Frankenstein

Butler, Dominic

Dirigido a estudiantes de nivel A1 del MCER.20 lecturas sobre la vida cotidiana para leer en 5 minutos y 20 mapas mentales para aprender vocabulario. Estructura del libro. Cada libro consta de 20 lecturas cortas de 4 páginas. Las palabras difíciles o interesantes (marcadas en negro o rojo) se traducen sobre el texto para facilitar la lectura sin necesidad de diccionario. Ofrec...

Hannam, Joyce

In the Indian jungle, a boy lives like a young wolf.Mowgli grows up with his wolf brothers, but there are many other animals here, friends like Baloo the bear and Bagheera the panther. But Shere Kahn the tiger is a man-killer, so there are big dangers too...Enjoy the classic Rudyard Kipling stories as an exciting comic.Word count: 2717 ...

Conan Doyle , Sir Arthur

Text adaptation by Jeremy PageVisitors come to ask Sherlock Holmes for his help. He sends Dr Watson to Dartmoor to begin the investigation. It is a dark and lonely place where Sir Charles Baskerville died - was it murder? The clues are worrying. An enormous wild dog killed Sir Charles's ancestor there many years earlier. Suddenly people hear terrible howls again!Word count 8714...

Bagley, Desmond

On a beautiful summer evening in the quiet town of Marlow, a young woman is walking home from church. She passes a man who is looking at the engine of his car. He turns round, smiles at her? and throws acid into her face. Then her father, the scientist George Ashton, disappears. And her sister, Penny, discovers that her husband-to-be, Malcolm, is a government agent. Why has As...

Rollason, Jane

The Doctor and Clara have to save a Viking village from space warriors from the future, the Mire. But without the fighters or technology of the Mire, how can they win? ...

Bowler, Bill

Ideal for elementary learners of English looking to improve and practise their English. The book is filled with useful vocabulary that is carefully graded and easy to understand, it also comes with audio, so that you can listen to the story at the same time as reading.It's Gromit the dog's birthday, and his friend Wallace gives him an unusual present - a pair of Techno-torusers...

Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft (1797-1851)

Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft (1797-1851)

La noche del 16 de junio de 1816, después de que Lord Byron y Percy B. Shelley discutieran largamente sobre la posibilidad de descubrir el principio vital de la naturaleza y transferirlo a un cuerpo inerte, Mary W. Shelley -por entonces una joven de 19 años- tuvo una memorable pesadilla sobre la visión de un monstruo creado por la ciencia humana. Éste sería el punto de partida ...

Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft (1797-1851)

Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft (1797-1851)

Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft (1797-1851)

Publicado en 1818 y enmarcado en la tradición de la novela gótica, Frankenstein explora temas tales como la moral científica, la creación y destrucción de vida, y la audacia de la humanidad en su relación con Dios. El protagonista, una suerte de Prometeo moderno, intenta arrebatar el fuego sagrado de la vida a la divinidad. Con esta novela de enorme inspiración y belleza, la in...

Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft (1797-1851)

Un joven estudiante de medicina, Víctor Frankenstein, en su afán por desentrañar los secretos del alma humana, crea -a partir de restos de cadáveres- un nuevo ser; pero es tal el horror de su apariencia que se ve condenado a la más cruel de las soledades, y el deseo de una lenta y maquiavélica venganza empieza a cobrar fuerza en su interior... ...