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Penguin Readers Easystarts: Maisie and the Dolphin

Rabley, Stephen

Penguin Readers are written by specialist ELT authors. The language, vocabulary, style and content of every book is carefully graded to make sure it suits the learner`s own language ability. Every Penguin Reader has a...

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 Readers 4: The Breathing Method

Stephen King

There is a club in New York where men tell each other stories. Some of these are mysterious, some are horrible. One night a doctor tells the story of a young woman who gives birth to her baby. A normal enough event?...

Penguin Readers 3: The Beatles

Paul Shipton

The year was 1963, and Beatlemania was only just beginning. Soon the Beatles had fans all around the world. For the rest of the 1960s their music led the way and they changed modern music forever. This book tells the...

Penguin Readers 5: The Hound of the Baskervilles

Arthur Conan Doyle

Classic / British English Sir Charles Baskerville is found dead just outside his home, Baskerville Hall. Many of the Baskerville family have died mysteriously. People say that they were killed by a gigantic devil-like...

Penguin Readers 3: Billy Elliot

Melvin Burgess

Contemporary / British English Eleven-year old Billy Elliot is different from other boys. He is not very clever or good at sport. Then, one day, he discovers ballet dancing. Finally he has found something that he can...

Penguin Readers 3: The Swiss Family Robinson

Johann David Wyss

It was the seventh day of the storm. We didn`t know where we were. Everyone on the ship believed that death was very near.` The Robinson family do not die at sea; they find their way to a small island. But what can...

Penguin Readers Easystarts: A New Zealand Adventure

Jan Thorburn

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 Michael`s mobile, but they can`t find him? He has messages from home are...

Penguin Readers Easystarts: Simon and the Spy

Elizabeth Laird

Original / British English Simon Simple is going on holiday and the police are looking for a spy. On the train, Simon meets a beautiful girl. He likes her and she likes him. But the spy is there too. Simon and the...

Penguin Active Reading 3: The Incredible Journey

Sheila Burnford

The country is wild and dangerous. Mountains are high, rivers run fast, and there are strange animals in the woods. But three family pets - two dogs and a cat - begin a long, long walk through western Canada. They...

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 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 Easystarts: Flying Home

Stephen Rabley

Felix is not a happy bird. He comes from Brazil but he doesn’t live there. He lives in New York in a cage. Then one day his cage opens and Felix says goodbye to New York. Can he find his family in Brazil again?

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 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 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 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 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...