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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 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...

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 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 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 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 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 Active Reading 4: Oliver Twist

Charles Dickens

Oliver`s mother dies when he is born and he is brought up in a workhouse. His first years are cold and lonely and then he runs away to London. But he falls into the hands of Fagin and the terrifying Bill Sykes. They...

Penguin Readers 4: King Solomon`s Mines

H. Rider Haggard

Sir Henry Curtis, Captain John Good and Allan Quatermain are travelling to the mysterious, unmapped heart of Africa. Sir Henry wants to find his missing brother. Quatermain wants to find King Solomon`s secret...

Penguin Readers 4: The Diary of a Young Girl

Anne Frank

Contemporary / British English It is 1942 in Holland and the Germans have invaded. All Jewish people are frightened for their lives, so the Frank family hide. Life is dangerous but they hope for the best until they...

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: 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 2: Moby Dick

Melville, Herman

Classic / British English Moby Dick is the most dangerous whale in the oceans. Captain Ahab fought him and lost a leg. Now he hates Moby Dick. He wants to kill him. But can Captain Ahab and his men find the great...

Penguin Readers 6: Crime and Punishment

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Classic / British English Raskolnikoff, a young student, has been forced to give up his university studies because of lack of money. He withdraws from society and, poor and lonely, he develops a plan to murder a...

Penguin Readers 3: Psycho

Robert Bloch

Contemporary / British English (Available February 2008) Anna Scott is an American film star. She is rich, beautiful and very famous. William Thacker is a shy man who has a small, unsuccessful bookshop in London....

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 1: Surfer

Paul Harvey

Original / British English On the beach near Nick`s home there is a surfing competition with a big prize. Nick is a very good surfer. He wants to win the prize and go to Australia. But Nick`s father is not happy. Can...

Penguin Readers 4: Cinderella Man

Marc Cerasini

Contemporary / American English 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...

Penguin Readers 3: Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man`s Chest

Contemporary / American English 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...

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 Readers 4: Macbeth

William Shakespeare

Classic / British English Macbeth, a brave soldier, is trusted by the Scottish king. Then a strange meeting with three witches makes him greedy for power. Macbeth wants to be king. He and his evil wife make murderous...

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 1: Daniel Radcliffe

Vicky Shipton

Level 1. 300 headwords. Beginner. 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...