British English Count Dracula is a vampire. He drinks peoples blood. He lives in a lonely castle in the mountains of Transylvania. But then he comes to England and strange things start happening. Peop...

Edward Prendick is travelling in the South Pacific when his ship goes down. He is saved after many days at sea by another ship, and a passenger, Montgomery, nurses him back to health. Prendick becomes...

Allie Fox hates the United States and he hates the twentieth century. He takes his wife and children to the jungle in Honduras to find a new, simpler way of living. But things go wrong, and their live...

In Egypt Imhotep, High Priest of the Dead, stays in the ground for 3215 years. Then he wakes up from his half-life and he starts to kill. Evelyn works in a museum. Rick is a soldier. Can these very di...

Every year, millions of tourists visit New Yorkthe most exciting city in the world. Read about its history, its sights and its people. What makes New York the city that never sleeps

British English Susie has freckles, and she hates them. Her best friend, Donna, has pretty hair, nice teeth and blue eyes. Donna never has problems with boys. Now there is a new boy at school, and Don...

American English There are five stories in this book. The Fall of the House of Usher and The Barrel of Amontillado are stories of madness The Maelstrom describes fear of death during a storm on the oc...

Emma Bovary is a dreamer. She escapes from her boring life with her father by marrying Charles, a doctor, but married life does not bring her the love and excitement she expected. She looks for love o...

Martin Luther King had a dream. He wanted blacks and whites to live together happily. But in America in the 1950s and 1960s, all men were not equal. King led peaceful protests against the government a...

Katrina Kirby is a detective. People call her K. There has been a murder in a big country house. K knows that one of five people murdered Sir Michael Gray. Who did it How Why This is a detective story...

This great story is set against the background of the French Revolution. Two men one French, one English, but very similar in appearance are in love with the same woman. The three of them, like the ...

Bea lives under a bridge. She watches people but they don´t look at her. Then, one day, a policeman stops and talks to her. Bea doesn´t like talking and she doesn´t remember much. But he is looking fo...

When Frank McCourt becomes a teacher in New York, he finds himself standing in front of bored, confused, angry students. Will he fail as a teacher Or can he use his miserable Irish childhood to help h...

Who killed Charles McCarthy at Boscombe Pool And why Detective Lestrade from Scotland Yard thinks it was McCarthys son, James. Things do not look good for James. But the famous English detective, Sher...

Classic British English Always be good, so people will love you. Always work hard and do your best. These were the words of Black Beautys mother to her son when the two horses lived with Farmer Grey....

Classic British English Well give a free dinner to the person who tells the best story. Now, put up your hands if you agree. The pilgrims all held up their hands. A group of pilgrims are travelling t...

Lord Cutler Beckett thinks that pirates are very bad for business.Hewants to take command of the oceans. The Pirate Lords, of course, have other ideas. But can they fight him and wintogether They need...

With over 60 titles in a variety of genres, including fiction, non-fiction, horror or romance, biographies and big film tie-ins, the Penguin Active Reading series will make learning the English langua...

Shakespeares plays are famous all over the world in the theatre, in film and in the classroom. What do we know about the man What kind of life did he have Who were his friends Why can we still laugh ...

When they were very young, Anne Elliot and Captain Wentworth were in love. They did not marry, but Anne never forgot her love for him. Now, many years later, they meet again. Does Wentworth feel anyth...

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...

Pete and Carla are students. One day they look at some very old coins and stamps in a shop. Pete wants to buy some stamps, but they are very expensive. Later that day some coins are missing from the s...

Jane Eyre, a poor girl, leaves her cruel aunt’s house and goes away to school. Later, she becomes a teacher and works for the rich Mr Rochester. She loves him and wants to marry him. He loves her too,...

Hamlet is the Prince of Denmark. His heart is filled with sadness and pain. Why Only his two best friends, Horatio and Marcellus, know the true reason. The new king, Claudius, murdered Hamlets father ...

Contemporary American English Inman leaves the horrors of the American Civil War and begins a long, dangerous journey home to Ada, the woman he loves. Along the way, he witnesses great poverty, cruel...

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 young woman comes to a big house to teach two young children. Its her first job and she wants to do it well. But she begins to see strange things the ghosts of dead people. Do the ghosts want the c...

American Cutting Edge is a multilevel general English course for adults and young adults. It combines rich international content, comprehensive grammar, and real-life functional language within a clea...

These are the stories of some of Shakespeares most famous plays. We travel to Venice, Greece, Denmark and Rome, and meet many different people. There is a greedy money-lender, a fairy king and queen, ...

Classic British English When a fisherman opens an old jar, a giant comes out. When a donkey opens its mouth, gold falls out. There is magic in these five fairy tales. Good people are often very unhap...

DArtagnan wants to be a musketeer. He wants to fight for his king and his country. But the Queen has a problem with the Cardinal, so dArtagnan and his new friends have to help her. The Cardinal is a v...

This complete course gives beginning through low-intermediate students the skills, strategies, practice, and confidence they need to increase their scores on the TOEIC test. Ideal for a TOEIC test pre...