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Penguin Readers Level 2: Wild Cities

Lerwill Ben

Penguin Readers 3: Sense and Sensibility

Jane Austen

Classic / British English (Available February 2008) Elinor and Marianne Dashwood are two very different sisters. Marianne loves excitement and always shows her feelings; Elinor is quiet and has more good sense. They...

Penguin Readers Lv.2 Alices Adventures in Wonderl’

Carroll Lewis

Penguin Readers Level 7: The Godfather

Puzo Mario

Penguin Readers Level 4: Lion (ELT Grade

Brierley Saroo

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: The Black Cat and other stories

Allan Poe Edgar

Classic / British English Are you brave enough to read four of Poe`s famous horror stories? Edgar Allan Poe wrote strange stories about terrible people and evil crimes. Don`t read this book late at night!

Penguin Island = Остров Пингвинов:роман на англ.яз

France Anatole

Penguin Island (1908) is a satirical fictional history, beginning with Christian missionary monk landing on the island. Mostly blind and deaf monk have mistaken auks for humans and baptized them. The God, who only...

Penguin Readers 5: Jane Eyre

Charlotte Bronte

Classic / British English Jane Eyre, a poor orphan, grows up in misery until she becomes the governess in the house of wealthy Mr Rochester and falls in love. But mysterious events take place in the house at night,...

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 3: Emil and the Detectives

Erich Kastner

Emil is travelling alone to his grandmother`s house in the city. He is carrying money toher from his mother. Then a man on the train steals the money. Emil follows the thief and an exciting adventure begins, with lots...

Penguin Readers Level 6: The Talented Mr Ripley

Highsmith Patricia

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 2: Robinson Crusoe

Daniel Defoe

Classic / British English Robinson Crusoe is at sea when there is a great storm. His ship goes down, and his friends die. The sea throws Crusoe onto a beach. He is on an island. But which island? Are there other...

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 Easystarts: Dino`s Day in London

Stephen Rabley

Tommy Grant is a taxi driver. One morning his boss telephones him. `Can you be at the Ritz hotel at 9 o`clock?` he asks. The 12-year-old son of a film star is in London. His name is Dino. Be very nice to the boy`,...

Penguin Readers 6: Madame Bovary

Gustave Flaubert

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 outside her...

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 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 Active Reading 4: Body in the Library

Agatha Christie

Early one morning the Bantrys wake to find the dead body of a young woman in their library. Who is she? How did she get there? The police are called, of course, but Dolly Bantry quickly invites her friend Jane Marple...

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 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 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: 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 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...