BLACK CAT READERS for ELT

BLACK CAT
READERS for ELT
Secondary and Adults
2014
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Contents
Secondary
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Secondary
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Black Cat’s Digital Reading Programme
FOR TEACHERS: INNOVATIVE DIGITAL READER RESOURCE PACK
20 titles
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Black Cat’s Digital Reading Programme
20 DIGITAL READERS
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Expand your Horizons with Black Cat Readers
EXPANSIVE READING
Dear Teacher,
Intensive and extensive reading have been the two
major approaches to reading for a long time. But
Black Cat readers use an exciting new approach
which we call EXPANSIVE READING.
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Expansive reading goes beyond the text to expand
learning in many directions. Apart from activities
which check comprehension, and provide practice in
the four skills, structures and vocabulary building,
Black Cat readers offer:
• B e a u t i f u l i l l u s t rat i o n s a n d d ra m at i s e d
recordings, which aid understanding of the text
and create stimulus to read.
• Detailed explanations of the cultural background
of the text.
• Cultural comparisons and analysis of film
versions.
• Cross-curricular links, reflecting the value now
given to Content and Language Integrated
Learning (CLIL).
• Projects on the web exploiting the Internet’s
resources to the full.
• Exam-style activities to help prepare students
for international language qualifications.
• Audio CD-ROMs for selected titles which ensure
entertaining learning.
The Complete Selection
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Easyread
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The Story of Chocolate
The Story of Coffee
The Story of Football
Wolves
Castles and knights are part of the
Middle Ages.
What do you know about them?
What happens in the Great Hall of
a castle?
What do knights do? Who can be
a knight?
Chocolate is probably the world’s
favourite food. We eat it and we
drink it too. It gives us energy and
makes us happy. Learn about the
history of this delicious food and
discover some interesting facts
that not everybody knows!
Many people all over the world
start their day with a cup of
coffee. Black or white, espresso or
filter – there are so many ways of
preparing it. In this book you can
learn more about the coffee plant
and the history of this popular
drink. And you can find a recipe
for a frappuccino, too!
‘Football’ can refer to different
sports, but this book is about the
the most popular type of football
– association football, or soccer.
Wolves are beautiful and intelligent animals.
What do you know about them?
Where do they live? What do they
eat?
Do they like to play? Why are they
in danger?
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Find out about the origins, the
rules, the teams, and some of the
greatest players in the history of
‘the beautiful game’.
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Easyread
Castles and Knights
The Life and Times
of Captain Cook
The Life and Times
of Shakespeare
The Story
of Big Cities
The Story
of Moving Pictures
Who was Captain Cook? Where
did he go, and what did he
discover? Find out about how, in
less than 10 years, one man's
discoveries were able to change
our ideas about the world, and set
sail on this exciting journey into
the life and times of James Cook.
Activities by Eleanor Donaldson
New York City, Tokyo, São Paolo,
Mexico City and Mumbai are some of
the biggest cities in the world today,
but how did they become so big?
What makes a city? When, how and
why did people start building and
living in cities? Find out the answers
to these questions and many others in
this informative and interesting book.
How did people make and watch
films in the past? Do you know
what magic lanterns or kinetoscopes were?
Or nickelodeons or drive-ins? Find
out in this book!
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Plays such as Romeo and Juliet and
Macbeth are world-famous, and
most people know some lines
from Shakespeare like Hamlet’s
‘To be or not to be’.
Now you can find out more about
the life and times of the most
popular playwright ever.
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Learn about the most important
musical styles in Europe and
North America from the middle
ages to today. Read about the
history of the minstrels and
troubadours, ragtime music, jazz,
blues, rock, pop, rap, grunge and
many more. It’s all here.
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The Story of Tea
What is Camellia sinensis? How did
tea help to start the American
Revolution? And how are monkeys
connected to tea? Find out the
answer to these questions and
more in the story of one of the
world's most popular drinks.
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The Story of
the Olimpic Games
Today the Olympic Games are the
greatest sports event in the world.
But when and where did the first
Games start? Who are the all-time
champions of the Summer and
Winter Games? How many medals
did they win? Where are the next
Games going to take place? Open
this exciting book and feel the thrill
of the Olympic Games!
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Vikings
Who were the Vikings? Where and
how did they live? Where did they
travel to? What were the Viking
warriors like? Find out the answers
to all of these questinos by reading
this interesting and informative
book.
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The Story
of Popular Music
Green Apple
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Alice’s Adventures
in Wonderland
Anne of Green Gables
Bathsheba the Witch
Beauty and the Beast
Black Beauty
Fairy tale & fantasy
Human interest
Fairy tale & fantasy
Alice follows the White Rabbit down
a rabbit hole and finds herself in the
magical world of Wonderland. She
grows bigger and smaller and meets
a lot of very strange characters!
These include the Caterpillar on his
mushroom, the smiling Cheshire
Cat, the Hatter and the March Hare
at their mad tea party, the Queen of
Hearts at her crazy game of croquet,
and many more!
Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert want
a boy from the orphanage to help
them on their farm, but the
orphanage sends them Anne, a
funny little girl with long red hair
who gets up to all kinds of
adventures. What can Matthew and
Marilla do? Find out how Anne
makes their lives happier, and wins
their hearts…
Integrated dossiers:
– Canada and its Wildlife
– Nova Scotia
B a t h s h e b a , a be a u t i f u l We a t h e r
Witch, lives with her cat, Cobweb,
on top of a high mountain near the
village of Sunnyville. The people in
t h e v i l l a g e d o n ’t k n o w a b o u t
Bathsheba or about the important
job she does for them. Her life is
peaceful until one day she goes
down to the village and meets some
of the people there, including a
very special soldier…
Integrated dossiers:
– Witches
– The Weather in Great Britain
– Potions
A rich man suddenly becomes poor
and he goes to live in the country
with his children. One day he goes
to the city on business. His daughter,
Beauty, asks him to bring her a rose.
On his way back the man takes a
rose from the garden of a castle. But
the owner of the castle, a beast,
becomes angr y and demands
something in exchange…
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– A Drink Called Tea
– A Real Queen
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Fairy tale & fantasy
Integrated dossiers:
– Castles
– Flowers
– Beauty and the Beast in Films
and at the Theatre
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Human interest
Black Beauty, a handsome, intell i g e n t h o r s e , l i v e s i n Vi c t o r i a n
England on a peaceful farm with a
w o n d e r f u l m a s t e r. B u t h i s l i f e
changes when he is sold to different
masters.
Published in 1877, Black Beauty is
an unforgettable classic for readers
of all ages.
Integrated dossiers:
– Horses
– The Royal Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
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The Ghost Ship
of Bodega Bay
Halloween Horror
Adventure
Mystery & horror
Five children go on holiday and
discover a sand fair y near their
home! The sand fairy is an unusual
creature that grants wishes, and
this is just the beginning of an
incredible adventure for them.
Their wishes are strange, silly…and
s o m e t i m e s dangerous. T h e y g o
from one exciting adventure to
another until finally they realise the
power of a wish and whether or not
they really want one!
When Kate and Mike Sullivan invite
their friend Carlos to sail to the
Farallon Islands on their father’s new
boat, The Pelican, they expect to see
the fascinating birds and animals
which live there.
But this exciting boat trip on the
Pacific Ocean turns into a night of
horror when ghastly ghosts from the
past appear…
Integrated dossier:
– Making Wishes
– Gulf of the Farallones National
Marine Sanctuary
The Happy Prince
and The Selfish Giant
The Jungle Book
Mystery & horror
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It’s fun to get ready for Halloween
and it’s even more fun to have a
spooky Halloween party!
But what happens to a group of
young teenagers when their Halloween party becomes a living nightmare? Find out what horror is all
about in this spine-tingling story!
Integrated dossiers:
– The Origins of Halloween
– Salem
– Halloween Cookies
– Make a Bat
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Fairy tale & fantasy
The Happy Prince is the unforgettable
story of the touching friendship
between the golden statue of the
Happy Prince and a little swallow.
The enchanted garden of The
Selfish Giant is the perfect place for
children to play, until the Giant
decides to keep it all for himself!
Integrated dossiers:
– Birds
– Migratory Birds
– Gardens
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Mowgli, a baby boy, is raised by a
family of loving wolves in India. He
is educated by Bagheera, the black
panther, and Baloo, the brown bear.
All the animals like him except for
Shere Khan, a tiger who wants to kill
him.
A timeless classic that enchants
younger and older readers alike.
Integrated dossiers:
– Let’s meet some of the animals
in the Story
– India
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Green Apple
Five Children and It
A1
Just So Stories
The Nutcracker
Peter Pan
Sandokan
Fairy tale & fantasy
Fairy tale & fantasy
Adventure
One Christmas Eve in 19th-century
Nuremberg Uncle Drosselmeyer arrives
with presents for everyone and Clara
gets a nutcracker. That night Clara
discovers that her nutcracker is much
more than a toy. Together they go to
the magic Land of Sweets! But on
Christmas morning there is another
surprise for her…
The Darling children’s amazing
adventure begins when Peter Pan
flies into their nursery and whisks
them off to his enchanted island,
Neverland. There they meet Peter’s
friends, the Lost Boys. But James
Hook, the cruel captain of the
pirates, soon captures them. Can
Peter Pan save them?
Sandokan and his pirates rule the
Malaysian Sea in the 1840s, and the
British want to capture him. One day he
meets Marianna, Lord James’s young
niece, and they are immediately
attracted to each other.
Their love is impossible, but Sandokan
and his friend Yanez make a daring plan
to take Marianna away from her uncle.
Fairy Tale and Fantasy
Rudyard Kipling surprises us again
with these five tales from the animal
kingdom. Have you ever wondered
why elephants have such long noses
and why leopards have spots? Do you
know why kangaroos hop around
Australia? Find out how a clever young
sailor tricked a whale and meet many
other unforgettable characters.
Integrated dossiers:
– Animals in Australia
– Whales
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Integrated dossier:
– The ballet of ‘The Nutcracker’
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Integrated dossiers:
– Pirates
– Fairies
– Peter Pan in Films and at the Theatre
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The Secret Garden
Human Interest
Integrated dossiers:
– Pirates
– Kuala Lumpur
– East Malaysia
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Life with her uncle is uneventful for
bad-tempered Mary Lennox until one
day she finds a secret garden. She
wants to make the garden beautiful
and meets Dickon, a friendly boy who
helps her.
Then Mary meets her cousin Colin, an
invalid, who is confined to bed. With
Mary and Dickon's help Colin goes out
into the secret garden and discovers
the meaning of true friendship and
happiness.
Integrated dossier:
– English Gardens
audio
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The Tempest
The Wind in the Willows
Mystery & horror
Picture Reader
Adventure
Max and Laura's summer holiday in
the village of Stonecross is full of
excitement and danger: a symbol,
an old book of secrets, a mysterious
housekeeper and thieves who don't
steal anything. What does it all
mean? Under the shadow of Stonehenge the two children and their
Uncle Stephen discover a dark plot
to reveal its ancient secrets. Will the
plot succeed or will the secrets of
the stones remain a mystery forever?
Prospero, Duke of Milan, lives on a
lonely island with his daughter
Miranda, Caliban (a monster) and
Ariel (a magic spirit). He learns to do
magic and he wants to punish his
bad brother, Antonio. He creates a
magic storm – a tempest. All the
people on Antonio’s ship land on
Prospero’s island and many strange
things happen to them.
Integrated dossier:
– Stonehenge
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Human interest
Integrated dossiers:
– Famous Shipwrecks
– Magic and Magicians
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– Animals in Winter
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Zorro!
Adventure
This classic story, set in the English
countryside, features the lovable
characters Rat, Mole, Toad and Badger.
When Mole decides to leave his
underground home and meets Rat, he
discovers a completely new world on
the river bank and the Wild Wood. And
Toad’s passion for fast cars leads them
on a series of adventures...
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The Wonderful
Wizard of Oz
Fairy tale & fantasy
The incredible adventures of Dorothy,
her dog Toto, the Tin Woodman, the
Scarecrow and the Cowardly Lion
have continued to enthuse readers of
all ages ever since it was first
published in 1900. Join Dorothy and
her friends as they travel down the
yellow brick road to the Emerald City
to meet the wonderful Wizard of Oz.
The daring adventures of Zorro, the
legendary masked hero of Spanish
California. He is a champion of justice and an expert with the sword.
He is invincible as he defies corrupt
politicians and defends the oppressed.
Integrated dossiers:
– Spanish California
– California Today and others
Integrated dossiers:
– Cyclones
– Kansas
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Green Apple
The Secret of the Stones
A2
The Adventures
of Tom Sawyer
Adventure
Join Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn
and their friends as they go on a series
of exciting adventures on the
Mississippi River. Read about how they
witness a murder while looking for
ghosts in a graveyard, and how they
run away to an island, frightening
everyone back home.
Integrated dossier:
– The One-room School, Missouri
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Akron House Mystery
American Folk Tales
The American West
Mystery & horror
Legend
History
Carol and Steve Taylor move into an
old, mysterious house which hides
many secrets. Carol hears footsteps at
night, Steve finds an old love letter
from the American Civil War and the
people in town hear a woman crying in
the night. Who is trying to give them a
message and why? Carol, Steve and
their friend Halim solve an incredibly
difficult and touching mystery.
Enjoy three of America’s most loved
folk tales of the 1800s! Meet Johnny
Appleseed who planted apple seeds
across America. Find out how Pecos
Bill became King of the Cowboys of
Texas. Visit a Southern plantation
and laugh with cunning Brer Rabbit
and Brer Fox.
One of the most exciting and
memorable periods of American
history is brought to life. Original
19th-century photographs and
prints will allow you to relive the
adventures of the American West
with its cowboys, sheriffs, outlaws
and Indians.
Integrated dossiers:
Integrated dossiers:
– A Nation is Born
– Outlaws of the West
– Cowboys!
Integrated dossiers:
– The American Civil War
– The Lewis and Clark Expedition
– Thanksgiving
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Young America and its Settlers
Life on a Ranch
Fox Hunting
Brer Tales and the South and
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Adventure
Set in England during the Wars of
the Roses, this is the exciting story
of Richard Shelton and the band of
the Black Arrow.
Sir Daniel Brackley is like a father to
Richard, but one day Richard
discovers a terrible truth from the
past. Now he must fight against Sir
Daniel and his men. A tale filled with
adventure, treachery, mystery and
romance.
Integrated dossiers:
The Bottle Imp
British and
American Festivities
Mystery & horror
Festivals
Keawe, a young Hawaiian sailor, is
offered the opportunity to buy a bottle containing an imp which will
grant all his wishes. However, the
bottle must, from then on, be resold
for a price smaller than what he paid
for it, or he will be condemned to
live out the rest of his days in excruciating torment.
Why do we celebrate Halloween?
What do people do to celebrate the
New Year? Why is the egg a symbol
of Easter? Who invented the Christmas card?
This unique book explores the
origins of our festivities, their
historical significance, and how we
celebrate them today.
Integrated dossiers:
– Captain Cook
– Hawaii
Davy Crockett
Ghastly Ghosts!
History
Mystery & horror
This is the true story of a brave,
adventurous man, a real American
hero, who has become a legend.
Davy loved danger, justice and
freedom. He was the true American
free spirit of the 1800s who helped
to build America.
What is the t r u t h a b o u t gh o s t s
and the supernatural? Do dead
people really come back to haunt
the world? Can an entire village
be haunted? Can ghosts be photographed?
Find out in this spine-chilling book
that introduces you to some of the
world’s most ghastly ghosts and
their macabre doings!
Integrated dossiers:
– Hunters and Trappers
– The American Frontier
– Jim Bowie and the Bowie Knife
– Davy Crockett State Park
– The Wars of the Roses
– Knights and Knighthood Today
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– Halloween Apple Cake
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Green Apple
The Black Arrow
ESO 2
A2
FORTHCOMING
The Great Adventure
at Yellowstone
Gina D. B. Clement
Halloween…
Magic, Witches
and Vampires
Adventure
Kelly Reinhart
Three teenagers take a camping trip at
Yellowstone National Park. Two of the
park’s wolves are missing and they
decide to look for them. Their trip
becomes an exciting, yet dangerous
adventure when they meet a hungry
grizzly bear, an angry mountain lion
and a herd of bison. Will they ever find
the missing wolves?
Integrated dossiers:
– Yellowstone National Park
– Wolves
– Wyoming: the Cowboy State
– The animals at Yellowstone
Great Expectations
Charles Dickens
Picture Reader
Human Interest
Pip, a poor young boy, receives
amazing news. Someone has given
him a vast amount of money and
wants to make him a gentleman.
Who is his mysterious benefactor? Is
it Miss Havisham, who lives in an old
house with the beautiful Estella? Life
is full of surprises...
Integrated dossiers:
– Ladies and Gentelmen
– Transportation to Australia
Playscript
Festivals
An exciting and informative book on
the history and culture of Halloween,
which gives details about an
authentic American Halloween party!
The beginnings of witchcraft, magic
and astrology are explained. And,
there is a chilling chapter on vampires and werewolves!
Integrated dossiers:
– Stonehenge
– How to make a Jack-O’Lantern
and others
I Want To Be You
Andrea M. Hutchinson
Human interest
Holly and Rosie are cousins but they
are very different. When the school
basket-ball team fails to win the
championship because Holly misses a
penalty, Holly discovers just how cruel
her cousin can be. Holly always
thought that Rosie had everything;
lots of friends and lots of money to
buy lots of designer clothes. But then
she meets an old lady at a fair and
soon finds out that things aren’t
always what they seem…
Integrated dossier:
– Travelling Funfairs
audio
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Green Apple
audio CD/CD-ROM
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The Last Unicorn
Legend
Fairy tale & fantasy
When he was very young, Jason’s
uncle took the kingdom of Lolkos
from his father, but now Jason wants
it back. First he must find and bring
back the Golden Fleece. It is a dangerous mission but Jason and a crew
of heroes set sail on the Argo to the
Black Sea. The Argonauts must battle
against giants, huge birds and sea
monsters before their journey ends.
It is the summer holidays and
Megan’s mother is very ill. She has to
stay with her uncle on the Isle of Skye
in Scotland, but she doesn’t want to
go. It is quiet, too quiet, until Megan
meets Ben, her uncle’s neighbour,
and sees a silvery unicorn. The
unicorn has woken from its long sleep
and it is Megan who has woken
him…
Integrated dossiers:
– The Isle of Skye
– Clans, Kits and Tartan
– Scottish Music
Integrated dossiers:
– Greek Pottery
– Greek Mythology
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Legends from
the British Isles
Legend
Enjoy four popular legends from
England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales
that tell us about a girl who makes
friends with a unicorn, a wizard who
casts terrible spells, a king who hides
a strange secret and a prince’s loyal
dog… all unforgettable! The four
legends are recorded with regional
accents.
Integrated dossiers:
– Haunted Castles in Scotland
– Man’s Best Friend
Little Women
The Lost Treasure
of Bodega Bay
Human interest
Mystery & horror
Growing up in New England during
the American Civil War isn’t easy for
the March sisters – Meg, Jo, Beth
and Amy. With their father away,
they must learn to make sacrifices
and accept disappointments.
Discover how the four sisters’ dreams
finally come true in this timeless
classic about love, kindness, and
generosity.
Kate, Mike and Carlos go on another
trip to Bodega Bay near San Francisco, where more than a year ago
they found a pirate’s old treasure
map. An incredibly exciting and
dangerous adventure awaits them as
they follow a mysterious clue and go
on a treasure hunt to find a lost
treasure from centuries ago.
Integrated dossier:
– The American Civil War and others
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Integrated dossiers:
– Sharks
– Pirates
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Green Apple
Jason and the Argonauts
A2
A Midsummer
Night’s Dream
Mystery in San Francisco
The Prince
and the Pauper
Project Vampire
The Railway Children
Mystery & horror
Mystery & horror
Human interest
Hermia and Lysander are in love, but
Hermia’s father wants Demetrius to
marry his daughter, so Hermia and
Lysander decide to run away to get
married. But in the wood some
fairies per form some magic and
some strange things start to
happen...
Integrated dossiers:
– Fairies
– Acting and Theatres in
Shakespeare’s Time
audio
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Green Apple
Integrated dossiers:
– A Guide to San Francisco
– Natural Resources and Pollution
Adventure
Edward and Tom are identical. They
both live in London, but there is one
difference: Edward is a prince and
Tom is a pauper.
One day they meet and decide to
play a game. Edward becomes a
pauper and Tom becomes a prince.
But something goes wrong. Will
Edward ever return to his palace and
become King of England?
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An abandoned mansion, a ghostly
face at the window and mysterious
happenings at one of the city's favorite landmarks all mark the start of a
thrilling adventure for Jim Reilly and
his teenage friends.
Set in cosmopolitan San Francisco,
California, this is a mystery story full
of suspense with an unexpected
twist, brilliantly solved by three
young detectives.
Max and Laura are involved in
another mysterious case. This time a
phantom thief seems to be able to
get in and out of important museums in London stealing valuable
paintings. Max and Laura decide to
explore the area around one of the
museums. Something very spooky is
going to happen…
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– London museums
– Travelling around London
– Top five things to do in London
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After their father is mysteriously forced to leave home, the three children and their mother go to live in a
cottage in the country near a railway
track. The children make friends with
the Station Master, the Porter and a
friendly old gentleman.
Peter, Bobbie and Phyllis enjoy
several exciting adventures and
become the heroes of the village.
But the myster y of their father
remains unsolved, until one day…
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Robinson Crusoe
Legend
Adventure
Rip Van Winkle goes walking in the
Catskill mountains. He has a strong
drink, falls asleep and doesn’t wake
up until much later.
Ichabod Crane lives in Sleepy
Hollow. He likes Katrina van Tassel
but so does Brom Bones. After
speaking to Katrina, Ichabod runs
away, leaving behind him the legend
of the Headless Horseman.
When Robinson Crusoe tells his
parents he wants to go to sea they
don’t want him to, but he ignores
their wishes and joins a ship. This is
just the beginning of his many
adventures at sea, which end with
him being shipwrecked on a desert
island.
Mystery & horror
Integrated dossiers:
– The Atlantic Slave Trade
– The Real Robinson Crusoe
– Alexander Selkirk
Integrated dossiers:
– Victorian Writers
– Police and Detectives of the19th Century
Integrated dossiers:
– America in the 1700s
– The American Revolution
– New York: Yesterday and Today
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Sherlock Holmes
and the Red Circle
A mysterious lodger has rented
rooms at Mrs Warren’s lodging
house. She is frightened by this
strange individual, so asks Sherlock
Holmes to help. He and Dr Watson
discover cryptic messages, a sinister
secret society and a terrible murder.
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The True Story
of Pocahontas
Human interest
History
Jean-Marie is an orphan who is
happily adopted by Doctor Desprez
and his wife Anastasie. When the
doctor finds the precious Treasure of
Franchard he plans to take his family
away from their lovely, old country
home go to Paris and live a rich life.
Jean-Marie does not want to go to
Paris and during the night the
treasure mysteriously disappears…
Pocahontas is the touching story of
an Indian princess, whose courage
saved a white man’s life.
No one could have imagined that
Pocahontas would be the first Indian
to marry a white man!
Integrated dossier:
– Paris in the Ninrteenth Century
Integrated dossiers:
– The Origins of Virginia
– Indian Life
– Virginia Today
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Rip Van Winkle and The
Legend of Sleepy Hollow
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Adventures of
Huckleberry Finn
Adventure
Meet Huckleberry Finn and embark
on an exciting series of adventures
down the Mississippi River. Enjoy the
ride as Huck ingeniously escapes
from the clutches of his cruel father,
cleverly stops a couple of villains
from stealing a family’s fortune and,
enlists the help of his friend Tom
Sawyer to save a runaway slave from
a terrible fate. An American classic
that appeals to young and old alike.
The Call of the Wild
David Copperfield
Great English Monarchs
and their Times
Adventure
Human interest
History
Buck, a big, happy dog, is kidnapped from his comfortable home
in California and is sold as a sled
dog in the cold Yukon Territory
during the Klondike Gold Rush of
1896. His new life in the Northland
is difficult, challenging, adventurous… and full of surprises!
David Copperfield is a boy who
experiences the best and the worst of
life in 19th-century England.
When David’s beloved mother dies,
his cruel stepfather mistreats him.
David has to suffer fear and loneliness
at boarding school and while working
in a London factory. He is deceived by
Steerforth and Uriah Heep. But he
also finds love and protection from
the friends he can trust.
Do you know that Henry VIII was
happily married for almost 20 years to
the same queen before meeting his
other wives? Do you know Queen
Elizabeth refused to marry in spite of
all the men who loved her? And do
you know what events during Queen
Victoria’s reign contributed to making
the British Empire the biggest ever?
English monarchs have fascinated the
world for centuries. Find out about
their lives, their loves, their ambitions
and their secrets.
Integrated dossiers:
– The Klondike Gold Rush
– Wolves
Integrated dossier:
– Slavery
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– Dickens and Education
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Oliver Twist
Legend
Human interest
Learn how Arthur became King,
where he found his great sword
Excalibur, about his love for Guinevere, and all about the courageous
Knights of the Round Table.
Set in 19th-century London, this
timeless classic narrates the incredible adventures and poignant
hardships of Oliver, a young, penniless orphan who, in spite of his
encounters with criminals of London
and adverse circumstances, finds
happiness in the end.
Integrated dossiers:
– Knights
– Castles
– The Round Table
– Old Castles of Great Interest
and others
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Oscar Wilde’s
Short Stories
Integrated dossiers:
– London in Dickens’ Time
– Children and Education in the
1800s and others
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‘The Young King’ tells how a shepherd
boy becomes a king and realises that
money is not worth human suffering.
In ‘The Star Child’ a baby is found in
the forest and discovers his true
identity after many adventures.
‘The Nightingale and the Rose’ is a
tale of a nightingale who sacrifices
her life to create the perfect red rose
for a student in love.
Pirates!
Robin Hood
Adventure
Legend
Pirates and their incredible adventures have fascinated readers for
centuries.
Pirates!, with its stunning illustrations
and maps, traces piracy from its
distant origins in the year 2000 BC,
all the way to modern times... because
pirates are still at work today!
The legendary hero of Sherwood
Forest comes to life in this exciting
book about his daring adventures.
Robin Hood explains about why
Robin became an outlaw, how his
band of outlaws grew, Marian’s
love for Robin, how the cruel sheriff
was punished and much more.
Integrated dossiers:
– Did Robin Hood really exist?
– The Crusades
– King Richard, the Lionheart
– King John and the Magna Carta
and others
Integrated dossier:
– Life in Victorian Times and others
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King Arthur
and his Knights
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Tom and Co’s
Adventures
in Cyberspace
Treasure Island
White Fang
Computing, English
and Virtual Worlds
Adventure
Adventure
Read about the thrilling adventures
of young Jim Hawkins and his
friends who set sail for Treasure
Island in search of treasure.
But will Long John Silver get there
first…?
Set in the cold Yukon Territory during
the Klondike Gold Rush, this is the
adventurous story of a young wolf that
is captured and must learn to live in
captivity. His first years are filled with
hardship because his masters are cruel
and uncaring, and he has no friends,
only enemies. Then one day, during a
terrible dog fight, White Fang meets a
stranger who changes his life…
Adventure
A group of teenagers find a mysterious e-mail message which introduces them to the world of cyberspace. A pragmatic approach for
students to learn English and
improve their web skills at the same
time. Students can reinforce and
practise what they have learnt by
doing the Portfolio sections, while
being introduced to a variety of
topics and countries.
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– A Pirate Ship
– Famous Pirates
Integrated dossiers:
– Dogs at Work
– The Yukon Territory
– California
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Macbeth
Romeo and Juliet
Tragedy
Love
‘Hail, Macbeth who will be king one
day.’
On a cold Scottish heath, three
witches make a prophecy. Inspired
by their words and encouraged by
his evil wife, Macbeth begins his
trail of destruction to gain and keep
the Scottish throne.
Nobody can remember why the
Capulet family and the Montague
family hate each other but the feud
is longstanding and brutal. When
Juliet Capulet and Romeo Montague meet and fall in love the result
is tragic, and peace between the
two families is only possible after the
death of many people.
Integrated dossiers:
– Scotland
– Some Scottish History
– Shakespeare
Integrated dossiers:
– The Renaissance Man
– ‘Romeo and Juliet’ on Film
– Saint Francis and the Franciscan Friars
– Shakespeare’s Theatre
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Spectacular productions with excellent
background materials.
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Alien Alert in Seattle
Home for Christmas
Mystery & horror
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– Introduction to Seattle
– The solar system
– UFOs
– American teenagers and High School
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Miami Police File:
The O’Nell Case
Missing in Sydney
Crime
Adventure
Peter O’Nell, Montego High School’s
favourite teacher, goes missing in the
Bermuda Triangle, and the police
can’t solve the case.
His students decide to investigate,
with the help of O’Nell’s dog, Rover.
But the truth behind O’Nell’s disappearance is very macabre…
Three best friends are travelling
around Australia in search of adventure before they start university back
home in the UK. But after celebrating
Christmas Day one of them goes
missing. Lisa is just an ordinary 18year-old, so why would anyone want
to kidnap her? Amy and Claire are
determined to find her…
Mystery & horror
There has been a UFO sighting in the
Cascade mountains near Seattle,
Washington, and everyone is excited.
But no one believes there could possibly
be an alien in town, until Karen, Barbara
and Walter notice that one of the
teachers at their high school is behaving
very strangely. Karen and her friends
start investigating on their own and are
very surprised by what they discover…
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Three young women need to get to
London from Ireland in time for
Christmas. When all flights are
cancelled, they are forced to share a
car and make the journey by road.
They each have their own personal
problems, but they have to decide
together what to do when they find
a briefcase full of money. Then they
realise that a car is following them…
Integrated dossiers:
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– Indians in Britain
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Bella and her friends, Elise and Gracie,
are going on a school trip. But then
they get lost. They set out to find
their school friends and the youth
hostel where they should be staying
but before they can find them,
strange and spooky things start to
happen. First Bella sees a mysterious
girl in the woods, then Elise witnesses
a discussion between two men which
will reveal some dangerous secrets.
Their friends are unaware that they are
in danger and it is up to Elise, Bella
and Gracie to save them. But how?
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– School trips
– Ghosts in films
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Integrated dossiers:
– Halloween
– American High School Sports
– The Bermuda Triangle
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– Sydney
– Around Australia
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Tristan and Isolde
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Tales from The Thousand
and One Nights
Digital Reading Programme
Digital Reading Programme
Legend
Crime
Fairy tale & fantasy
The world’s most famous detective
surprises us again with the brilliant
solutions to two seemingly impossible
cases.The master detective solves the
case of the horrible murder of a
young woman in The Speckled Band.
Smile with him and Watson as they
listen to the puzzling story of one of
their odd clients, who is not so odd
after all, in The Red-Headed League.
A selection from the famous collection of Oriental stories known as
the One Thousand and One Nights,
including the classic favourites Ali
Baba and the Forty Thieves and Sindbad the Sailor.
Travel through the streets of old
Baghdad, around luxurious palaces
and fragrant gardens in India, to
desert islands in the China seas…
One of the great romances of the
Middle Ages, Tristan and Isolde has
inspired writers, poets, artists and
musicians for centuries.
After slaying a dragon and winning a
tournament, the young prince
Tristan wins the hand of beautiful
Isolde for his uncle, King Mark. But
on their journey back to Mark’s
court, they drink a love potion that
was intended for the king and his
young bride. They instantly fall in
love – a love that is impossible.
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The Truth about
Professor Smith
Andrea M. Hutchinson
Integrated dossier:
– London at the Time of
Sherlock Holmes
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Integrated dossiers:
– The Origins of The Arabian Nights
– Baghdad, the city of The Arabian
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Mystery
Integrated dossiers:
– The Celts
– King Arthur: fact or fiction
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Professor Smith has always been every
student’s favourite teacher. But when
Sam and Izzie return to school after
the summer holidays, their fun,
energetic science teacher is gone.
Professor Smith is anxious and when
he is kidnapped in front of them, they
realise that he was right to be so
scared. But what dark secret could
their science teacher be hiding? And
can Sam and Izzie uncover the truth
before their own lives will be put in
danger?
Integrated dossiers:
– Detectives in Fiction
– Forensic Science
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Alice’s Adventures
in Wonderland
Animal Tales
Around the World
in Eighty Days
A Dream Come True
The Fisherman
and his Soul
Human interest
Fairy tale & fantasy
Join Alice as she follows the white
rabbit into the amazing world of
Wonderland, where anything can
happen! Watch Alice change size,
meet the Mad Hatter and his
friend, the March Hare, talk to the
smiling Cheshire cat, play a game
of croquet with the Queen of
Hearts, etc., and enjoy never-ending
adventures in the land of dreams!
Integrated dossiers:
– Oxford
– A Great Invention: Photography
– Victorian Sports
Adventure
Humour & comedy
Read these amusing stories and you
will discover why elephants have
trunks, how it's best to work out the
correct price for pigs straight away
and what happened to an English
lady when she went hunting for a
tiger! You will also find a stolen elephant, go boating with three friends
and see how much trouble a small
dog can make!
In 1872 a rich English gentleman,
Phileas Fogg, makes a bet that he can
go around the world in 80 days.
Accompanied by his French manservant, Passepartout, he sets off on
an incredible race against the clock,
over land and sea. The tenacious
Inspector Fix, convinced that Phileas
Fogg is a robber, pursues him relentlessly across the continents.
Integrated dossier:
– India and others
Integrated dossiers:
– Elephants
– Tigers
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– Education in England
– Yorkshire
– Festivals in Britain and Ireland
Fairy tale & fantasy
A story of love and friendship about
a fisherman who catches a mermaid.
He lets her go because she promises
to help him fish. Each day the mermaid appears and sings her song, so
he falls in love with her! However,
she cannot marry him until he has
lost his human soul.
Integrated dossiers:
– Children’s Literature
– Aestheticism
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Ellie is mad about music: she
dreams of becoming a singer and
she desperately wants to go to the
Glastonbury Festival, where her
favourite singer, Murphy, will be
playing. But with an overprotective
Dad and important exams to take,
it seems that Ellie’s dreams will
have to remain just that, dreams.
But one day she sees a competition
in a music magazine…
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Journey to the Centre
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The Jumping Frog
Humour & comedy
Adventure
Tragedy
When the ghost of Hamlet’s father
reveals the terrible secret of Elsinore, the result is chaos and tragedy for the young Prince of Denmark. Will he avenge his father’s
murder?
Integrated dossiers:
– Films of Hamlet
– Shakespeare and the Elizabethan
Theatre
– Who was Hamlet?
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The famous mineralogist, Professor
Lidenbrock, finds a piece of parchment in an old book. A message
written in code describes a secret
entrance to another world. The
Professor’s nephew, Axel, breaks the
code and he and his uncle set out on
a journey that takes them back in
time to the days of the dinosaurs
and prehistoric man. But how will they
manage to get back to the present
safely?
The Celebrated Jumping Frog of
Calaveras County depicts one of
American history’s most exciting
periods: the California Gold Rush of
the 1850s. Come to Angel’s Mining
Camp in California and meet Smiley
whose frog is a living gold mine until
one day…
Integrated dossiers:
– The California Gold Rush
– Life in the Mining Camps and others
Integrated dossiers:
– Volcanoes
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– Geological Time
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The Lost World
Adventure
Adventure
When his father dies, David Balfour
discovers he has inherited the family
home near Edinburgh. But his Uncle
Ebenezer also wants the house and
puts David on a ship to America.
The story follows David’s adventures
across land and sea. With the help
of his new friend, Alan Breck, can
David return to Edinburgh and claim
what is rightfully his?
Integrated dossiers:
– Scotland
– The Jacobites
– The City of Edinburgh from Past
to Present
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At the beginning of the 1900s the
whole world has been explored: there
is nothing left to discover. But maybe
this is not totally true. The eccentric
Professor Challenger says there is a
place where dinosaurs still live. So he
decides to lead an expedition to this
prehistoric world in the middle of the
great Amazon forest.
Integrated dossiers:
– Amazonia: a Land of Wonders
– Dinosaurs
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Prince of Denmark
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Magical Tales
from the South Seas
Murder at Coyote Canyon
The Mutiny
on the Bounty
Mystery in New Orleans
The Rajah’s Diamond
Mystery and horror
Crime
Fairy tale & fantasy
Set in the South Seas, Stevenson
creates tales of magic and adventure.
The Isle of Voices Kalamake, a wizard
who transforms seashells into dollars!
The Beach of Falesá is a thrilling tale of
treachery, devils, island magic and
two people who find love.
Integrated dossiers:
– The History of Money
– The Hawaiian Islands
The Chumash are American Indians
who live in California. When a
property developer starts building
homes on the site of their ancient
cemetery, the Chumash become
angry. During the night of the Fourth
of July celebrations a mysterious
American Indian warrior appears and
a murder is committed. Suspicion falls
on the Chumash, but four young
friends investigate further…
Integrated dossiers:
– Independence Day
– American Indians
audio
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What really happened on board the
famous ship, the Bounty? Why did the
sailors mutiny against their captain,
and where did they take the ship?
How did the captain and his loyal crew
survive a 5,000 mile journey? Join
Captain Bligh, Fletcher Chris-tian and
Tom on their incredible adventures at
sea, and discover what the Bounty
mutiny was really about.
Integrated dossiers:
– Life at Sea in the 18th Century
– Island Destinations in The Mutiny
on the Bounty
– Pitcairn
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– What can you eat in New Orleans?
– New Orleans, one of America’s
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– New Orleans and Dixieland Jazz
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The Rajah’s Diamond, the most
precious diamond in the world,
seems to bring bad luck on everyone
who comes into contact with it.
Owned by Sir Thomas Vandeleur, his
wife tries to sell it to pay off her
debts. But the diamond is stolen and
falls into the wrong hands. Follow
the diamond on its adventures and
find out what happend to it.
Integrated dossiers:
– The Hope Diamond
– The Thousand and One Nights
– Gentlemen’s Clubs and The
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Two greedy businessmen want to
destroy a wildlife reserve in New
Orleans, where Andy and Brian have
summer jobs, and plan to build a
huge shopping center. Mysterious
and terrible deaths, and an
ecological disaster shock the people
of New Orleans. Andy, Brian and
Megan decide to solve this bizarre
mystery.
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Recipe for Success
Rob Roy
The Secret Garden
and Other Stories
Stories of Ghosts
and Mystery
Adventure
Humour & comedy
The Ransom of Red Chief is a wonderfully funny and ironic story about two
inexperienced kidnappers and their
unusual "victim", with a great surprise
ending. O. Henry's unique talent enabled him to create a world full of
ordinary people who did extraordinary things.
Integrated dossier:
– The Origins of the American Police
Seren wants to go on a school trip to
Paris more than anything. But when
her Dad won’t even let her walk home
from school by herself, how is she
going to convince him? Determined
not to give up on her dream, Seren
comes up with a plan. But she quickly
learns that even the best plans can go
wrong, and even the biggest dreams
can end up broken. She needs
another plan fast. But will it be good
enough to convince her Dad?
Integrated dossiers:
– A food journey across the United
Kingdom
– Claude Monet
– Wales
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1715: Frank Osbaldistone likes poetry
and he does not want to enter the
family business. The young man is
then sent by his father to the north of
England. Frank meets a charismatic
Scotsman and an official of the
English government. This will be the
beginning of his involvement in a
rebellion against the British monarchy.
In this great historical novel, Frank
comes to love and understand the
wild world of the Scottish Highlands.
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– Rob Roy: history comes alive
– The historical novel: Sir Walter
Scott’s Great Creation
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Mary Lennox is a spoilt, unpleasant
little girl who goes to live with her
uncle on his enormous estate in
Yorkshire after the death of her
parents in India. Left very much to
herself she explores the grounds of
the house and finds the secret
garden which has been locked up
for ten years…
Integrated dossiers:
– The World of The Secret Garden
– India
– The Rich and the Poor in Victorian
Times, British Gardens
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Three authors reveal the obscure
corners of the occult. Sinister ghosts
of the past have never left Barwyke
Hall; a man disappears mysteriously;
the Puritan Reverend Hooper is
plagued by a terrible secret sin that
forces him to wear a black veil.
Integrated dossiers:
– England and Its Ghosts
– New England and the Puritans
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The Ransom of Red Chief
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Time Games
The Willing Ghost
The £1,000,000
Bank Note
Alien at School
Mystery & horror
Mystery
Like many 15 year olds, Adam prefers
computer games to school work, but
he can’t understand why one of his
favourite games seems to have a life of
its own. And why is he suddenly
hearing voices? Why can’t anyone else
see the strange boy outside the school
gates? And why does the boy look so
like Adam? He finds the answers he’s
looking for and a lot more besides
hundreds of years in the past.
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– Time Travel
– Schools in Britain
– Medieval Castles
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Selena Willing, a young, beautiful
heiress, contacts Richard Boot, a
private detective, because she thinks
there is a noisy ghost in her stately
home. Richard investigates, looking
into Selena’s life and discovers that
the noise she hears is not a ghost, but
something much more real and
dangerous…
Integrated dossiers:
– Private Detectives
– Stately Homes
– Soho
Humour & comedy
Have you ever made a bet – a big bet?
In the 1850s, a young American
finds himself in London by chance.
He is penniless, and yet he leads
the luxurious life of a millionaire.
How can he do this?
It’s all thanks to a bizarre bet made
by two eccentric gentlemen.
Integrated dossiers:
– San Francisco in the 1850s
– The English and Betting
– Money and its Origins and others
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school would be so exciting? A
comet and a constellation have
crossed paths, and space experts
know this means the possibility of
alien encounters!
In a town near Boston, Jennifer Dale
and her friends have some weird
new teachers! Mr Stone, the English
teacher, is particularly strange…
Integrated dossiers:
– UFOs
– American Teenagers and High School
– American Food and others
Mystery & horror
When Mr Hiram B. Otis decides to buy
Canterville Chase, everyone tells him
that the house is haunted by a ghost.
Strange things begin to happen: a
bloodstain that changes colour,
mysterious noises in the night, a
journey to the Garden of Death…
Integrated dossiers:
– The Times of Oscar Wilde
– Oscar Wilde in America and others
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The Diamond
as Big as The Ritz
The Final Problem
and Other Stories
Great Mysteries
of Our World
Gulliver’s Travels
Crime
Fairy tale & fantasy
Sherlock Holmes battles against a
criminal organisation in Conan
Doyle’s The Five Orange Pips; in
Charles Dickens Hunted Down a
ruthless murderer is brought to
justice; in The Stir Outside the Café
Royal by Clarence Rook an American
woman tracks down her fiancé’s killer;
and in G. K. Chesterton’s The Oracle
of the Dog Father Brown solves a
difficult murder case.
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Young love, unbelievable wealth,
greed, cruelty and adventure are the
themes Fitzgerald brilliantly combines
to create a highly unusual and
satirical story with a surprise ending.
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– Eldorado and the American Dream
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Human interest
Sherlock Holmes is the world’s only
consulting detective. He helps
Scotland Yard to solve mysteries they
can’t solve. Surely no-one can defeat
Sherlock Holmes... or can they?
Was Nostradamus really a prophet or
were his predictions a mere coincidence? What mystery lies behind the
curse of the tomb of the Egyptian
pharaoh King Tut? Can an exquisite
diamond bring death and tragedy to
its owners? Does evil really exist and
what forms can it take?
In this collection of short stories,
Holmes comes face to face with some
of his most difficult challenges and his
main rival, Professor Moriarty.
Integrated dossiers:
– The Role of Women in Victorian
England
– Sherlock Holmes in Popular
Entertainment
Find out about these strange stories
and others, and perhaps you'll be
able to solve our world's greatest
mysteries!
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Lemuel Gulliver tells the story of his
fantastic adventures on the island of
Lilliput where the people are tiny,
and their self-importance laughable;
in Brobdingnag where the people are
giants and Gulliver is made to feel his
own insignificance; in Laputa, the
land of futile science; and finally in
the land of the Houyhnhnms, where
horses are endowed with reason
while human beings are not.
Integrated dossiers:
– Popular Travel Books
– Utopia and Dystopia
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Classic Detective Stories
B1.2
The Hound of
the Baskervilles
Crime
Another case for Sherlock Holmes
finds Dr Watson sent to Devonshire to
investigate the mysterious death of Sir
Charles Baskerville, who has been
mutilated by a large dog ac-cording to
the tradition of the curse of the house
of the Baskervilles. The new heir to the
estate returning from America calls
upon the great detect-ive to solve this
puzzling enigma.
Integrated dossiers:
– Early Crime Detection
– The Coming of the Fairies
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Jane Eyre
Julius Caesar
Love
Tragedy
Jane Eyre, a penniless and unattractive orphan, becomes a governess at Thornfield Hall and falls in
love with Edward Rochester, the
guardian of her ward. But she soon
discovers that he is hiding a terrible
secret…
There is discontent in Rome. The
aristocrats are worried that Julius Caesar
will seek to become king. A group of
conspirators led by Brutus decides to
assassinate Caesar. At first everything
seems to go well for them, but soon the
conspirators find themselves pursued by
the ‘Spirit of Caesar’.
Integrated dossiers:
– Victorian Family Life
– Victorian Schools
– Victorian Houses
Kim
Human Interest
Integrated dossiers:
– The Historical Julius Caesar
– The Theatre in Shakespeare’s
Time and others
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the streets of the Indian city of Lahore.
He meets an old Tibetan lama who is
looking for a sacred river. The boy and
the old man become great friends and
travel across British India. This is
Rudyard Kipling’s greatest book – a
story about the British empire, spies,
friendship, spirituality and, most of all,
India.
Integrated dossiers:
– The Many Lives of Buddhism
– Varanasi the City of Temples
– The City of Light
– Kim
– Kipling and Mookerjee
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At Lady Windermere’s party a famous palm reader predicts that Lord
Arthur Savile will commit a murder...
Read about Lady Alroy’s mysterious
ways in The Sphinx without a Secret
and how it pays to be nice to beggars
in The Model Millionaire.
Integrated dossiers:
– London, the World City
– Pseudo-Science in Late Victorian
England
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The Master of Ballantrae
Moonfleet
Love
Human interest
Adventure
In The Taming of the Shrew, Katharina
learns to love Petruchio. Romeo and
Juliet’s love is destined to end in
tragedy. In Twelfth Night, love is
romantic but also painful, while in
Othello love turns into jealousy.
Finally, Antony and Cleopatra’s passionate love has tragic consequences.
Stevenson investigates into the
nature of good and evil in this novel
set in 1745. This was the year many
in Scotland fought to put a Scottish
k i n g o n t h e B r i t i s h t h r o n e . Tw o
brothers, James and Henry Durie,
become involved in this historical
event.
Integrated dossiers:
– Double Trouble
– Doubles and Alter Egos in Fiction
and popular Culture
– The War that Made America
Integrated dossiers:
– The Life of William Shakespeare
– Courtship and Marriage in
Elizabethan Times
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The Pickwick Papers
Human interest
Young John Trenchard lives in
Moonfleet, an English village with
dark secrets. One day he discovers a
hidden crypt below the cemetery
where smugglers meet and hide
their goods. Here he accidentally
finds the skeleton of evil Colonel
Mohune, better known as Blackbeard, and a precious clue that
could help him find Blackbeard’s
treasure…
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Mystery & horror
A mysterious ghost is haunting the
famous Paris Opera House. There are
all sorts of rumours about the
‘Phantom of the Opera’, a frightening figure whose face is hidden by
a terrible mask...
Integrated dossiers:
– The Paris Opera House
– Film and Stage Versions of the Nove
– Lon Chaney (1883-1930)
– Opera: the First International Pop
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In Dickens’s first novel, Samuel Pickwick
and three other members of the
Pickwick Club decide to spend six
months travelling around England
observing the manners and habits of
everyone they meet. Follow them on
their hilarious adventures as they get
involved in a duel, an election
campaign and as one of them even
ends up in prison…
Integrated dossier:
– England in the Early Nineteenth
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Love in Shakespeare:
Five Stories
B1.2
The Prisoner of Zenda
The Red Badge
of Courage
The Return
of Sherlock Holmes
Adventure
Crime
During America’s civil war Henry
Fleming dreams of becoming a hero,
but he soon discovers the brutality
and chaos of war. Henry and other
young soldiers must measure their
courage and audacity against the
enemy and themselves.
In 1891, the great detective Sherlock
Holmes disappeared. A month after
Holmes’s disappearance, his good
friend and colleague Dr Watson
published an article in the newspaper, explaining that Holmes died
while struggling with his arch-enemy
Professor Moriarty. But is that what
really happened?
Romeo and Juliet
The Scarlet Pimpernel
The Adventures
of the Secret Spy
Adventure
Rudolf Rassendyll comes from an
ancient English family that has had a
romantic connection with the royal
household of Ruritania. He decides
to visit Ruritania and is rapidly
caught up in the political events of
the country...
Integrated dossiers:
– Popular Fiction in the Late
19th Century
– Film versions of The Prisoner
of Zenda and others
Integrated dossier:
– Highlights of the American Civil War
and others
Integrated dossier:
– The Immortal Sherlock Holmes
Love
Adventure
The Montagues and the Capulets
hate each other and so when Romeo
and Juliet fall in love they are forced
into secrecy and subterfuge. Will
true love sur vive? Will the two
families make peace?
At the height of the French
Revolution, the aristocrats’ greatest
fear is the guillotine. But some
escape their terrible destiny with the
help of a mysterious man, the Scarlet
Pimpernel. Who is he? Someone is
determined to find out.
Integrated dossiers:
– In Fair Verona
– Settings and Sources and others
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– The French Revolution
– Eighteenth-century Theatre
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Crime
Sherlock Holmes is at work in three
stories: solving the problem of a hat
and a goose in ‘The Blue Carbuncle’;
finding a missing fiancé in ‘A Case of
Identity’; and discovering the identity
of a strange creature in ‘The Yellow
Face’.
Integrated dossiers:
– Conan Doyle Defends the Crew
of the ‘Titanic’
– Arthur Defends the Underdog
Stories of Suspense
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Tales of the Supernatural
Mystery & horror
Discover how a midnight ritual transforms the life of a young Puritan in
Young Goodman Brown. Witness
what happens to three old friends
who discover the potion of eternal
youth in Dr. Heidegger's Experiment.
Experience the tragedy of the scientist who strives to achieve perfection
at all costs in The Birthmark.
Four chilling tales take you into a
world where anything can happen.
Charles Dickens adds extra horror to
his famous tale of a haunted railwayman. In Edgar Allan Poe’s classic
story, Ligeia, the ghost of a beautiful
woman returns and defeats death. E.
Nesbit shows us how there really is a
good reason to be scared of the
dark.
Integrated dossiers:
– The Magic of Alchemy
– New England and Witchcraft
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Doctor Jekyll is a brilliant scientist, but
his research leads him to discover a
monster – a monster that is part of
himself! He tries to control this violent
creature, who is known as Mr Hyde,
but gradually Mr Hyde becomes
stronger and stronger…
Integrated dossiers:
– London and Crime
– The ‘Double’ in 19th Century Fiction
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– The Supernatural in English Literature
– The Versailles Ghosts
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Humour & comedy
Mystery & horror
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Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
TRINITY
What can possibly happen to three
friends and their dog when they take
a peaceful boat trip on the River
Thames? Well, just about anything!
Enjoy their funny adventures as they
visit historic sites on the beautiful
Thames.
Integrated dossiers:
– Fox-Terriers
– Queen Elizabeth I
– Live on the River
– The Magna Carta
– Famous People and Places on
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Investigates
B1.2
The Three Musketeers
The Tragedy of Richard III
Adventure
Tragedy
D’Artagnan travels to Paris hoping to
join the Musketeers, a group of
adventurers who serve Louis XIII. A
series of misadventures brings him to
a duel with none other than three of
his heroes - the Musketeers Porthos,
Athos, and Aramis. The three men
ask D'Artagnan to join them in their
struggle to protect Queen Anne
against the plots of power-hungry
Cardinal Richelieu.
After a long civil war between the
Houses of Lancaster and York,
England is enjoying a period of peace
under King Edward IV. But Edward’s
younger brother, Richard, resents
Edward’s power, Richard begins to
aspire secretly to the throne and
decides to kill anyone he has to in
order to become king.
Treasure Island
True Adventure Stories
Twelfth Night
Adventure
Integrated dossiers:
– France in the 17th century
– Costumes in the 17th century
– Dumas beyond the page
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Integrated dossiers:
– The Renaissance: Art of Manners
and the ‘Galateo’
– Niccolò Machiavelli
– Richard III on screen and stage
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Adventure and piracy in the 18th
century! When young Jim Hawkins
finds a map of an island where
Captain Flint has hidden his treasure,
Jim, Squire Trelawney and his friend
Dr Livesey sail to the island to look
for it. But during the voyage Jim
discovers more about the ship’s
company, which includes Long John
Silver, a man with only one leg. And
then the battle for the treasure
begins!
Integrated dossier:
– Pirates in History
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courage.
‘Lost at Sea’ tells the adventures of a
family sailing round the world. In
‘The Impossible Journey’ we follow
Sir Ernest Shackleton as he and his
men go on foot towards the South
Pole. The brave woman in ‘Amy
Johnson, Woman Pioneer’ attempts a
solo flight from England to Australia.
In ‘David Livingstone’s Last African
Expedition’ we meet the great
explorer on his last expedition to find
the source of the Nile.
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– The Big Heat
– The Slave Trade
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Humour & comedy
After surviving a shipwreck off the
coast of Illyria, Viola disguises herself
as a boy to get a position at the court
of Duke Orsino, who is in love with
Olivia. Unknown to Viola, her twin
brother Sebastian has also survived
the shipwreck. When he too arrives in
Illyria, confusion and follows.
After many cases of mistaken identity, who will be lucky in love?
Integrated dossiers:
– The Meaning of Twelfth Night
– Shakespeare and Elizabethan Theatre
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American Horror
Five Terrifying Tales
The Big Mistake
Beowulf
The Canterbury Tales
and Other Stories
Legend
Crime
A diamond is on display at an
important show at a New York City
museum. Nick has a summer job at
the museum and invites his best
friends Bill and Michelle to join him
for a summer of fun. One night the
diamond disappears and a security
guard is found dead. Suddenly there is
a vampire scare in New York City. The
three teenagers start investigating…
Integrated dossiers:
– Manhattan, the heart of New York City
– Vlad Tepes
– Prince of Wallachia
– Vampires in literature and films
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Mystery & horror
Edgar Allan Poe is one of the first
masters of modern short stories and
modernist poetry. But he is best
remembered for his strange style of
horror. A man who drains away his
wife’s life to make his painting seem
alive; an animal lover who becomes
obsessed by a cat; a young man
obsessed by an old man’s blue eye;
and a man hypnotized just before he
dies who then…
Integrated dossiers:
– Poe’s scientific imagination
– Poe as pop icon
– Poe’s America
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The mighty warrior Beowulf offers to
help the King of the Danes in a quest
to kill the vicious monster Grendel
and free his people from terror. After
killing Grendel, Beowulf must also kill
the monster’s mother before he can
return to his homeland, where he
eventually becomes king. But he is
called for a new adventure, as a great
dragon comes to destroy his kingdom. Will Beowulf’s efforts cost him
his life this time?
Integrated dossiers:
– Epics
– Anglo-Saxon Treasure
– Versions of Beowulf
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Mystery & horror
David is looking forward to a quiet
week by the sea with his girlfriend –
but things don’t turn out as he
expected… Who stole the diamond
necklace? Inspector Baker has been
promised promotion if he can solve
the case. Will he succeed?… Trudy is
depressed and miserable. She isn’t
getting on with her parents. She’s
not the only one with prob-lems
though... Three young boys start
digging in a garden. What exactly
are they looking for?
A stimulating collection of original
stories – all with a twist in the tail!
Human interest
A group of pilgrims travelling to the
shrine of Thomas Becket in Canterbury decide that each traveller should
tell a story.
Read about tales by the Knight, the
Nun’s Priest, the Pardoner, the Wife
of Bath and the Franklin.
Integrated dossiers:
– Chaucer’s World
– The City of Canterbury and others
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The Vampire’s Tear
B2.1
A Christmas Carol
Daisy Miller
Famous British Criminals
Dracula
from The Newgate Calendar
Human interest
Mean, old Ebenezer Scrooge doesn’t
like Christmas. He doesn’t like
people. He only likes money. But
when the ghost of his friend, Old
Marley, visits him on Christmas Eve,
it’s the beginning of a very strange
night. Next morning he wishes
everybody a Merry Christmas! So
what has changed bad, old Scrooge?
Integrated dossiers:
– Some Christmas Ghosts
– London in Dickens’ Time
– The Christmas Story
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Human interest
Daisy Miller is a beautiful, rich
American girl. She comes to Europe
with her mother and brother to travel
and see the sights. In Switzerland she
meets Frederick Winterbourne, a
young American who has lived in
Europe most of his life. He is fascinated and perplexed by Daisy’s flirtatious and unconventional manners…
Integrated dossier:
– Young Women in the Nineteenth
Century
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Mystery & horror
Crime
When Jonathan Harker goes to
Transylvania to visit Count Dracula
on business, he discovers that his
client’s motives for coming to
England are rather more sinister than
they first appeared. This classic
horror story has fascinated readers
ever since it came out in 1897.
Enjoy reading about some of the
most famous British criminals:
Jonathan Wild, prince of robbers;
Dick Turpin, horse-stealer and
murderer; John Gow, pirate; John
Sheppard, highwayman. Discover an
unbelievable world of adventure
through their daring actions and
remarkable timing!
Integrated dossiers:
– Real Vampires
– Vampire Bats
– Victorian Villans, Monsters and
Fears
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– Crime and Punishment in the
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– Eighteenth-century London
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The House of
the Seven Gables
Human interest
The seventeenth-century house of the
seven gables shelters an old curse and
a terrible secret. Hepzibah and
Clifford Pyncheon are tormented by
the memories and ghosts of the past,
until the love of two young people
changes the course of destiny…
Integrated dossiers:
– Witchcraft
– The British Colonies in America
– The History of Photography
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Katherine Mansfield
Short Stories
The Last of the Mohicans
Macbeth
The Merchant of Venice
Tragedy
Human interest
Macbeth is loyal and courageous, and
is a friend of King Duncan’s. However,
after a battle he encounters three
witches who tell him that one day he
will be King of Scotland. Soon his
obsession to become king is reinforced by his wife’s cold-blooded
ambition...
In Venice, Bassanio needs money
to court a rich heiress. His friend
Antonio borrows the money from
Shylock, a Jewish moneylender.
Shylock demands that the money is
repaid in three months or he will take
a pound of Antonio’s flesh. Antonio
agrees, but it will take the intelligence
of two women to save him…
Crime
Since the autumn of 1888, when he
terrorised London, Jack the Ripper
has become famous all over the
world. How did he escape justice?
And who was he? There have been
hundreds of suspects and theories
but nobody has yet discovered his
identity.
Jack the Ripper takes you back to the
dark streets of Victorian London, to
investigate the crimes, examine the
theories, and meet the people who
played their part in the drama.
Integrated dossiers:
– Life in the East End
– Immigrants in the East End
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Adventure
Human interest
In The Garden Party, Mansfield explores class consciousness, sensitivity
and the co-existence of life and
death. In The Singing Lesson, a
young music teacher experiences a
cascade of emotions in the space of a
few hours. Feminism, vanity and
materialism are the themes of A Cup
of Tea.
Integrated dossiers:
– Music: An expression of feelings
– New Zealand
– Edwardian England
– The 1920s
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During the Seven Years’ War
between the French and the British,
Cora and Alice Munro are on their
way to Fort Henr y to join their
father, the commander. But their
Indian guide, Magua, betrays the
group to the Iroquois Indians. This is
only the beginning of their many
adventures.
Integrated dossiers:
– The Origins of the Indian People
– The Iroquois Confederacy
– The indians experience and others
Integrated dossiers:
– Films of ‘Macbeth’
– Scotland’s History
– Witches
– The Castles of Scotland
Playscript
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– The Origins of the Pound of
Flesh Story
– The Treatment of Jews in
Shakespeare’s Time
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Jack the Ripper
B2.1
A Midsummer
Night’s Dream
Humour & comedy
Tw o y o u n g l o v e r s , H e r m i a a n d
Lysander, meet in the wood with
the intention of running away and
getting married secretly. They are
followed by Demetrius, who loves
Hermia, and Helena who is in
love with Demetrius. What they
don’t know is that the wood is enchanted…
Integrated dossiers:
– Shakespeare’s Sources
– The Elizabethan Performance
Moby Dick
The Moonstone
Le Morte d’Arthur
Much Ado About Nothing
Adventure
Mystery & horror
Legend
Humour & comedy
Moby Dick is an epic tale of the
whaling ship the Pequod and its
captain, Ahab, who pursues the great
white whale around the world. The
story is seen through the eyes of
Ishmael, a sailor on the Pequod.
Captain Ahab has only one purpose
in life: to find and kill Moby Dick, the
great white whale that ate his leg
years ago. Ahab’s voyage is one of
revenge.
On her eighteenth birthday, Rachel
Verinder receives a ver y special
present: the Moonstone – a large
yellow diamond from India: but that
night the Moonstone is stolen…
In what T. S. Eliot called ‘the first,
the longest, and the best of modern
detective novels’, Wilkie Collins tells
a story full of mystery, suspense and
psychological insight.
Le Morte d’Arthur tells the story of
King Arthur and the Knights of the
Round Table. The tale begins with
Arthur’s birth, his education, and his
rise to the throne. It also recounts
the tragic love story of Sir Lancelot
and Guinevere, the destruction of
the Round Table and Arthur’s mysterious disappearance or death.
Claudio is in love with Hero, but is
afraid that she will reject him. His
friend, Don Pedro, volunteers to make
her fall in love with him at a masked
ball. The trick works well, and Hero
agrees to marry Claudio. But Don
Pedro’s brother, Don John, organises
a plot which will make Claudio think
that Hero is unfaithful…
Integrated dossiers:
– Medieval Romance Literature
– Places in the Arthurian Story
– Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Integrated dossiers:
– Tragic and Comic Elements in
‘Much ado About Nothing’
– Women in Shakespeare’s Comedies
Integrated dossier:
– A Short History of Whaling
Integrated dossier:
– Imperialism on the Indian
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Othello
Mystery & horror
Tragedy
Catherine Morland is going on her
first visit to the city of Bath. She likes
Gothic novels. When she makes
friends with the handsome young
Henry Tilney and his sister Eleanor,
she will find herself in the middle of
a family tragedy. Henry’s home,
Northanger Abbey, is the scene of a
crime. Or is it all just a product of
Catherine’s imagination?
Othello is a successful general, but
a very simple man who trusts Iago
completely. When he elopes with
and marries Desdemona, he is
overwhelmed by the happiness that
seems to be his. Iago, embittered
by his failure to win promotion in
the army, decides to poison the
general’s happiness…
Integrated dossiers:
– King George III and regency
– England
– British female novelists
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Power and Ambition
in Shakespeare
Tragedy
Integrated dossiers:
– The First London Theatres
– The Portrayal of Othello
A power-hungry Richard III, a remorseful Macbeth, a revengeful Prince
Hamlet, a powerful Julius Caesar, and
a ruthless and ambitious King Henry V:
various aspects of power and ambition
feature in these five stories based on
plays by William Shakespeare.
Integrated dossiers:
– William Shakespeare 1564-1616
– Ghosts, Witches and Revenge
– The Influence on Shakespeare’s Plays
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The Sign of Four
Human interest
Crime
Mr Verloc, the secret agent, has a
shop in London. He lives there
peacefully with his wife Winnie, her
mother and her brother, Stevie.
When Mr Verloc becomes involved
with an anarchist plot to blow up the
Greenwich Royal Observatory, things
go disastrously wrong. Mr Verloc’s
job as a secret agent brings tragic
consequences for all his family.
Sherlock Holmes is bored, but not
for long. The attractive Mar y
Morstan arrives at 221B Baker Street
with a strange story to tell. Her
father vanished ten years ago: four
years later she receives six beautiful
pearls, one each year. She has been
invited to meet the sender of these
pearls and asks Sherlock Holmes and
Doctor Watson for their help.
Integrated dossiers:
– Time and the Greenwich Royal
Observatory
– Espionage in English Fiction
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– The Andaman Island
– The British in India
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Northanger Abbey
B2.1
A Study in Scarlet
The Tempest
In an empty house lies a dead man.
There are no wounds on his body. On
the wall, the word RACHE – German
for ‘revenge’ – is written in blood.
With the help of his friend Doctor
Watson, can Sherlock Holmes use his
deductive powers to find the murderer?
Set in London in the 1880s, A Study
in Scarlet is the first Holmes and
Watson mystery, the beginning of a
long and famous partnership.
Thirteen years ago Prospero, the
Duke of Milan, was robbed of his
title by his brother Antonio and sent
to die at sea with his baby daughter
Miranda. They survived and made
their home on a remote island. One
day a ship carrying some important
passengers passes near the island.
Prospero, now a powerful magician,
creates a big storm and makes it
sink. All the passengers, manage to
get to the island safely. The storm is
part of Prospero’s plan for revenge.
Integrated dossiers:
– The Mormons
– London in the 1800s
Integrated dossiers:
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– London in the 1800s
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Tom Jones
Humour & comedy
Adventure
Human interest
Crime
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Three friends, George, Harris and J
need a change in their lives and they
decide to go on a bicycle trip
through the beautiful Black Forest in
Germany, where they meet with all
kinds of hilarious adventures as they
get into and out of trouble…
Integrated dossiers:
– The Golden Age of Bicycles
– The Black Forest
The Tragedy of
Dr Faustus
Kindly Mr Allworthy returns home to
find that someone has left a baby
boy in his house. He adopts him and
names him Tom Jones.
Mr Allworthy’s sister, Bridget, has a
son called Master Blifil. What
happens when Tom falls in love
with a neighbouring gentleman’s
daughter, Sophia, whose family wish
her to marry Blifil?
Integrated dossiers:
– The Early 18th-century Novel
– Tom Jones as Hero
Doctor Faustus, a brilliant scholar,
enters into an agreement with the
Devil. He agrees to sell his soul in
return for twenty-four years of
knowledge, power and riches. But
he eventually realises the full implications of his rash action.
Integrated dossier:
– Christopher Marlowe and
Elizabethan Espionage and others
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The Valley of Fear
Mystery & horror
Crime
In the 1840s, a young woman is
employed as governess to two children in an English country house.
The children are beautiful and charming, and for a while, the young
woman thinks her position is both
easy and pleasant. Then she begins
to see the ghosts of the former
governess Miss Jesel and the manservant Peter Quint.
The great detective Sherlock Holmes
is needed to solve a murder in
Sussex, England. A card with the
initials VV 341 has been left by the
body, and discovering the facts of
the case gets ever more difficult. The
answers to this mystery lie far away
from the scene of the crime and
across the Atlantic, in a place known
as ‘The Valley of Fear’.
Integrated dossiers:
– Governesses and Upper-class
– Children
– Puritanism
Integrated dossiers:
– Hiding Places in Times of Trouble
– Secret Societies
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Wicked and
Humorous Tales
The Woman in White
Humour & comedy
Mystery & horror
A dramatic intrusion ends a long
family feud, a man is strangely
influenced by his pets, a cat brings
scandal to British society and a little
boy battles to enjoy life with the
help of his own personal god.
These are just a few of the amazing
stories created by Hector Hugh
Munro – alias master short-story
teller Saki, ex-journalist who turned
to writing satirical tales.
Late one night, on a lonely road near
London, Walter Hartright, a young
drawing teacher, meets a solitary
woman dressed in white. This is the
opening scene of The Woman in
White, a great Victorian sensation
novel, full of mystery, excitement,
and suspense.
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Catherine Sloper, an insignificant,
plain girl, will one day inherit a
substantial fortune from her father.
When her overwhelming passion for
a handsome fortune hunter transforms her dull existence, Catherine’s
distinguished father, her interfering
aunt and her selfish lover all play
with her feelings to satisfy their own
needs, and succeed in breaking her
heart.
Integrated dossier:
– New York City in the 1850s
Integrated dossier:
– Writers and the First World War
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The Turn of the Screw
B2.2
The Age of Innocence
Emma
Frankenstein
Love
Love
Mystery & horror
In 1870s New York Countess Ellen
Olenska causes scandal and embarrassment when she decides to free
herself of an unhappy marriage by
divorcing her husband. Greatly
disapproved of by her family, she
can only count on the support of her
cousin’s fiancé, Newland Archer,
who falls in love with her and tries to
persuade her to start a new life
together with him.
E m m a Wo o d h o u s e , h a n d s o m e ,
clever and rich, has a perfect life.
She has decided never to get
married but to live as the mistress
of Hartfield, her father’s house in
the beautiful English countryside.
But when she starts matchmaking
she finds that her imagination has
led her into danger.
A fascination with science and the
aspiration to understand the mysteries of creation lead Victor Frankenstein to create life from death.
But the results are not what he
expects and his rejection of his
monstrous creation causes dire
consequences for himself and all
the people he cares about.
Integrated dossiers:
– Jane Austen and Reading
– Leisure in early 19th-Century England
– The Poor
– The Upper Classes
Integrated dossiers:
– Science Fiction
– Romantic Landscapes
– Monsters
– Frankenstein on Film and others
Integrated dossiers:
– A Brief History of Divorce
– The Films of Martin Scorsese
– New York in the 1870s
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Gothic Short Stories
Great Expectations
Human interest
Mystery & horror
Follow Bram Stoker (Dracula) as he
takes student Malcolm Malcolmson
through a terrifying ordeal inside a
judge's house. Travel, if you dare, in a
ghostly coach with three dead men
as your fellow passengers. Or visit the
deadly House of Usher! But don't
make a wish with the monkey's paw.
Integrated dossier:
– The Gothic Craze
Pip is destined to become a village
blacksmith, but a chance meeting with
an escaped prisoner and the acquaintance of an eccentric old woman and a
beautiful young girl change the course
of his life. He is suddenly dissatisfied
with his social status and wants to
become a gentleman. But one day he
discovers a terrible secret.
Integrated dossiers:
– Dickens and His Times
– Prision Ships
– Social Aspects of the Victorian Age
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Lord Jim
Middlemarch
Human interest
Adventure
Human interest
Human interest
Marlow, a merchant sailor, travels
through colonial Africa. He makes a
perilous journey by steamboat to
rescue Kurtz, an agent, who is
seriously ill. He arrives at Kurtz’s
station to find that the agent has
taken control of the whole area. In
his complete isolation from civilised
society Kurtz has instituted a brutal
system of human sacrifice and
magic to enthral the natives.
Jim is a young British officer on the
passenger ship Patna. During an
accident at sea in the Indian Ocean,
Jim follows the captain and abandons
the sinking ship and its passengers. Jim
must face a court trial for this act of
cowardice, which will torment him all
his life. At the trial Jim meets Marlow,
an older sea captain, who helps him
find work. But Jim is always restless. He
moves to Malaysia where he tries to
start a new life…
Miss Dorothea Brooke wants to do
something great in the world. She
knows that women cannot do great
things on their own, and so she
marries a man twice her age, who
she believes, is engaged in a great
work of scholarship. Around the
same time, young Dr Lydgate comes
to Middlemarch. He wishes to do
great work for medical science, but he
meets and falls in love with Rosamond
Vincy.
Pamela is a maid in a big country
house. But when her mistress dies,
Pamela is left at the mercy of Mr B,
her mistress’s son, who sets out to
seduce her. Although she likes Mr B,
Pamela is determined to keep her virtue. Will Mr B succeed, or will
Pamela’s virtuous behaviour find its
own reward?
Integrated dossier:
– Conrad and the Colonial Experience
and others
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– Colonial Malaysia
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The Murders in the
Rue Morgue and
The Purloined Letter
Crime
Two cases of detection for Monsieur
Auguste C. Dupin, Poe’s great detective. Who could have committed the
atrocious murders in the Rue Morgue
and so how did the murderer get in,
or out? Will Dupin find the purloined
letter and save the royal personage?
Where is the minister hiding it?
Integrated dossiers:
– The Art of the Detective Story
– Apes going Ape
– Paris in the 1800s
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Integrated dossiers:
– English Country Houses and their
Owners
– Letters and the Postal Service
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Heart of Darkness
B2.2
A Passage to India *
Persuasion
Human interest
Love
Adela Quested visits India with Mrs
Moore to decide whether to marry
the latter’s son, Ronny. Obsessed
with understanding the ‘real India’,
the two women make friends with
Dr Aziz who invites them to the
mysterious Marabar caves…
Integrated dossiers:
– Hindus and Muslims in India
– The British in India
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The Picture
of Dorian Gray
Human interest
Mystery & horror
In 1806, Captain Frederick Wentworth
and Miss Anne Elliot fell in love, but
since neither of them had any money,
Anne’s friend Lady Russell persuaded
her not to marry the Captain. Years
later, Anne and Frederick meet again.
By this time Frederick has made a
fortune in the Navy, but he is still
angry with Anne for rejecting him.
This is the most delicate and moving
love story Jane Austen ever wrote.
When the superbly handsome Dorian
Gray sees his portrait he makes a
terrible wish: that the portrait will
grow older and that he will remain
young forever. But what happens to
the portrait that no one ever sees?
A brilliant and disturbing story of a
man who is willing to sell his soul
for eternal youth, while he pursues
pleasure and passion.
Integrated dossier:
– The Royal Navy in the Napoleonic
Wars and others
Integrated dossiers:
– The Aesthetic Movement
– Oscar Wilde’s London
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Isabel Archer visits her uncle and his
family in England. Her uncle dies
and leaves her a large fortune. Isabel
was always beautiful and charming:
now, in addition, she is rich. The
question is, who will she marry? The
English nobleman Lord Warburton?
Her
American
suitor
Casper
Goodwood? Or the refined and
sophisticated Gilbert Osmond, an
American art collector living in Italy?
Integrated dossier:
– Americans in Italy in the
Nineteenth Century
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Pride and Prejudice
Love
When Mr Bingley comes to live at
Netherfield bringing his friend Mr
Darcy with him, Mrs Bennet is
delighted; she has five daughters to
be married. However, things don’t go
as smoothly as she hoped: Mr Bingley
abandons Jane, Mr Darcy clearly has
no interest in Elizabeth and she refuses Mr Collins’ proposal of marriage.
Integrated dossiers:
– The Social Context in Jane Austen’s
Time
– The Role of Women in the Regency
Period and others
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Robinson Crusoe
Mystery & horror
Adventure
‘Lock me in any cell in any prison anywhere at any time, wearing only normal clothes and I’ll escape in a week.’
For Professor Van Dusen, otherwise
known as ‘The Thinking Machine’,
nothing is impossible. Logic is his
passion. One hour later he finds
himself locked up in Chisholm
prison and has to use all his mental
resources to find the solution to the
problem.
When the captain tells Robinson,
‘Young man, you should never go to
sea again…, Robinson ignores his
advice and goes to sea again, with
terrible consequences. He is forced
into slavery and escapes, but he is
then shipwrecked on a desert island
where he manages to sur vive
through resourcefulness and luck.
Integrated dossiers:
– Other Prison Stories
– Futrelle’s Death on the Titanic
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The Scarlet Letter
Love
Integrated dossiers:
– The Slave Trade
– Shipwrecks
– Mercantilism: Trade, Wealth
and Colonies and others
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Hester Prynne gives birth to an
illegitimate child and is condemned
to wear the scarlet letter ‘A’ as a sign
of her adultery. Hester refuses to
reveal the identity of her lover, and is
forced to lead a life of humiliation.
Meanwhile, Hester’s husband settles
in Boston and after making her swear
to keep his identity secret, tries to
discover who Hester’s secret lover is.
Integrated dossiers:
– The Puritans – The Origins
– Boston – Heart of the American
Revolution and others
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Sons and Lovers
Love
Love
Elinor and Marianne Dashwood are
sisters. Both are intelligent, sensitive,
charming, and beautiful, but there
the similarities end. Elinor values
propriety and common sense;
Marianne, by contrast, has extravagant Romantic ideas. In this
brilliant novel, Jane Austen explores
two different ways of thinking and
acting – the ‘sense’ of Elinor and the
‘sensibility’ of Marianne – as they try
to find happiness in a world full of
hypocrisy, vulgarity, and self-interest.
Mrs Morel is a strong, intelligent,
domineering woman. Her marriage to
a miner is not a happy one. She is
antagonistic to her husband and gives
all her love to her sons. The Morel's
younger son Paul grows up close to his
mother. As an adolescent and a young
man, he is torn between a passionate
love for his mother an his lovers
Miriam and then Clara.
Integrated dossier:
– Money and Marriage
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– The Oedipus Complex
– The Women’s Social and Political
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The Problem of Cell 13
B2.2
A Tale of Two Cities
The Taming of the Shrew
Tess of the D’Urbervilles
Vanity Fair
Wuthering Heights
Adventure
Humour & comedy
Love
Human interest
Love
Dr Manette is falsely imprisoned for 18
years by the Marquis of Evrémonde.
He is eventually released and goes to
England to join his daughter Lucie,
who marries the Frenchman Charles
Darnay of the Evrémonde family.
During the Reign of Terror Darnay
travels to Paris where he is imprisoned
and sentenced to be executed...
Baptista’s two beautiful daughters are
ready for marriage. Bianca, pursued in
love by three different suitors, cannot
marry until someone dares to marry
her sister, the proud and contemptuous Katharine. Then Petruchio arrives in Padua and proposes to Katharine. Will he be able to turn her into
a model of devotion and obedience?
Integrated dossiers:
– The French Revolution
– The French Revolution in ‘A Tale
of Two Cities’
Integrated dossiers:
– Shakespeare and English Comedy
– Shakespeare and Italian Comedy
The Durbeyfield family are poor and
simple people, but their ancestors
were the mighty d’Urbervilles, an
ancient and noble family. When the
Durbeyfields meet with misfortune,
they send their eldest daughter Tess
to visit her wealthy cousin and ask
for help, but the wealthy cousin has
a young son, Alec Stoke-d’Urberville,
who finds Tess very attractive…
Amelia Sedley and Becky Sharp are
two friends. Amelia comes from a
wealthy family but her father is
made bankrupt. She marries George
Osborne, a vain and shallow young
man who does not really love her.
Becky Sharp, on the other hand,
comes from a penniless family, and is
determined to use her beauty and
charm to find a good position in life.
Integrated dossiers:
– No Sex, Please
– We’re Victorians!
– Stonehenge
Integrated dossiers:
– Thackeray and Waterloo
– A Critic's Assessment of ‘Vanity Fair’
Wuthering Heights is home to the
Earnshaw family, who adopt an
orphan called Heathcliff. When they
grow up, Catherine Earnshaw and
Heathcliff fall deeply in love. But
Catherine decides to marry Edgar
Linton from the big house across the
moors. Heathcliff runs away in
despair. When he returns some years
later, a series of terrible events
destroys the relationship between the
Lintons and the Earnshaws.
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– A Family of Writers
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C1
The Mill on the Floss
Silas Marner
Wuthering Heights
Ellen Steiber
George Eliot
George Eliot
Emily Brontë
Human interest
Love
Silas, a weaver, is betrayed by his
best friend and the woman he loves.
He loses all faith in humanity and
moves to the village of Raveloe.
There he lives a solitary life, working
and hoarding his gold coins, until
one day his gold is stolen…
Wuthering Heights is home to the
Earnshaw family, who adopt an
orphan called Heathcliff. Catherine
Earnshaw becomes great friends with
him and they fall in love. But
Catherine decides to marry Edgar
Linton since she feels it would degrade
her to marry Heathcliff. Desperate
without his Catherine, Heathcliff runs
away. But his return a few years later
brings drastic consequences.
Mystery & horror
FBI agents Mulder and Scully are
investigating a series of very unusual
murders: all the victims’ livers have
been removed without the help of
tools and there is no apparent point
of entry. Scully and Mulder begin to
get nearer the truth when they
discover that these murders have
been recurring every 30 years since
1903. However they don’t know
that the killer has already found its
next victim…
Integrated dossier:
– The X-Files: Basic Data and others
Love
Maggie and Tom Tulliver are sister
and brother of ver y different
personalities. When their father is
declared bankrupt, Tom works hard
to pay his father’s debts and restore
the family name, while Maggie
forms unsuitable friendships and is
eventually ostracised by her family
and local society.
Integrated dossier:
– The ‘Woman Question’ in Victorian
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Integrated dossiers:
– Evolutionary Theory
– Weaving and the Industrial
Revolution
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Integrated dossier:
– The Imaginative World of the
Brontë Children
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The X-Files:Squeeze
Reading & Training Discovery
Reading & Training Discovery
Great British Writers
London
Who was a spy for Queen Elizabeth I’s
secret service? Which writer kept a
bear in his room at Cambridge? Who
wrote poems about the Easter Revolution in Ireland?
How many different languages are
spoken in London? What’s the Square
Mile all about? How did Piccadilly get
its name? Book a seat in a haunted
theatre and enjoy the show!
Follow the fascinating lives of some of
the most important British novelists,
poets and playwrights from Shakespeare
to Graham Greene, and discover more
about different periods of literature in
British history.
Get to know this sensational city
starting from its glorious history all
the way to its captivating present.
Discover the magic that is London!
Integrated dossiers:
– Writers and Place
– Writers and Films
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– London’s Great Parks and Museums
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The British Isles
The English-speaking
World
Exploring Places
Natural Environments
American Cities
Gina D. B. Clemen
Joanna Burgess
Gina D. B. Clemen
What does Cymru mean? What did
Emperor Hadrian build in England nearly
2000 years ago? What do competitors
throw at the Highland games? Why
do people ‘kiss the Blarney Stone’?
The British Isles tells the story of
England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland. It
includes the most important events in
their history from the Bronze Age to the
twenty-first century, as well as key
information about their cultures.
Janet Cameron
Today we know a lot about faraway
places. But the first explorers knew
nothing about where they were going.
Their courage and determination drove
them to explore the unknown, facing
terrible dangers and hardships.
Our planet is full of natural wonders:
the forests, which are home to millions
of species; the oceans, which cover
three quarters of its surface; and the
Polar regions and deserts, which have
adapted to extreme climatic conditions. They have existed for thousands
of years, but these environments and
the plants and animals which live in
them are changing.
How much did the Dutch pay for
Manhattan Island in 1614? Where
is the world’s blue jeans headquarters?
Who can you meet in the ‘Malibu
Colony’, near Los Angeles?
Integrated dossiers:
– Great British Scientists and Inventors
– The British Isles and Films
Integrated dossiers:
– Aboriginal Australians
– Real Pirates of the Caribbean
Derek Sellen
English is one of the most widely
spoken languages in the world. Have
you ever wondered why? Here we go
on a journey over five continents to
look at countries where English is used
in daily life: from the top of Mount
Everest in the Himalayan Mountains to
the beaches of the Caribbean, from
the plains of Kenya to the streets of
New York, and beyond.
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Who were these remarkable people and
why did they risk their lives to explore
the unknown? Where is the final frontier
and who is ready to explore it? Share
the thrill of discovery through the
centuries with this exciting book.
Integrated dossiers:
– Exploration in films
– How were maps born?
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Discover why they are changing and
what you can do to help.
Integrated dossiers:
– The Environment in Films
– The Environment and Popular
Culture
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– American cities in films
– USA: The Birth of Another Music
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New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles,
Chicago and New Orleans are America’s
most distinctive and exciting cities.
Similar in some ways and yet completely
different in others, they fascinate
everyone who visits them. Open this
book and find out why.
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Getting on in Business
Getting on in
Business
Is a series of readers aimed at students
at pre-intermediate and intermediate
levels.
Unlike traditional business English
materials, this series offers concise
and entertaining guides to key
business disciplines and specific
sectors of industry.
Each book contains an outline of the
major areas of the discipline. The
explanations are in easy-to-follow
English, and each chapter contains
different kinds of activities.
Comprehension activities throughout
the book ensure that students have
understood the concepts, while
language exercises familiarise students
with the new terms they have
encountered in the text.
Listening exercises, case studies, roleplays and discussions help students to
apply business theory to realistic
business situations.
A CD accompanies each book. An
answer key to the exercises is available
online at www.blackcat.vicensvives.net,
or by contacting your local Vicens
Vives representative.
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Advertising and Promotion
Management
Marketing
Jeremy Fitzgerald
Topics include:
• Market communications
• Advertising
• Sales promotion
• Public relations
• Personal selling
• Assessing the results of
advertising and promotion
Jeremy Fitzgerald
Topics include:
• What is management?
• Leadership
• Planning
• Organisation
• Staffing
• Decision-making
Jeremy Fitzgerald
Topics include:
• Approaches to marketing
• Consumer behaviour
• Market research
• The marketing mix
• The product life-cycle
• Market segmentation
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Business Communication
Business Issues
Business Environment
BUSINESS PRELIMINARY
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Interact with Literature
INTERACT WITH LITERATURE
offers a wide range of original
literary texts, (level: intermediate
upwards), from English-speaking
countries, designed to introduce
students to the world of literature.
The aim of these volumes is to
familiarise readers with the language
of literature and encourage them to
formulate their own response to
what they read.
• Biographical details about each
author.
• Carefully selected texts relevant
to the theme of the volume.
• Linguistic accessibility with
numerous footnotes to guide
under-standing.
• Stimulating, graded activities
ranging from familiarisation and
comprehension to stylistic analysis
and language development.
• Dramatised recording of selected
texts in British or American English.
•
Amazing Characters
Ghostly Company
Journeys
Mind the characters
Selected by James Butler
and Maria Lucia De Vanna
A Collection of Very Short
Stories and Modern Fables
Selected by Guglielmo Corrado
A Collection of Phantoms
A collection of nine amazing and
chilling complete short stories by
R. Simpson Brown, A. Geras,
M . L e a c h , S . K i n g , E . Wa u g h ,
E. A. Poe, F. Boyd, F. Brown and A.
Christie, along with a selection of
extracts from B. Stoker’s Dracula.
This collection of supernatural tales
by M. Bowen, R. Timperley, C. Asquith and R. Middleton aims to
bridge the gap between reading
and analysing short fiction.
Bonds of Love
An Ideal Husband
Selected by Antonella Mignani
Web of Themes
In this module the student is
encouraged to explore a variety of
representations of love in extracts
by W. Wordsworth, J. Keats, E.
Dickinson, W. B. Yeats, W. H. Auden,
A. Henri, E. Brontë, H. James, D. H.
Lawrence and C. D. Alleyne.
This play is set in the dazzling
social world of 1890s London. It is
the world of the aristocrat, the
dandy – and also of political and
financial intrigue.
Activities by Gina D. B. Clemen
Common European
Framework
B2 Vantage/C1 Effective
University of Cambridge
ESOL Examinations
Exam: FIRST and above
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Masters and Men
Selected by James Butler
and Maria Lucia De Vanna
The Importance
of Being Earnest
Level
Intermediate and above
A collection of extracts from travel
diaries, short stories, novels, articles
and poems written by C. Dickens,
J. Conrad, D. H. Lawrence, G. Orwell and J. Raban.
Wilde’s famous play centres on two
fashionable young gentlemen, Jack
and Algy, and their courtship of
Gwendolen and Cecily. Through a
combination of lies and misunderstandings, there arises a great
importance of having the name Ernest.
A selection of extracts from 19thand 20th-century ‘industrial novels’
by B. Disraeli, C. Dickens, A. and
C. Brontë, E. Gaskell, G. Eliot,
J. Braine, A. Sillitoe and S. Barstow.
Mind the Characters is a journey into
the world of English language fiction
through the analysis of short stories
and modern fables. The authors
include Oscar Wilde, Isaac Asimov,
James Thuber and Fredric Brown.
Relationships
Selected by Antonella Mignani
A selection of extracts from important works by major 20th-century
authors – J. Joyce, G. Orwell and V.
Woolf.
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The Splintering Frame
The Splintering Frame is a lively
collection of twelve paired short
stories by modern and contemporary authors. Some of them are
stylish, some witty, some entertaining, some puzzling. The collection includes stories by J.
Archer, I. Asimov, M. Binchy, M.
Bowen, G. Greene, E. Hemingway,
B. MacLaverty, N. Mailer, R. Pardoe,
L. Rajan, R. Rendell and Saki.
Sweet and Sour
Tales to Talk About
Ten Women Ten Stories
A World of Difference
A collection of stories
for pleasure and learning
A collection of topics
to analyse and discuss
A task-based approach
to the analysis of short stories
Selected Short Stories by
British and American Writers
Selected by Antonella Mignani
Selected by Antonella Mignani
Sweet and Sour is an absorbing and
varied collection of gripping and
enjoyable short stories by B. Capes,
W. W. Jacobs, V. Alcock, A. Lurie,
R. Rendell, M. Allingham, Saki,
R. Dahl, K. Mansfield, S. Rushdie
and I. Asimov. All of them feature the
light and dark sides of human nature.
A selection of twelve thematicallypaired stories by a wide range of
authors including O. Wilde, E. Hemingway, A. C. Clarke, K. Chopin,
M. Binchy, P. Lively, R. Hughes and
E. McBain, accompanied by fascinating articles from English-language
newspapers and magazines.
Selected by Antonella Mignani
This selection of short stories about
women explores themes such as
the dilemma of love, loneliness,
crime, myths and nostalgia.
Authors include R. Dahl, E. O’Brian,
K. Mansfield and J. Joyce.
Selected by Gabriella Bonavoglia
These short stories by R. Dahl, B.
MacLaverty, G. Greene, K. Chopin
and S. Jackson – all with a surprise
ending – explore themes such as
appearances and reality, prejudices
and beliefs, and isolation – all raising
questions which relate to the human
condition.
Voices from Inside
Accessing the Literary Text:
A Skills-Based Approach
Selected by Guglielmo Corrado
A selection of extracts by major
authors of the 19th and 20th
centuries – M. Shelley, E. Brontë,
R. L. Stevenson, O. Wilde, J. Conrad,
J. Joyce, V. Woolf and G. Orwell.
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Reading Classics
A Christmas Carol
A selection
from Dubliners
Four Continents
The ‘English’ literature of the
ex-colonies is proving to be the most
interesting and innovative of our
times: this volume offers a significant
example of its vitality and originality
with short stories by H. Lawson,
N. Gordimer, S. Rushdie, J. Rhys and
many more.
Detective Stories
et al.
Empire Tales
Dubliners
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An anthology of stories by some of
the most outstanding British writers
of the 19th and 20th centuries:
J. Conrad, E. M. Forster,
R. Kipling, W. Somerset
Maugham, G. Orwell, J. Rhys.
The Fox
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Frankenstein
Mrs Dalloway
Seven Short Stories
Short Stories
The Turn of the Screw
The Good Soldier
The Picture
of Dorian Gray
Short Stories
The Strange Case of
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
The Virgin and the Gipsy
@
Heart of Darkness
et al.
An anthology of texts illustrating the
development of the short story from
the 19th century to the present day,
by C. Dickens, R. L. Stevenson, H. G.
Wells, D. H. Lawrence, K. Mansfield,
W. S. Maugham, V. S. Naipaul, S.
Rushdie, H. Simpson and G. Greene.
and Other Stories
@
To the Lighthouse
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A guide to Black Cat resources
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Index by Titles
£1,000,000 Bank Note (The)
Adventures of
Huckleberry Finn (The)
Adventures of Tom Sawyer (The)
Advertising and Promotion
Age of Innocence (The)
Akron House Mystery
36
– Reading & Training
44
Great English Monarchs and
their Times
24
– Reading Classics
62
Great Expectations
18
Classic Detective Stories
37
– Green Apple
58
Daisy Miller
44
50
David Copperfield
24
18
Davy Crockett
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
Christmas Carol (A)
24
Last of the Mohicans (The)
45
Last Unicorn (The)
21
Legends from the British Isles
21
20
Life and Times of Captain Cook (The) 10
– Reading & Training
50
Life and Times of Shakespeare (The) 10
Great Mysteries of Our World
37
Little Women
21
19
Green Apple
12
London
56
Detective Stories
62
Green Apple Drama
27
Diamond as Big as The Ritz (The)
37
Gulliver’s Travels
37
Lord Arthur Savile's Crime
and Other Stories
38
44
Halloween Horror
15
Lord Jim
51
Lost Treasure of Bodega Bay (The)
21
– Green Apple
14
– Reading & Training
32
Alien Alert in Seattle
30
Dream Come True (A)
32
Alien at School
36
Dubliners
Halloween... Magic, Witches
and Vampires
20
Lost World (The)
33
33
Love in Shakespeare: Five Stories
39
15
Dracula
Amazing Characters
60
– A selection from
62
Hamlet Prince of Denmark
American Cities
57
– Complete edition
62
Happy Prince and
The Selfish Giant (The)
American Folk Tales
18
Easyread
American Horror
43
Emma
50
American West (The)
18
Empire Tales
62
Animal Tales
32
English Speaking World (The)
57
Anne of Green Gables
14
Around the World in Eighty Days
32
Bathsheba the Witch
14
Beauty and the Best
14
Beowulf
43
8
Macbeth
Heart of Darkness
– Green Apple Drama
27
– Reading & Training
45
– Reading & Training
51
Magical Tales from the South Seas
34
– Reading Classics
63
Management
58
Home for Christmas
30
Marketing
58
Hound of the Baskervilles (The)
38
Masters and Men
60
House of the Seven Gables (The)
44
Master of Ballantrae (The)
39
37
I Want to Be You
20
Merchant of Venice (The)
45
Fisherman and his Soul (The)
32
Ideal Husband (An)
60
Message from a Ghost (A)
30
Five Children and It
15
Importance of Being Earnest (The)
60
Miami Police File: The O’Nell Case
30
60
Middlemarch
51
Exploring Places
Famous British Criminals
Final Problem
and Other Stories (The)
57
44
Big Mistake
and Other Stories (The)
43
Four Continents
62
Interact with Literature
Black Arrow (The)
19
Fox (The)
62
Jack the Ripper
45
Midsummer Night’s Dream (A)
Black Beauty
14
Frankenstein
Jane Eyre
38
– Green Apple Drama
22
Bonds of Love
60
– Reading & Training
50
Jason and the Argonauts
21
– Reading & Training
46
Bottle Imp (The)
19
– Reading Classics
63
Journey to the Centre of the Earth
33
Mill on the Floss (The)
55
British and American Festivities
19
58
Journeys
60
Mind the characters
60
British Isles (The)
57
19
Julius Caesar
38
Missing in Sydney
30
Business Communication
59
15
Jumping Frog (The)
33
Moby Dick
46
Business Environment (The)
59
Ghostly Company
60
Jungle Book (The)
15
Moonfleet
39
Business Issues
59
Good Soldier (The)
63
Just So Stories
16
Moonstone (The)
46
Call of the Wild (The)
24
Gothic Short Stories
50
Katherine Mansfield Short Stories
45
Morte d’Arthur (Le)
46
Canterbury Tales (The)
43
Kidnapped
33
Mrs Dalloway
63
Canterville Ghost (The)
36
Great Adventure
at Yellowstone (The)
20
Kim
38
Much Ado About Nothing
46
Great British Writers
56
King Arthur and his Knights
25
Murder at Coyote Canyon
34
Castles and Knights
66
9
Getting on in Business
Ghastly Ghosts!
Ghost Ship of Bodega Bay (The)
Index by Titles
Murders in the Rue Morgue and
The Purloined Letter (The)
Red Badge of Courage (The)
40
Story of Coffee (The)
9
True Adventure Stories
42
51
Relationships
60
Story of Football (The)
9
True Story of Pocahontas (The)
23
Mutiny on the Bounty (The)
34
Return of Sherlock Holmes (The)
40
Story of Moving Pictures (The)
10
Truth about Professor Smith (The)
31
Mystery in New Orleans
34
Story of Popular Music (The)
11
Turn of the Screw (The)
Mystery in San Francisco
22
Rip Van Winkle and
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
23
Story of Tea (The)
11
– Reading & Training
49
Natural Environments
57
Rob Roy
35
Story of the Olimpic Games (The)
11
– Reading Classics
63
Northanger Abbey
47
Robin Hood
25
Twelfth Night
42
Nutcracker (The)
16
Robinson Crusoe
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll
and Mr Hyde (The)
Valley of Fear (The)
49
Oliver Twist
25
– Green Apple
23
– Reading & Training
41
Vampire’s Tear (The)
43
Oscar Wilde’s Short Stories
25
– Reading & Training
53
– Reading Classics
63
Vanity Fair
54
Othello
47
Romeo and Juliet
Study in Scarlet (A)
48
Vikings
11
Pamela
51
– Green Apple Drama
27
Sweet and Sour
61
Virgin and the Gipsy (The)
63
Passage to India (A)
52
– Reading & Training
40
Tale of Two Cities (A)
54
Voices from Inside
61
Peter Pan
16
Sandokan
16
49
52
Scarlet Letter (The)
53
Tales from The Thousand
and One Nights
Washington Square
Persuasion
31
Wicked and Humorous Tales
49
Phantom of the Opera (The)
39
Scarlet Pimpernel (The)
40
Tales of the Supernatural
41
Willing Ghost (The)
36
Pickwick Papers (The)
39
Secret Agent (The)
47
Tales to Talk About
61
White Fang
26
Taming of the Shrew (The)
54
Wind in the Willows (The)
17
Secret Garden (The)
Picture of Dorian Gray (The)
52
– Green Apple
16
Tempest (The)
– Reading Classics
63
– Reading & Training
35
– Green Apple
17
Woman in White (The)
49
Pirates!
25
Secret of the Stones (The)
17
– Reading & Training
48
Wonderful Wizard of Oz (The)
17
Sense and Sensibility
53
Ten Women Ten Stories
61
World of Difference (A)
61
Seven Short Stories
63
Tess of the D’Urbervilles
54
Wuthering Heights
– Reading & Training
Portrait of a Lady (The)
52
Wolves
9
Power and Ambition in
Shakespeare
47
41
– Reading & Training B2.2
54
52
Sherlock Holmes and
the Red Circle
Three Men in a Boat
Pride and Prejudice
23
Three Men on the Bummel
48
– Reading & Training C1
55
Prince and the Pauper (The)
22
Sherlock Holmes Investigates
41
Three Musketeers (The)
42
X-Files: Squeeze (The)
55
Prisoner of Zenda (The)
40
Sherlock Holmes Stories
31
Time Games
36
Zorro!
17
Problem of Cell 13 (The)
53
Short Stories
Project Vampire
22
– Dickens, Stevenson et al.
63
Tom and Co’s Adventures
in Cyberspace
26
Railway Children (The)
22
– Oscar Wilde
63
Tom Jones
48
34
Sign of Four (The)
47
To the Lighthouse
63
Silas Marner
55
Tragedy of Dr Faustus (The)
48
Sons and Lovers
53
Tragedy of Richard III (The)
42
Rajah’s Diamond (The)
Ransom of Red Chief
and Other Stories
35
Reading & Training
28
Splintering Frame (The)
61
Treasure Island
Reading & Training Discovery
56
Stories of Ghosts and Mystery
35
– Green Apple
Reading & Training Professional
59
Stories of Suspense
41
– Reading & Training
42
Reading Classics
62
Story of Big Cities (The)
10
Treasure of Franchard (The)
23
Recipe for Success
35
Story of Chocolate (The)
9
Tristan and Isolde
31
26
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