John Steinbeck, retold by Martin Winks
The tragic story of George and Lennie, who move from one farm to another, looking for work. George is clever but Lennie's size and slowness are always getting him into trouble. One day the two men get a job on a farm. Things are going well until they meet the unhappy wife of the farm foreman, Curley. Then Curley's wife tries to become friendly with Lennie...
Original work by John Steinbeck. Only available in certain countries.
ISBN: 9780230031067
English Type: British
Published Date: 31 January 2009
Pages: 112
Daphne du Maurier, retold by Margaret Tarner
An outstanding love story that has been sensitively retold.
The heroine, while employed as a personal companion, meets and falls in love with Maxim de Winter, a rich Englishman whose beautiful wife has recently died under tragic circumstances. To her surprise and joy, Maxim proposes to her. But the shadow of Rebecca, Maxim's first wife still dominates him.
Original work by Daphne du Maurier
ISBN: 9781405077132
English Type: British
Published Date: 18 May 2005
Pages: 144
Officially Dead
Richard Prescott
Colin Fenton and his wife run a computer software company, but only Colin knows that the business is £10,000 in debt. When a chance meeting in a pub leads him to an offer that will, he thinks, quickly and easily solve all his problems, he accepts. But he loses the gamble and subsequently his identity, leaving his wife to try to prove whether or not he is officially dead.
Original work by Richard Prescott
ISBN: 9781405076845
English Type: British
Published Date: 18 May 2005
Pages: 112
Herman Melville, retold by John Escott
Retold by John Escott for upper-intermediate students of English. Ishmael and his friend join the crew of the Pequod, a whaling ship, unaware that its captain, the mysterious Ahab, is out for revenge. His plan is to pursue and kill the vicious white whale Moby Dick, and no one can stop him.
Original work by Herman Melville
ISBN: 9780230026872
English Type: American
Published Date: 9 January 2008
Pages: 112
George Eliot, retold by Margaret Tarner
Middlemarch is George Eliot’s classic story of the lives and loves of people living in a small English town. The idealistic Dorothea, unhappy and bored with her marriage, begins a sensitive friendship with her husband’s young cousin, Will Ladislaw. Meanwhile, the beautiful but spoilt Rosamond Vincey wants to marry the idealist but poor Doctor Lydgate. Lydgate does not want to get married, but Rosamond is determined to change his mind...
ISBN: 9780230026865
English Type: British
Published Date: 9 January 2008
Pages: 144
The Mistress of Spices
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, retold by Anne Collins
Tilo owns a shop in Oakland, California, where she sells her herbs and spices. But Tilo isn't just a shopkeeper; she is also the Mistress of Spices. With her knowledge of their secret powers this high priestess of wisdom and magic helps customers find answers to the questions of love, loss and loneliness. When Tilo herself falls in love with a visitor to her shop, she has to choose between personal happiness and keeping her mystical gift.
Original work by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
ISBN: 9781405073271
English Type: British
Pages: 96
William Shakespeare, retold by Margaret Tarner
This retold version of William Shakespeare’s Scottish story of witchcraft and murder is written as a play script and includes original extracts. Macbeth’s bloody rise to power is encouraged by his wife, Lady Macbeth. Like her husband, Lady Macbeth’s ambition leads her into a dark world of guilt and madness which slowly destroys their marriage, and ends in tragedy.
Original work by William Shakespeare
ISBN: 9780230402218
English Type: British
Published Date: 4 January 2010
Pages: 120
Peter Abrahams, retold by Rod Nesbitt
Vivid story of the hardships endured by a young Zulu migrant worker. Xuma sees the brutality of the bosses of the mine and the squalor of the township where he lives. In the city, white people lead privileged lives and Xuma begins to question the racial injustices which surround him.
Original work by Peter Abrahamas
ISBN: 9781405073264
English Type: British
Published Date: 27 April 2005
Pages: 96
Philip Prowse
In this Lenny Samuel mystery, the private detective is hired by a movie studio to find out who is behind threats against a beautiful young actress. Lenny joins the film crew on location in Hollywood, Buenos Aires, and Istanbul as he tries to stay out of trouble and find the culprit before it's too late.
ISBN: 9781405077118
English Type: British
Published Date: 17 May 2005
Pages: 128
John Steinbeck, retold by Margaret Tarner
Steinbeck's most powerful novel describes the lives of a homeless farming family as they travel across America in the Great Depression of the 1930s. The family face hardship and hostility at every step of the way as they struggle to survive in a country where kindness seems no longer to exist.
Original work by John Steinbeck. Only available in certain countries.
ISBN: 9780230031050
English Type: British
Published Date: 3 March 2009
Pages: 144