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Penguin Readers 6: Anna Karenina

Leo Tolstoy

Classic / British English 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...

Penguin Readers 3: Stories from Shakespeare

William Shakespeare

Classic / British English (Available February 2008) These are the stories of some of Shakespeare`s most famous plays. We travel to Venice, Greece, Denmark and Rome, and meet many different people. There is a greedy...

Penguin Active Reading 1: The Barcelona Game

Stephen Rabley

Holly and her brothers go to Barcelona for a football game. First, Holly wants to see famous places in the city, but her brothers want to go to a funfair. Then a man takes Holly`s bag, and the tickets for the game are...

Penguin Active Reading 4: The Odyssey

Гомер

The great hero Odysseus has been away from his family for twenty years when the goddess Athene decides to help him find his way back to the island of Ithaca. But the journey will not be easy. Odysseus must face...

Penguin Readers 2: The Voyages of Sindbad the Sailor

Classic / British English (Available February 2008) Sindbad the Sailor went to sea seven times and his voyages were always dangerous. He met giant men, snakes and birds, and the Old Man of the Sea. He visited...

Penguin Quick Guides Common Errors in English

Hancock, Paul

Penguin Readers 1: Marcel and the Shakespeare Letters

Rabley, Stephen

Original / British English Marcel visits his friend, Henry, in London. Henry knows a professor and he has some very interesting letters by William Shakespeare! Marcel and Henry want to see the letters, but they are...

Penguin Readers 4: Cinderella Man

Marc Cerasini

Jim Braddock is a successful boxer in New York. But in October 1929 the American economy fails, and at the same time Jim starts to lose in the boxing ring. Does the true story of Jim Braddock — the Cinderella Man —...

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 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 2: The Room in the Tower and Other Ghost Stories

Joseph Rudyard Kipling

Classic / British English (Available February 2008) Three stories, three ghosts. A young woman marries an older man. His first wife is dead. Or is she ? Why does a dead man walk through his house each night? An old...

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 Active Reading 3: Frankenstein

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Frankenstein is probably the most famous horror story in the world. Victor Frankenstein is a young scientist who creates a monster from parts of dead bodies. At first the monster looks for love and wants to be kind....

Penguin Readers 5: The Phantom of the Opera

Gaston Leroux

Classic / American English There is a climate of secrecy and fear at the Paris Opera. People are dying and a beautiful, talented young singer has disappeared. Is this the work of the Opera ghost? Is the ghost a man or...

Penguin Readers 4: The Time Machine

H. G. Wells

Classic / British English (Available February 2008) The Time Traveller has built a time machine and has gone into the future to the year 802,701. He expects to find a better world with highly-intelligent people and...

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 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 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 1: Marcel and the Shakespeare Letters

Stephen Rabley

Original / British English Marcel visits his friend, Henry, in London. Henry knows a professor and he has some very interesting letters by William Shakespeare! Marcel and Henry want to see the letters, but they are...

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 Active Reading 1: Kylie Minogue

Liz Kilbey

Kylie Minogue was a star a famous singer with a lot of money and beautiful clothes. And then, in 2005, the music stopped. Kylie had cancer. People waited. And then she came back. Read her story, from her early days in...

Penguin Active Reading 1: The Rainbow Serpent

James Vance Marshall

In an old Australian story, the Rainbow Serpent opened her eyes and looked at the young Earth. There were no animals or birds, no rivers or trees. Then a Man and a Woman came, and the Rainbow Serpent was their...

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 1: Run for Your Life

Stephen Waller

Original / British English (Available February 2008) Kim is running through the streets of the old town. She is frightened. A man with dark eyes and a knife is looking for her. He is going to catch her. This holiday...

Penguin Readers 3: Matilda

Roald Dahl

Contemporary / British English Matilda is a clever and unusual little girl. But her parents aren`t interested in her, and the terrible head teacher at her school hates clever children. But Matilda finds a way to be...