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Penguin Reader Level 4 "The Time Machine" by H.G. Wells
Category: Learning Material & Coursework (ELT) | Series: Penguin Readers Simplified Text
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 great inventions. Instead, he finds that people have become weak, child-like creatures. T ...Show more
Penguin Reader Level 5 British and American Short Stories by D.H. Lawrence
Category: Learning Material & Coursework (ELT) | Series: Penguin Readers Simplified Text
Contemporary / British English (Available June 2008) These stories paint colourful pictures of life in Britain and America in the past. We meet some unusual people. There's the dreamy boy who wakes up one day to find a bird making a nest in his hair! And there's the man who tries to catch a ghost.
Penguin Reader Level 5 More Tales from Shakespeare by Mary Lamb
Category: Learning Material & Coursework (ELT) | Series: Penguin Readers Simplified Text
Classic / British English (Available April 2008) This collection of six short stories, based on Shakespeare's plays, is the perfect introduction to one of the world's greatest writers. Meet the tragic young lovers Romeo and Juliet, mad King Lear, angry young Hamlet, and many more of the most famous char ...Show more
Penguin Reader Level 5: "On the Road" by Jack Kerouac
Category: Learning Material & Coursework (ELT) | Series: Penguin Readers Simplified Text
Contemporary / American English (Available April 2008) One of the most famous American books of the century. Love, jazz, and excitement! These are all part of Sal Paradise's adventures on the road with wild friend Dean Moriarty, and their crazy companions, as they travel across the USA.
Penguin Reader Level 5 -Outstanding Short Stories by Edgar Allan Poe
Category: Learning Material & Coursework (ELT) | Series: Penguin Readers Simplified Text
Classic / British English This collection brings together some of the best examples of late nineteenthand early twentieth-century short stories. Some are about ordinary people to whom something unexpected happens. Others are about unusual characters or events. Some of the stories are funny and others ar ...Show more
Penguin Reader Level 6 The Chamber by John Grisham
Category: Learning Material & Coursework (ELT) | Series: Penguin Readers Simplified Text
Contemporary / American English (Available June 2008) The horror of death row is that you die a little each day. The waiting kills you. Seventy-year-old Sam Cayhall is on Mississippi's death row. Sam hates lawyers but his date with the gas chamber is close, and time is running out. Then Adam Hall, a you ...Show more
Penguin Readers Easystarts: "Who Wants to be a Star?" by Margaret Iggulden
Category: Learning Material & Coursework (ELT) | Series: Penguin Readers Simplified Text
Original / British English Tina Daniels is thirteen years old and a star. She sings beautifully, and everyone loves her. Her mother has big ideas about Hollywood, but Tina is not happy. One day she goes away on a train. Who does she meet? What does she see? Read about Tina's new life.
Penguin Readers Lev. 4: "The Bourne Identity" by Robert Ludlum
Category: Learning Material & Coursework (ELT) | Series: Penguin Readers Simplified Text
The man has been shot many times. Who wants to kill him, and why? The man can't remember. As he begins to learn about his past, he becomes even more confused. Does he have a future? Or will he be killed before he knows who - or what - he really is?
Penguin Readers Level 2: Tales from Arabian Nights by Penguin Readers
Category: Learning Material & Coursework (ELT) | Series: Penguin Readers Simplified Text
Classic / British English Sheherezade is beautiful and clever. She also knows a thousand and one wonderful stories. Her husband wants to kill her, but he can't. Sheherezade tells him stories about a clever servant girl and a boy judge, about Ali Baba and Aladdin. What happens next? Her husband wants t ...Show more
Penguin Readers Level 3 : A Scandal in Bohemia by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Category: Learning Material & Coursework (ELT) | Series: Penguin Readers Simplified Text
Classic / British English (Available February 2008) All kinds of people, from shopkeepers to kings, want the help of Sherlock Holmes in these six stories about the adventures of the famous detective. Who put a diamond in a chicken? Why is there a club for men with red hair? How did the man at the lake d ...Show more
Penguin Readers Level 3 : David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Category: Learning Material & Coursework (ELT) | Series: Penguin Readers Simplified Texts
Classic / British English (Available February 2008) David Copperfield's happy life suddenly changes when his mother marries again. Her new husband is cruel to him and sends him away to school. When David's mother dies, he is sent to work in London. He hates his job so he runs away. He has no money for f ...Show more
Penguin Readers Level 3 "Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog" and Other Stories by Mark Twain
Category: Learning Material & Coursework (ELT) | Series: Penguin Readers Simplified Text
Classic / American English (Available February 2008) Mark Twain is one of 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 about people's hopes and fears, happiness and terr ...Show more