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Every year, millions of tourists visit New Yorkthe most exciting city in the world. Read about its history, its sights and its people. What makes New York the city that never sleeps

American English There are five stories in this book. The Fall of the House of Usher and The Barrel of Amontillado are stories of madness The Maelstrom describes fear of death during a storm on the oc...

Sherlock Holmes is a very clever man. When people have strange, difficult problems, they come to him. Where is Mr Hosmer Angel Which student saw the exam paper before the exam Why is somebody followin...

A story by Stephen King the master of horror. Paul Sheldon is Annie Wilkes´s favourite writer. She loves all his books about Misery Chastain. When Annie finds Paul after a car accident, she takes him ...

Original British English Available May 2008 Ali wants to take photos of people and places in Istanbul, but he has a big problem. He hasnt got a camera. How can he get one

It was the quiet ones you had to watch. Thats where the real passion was lurking. They came together at Mountainview College, a down-at-the-heels secondary school on the seamy side of Dublin, to take ...

Classic British English Scrooge is a cold, hard man. He loves money, and he doesnt like people. He really doesnt like Christmas. But when some ghosts visit him, they show him his past life, his life ...

Marcel and his friend Céline are on holiday in Los Angeles. They are staying in the home of Arnold Waldman, a famous film director. But on the first night of their holiday, kidnappers take away Arnold...

Original British EnglishA girl sees a quiet good-looking boy on the boat to Spain. She loves his shy smile and she wants to see him again. The boy wants to be with her too, but there are problems. Ca...

Rip Van Winkle walks into the mountains one day and meets some strange old men. He comes home twenty years later. One dark night, Ichabod Crane is riding home and sees a man on a black horse behind hi...

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 great inventions. Instead, he finds t...

Contemporary American English Ten-year-old Tonya Hailey is attacked and raped by two local men. Carl Lee, Tonyas father, shoots them. Now only his lawyer and friend, Jake Brigance, stands between him...

Bassanio wants to get married, but he has no money and a lot of debts. He asks his friend Antonio for a loan, but Antonio is waiting for his ships to return. Until then, he has nothing to lend. To hel...

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 t...

Classic / British EnglishMacbeth, 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...

Roald Dahl is the master of the unexpected. Things are not always what they seem and nobody should be trusted. In this collection of his short stories we learn some strange lessons about the dangerous...

This is Nickys first visit to New York. He is going to stay with his aunt, but she is not at the airport. Then some older boys on motorbikes play a dangerous game with him. Not long after he arrives, ...

The Penguin Readers are graded at seven levels of difficulty from easystarts to level 6 (Advanced). They fall into three sub-categories (Contemporary, Classics and Originals) ithin the one series, mak...

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 in beautiful Barcelona is suddenly ve...

Kate Grant comes from Canada. She is visiting Europe with her mother and father. One evening she sees two men in a museum. They are taking a very famous pictureGirl with a Pearl Ear-ring. What can Kat...

Contemporary British English Mark Sway is eleven and he knows a terrible secret. He knows where a body is hidden. Some secrets are so dangerous that its better not to tell. But its just as dangerous ...

Classic British English Anna Karenina, one of world literatures greatest novels, tells the story of a beautiful young woman who is unhappily married to a man much older than herself. When she falls i...

In Washington, two Supreme Court judges are murdered and only the young and beautiful law student Darby Shaw knows why. She has uncovered a deadly secret but will anyone believe her Can she stay alive...

THE FIVE PEOPLE YOU MEET IN HEAVEN addresses the meaning of life, and life after death, in the poignant way that made TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE.An elderly amusement park maintenance worker named Eddie who,...

A man fell from a very tall building. Why didnt he die Why did a dead woman have a frozen chicken under her hat What fell out of an old mans ear, and why did everybody laugh And how did a cow fly Find...

Phileas Fogg is living quietly in London. Then he makes a bet that he can travel around the world in eighty days. The result is a crazy, exciting race against time across Europe, Asia and America. The...

Johnny English is a Secret Service agent. He often makes very bad mistakes. But now hes got an important job security for the Queen and her crown. There are problems a lot of problems. But is Johnny ...

Inventors are special people. They see everyday objects and imagine something better. They solve old problems with new ideas. Their inventions can help people or destroy them, but only the greatest id...