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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 Level 4: No Rules Rules

Hastings Reed

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 Pocket Sudoku

Bodycombe David J.

Penguin Readers Easystarts: Tinker`s Farm

Stephen Rabley

It is 1800. Jenny Tinker arrives in New York with her father, Sam. The Tinkers are English. They`re starting a new life in America. They want a farm, but they haven`t got any money. What can they do?

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 Level 3: Love Frankie

Wilson Jacqueline

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 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 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...

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 2: The Wind in the Willows

Kenneth Grahame

This is the story of four friends Toad, Rat, Mole and Badger. Rat loves the river. Mole is often afraid. Badger likes to stay at home. But Toad is always looking for new adventures and some of his ideas are dangerous.

Penguin History of Modern Russia: From Tsarism to XXI Century

Service, Robert

"A fine it is a dizzying tale and Service tells it well; he has none of the ideological baggage that has so often bedevilled Western histories of Russia". Brian Moynahan, Sunday Times "Always well-informed and...

Penguin Readers Level 6: Tess of the DUrbervilles’

Hardy Thomas

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 Readers 6: Great Expectations

Charles Dickens

Classic / British English Pip is a poor orphan whose life is changed forever by two very different meetings one with an escaped convict and the other with an eccentric old lady and the beautiful girl who lives with...

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 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: Les Miserables

Victor Hugo

Classic / British English (Available February 2008) Jean Valjean is free at last after nineteen years in prison. Cold and hungry, he is rejected by everyone he meets. But Jean`s life is changed forever when he...

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 5: The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

Louis Robert Stevenson

Dr Jekyll is a London doctor who is liked and respected for his work. Mr Hyde is an evil man, completely unknown in London society. There is a murder and Hyde seems to be responsible. So why does the good doctor give...

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...