Roald Dahl is the master of the unexpected. Things are not always what they seem and nobody should be trusted. In this collection of his short stories we learn some strange lessons about the dangerous...

Penguim Active Reading provides reading and language learning at five levels, through full-dolour, beautofully illustrated Readers. As well enjoyable stories and texts, each book provides a range of i...

Contemporary British English Aldous Huxleys Brave New World is one of the great works of science fiction. It is the year After Ford 632 in the New World. People are born and live by scientific method...

A story by Stephen King the master of horror. Paul Sheldon is Annie Wilkes´s favourite writer. She loves all his books about Misery Chastain. When Annie finds Paul after a car accident, she takes him ...

Classic British English One hot summer day, Alice sees a white rabbit and runs after it. She follows it down a rabbit-hole - and arrives in Wonderland. Here, caterpillars can talk and rabbits have wa...

Contemporary / American EnglishThe horror of death row is that you die a little each day. The waiting kills you.Seventy-year-old Sam Cayhall is on Mississippi.

Robinson Crusoe is at sea when there is a great storm. His ship goes down, and his friends die. The sea throws Crusoe onto a beach. He is on an island. But which island Are there other people on it An...

Phileas Fogg is living quietly in London. Then he makes a bet that he can travel around the world in eighty days. The result is a crazy, exciting race against time across Europe, Asia and America. The...

This wonderful story of fairies, dreams and lovers is as popular today as it was in Shakespeares time. In a wood outside Athens, four young people are following their dreams, while fairies play strang...

Original / British English Charles Hatfield Baker III, one of the richest men in New York City, suddenly disappears. His daughter, Julia, wants to find him. The directors of his company want power and...

Paperback. Language: English Publisher:.. Pearson Jane. a 20-year-old writer falls in love with Tom Lefroy who studies law Jane´s romance inspired her to write Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensib...

Is there intelligent life in other worlds? What special powers do our minds have? How can people suddenly disappear? Are there really monsters and ghosts? Read about some of the world´s most frighteni...

Longman Originals is a series of graded readers in four stages. All the stories are original - that is to say, written especially for the series. Originated from the Longman Structural Readers, the se...

Original British English Sarah and Jessica arrive in New Zealand for a holiday. They find a mobile phone in the taxi from the airport. It is Michaels mobile, but they cant find him He has messages fr...

Her movies are on TV. Her music is on the radio. Jennifer Lopez is a Hollywood star and a successful singer. She is a Latin performer. And Latin is about color, fun, and life And who is the number one...

This is Nickys first visit to New York. He is going to stay with his aunt, but she is not at the airport. Then some older boys on motorbikes play a dangerous game with him. Not long after he arrives, ...

Its 1798. Sam Tinker and his daughter Jenny live in London. One day a thief puts a watch in Sams hand. Take this, he says, and runs away. Two policemen see the watch and take Sam away. What can Jenny ...

Bernardo likes hats. One day he buys a new hat at a street market and people laugh at it. Why do you want another hat, Bernardo his wife says to him. You have twenty. But what can she do

Michael Jordan, the Chicago Bulls number 23, is very famous. And he can fly Maybe he is the best basketball player of all time. But where did he come from How did he start in basketball Read about his...

Sheherezade is beautiful and clever. She also knows a thousand and one wonderful stories. Her husband wants to kill her, but he cant. Sheherezade tells him stories about a clever servant girl and a bo...

THE FIVE PEOPLE YOU MEET IN HEAVEN addresses the meaning of life, and life after death, in the poignant way that made TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE.An elderly amusement park maintenance worker named Eddie who,...

In 1891, the great detective, Sherlock Holmes, disappeared in Switzerland while working on a dangerous case. Everyone thought that he was dead. But three years later, he returned to England. Holmes an...

Penguim Active Reading provides reading and language learning at five levels, through full-dolour, beautofully illustrated Readers. As well enjoyable stories and texts, each book provides a range of i...

Bassanio wants to get married, but he has no money and a lot of debts. He asks his friend Antonio for a loan, but Antonio is waiting for his ships to return. Until then, he has nothing to lend. To hel...

The Penguin Readers are graded at seven levels of difficulty from easystarts to level 6 (Advanced). They fall into three sub-categories (Contemporary, Classics and Originals) ithin the one series, mak...

A family of wolves take a little boy into their home in the jungle. The child learns and plays with the other cubs. But can he really live in the jungle Will the other wolves want him to stay And will...

Original British English Farm work isnt Joes idea of holiday fun. He wanted to spend the summer surfing. But when he finds himself in the middle of a disagreement about GM genetically-modified crop t...

Edgar Allan Poe, the father of the detective story and a master of horror, is one of the greatest American short story writers. In these stories we meet people struggling with fear, revenge, mental il...

Uncas is the last of the Mohican Indians. He is with his father and Hawkeye when they meet Heyward. Heyward is taking the two young daughters of a British colonel to their father. But a Huron Indian w...

His mother is dead, so little Oliver Twist is brought up in the workhouse. Beaten and starved, he runs away to London, where he joins Fagins gang of thieves. By chance he also finds good new friends ...

Jack Sparrow, captain of the Black Pearl, is back in a new adventure. This time he, Will Turner, Elizabeth Swann, and Commodore Norrington are all looking for a chest that belongs to the terrible Capt...

When a notice appears in the local newspaper, the villagers are curious. Is it a joke, or is there really going to be a murder at Little Paddocks At the announced time, the lights go out. Gunshots are...