Billy Budd is young and innocent. Others on his ship are not. Can they destroy him? Will they destroy him? And what does it say about our world if they succeed? This is a classic story by a great American writer, Herman Melville, the author of Moby Dick
Don Quixote wants a different life, so he leaves his village with Sancho Panza. The two men want to be a knight and his squire from an earlier age. Will they find adventures? Will they be famous? Will they change the world? This is their story
The Earthquake (Penguin Active Reading-Level 2) (2009 edition)
Gabriel loves Silvia, but Silvia loves Marco. Marco wears expensive clothes and drives a fast car. He is more exciting than Gabriel. Then, one evening, something terrible happens. It changes the lives of everybody in the city. Where are Marco and Gabriel? And what will happen to Silvia?
Penguin Active Reading provides a range of integrated activities designed to develop reading skills and consolidate vocabulary, and offers personalised project work.
In general, FAREWELL, MY LOVELY once more finds street-smart and super-savvy California P.I. Philip Marlowe sticking his nose where it has no business being--and when curiosity leads him to follow a massively built white man into a black nightclub he finds himself embroiled in a murder no one cares about solving... at least not until it begins to figure in what seems to be a completely different case with a high-society spin. And encounters with stolen jewels, a spiritualist racket, police corruption, and a gambling ship quickly follow.
The Time Machine - Penguin Readers - Level 4 (1700 words) At a dinner party a brilliant inventor unveils his latest invention – a time machine. He travels into the future and comes across a world inhabited by two very different and degenerated races of human beings.
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