Short Stories ( Oscar Wilde )

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...

Wilde, Oscar (1854-1900)

Tal vez sea El fantasma de Canterville el cuento más conocido y celebrado de Oscar Wilde, como inolvidables son las cóleras de ese pobre fantasma anacrónico, que no sólo no logra asustar a sus inquilinos, sino que acaba siendo juguete y víctima de dos niños terribles. Inolvidable es también El crimen de lord Arthur Savile, esa pequeña obra maestra que cuenta la divertida histo...

Wilde, Oscar (1854-1900)

Wilde, Oscar (1854-1900)

Wilde, Oscar (1854-1900)

El mundo de sufrimientos que ignoró mientras reinaba se le revela ahora a la estatua del príncipe feliz en toda su crudeza. El oro y los diamantes de los que se despoja con la abnegada complicidad de una golondrina son metáforas de la solidaridad y el desprendimiento. ...

Wilde, Oscar (1854-1900)

Wilde, Oscar (1854-1900)

Bajo una apariencia caprichosa y paradójica, las páginas de crítica y estética de Oscar Wilde quizá sean lo más original y perdurable de toda su obra. No sólo nos ofrecen un ejemplo perfecto de lo que debió de ser el Wilde conversador sino que la mayoría de sus ideas, que tanto escandalizaron en su época, han cobrado una vigencia asombrosa con el paso del tiempo. La decadencia ...