Penguin Readers is a series of popular classics, exciting contemporary fiction, and thought-provoking non-fiction, written for learners of English as a foreign language. The series is aligned to the Common European Framework and includes language activities that help develop key ...
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Jonathan Pine is the night manager of a hotel in Egypt. When he is shown some secret information, he passes it to a man in the British government. But things go wrong, and the woman he loves dies. Pine is very angry and agrees to work with others to catch Richard Roper - the "wor...
An American family buy Canterville Hall - a house with a ghost. But the ghost is not happy because it cannot frighten the family. Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reader series for learners of English as a foreign language. With carefully adapted text, new illustrations and langu...
When Jack and Joan Durbeyfield learn that their ancestors were the D'Urbervilles - a rich and well-known family - they hope it will make their lives better. They send their eldest daughter, Tess, to introduce herself to some "relatives". There, Tess meets Alec d'Urberbille and th...
An artist paints a beautiful young man called Dorian Gray. When Dorian sees the picture, he decides to give his soul to keep his beautiful face. He lives a bad life and he is bad to many people, but his face never changes. However, in a room upstairs, the portrait gets uglier and...
Zara and Joe go with their class to the Gerlock Caves. "There's a story about the Gerlock Caves," Zara tells her teacher. "There's a man. He walks in those caves at night and throws scissors at people".
In 2018, the BBC filmed the emperor penguins in Antarctica. Sometimes life is good, and sometimes it is difficult. It is the same for the emperor penguins, and for all animal families.