B1 Dickens favorite Christmas story shows us the difficult lives of the poor, but it is also a story of hope, where the future can be better. Ebenezer Scrooge...
C2 More than any other conflict, the Great War inspired writers of all generations and classes. This collection reflects the wide variety of poems written, in the English...
A2 ‘Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind.’ In this Reader you will find: Information about William Shakespeare’s life | Focus On: The Elizabethan Theatre...
A1 A Study in Scarlet is Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s first story with Holmes and Watson. Come and walk the dark streets of London with the great Mr Sherlock...
B2 A Tale of Two Cities is Charles Dickens’s most famous historical novel. Set in Paris and London at the time of the French Revolution, this is the story...
B1 One of the most universally studied of the English classics, Beowulf is considered the finest heroic poem in Old English. This epic poem tells the story of Beowulf,...
A1 Botchan is a novel written in 1906. It is considered to be one of the most popular novels in Japan. A Tokyoite known only as Botchan thinks teaching a...
A2 Although Stoker did not invent the vampire, he defined its modern form. When Jonathan Harker travels to Transylvania to meet Count Dracula, he soon realizes that he has...
B2 Joyce’s first major work, written when he was only twenty-five, brought his city to the world for the first time. An ambitious mother, a boy in love, a lonely...
B2 ‘You must be the best judge of your own happiness.’ Emma Woodhouse is beautiful, rich, intelligent and a snob. She says she will never marry, but loves matchmaking...
B2 ‘After many more days and nights of study, I discovered exactly how life was created. With this knowledge, I became the first man in history to have the power...
A2 Great Expectations depicts the growth and personal development of an orphan named Pip. In this reader you will find: Information about Charles Dickens’ life | A section...
A1 Jonathan Swift’s best known full-length work, and a classic of English literature. In this Reader you will find: information about Jonathan Swift’s life | CLIL History: European...
A2 “There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.” – William Shakespeare, Hamlet After Hamlet sees his father’s ghost, he begins to act in a...
C2 Heart of Darkness is classified by the Modern Library website editors as one of the “100 best novels” and part of the Western canon. Marlow, a man who...
B1 Jane Eyre was an immediate bestseller, and most critics liked it. One reviewer wrote: ‘It is one of the most powerful domestic romances which have been published for many...
B1 The novel has attracted the admiration of writers as diverse as Henry James and Jorge Luis Borges. Kidnapped is an adventure story set in Scotland in the 18th...
B1 ‘There’s daggers in men’s smiles’ (Act II, Sc. III) Tag Ambition Power Macbeth is a brave general, loyal to King Duncan and to Scotland. Until that is, he...
B2 One of the most widely-read books worldwide. Moby Dick is the saga of Captain Ahab and his continuous pursuit of Moby Dick, the great white whale who maimed him...
C1 Mrs. Dalloway is a novel that details a day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway in post-World War I. It is one of Woolf’s best-known novels. London 1923....
B1 ‘Everybody knows that it is true that any rich, single man must definitely want a wife. And, of course, all mothers think this rich, single man is the perfect...
A1 Crusoe’s father wants him to be a good guy, but Crusoe wants nothing more than to travel around the world. His first voyage is a disaster! Robinson survives but...
B1 The philosophical resolution of the novel is ambiguous: the reader must decide whether sense and sensibility have truly merged. In this Reader you will find: Background information about...
B2 An excellent introduction to the world of Shakespeare. This edition includes seven of Shakespeare’s plays: As You Like It, The Merchant of Venice, The Tempest, Twelfth Night, Macbeth, Much...
“A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented” The story, set in a poor rural area of England in the 19th century, centres around Tess Durbeyfield, a sweet, innocent, country girl who is...
B1 “Newland felt more and more embarrassed. The men were all staring into the box where May was sitting between her mother and her aunt, he didn’t recognize the lady...
B1 When five young people in Berlin receive a mystery invitation, they begin an adventure that takes them to Greenland, Rwanda, South Africa and South America. It’s an adventure that...
C1 Scott Fitzgerald’s third novel was published in 1925 and has justifiably become a 20th-century literary classic. “Gatsby?” asked Daisy urgently. “What Gatsby?” Could it be the same young...
A1 ‘Suddenly, in the darkness, there was a terrible, low howl and it came from the moor. ‘The hound!’ cried Holmes.’ Tag Mystery In this Reader you will find:...
B2 She was looking for a key to understand. Then she could deal with the heavyweight that had fallen on her young heart. Maggie is a curious girl. She...
A1 Edgar Allan Poe’s only novel is an exciting and unmissable story and a classic of American literature.His name is Arthur Gordon Pym. He comes from Nantucket. Nantucket is a...
B1 ‘A good portrait is a portrait of the artist, not the sitter. I am afraid I show my soul in this painting.’ Late nineteenth-century London: a city of...
B1 “She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.” One sleepy summer, an American woman arrives in England and wakes everybody up. Isabel Archer...
B2 ‘It’s a risk, but you look so like him, I’m sure no one will suspect you’re not the real King.’ English gentleman, Rudolf Rassendyll, travels to the small European...
