Megan and Alex live in sunny Florida and have an exciting summer job at the Marine World Aquarium. Their friend Steve joins them. When three dolphins mysteriously disappear from the aquarium and no one knows…
Megan and Alex live in sunny Florida and have an exciting summer job at the Marine World Aquarium. Their friend Steve joins them. When three dolphins mysteriously disappear from the aquarium and no one knows…
Helen and Mark are actors in a high school version of Shakespeare’s Macbeth. On opening night at the theater there’s a special guest in the audience, Sherlock Holmes, who witnesses a terrible murder on stage….
Legends say that, in ancient times, a boy called Arthur pulled a sword from a stone and became the new king of Britain. With the help of the magician, Merlin and the famous Knights of…
The seventeenth-century house of the seven gables shelters an old curse and a terrible secret. The lives of the Pyncheon family are ruined by greed, hatred and cowardice. Hepzibah and Clifford Pyncheon are tormented by…
Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever and rich, has a perfect life. She has decided never to get married but to live as the mistress of Hartfield, her father’s house in the beautiful English countryside. But when…
Read these amusing stories and you will discover why elephants have trunks, how it’s best to work out the correct price for pigs straight away and what happened to an English lady when she went…
Follow Bram Stoker (the author of Dracula) as he takes student Malcolm Malcolmson through a terrifying ordeal inside a judge’s house… Travel, if you dare, in a ghostly coach – with three dead men as…
The publication in 1890 of Wilde’s only novel led to a furious public debate over art and morality. Dorian Gray’s double life in elegant high society and in London’s most degraded slums express the essence…
A magician tricks Aladdin, but when Aladdin rubs an old lamp a genie comes out, and life is never the same again, for him or his mum! Despite the magician’s plots, Aladdin manages to keep…
In three stories three characters teach us lessons: the tortoise „slowly but surely” wins the race; the mouse becomes a „great little friend” to the mighty lion; the country mouse prefers the quiet life back…
In Flush , we experience the love story of two famous poets, Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning, through a dog’s eyes. Flush , Elizabeth’s faithful pet, has many adventures. He has to learn about the…
Kate, Mike and Carlos go on another trip to Bodega Bay near San Francisco, where more than a year ago they found a pirate’s old treasure map. An incredibly exciting and dangerous adventure awaits them…
Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert want a boy from the orphanage to help them on their farm, but the orphanage sends them Anne, a funny little girl with long red hair who gets up to all…
The Emperor of China invites the nightingale of the forest to stay at court. She sings beautifully and everyone loves her. Things change when a colourful artificial bird arrives in the palace. The nightingale is…
Ten Women, Ten Stories. A task-based approach to analysis of short stories by Antonella Mignani Love’s dilemma, loneliness, crime, happy memories, a mythical creature and an uneventful shopping trip to an ordinary supermarket are only…
It is 1872. Phileas Fogg, a precise, calm, English Gentleman lives a quiet life. That is, until he makes a £20,000 bet with his friends at the Reform Club and begins an incredible journey. In…
Wuthering Heights is home to the Earnshaw family, who adopt an orphan called Heathcliff. When they grow up, Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff fall deeply in love. But Catherine decides to marry Edgar Linton from the…
Elinor and Marianne Dashwood are sisters. Both are intelligent, sensitive, charming, and beautiful, but there the similarities end. Elinor values propriety and common sense; she is prudent and cautious with a strong sense of duty….
A beautiful young woman wants Sherlock Holmes to investigate a terrible murder. All the evidence points to the man she loves, but she knows that he is not the murderer. How will Holmes find the…
• Autor distins cu Premiul Nobel pentru literatura in 1991. Henry Lawson, V. S. Naipaul, Nadine Gordimer and Chinua Achebe are respectively Australian, Caribbean, South African and Nigerian, yet they all write in English. The…
