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His mother is dead, so little Oliver Twist is brought up in the workhouse. Beaten and starved, he runs away to London, where he joins Fagins gang of thieves. By chance he also finds good new friends ...

When a notice appears in the local newspaper, the villagers are curious. Is it a joke, or is there really going to be a murder at Little Paddocks At the announced time, the lights go out. Gunshots are...

Jane and Elizabeth Bennet are the oldest of five sisters in need of husbands, but it isnt easy to find the right man. Are Mr Bingley, Mr Darcy and Mr Wickham all that they seem Will pride and prejudic...

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 the...

Mark Twain is one America´s most famous and best-loved writers. He wrote about every important subject of his time. Twain´s stories are usually amusing but with a serious message too. You will read ab...

Fifteen-year old John renchard lives in a quiet village. But after dark, Moonfleet is a village with secrets. A dead man walks the streets, and smugglers do their work. When John accidentally learns a...

A family of wolves take a little boy into their home in the jungle. The child learns and plays with the other cubs. But can he really live in the jungle Will the other wolves want him to stay And will...

Contemporary / British English (Available June 2008) James D. Watson and Francis Crick won the Nobel Prize in 1962 for the discovery of the double helix, the structure of DNA. In this book, James D. W...

Mark Twain is one of North America´s most famous and best-loved writers. His stories are always clever and usually very amusing, but they have a serious message too. In this book you will reade about ...

A tree full of enormous spiders, a living thing with no face, a picture that comes alive, and a boy with no heart. These are some of the frightening things in these stories by M. R. James, one of the ...

William Tell is a good man, but his country is a dangerous place. The Swiss people dont like the Austrian emperor or his governor in Switzerland. Can William Tell help them in their fight with the Aus...

This great story is set against the background of the French Revolution. Two men one French, one English, but very similar in appearance are in love with the same woman. The three of them, like the ...

These are the stories of some of Shakespeares most famous plays. We travel to Venice, Greece, Denmark and Rome, and meet many different people. There is a greedy money-lender, a fairy king and queen, ...

Martin Luther King had a dream. He wanted blacks and whites to live together happily. But in America in the 1950s and 1960s, all men were not equal. King led peaceful protests against the government a...

Tom Sawyer loves adventures. He has them at home, at school, and with his friends - Huck Finn, Joe Harper, and Becky Thatcher. Tom has one adventure in a graveyard, one in an old house, one in a cave....

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...

During one hot summer on Long Island, Jay Gatsby throws an amazing party every weekend. He is an extremely wealthy man, although no one knows where he or his money have come from. But Gatsby has a pur...

Classic British English David Copperfields happy life suddenly changes when his mother marries again. Her new husband is cruel to him and sends him away to school. When Davids mother dies, he is sent...

Original British English Farm work isnt Joes idea of holiday fun. He wanted to spend the summer surfing. But when he finds himself in the middle of a disagreement about GM genetically-modified crop t...

Edgar Allan Poe, the father of the detective story and a master of horror, is one of the greatest American short story writers. In these stories we meet people struggling with fear, revenge, mental il...

Only the next king can pull the sword out of the stone. Many people try, but they cannot move the sword. Then young Arthur tries, but it comes out easily. Now he will be king. But will he be a good ki...

Michael Jordan, the Chicago Bulls number 23, is very famous. And he can fly Maybe he is the best basketball player of all time. But where did he come from How did he start in basketball Read about his...

American English Available February 2008 O. Henrys stories are very famous. He writes about New York, Texas, Oklahoma ... Money and love are often problems. But how is a story going to finish You neve...

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...