The Greek island of Corfu lies like a jewel, green and gold, in the Ionian sea, where dolphins swim in the sparkling blue water. What better place for an out-of-work actress to relax for a few weeks?
But the island is full of danger and mysteries, and Lucy Waring's holiday is far from peaceful. She meets a rude young man, who seems to have something to hide. Then there is a death by drowning, and then another...
In a gloomy, neglected house Miss Havisham sits, as she has sat year after year, in a wedding dress and veil that were once white, and are now faded and yellow with age. Her face is like a death's head; her dark eyes burn with bitterness and hate. By her side sits a proud and beautiful girl, and in front of her, trembling with fear in his thick country boots, stands young Pip.
Miss Havisham stares at Pip coldly, and murmurs to the girl at her side: 'Break his heart, Estella. Break his heart!'
Double fear and other stories – Stage 2
The main story is about Greg Mason, a young man who works in a shop. One day in winter he sees his doppelgaenger for the first time. Greg is afraid. He wonders where the doppelgaenger is from and what he wants to do with him. Mike, Greg's best friend, at first doesn't believe him, but when he sees the doppelgaenger he realises that this isn't Greg. Later, the doppelgaenger tells Greg that there are three other doppelgaengers of three other persons and that they aren't form this earth.
Structural Readers Stage 4. Simplified and abridged by Lewis Jones. Illustrated by Charles Keeping.
For all lovers of science fiction, here are seven stories by some of the best science fiction writers in the world.
A time machine that travels back 110 million years causes a few problems. The greatest machine in the world begins to think like a man. A three-eyed caretaker offers flats at a very cheap price. The “Wondercopy” of a man does not solve marriage problems fter all… These stories – and their fellows – are as unusual as they sound, and will certainly make you wonder what the future holds!
This is the story of a small town in the north west of England during the 1840s and of kindness and friendliness between neighbours, but most of all, it is about the ladies of Cranford.
