Penguin Readers 5: British And American Short Stories Book And Mp3 Pack

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...

Lawrence, D.h.

El adulterio cometido por una dama de la aristocracia británica —con un hombre de la clase obrera— y la descripción de sus relaciones sexuales fueron el detonante para que "El amante de Lady Chatterley" fuera un libro censurado por más de 30 años, no solo en Gran Bretaña, sino en el resto del mundo que lo recibió como una espantosa transgresión al pudor y a las normas sociales ...

Lawrence, D.h.

"Lady Chatterley's Lover" is one of the last works of British author and poet D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930). The novel is at first glance a story about love, but upon further inspection it reveals a deeply personal character study about sexuality, desire, human relationships and the never-ending conflict between the intellectual and physical needs of a person. Constance Chatterley...

Lawrence, D.h.

It is hay-making time on the Wookey farm. Two brothers are building the haystack, but thinking about other things - about young women, and love. There are angry words, and then a fight between the brothers. But the work goes on, visitors come and go, and the long hot summer day slowly turns to evening. Then the sun goes down, covering the world with a carpet of darkness. From t...

Lawrence, D.h.

Lawrence, D.h.

Lawrence, D.h.

Si bien las escenas explícitamente eróticas que contienen estos relatos dan una pista clara de por qué caminos transcurría la escritura de D.H. Lawrence, de cuáles fueron los temas tan escandalosos que llevaron a la sociedad de su época a llevarse las manos a la cabeza hasta el punto de censurar sin remisión su última novela -la conocida Lady Chatterley-, hay otro imaginario de...