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Tom has failed his exams so he cannot study photography at art college and must work in a library instead. Rita wants to be a fashion model but cannot find an agency to employ her. One rainy day, Rita and Tom's lives miraculously cross.
As if the fact that her mother is marrying her algebra teacher isn't bad enough, Mia then manages to announce the engagement on live television. Mia's grandmother immediately starts making arrangements for a grand state wedding - greatly upsetting Mia's mother. Then Mia's mother and her fiance go missing... To add to her problems, Mia finds herself...
Two dark comedies with ghost/mystery themes which are set around the period of the American War of Independence. Ichabod Crane is the hero of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. Peculiar-looking and socially inept, this schoolmaster is a joke to the people of Sleepy Hollow as he tries to win the love of the beautiful daughter of a rich farmer. In The Legend of...
Ed Malone - a young newspaper reporter - joins a team of explorers, headed by the eccentric Professor Challenger, who claims he has found a lost world where animals believed to have become extinct millions of years ago still survive. Are there really dinosaurs living deep in the Amazon jungle? Nakl. Macmillan klasifikuje úroveň angličtiny v...
hree short stories by one of the most witty and popular writers of the nineteenth century. Stories include: The Canterville Ghost, The Model Millionaire and Lord Arthur Savile's Crime.
Larry applies for a job as a cook on an expedition to search the mountains of northern Afghanistan for the legendary and fearsom Toruk. At the interview, Larry has nagging doubts. But he loves mountains and he needs a job.
The highly popular TV show Dawson’s Creek™ has been shown in more than 50 countries around the world. The popularity of the show is proven by its huge fan base. Visitors to its website want to know about past and current episodes, the actors, and the location where the programmes are filmed. Members of the young cast have gone on to star in...
Jen invites her friends to stay the weekend in her parents' ski cabin in the mountains. Joey persuades her sister to give her time off from helping in the family restaurant. Dawson realises the depth of feelings he has for Joey, but cannot resist Jen.
Angered by Dawson's indecision, Joey and Jen form a reluctant alliance and plan a weekend together in New York to attend the sixteenth birthday party of Jen's cousin. Joey is amazed on her first visit to the Big Apple.
A retold version of one of the most famous and inventive horror stories ever written.
Lenny Samuel is hired to find a retired championship racehorse. The private eye thinks that he is going to enjoy this job. After all, what could be easier? All he has to do is hang around California's racetracks, ask a few questions and then report back to his very pretty client.
Four teenage friends - Frankie, Regan, Tom and Jack - are working together on a project for their school's archaeology club. A disused Second World War airfield near their home town in southern England is the subject of their investigation. Their research in to the history of the place and the members of the armed forces who lived and worked there in the...
Basil Hallward has painted a picture of a young man he admires - Dorian Gray. Dorian wishes he would never age like the picture and hides it in the attic. But his wish has tragic consequences for many people.
Pedro and Maria Moreira live in Brazil. When their son, Palito, is born, an old woman predicts that he will make them rich and happy. Palito shows a brilliant talent for playing football. He goes to play for one of the top clubs in Brazil and becomes rich and famous. But a defect in his legs, combined with an accident on the field during a cup final,...
The Quest is the name of Mark Blackburn's boat. Mark, a marine archaeologist is joined by John Morgan in his search for wrecks of sixteenth century Chinese trading-ships submerged deep in the sea off the Gulf of Thailand. When a local fisherman brings a piece of rare porcelain to his boat, Mark is thrilled and can hardly wait to go to the place where the...
Five short stories to scare and enthral. Includes The Whistle, The Message of Death, and The Maze.