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Penguin Readers Easystarts: Tinker`s Island

Stephen Rabley

Original / British English (Available February 2008) It`s 1798. Sam Tinker and his daughter Jenny live in London. One day a thief puts a watch in Sam`s hand. Take this,` he says, and runs away. Two policemen see the...

Penguin Readers Easystarts: Marcel and the Mona Lisa

Stephen Rabley

Original / British English 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...

Penguin Readers 3: The Fugitive

J.M. Dillard, Richard Curtis

Contemporary / British English Why did a man with one arm go into Dr Richard Kimble`s house and murder his wife? The police think Kimble did it. Kimble is wrongly put in prison but escapes. He wants one thing to find...

Penguin Readers 6: Anna Karenina

Leo Tolstoy

Anna Karenina, one of world literature`s greatest novels, tells the story of a beautiful young woman who is unhappily married to a man much older than herself. When she falls in love with a handsome young soldier,...

Penguin Active Reading 3: Japanese Ghost Stories

William Shakespeare, Lafcadio Hearn

A blind musician plays to the spirits of the dead. A priest is attacked by heads that have left their bodies. An old man meets a woman who has no face. Read these and many more strange, ghostly stories from old Japan...

Penguin Readers 4: The Picture of Dorian Gray

Oscar Wilde

Classic / British English An artist paints a picture of the young and handsome Dorian Gray. When he sees it, Dorian makes a wish that changes his life. As he grows older, his face stays young and handsome. But the...

Penguin Readers 4: Lorna Doone

R.D. Blackmore

In 1673 young John Ridd meets a little girl called Lorna Doone. Seven years later they meet again, and fall in love. But the Doones are a family of robbers and murderers. One of them, Carver, killed John`s father and...

Penguin Readers 3: Sherlock Holmes and the Mystery of Boscombe Pool

Arthur Conan Doyle

Classic / British English Who killed Charles McCarthy at Boscombe Pool? And why? Detective Lestrade from Scotland Yard thinks it was McCarthy`s son, James. Things do not look good for James. But the famous English...

Penguin Readers 3: British Life

Anne Collins

Original / British English Who are the British? This book will tell you about their lives, TV programmes, business, family, life, pets and the food. This is a book about real people and real life in Britain today.

Penguin Readers 6: East of Eden

John Steinbeck

Classic / American English All novels are built on the never-ending contest in ourselves between good and evil. John Steinbeck, one of America`s greatest writers, considered East of Eden to be his most important work....

Penguin Readers 3: Hamlet

William Shakespeare

Classic / British English 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...

Penguin Active Reading 2: Water for Life

Bernard Smith

Water. We drink it. We cook with it. We wash with it. We can`t live without it. Most of us don`t think about it much. But it is not there for everybody, and our world is changing fast. We have to think very carefully...

Penguin Readers Level 4: Pig-Heart Boy

Blackman Malorie

Penguin Readers 2: The Birds

Du Maurier, Daphne

Contemporary / British English Nat and his family live near the sea. Nat watches the birds over the sea. Suddenly the weather is colder, and there is something strange about the birds. They are angry. They start to...

Penguin Readers Level 5: Work Remotely

Tohme Anastasia; Worner Martin

Has the office gone for ever? This book looks at the positive and negative sides of working remotely for employees, managers and companies. It explores the different ways that everybody can make remote working more...

Penguin Readers Level 4: The Age of Innocence (ELT

Wharton Edith

Penguin Readers Easystarts: The Leopard and the Lighthouse

Anne Collins

Original / British English (Available February 2008) One day a leopard swims across the sea to Sindi. He is hungry and he is looking for food. He runs into an old lighthouse. The people of Sindi do not want the...

Penguin Readers 3: The Return of Sherlock Holmes

Arthur Conan Doyle

Classic / British English (Available February 2008) 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...

Penguin Dict of Marketing

Harris, Phil

The Penguin Dictionary of Marketing is the only one-volume dictionary of its kind to offer full sections of international terms, giving it a truly global readership. Covering everything from direct marketing to...

Penguin Active Reading 3: Titanic!

Paul Shipton

On the night of April 14, 1912, the Titanic hit an iceberg and sank. This is the full story. Why did the Titanic sink so quickly? Why did so many people die? What are the stories of all those people, young and old,...

Penguin Readers 3: Vanity Fair

William Makepeace Thackeray

Classic / British English Becky Sharp, an intelligent young lady with no family or money, becomes a governess. But this type of life is not enough for her. She has big plans for herself. Is she clever enough to find...

Penguin Readers 3: Forrest Gump

Winston Groom

Contemporary / British English Everybody tells Forrest Gump that he`s an idiot. But he`s a great football player, and he plays the harmonica beautifully. He`s also a brave soldier. But can he ever marry the girl he...

Penguin Readers 3: My Fair Lady

Alan Jay Lerner

Contemporary / British English (Available February 2008) My Fair Lady is the story of a poor young flower-seller and a professor who doesn`t like women. The professor decides to teach the flower-seller to speak better...

Penguin Readers 2: Heidi

Spyri, Johanna

Classic / British English (Available February 2008) Heidi lives with her grandfather in his little wooden house, high up in the mountains of Switzerland. One day Heidi`s aunt arrives and takes her to Clara`s home in...

Penguin Readers Level 6: Dubliners

Joyce James