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William Shakespeare

Macbeth and Othello are two great soldiers whose terrible flaws of character have tragic consequences for them and those around them. These two stories have been modernised to highlight the power of their themes of greed and jealousy.1,300-1,700 Headwords ...

Oscar Wilde

Lord Arthur Savile must commit a crime before he can get married; Hughie Erskine becomes rich almost by accident; the Canterville Ghost has lost his ability to frighten people. Three short stories from one of the world's wittiest storytellers.1,700-2,200 Headwords ...

Susie Barrie

Peter Pan teaches the Darling children to fly. They fly off and have adventures in Neverland where there are mermaids and pirates and the scary Captain Hook...1200 Headwords ...

Arthur Conan Doyle

Sherlock Holmes is the greatest detective of them all. He sits in his room, and smokes his pipe. He listens, and watches, and thinks. He listens to the steps coming up the stairs; he watches the door opening - and he knows what question the stranger will ask.In these three of his best stories, Holmes has three visitors to the famous flat in Baker Street - visitors who bring the...

Rowena Akinyemi

In 1918 in the peaceful province of Transkei, South Africa, the Mandela family gave their new baby son the name Rolihlahla — "troublemaker". But the young boy's early years were happy ones, and he grew up to be a good student and an enthusiastic sportsman. Who could imagine then what was waiting for Nelson Mandela — the tireless struggle for human rights, the long years in pris...

Anthony Hope

We must leave for Zenda at once, to find the King!' cried Sapt. 'If we're caught, we'll all be killed!'So Rudolf Rassendyll and Sapt gallop through the night to find the King of Ruritania. But the King is now a prisoner in the Castle of Zenda. Who will rescue him from his enemies, the dangerous Duke Michael and Rupert of Hentzau?And who will win the heart of the beautiful Princ...

L.m. Montgomery

Marilla Cuthbert and her brother Matthew want to adopt an orphan, to help on the farm at Green Gables. They ask for a boy, but they get Anne, who has red hair and freckles, and who talks and talks and talks.They didn't want a girl, but how can they send a child back, like an unwanted parcel? So Anne stays, and begins a new life in the sleepy, quiet village of Avonlea in Canada....

Alan Mclean

The United States in the 1950s and 60s was a troubled place. Black people were angry, because they did not have the same rights as whites. It was a time of angry words, of marches, of protests, a time of bombs and killings. But above the angry noise came the voice of one man — a man of peace. "I have a dream," said Martin Luther King, and it was a dream of blacks and whites liv...

E. Nesbit

We have to leave our house in London,' Mother said to the children. 'We're going to live in the country, in a little house near a railway line.'And so begins a new life for Roberta, Peter, and Phyllis. They become the railway children - they know all the trains, Perks the station porter is their best friend, and they have many adventures on the railway line.But why has their fa...

K.m. Peyton

Sam Sylvester is a teacher who wants his class to have ambition, and to do great things in life. So he enters them for a sporting competition against the rich students of Greycoats School.The team that he has chosen for the competition think Sam has gone crazy. 'Who, Sir? Me, Sir?' says little Hoomey, his eyes round with horror. 'We'll never beat Greycoats,' the others cry. 'Ne...

Arthur Conan Doyle

Dr Huxtable has a school for boys in the north of England. When the Duke of Holdernesse decides to send his young son there, that is good news for the school. The Duke is a very important person, and Dr Huxtable is happy to have his son in the school.But two weeks later Dr Huxtable is the unhappiest man in England. Why? And why does he take the train down to London and go to Ba...

Oscar Wilde

There has been a ghost in the house for three hundred years, and Lord Canterville's family have had enough of it. So Lord Canterville sells his grand old house to an American family. Mr Hiram B. Otis is happy to buy the house and the ghost - because of course Americans don't believe in ghosts.The Canterville ghost has great plans to frighten the life out of the Otis family. But...

Daniel Defoe

'I often walked along the shore, and one day I saw something in the sand. I went over to look at it more carefully . . . It was a footprint - the footprint of a man!'In 1659 Robinson Crusoe was shipwrecked on a small island off the coast of South America. After fifteen years alone, he suddenly learns that there is another person on the island. But will this man be a friend - or...

Tim Vicary

The job was too good. There had to be a problem - and there was.John Duncan was an honest man, but he needed money. He had children to look after. He was ready to do anything, and his bosses knew it.They gave him the job because he couldn't say no; he couldn't afford to be honest. And the job was like a poison inside him. It changed him and blinded him, so that he couldn't see ...

John Buchan

'I turned on the light, but there was nobody there. Then I saw something in the corner that made my blood turn cold. Scudder was lying on his back. There was a long knife through his heart, pinning him to the floor.'Soon Richard Hannay is running for his life across the hills of Scotland. The police are chasing him for a murder he did not do, and another, more dangerous enemy i...

Frances Hodgson Burnett

Sara Crewe is a very rich little girl. She first comes to England when she is seven, and her father takes her to Miss Minchin's school in London. Then he goes back to his work in India. Sara is very sad at first, but she soon makes friends at school.But on her eleventh birthday, something terrible happens, and now Sara has no family, no home, and not a penny in the world . . . ...

Jennifer Bassett

It is 1880, in the Opera House in Paris. Everybody is talking about the Phantom of the Opera, the ghost that lives somewhere under the Opera House. The Phantom is a man in black clothes. He is a body without a head, he is a head without a body. He has a yellow face, he has no nose, he has black holes for eyes. Everybody is afraid of the Phantom - the singers, the dancers, the d...

Mark Twain

Who wants to live in a house, wear clean clothes, be good, and go to school every day? Not young Huckleberry Finn, that's for sure.So Huck runs away, and is soon floating down the great Mississippi River on a raft. With him is Jim, a black slave who is also running away. But life is not always easy for the two friends.And there's 300 dollars waiting for anyone who catches poor ...

Frances Hodgson Burnett

Little Mary Lennox is a bad-tempered, disagreeable child. When her parents die in India, she is sent back to England to live with her uncle in a big, lonely, old house.There is nothing to do all day except walk in the gardens - and watch the robin flying over the high walls of the secret garden . . . which has been locked for ten years. And no one has the key.1000 Headwords ...

Tim Vicary

When a large plane is hijacked, the Prime Minister looks at the list of passengers and suddenly becomes very, very frightened.There is a name on the list that the Prime Minister knows very well - too well. There is someone on that plane who will soon be dead - if the hijackers can find out who he is!And there isn't much time. One man lies dead on the runway. In a few minutes th...

Robert L. Stevenson

You are walking through the streets of London. It is getting dark and you want to get home quickly. You enter a narrow side-street. Everything is quiet, but as you pass the door of a large, windowless building, you hear a key turning in the lock. A man comes out and looks at you. You have never seen him before, but you realize immediately that he hates you. You are shocked to d...

Jonathan Swift

'Soon I felt something alive moving along my leg and up my body to my face, and when I looked down, I saw a very small human being, only fifteen centimetres tall . . . I was so surprised that I gave a great shout.'But that is only the first of many surprises which Gulliver has on his travels. He visits a land of giants and a flying island, meets ghosts from the past and horses ...

Arthur Conan Doyle

Dartmoor. A wild, wet place in the south-west of England. A place where it is easy to get lost, and to fall into the soft green earth which can pull the strongest man down to his death.A man is running for his life. Behind him comes an enormous dog - a dog from his worst dreams, a dog from hell. Between him and a terrible death stands only one person - the greatest detective of...

Louisa May Alcott

When Christmas comes for the four March girls, there is no money for expensive presents and they give away their Christmas breakfast to a poor family. But there are no happier girls in America than Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy. They miss their father, of course, who is away at the Civil War, but they try hard to be good so that he will be proud of his 'little women' when he comes hom...

Charles Dickens

The Marquis lay there, like stone, with a knife pushed into his heart. On his chest lay a piece of paper, with the words: Drive him fast to the grave. This is from JACQUES.'The French Revolution brings terror and death to many people. But even in these troubled times people can still love and be kind. They can be generous and true-hearted . . . and brave.1800 Headwords ...

L.m. Montgomery

The Cuthberts ask the orphanage for a boy to help at their farm, but a little girl steps off the train. Anne causes chaos at Green Gables, but her good nature wins everyone's heart.600 Headwords ...

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The most famous detective of the world solves two seemingly impossible cases. In the story The Speckled Band Sherlock Holmes will discover who woman has got dirty with the atrocious murder of a young woman. In The Red Headed Leage the great investigator and Watson they listen to the disconcerting history of a brave client ... that, in the bottom, is not finally so brave. ...

Arthur Conan Doyle

Three more intriguing cases for Sherlock Holmes: The Speckled Band, The Dancing Men and The Red-Headed League.Original work by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ...

Dolphin Readers are ideal both for extending and reviewing language. Vocabulary and structures are closely linked to the Primary curriculum, and are developed through projects and personalization task.625 Headwords ...

Daphne Du Maurier

An outstanding love story that has been sensitively retold. The heroine, while employed as a personal companion, meets and falls in love with Maxim de Winter, a rich Englishman whose beautiful wife has recently died under tragic circumstances. To her surprise and joy, Maxim proposes to her. But the shadow of Rebecca, Maxim's first wife still dominates him.2,200 key words ...

Sue Arengo

A man came to a strange palace. He saw nobody but, before he left, he picked a rose for Beauty, his youngest daughter. Then he saw a terrible, angry beast. The Beast wanted one of the man's daughters to come and live with him. If not, the man must die. Beauty went to live with the Beast. He wanted to marry her, but she could not love him. Beauty leaves him, but she dreams that ...

Sue Arengo

Snow White's stepmother, the Queen, was jealous. Her magic mirror said that Snow White was more beautiful than the Queen. She told a huntsman to kill the girl, but he couldn't do it. Snow White went to live with seven dwarfs. But the Queen tried to kill her with a tight ribbon, a poisoned comb, and a poisoned apple. Show White looked as if she was only asleep, so the dwarfs put...