This story is set in medieval England, in a time when King Richard is imprisoned aboard and Norman noblemen are surpressing the Saxons, rnIvanhoe, the Disinterited Knight, returns to England from the Holy Land to win his love, the beautiful Lady Rowena, and fight for justice for the Saxon people. He is helped by an old Jews, Isaac of York, and his daughter, Rebecca, but the evil Norman Knight, …
It's about New York in 1922 Nick Carraway buys a house on Long Island. The house next door is owned by the fabulously rich and handsome Jay Gatsby. Nick's cousin, Daisy is young, beautiful and desperately unhappily intermediary between the reunited lovers, Daisy and Gatsby.
This is a Beginner Level story in a series of ELT readers comprising a wide range of titles - some original and some simplified - from modern and classic novels, and designed to appeal to all age-groups, tastes and cultures. The books are divided into five levels: Starter Level, with about 300 basic words; Beginner Level (600 basic words); Elementary Level (1100); Intermediate Level (1600); and…
Can you guess the answers to these mysteries? Sherlock Holmes, and his assistant Dr. Watson, investigate the cases of rnThe Speckled Band, The Dancing Men and The Red, Headed League.
Marni thought she'd found a friend in her social worker, Matthew. But he groomed her from the moment she entered the children's home. A year later their 'relationship' crossed boundaries no child should know exist. rnrn As Matthew led Marni down the path of depravity, she grew up not knowing how to survive as a normal girl. It was a short step from Matthew's abuse to prostitution. Marni eve…
The archeologist, Dr. John Farrow said he knew where to find the secret tomb of Queen Axtarte. He went to Egipt. He told his story to the newspapers. When Farrow mysteriously disappears, Chief Inspectur Salahadin suspect a gang of smugglers are involved. But he also wrried. He was read the words og Queen Axtarte's curse.
Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson help the police with the strange cases of: rnThe Blue Carbunkle. Two unusual clues for Holemes and Watson to follow, a hat and the goose.rnSilver Blaza. A Racehorse disappears before an important race. Holmes has to find the horse and solve a murder.rnThe Six Napoleons. Why is someone smashing statues of Napoleon? What are they looking for?
A delightful and romantic story set in 1922. Unhappy and restless in rain-soaked London, four very different women answer an advertisement in The Times Newspaper to rent a medieval castle for the month of April in Italy. There, amidst the sunshine and flowers, they discover happiness.
In a villade deep in woodland of Dorset, the lives of the inhabitants, who gain their living from the trees around them, are affected by the lives of outsiders. Giles Winterbourne loves and is engaged to Grace Melbury, the daughter of a rich timber merchant. But when Giles loses his boney, Grace's father insists that his daughter marries a handsome and attractive yound docter, Eddred Fitzpiers.
Three tales by one of the masters of horror story writing: The Judge's House: The Iron Maiden and The Return of Abel Behena