book to film’, the ‘illegals’, and a short history of fast food.

Contents:
Pablo Casals, the Catalan cello-player
Louis Armstrong, the American trumpet-player and singer
Frank Sinatra, the Italian-American singer and actor
Édith Piaf, France's famous singing star
Maria Callas, the Greek opera singer
Elvis Presley, the man who changed pop music

BRITISH ENGLISH
Word count: 14,723
Headword count: 1,121

Each book includes a free CD with a full recording of each story.
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This book is Level 3 in the Collins ELT Readers series.
Level 3 is equivalent to CEF level B1.

Contents:
Alfred Nobel, creator of the Nobel Prize
Andrew Carnegie, the businessman who built libraries for poor people
John D. Rockefeller who made money from oil and gave it all away
Thomas Barnardo who created homes for poor children
Henry Wellcome who used his money for medical research
Madam C. J. Walker who gave her money to the African-American community

BRITISH ENGLISH
Word count: 13,950
Headword count: 1179

Each book includes a free CD with a full recording of each story.
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Twelve Years a Slave is the extraordinary true story of Solomon Northup, a free black man living in New York State who, in 1841, was kidnapped and sold into slavery. This simplified version condenses Northup’s memoirs for students of English and is interspersed with stills from the 2013 Oscar award winning film.

Contents:
Marco Polo who taught the world about China
Ibn Battuta who travelled to 44 countries
Christopher Columbus who discovered new worlds
James Cook, first to sail around the world in both directions
David Livingstone who explored Africa
Yuri Gagarin, the first man to go into space

BRITISH ENGLISH
Word count: 14,679
Headword count: 1,163

Each book includes a free CD with a full recording of each story.
PLUS: visit www.collinselt.com/readers for videos, teacher resources and self-study materials.

This book is Level 3 in the Collins ELT Readers series.
Level 3 is equivalent to CEF lev

Contents:
Geoffrey Chaucer, writer of the first great works of English Literature
William Shakespeare, writer of the greatest plays in history
Charles Dickens who wanted to make England a better place
Victor Hugo, the French writer who cared about the poor
Leo Tolstoy, the man who wrote War and Peace
Rudyard Kipling who wrote The Jungle Book and won a Nobel Prize

BRITISH ENGLISH
Word count: 12,886
Headword count: 1,039

Each book includes a free CD with a full recording of each story.
PLUS: visit www.collinselt.com/readers for videos, teacher resources and self-study materials.

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