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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...

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...

Gulliver travels across the sea from England and has an accident. He arrives in a country of very, very small people. What will they do with him How will he talk to them And why are the Big-enders fig...

Contemporary British English These stories paint colourful pictures of life in Britain and America in the past. We meet some unusual people. Theres the dreamy boy who wakes up one day to find a bird ...

Classic British English The famous Canterville Ghost haunts an old house, but the ghost becomes unhappy when the new owners play tricks on him In the other stories, we meet Lord Arthur Savile, who ha...

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...

Classic British English One hot summer day, Alice sees a white rabbit and runs after it. She follows it down a rabbit-hole - and arrives in Wonderland. Here, caterpillars can talk and rabbits have wa...

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...

Jim Hawkins and his parents have a quiet inn by the sea. Then one day, an old sailor arrives at the inn. What is he afraid of Dangerous men come to the inn. Jims quiet life changes, and he goes across...

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 ...

El mejor futbolista del mundo nunca lo ha tenido fácil: superar sus problemas de crecimiento, madurar lejos de casa, destacar en equipos tan difíciles como el FC Barcelona o la selección Argentina, si...

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

When Ping sees Hanno in the zoo, he is excited, but also unhappy. Hanno is a magnificent African gorilla, big and black and much stronger than a man. But how can this wonderful wild animal live in ...

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...

As they walk through a park in the distant future, Harl and Ellen talk about their work and their lives. But they will never have a life together because their work as scientists is more important to ...

Penguim Active Reading provides reading and language learning at five levels, through full-dolour, beautofully illustrated Readers. As well enjoyable stories and texts, each book provides a range of i...

Double Cross: an attempted killing in Stockholm sends secret agent Monika Lundgren racing across the word. As she chases the would-be killer she meets a mysterious football team, a rock musician and...

When Summer Comes: Stephen and Anna take a holiday break in a seaside village to escape the stress of London. They love it there and make a new friend, a local fisherman. But when Stephen is suddenl...

Trumpet Voluntary: A musician disappers leaving only a strange e-mail message behind her. Her husband, in a desperate search to find her, revisits their shared past and has to face up to some unplea...

He Knows too Much: An English company executive in India is dismissed after he tries to uncover corruption within his company. As his life falls apart and his marriage breaks up, he sets out to disc...

* The Lady in White: John is a successful TV producer. While researching a new programme, he comes across a story about a ghostly hitchhiker that is very similar to his own life, but with a tragic o...

* Deadly Harvest: Newly promoted Detective Chief Inspector Jane Honeywell starts work in a sleepy country town in the west of England. The rural peace is suddenly shattered by a horrible murder and ...

In the Shadow of the Mountain: Clare Crowe travels to Switzerland to bring home the body of her grandfather, found at the bottom of a glacier 74 years after a climbing accident. Or was it an accident?...

* Just Good Friends: It is Stefany and Max`s first holiday together. They go and stay at Carlo`s holiday flat in a Mediterranean village in Italy. But Carlo`s wife is not very happy to see Stefany -...

Cambridge English Readers is an exciting series of original fiction, specially written for learners of English. Graded into seven levels-from starter to advanced - the stories in this series provide e...

Allegra is an unusual name. It means "happy" in Italian, but the little girl in this story is sometimes very sad. She is only five years old, but she tells Adrian, her new friend, that she is going to...

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...