Upper-Intermediate Readers
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Australia
Jennifer Gascoigne
This Reader provides an informative overview of Australian history, culture, its people, geography and climate, food, sport and more. Australia is the sixth largest country in the world and the only one that covers a whole continent. Despite its size, Australia has a small population at just over 23 million.
This pack comes with an audio CD.
ISBN: 9780230470286
English Type: British
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Agnes Grey
Anne Brontë, retold by Helen Holwill
Agnes Grey is a classic story written by Anne Brontë. The story is about Agnes, the eighteen-year-old daughter of a poor clergyman. When her family loses a lot of money, Agnes decides to help by finding a job as a governess. But it proves to be a lot more difficult than Agnes imagined…
This pack comes with an audio CD.
ISBN: 9780230470279
English Type: British
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The Man with the Golden Gun
Ian Fleming, retold by Helen Holwill
Scaramanga is a cold-blooded killer with connections to the KGB and the Cuban Secret Police. There is only one man skilled enough and brave enough to go after him - 007, James Bond. To carry out the mission, Bond ends up in Jamaica, where he meets two old friends.
Original work by Ian Fleming
ISBN: 9780230422346
English Type: British
Published Date: ...
Pages: 144
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The Ghost
Robert Harris, retold by John Escott
When British Prime Minister Adam Lang's ghost writer, Michael McAra, dies in mysterious circumstances, a new writer is brought in to write Lang's autobiography. But it soon becomes clear that Lang and his wife Ruth are a much more complicated couple than they first appear. The Ghost is a powerful commentary on the policies employed by the British government in the 'War on Terror'.
ISBN: 9780230422858
English Type: British
Published Date: 3 January 2012
Pages: 96
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The Creative Impulse and Other Stories
W. Somerset Maugham , retold by John Milne
Maugham, the quintessential observer of human behaviour, tells the stories of: The Creative Impulse, The Round Dozenand Jane. Recommended for older readers.
ISBN: 9781405073226
English Type: British
Published Date: 20 April 2005
Pages: 80
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The Importance of Being Earnest
Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde's comic masterpiece of love and mistaken identity was a great hit when it first appeared on the stage in 1895 and has remained hugely popular with theatre audiences ever since.
Original work by Oscar Wilde
ISBN: 9780230408685
English Type: British
Pages: 104
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Great Expectations
Charles Dickens
One bleak and windy evening, 8-year-old Pip meets an escaped convict on the marshes. Shortly afterwards, he is summoned to Satis House, the derelict, gloomy home of the strange, reclusive Miss Havisham. Here, Pip meets and falls in love with the beautiful, cold-hearted Estella but can they ever be together?
Original work by Charles Dickens
ISBN: 9781405076821
English Type: British
Published Date: 18 May 2005
Pages: 96
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Weep Not, Child
Ngugi wa Thiong'o
A thrilling story by the internationally acclaimed African writer.
Young Njoroge believes that education is the key to success in his life. Yet, as he grows up, political events and personal tragedy shatter his hopes and beliefs.
ISBN: 9781405073318
English Type: British
Published Date: 27 April 2005
Pages: 96
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Our Mutual Friend
Charles Dickens, retold by Margaret Tarner
‘As the boat moved silently over the water, the thing at the end of the rope always followed. Sometimes it pulled away like something alive. For the thing that followed at the end of the rope was the body of a drowned man.’ Dickens’ sinister story of murder and mystery set in London in the 1860s.
Original work by Charles Dickens
ISBN: 9781405073295
English Type: British
Published Date: 27 April 2005
Pages: 128
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Vanity Fair
William Makepeace Thackeray, retold by Margaret Tarner
Tells the story of Becky Sharp's rise from rags to riches in Vanity Fair. This is a work about the situation of two women during nineteenth century British society and the French Napoleonic wars.
Original work by William Makepeace Thackeray
ISBN: 9781405083928
English Type: British
Published Date: 15 December 2006
Pages: 144