On a September day in 1821, in the church of a Yorkshire village, a man and six children stood around a grave. They were burying a woman: the man's wife, the children's mother. The children were all very young, and within a few years the two oldest were dead, too. Close to the wild beauty of the Yorkshire moors, the father brought up his young family. Who had heard of the Brontes of Haworth then? Branwell died while he was still a young man, but the three sisters who were left had an extraordinary gift. They could write marvellous stories - Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, The Tenant of Wildfell Halt... But Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Bronte did not live to grow old or to enjoy their fame. Only their father was left, alone with his memories. (Word count 10,600)Kiadás éve: 2008Oldalak száma: 72 oldalKötésmód: puhatáblás, ragasztókötöttISBN: 9780194791090EAN: 2013300298266

In the jungle of Southern India the Seeonee Wolf-Pack has a new cub. He is not a wolf - he is Mowgli, a human child, but he knows nothing of the world of men. He lives and hunts with his brothers the wolves. Baloo the bear and Bagheera the panther are his friends and teachers. And Shere Khan, the man-eating tiger, is his enemy. Kipling's famous story of Mowgli's adventures in the jungle has been loved by young and old for more than a hundred years. Kiadás éve: 2008Oldalak száma: 56 oldalKötésmód: puhatáblás, ragasztókötöttISBN: 9780194790642EAN: 9780194790642

'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 an enemy? Kiadás éve: 2008Oldalak száma: 56 oldalKötésmód: puhatáblás, ragasztókötöttISBN: 9780194790703EAN: 9780194790703

When we are happy, we are always good,' says Lord Henry, 'but when we are good, we are not always happy.' Lord Henry's lazy, clever words lead the young Dorian Gray into a world where it is better to be beautiful than to be good; a world where anything can be forgiven - even murder - if it can make people laugh at a dinner party. Eredeti név: THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAYKiadás éve: 2008Oldalak száma: 72 oldalKötésmód: puhatáblás, ragasztókötöttISBN: 9780194791267EAN: 9780194791267

What does the name 'Agatha Christie' mean? To many people, it means a book about a murder mystery - a 'whodunnit'. 'I'm reading an Agatha Christie,' people say. 'I'm not sure who the murderer is -I think it's'. But they are usually wrong, because it is not easy to guess the murderer's name before the end of the book. But who was Agatha Christie? What was she like? Was her life quiet and unexciting, or was it full of interest and adventure? Was there a mystery in her life, too? (Word count 5,955)Eredeti név: AGATHA CHRISTIE, WOMAN OF MYSTERYKiadás éve: 2008Oldalak száma: 56 oldalKötésmód: puhatáblás, ragasztókötöttISBN: 9780194790505EAN: 9780194790505

Down by the river bank, where the wind whispers through the willow trees, is a very - pleasant place to have a lunch party with a few friends. But life is not always so peaceful for the Mole and the Water Rat. There is the time, for example, when Toad gets interested in motor-cars - goes mad about them in fact... The story of the adventures of Mole, Rat, Badger, and Toad has been loved by young and old for almost a hundred years. (Word count 11,540) Eredeti név: The wind in the willowsKiadás éve: 2008Oldalak száma: 72 oldalKötésmód: puhatáblás, ragasztókötöttISBN: 9780194791373EAN: 9780194791373

It is night in the south seas near Tahiti, and the ship HMS Bounty has begun the Long voyage home to England. But the sailors on the ship are angry men, and they have swords and guns. They pull the captain out of bed and take him up on deck. He tries to run, but a sailor holds a knife to his neck. 'Do that again, Captain Bligh, and you're a dead man!' he says. The mutiny on the Bounty happened in April, 1789. This is the true story of Captain Bligh and Fletcher Christian, and the ship that never came home to England. Eredeti név: MUTINY ON THE BOUNTYKiadás éve: 2008Oldalak száma: 56 oldalKötésmód: puhatáblás, ragasztókötöttISBN: 9780194789110EAN: 9780194789110

Dorothy Lives in Kansas, USA, but one day a cyclone blows her and her house to a strange country called Oz. There, Dorothy makes friends with the Scarecrow, the Tin Man, and the Cowardly Lion. But she wants to go home to Kansas. Only one person can help her, and that is the country's famous Wizard. So Dorothy and her friends take the yellow brick road to the Emerald City, to find the Wizard of Oz... (Word count 5,440)Kiadás éve: 2008Oldalak száma: 56 oldalKötésmód: puhatáblás, ragasztókötöttISBN: 9780194789264EAN: 9780194789264

Tom Sawyer does not Like school. He does not like work, and he never wants to get out of bed in the morning. But he likes swimming and fishing, and having adventures with his friends. And he has a lot of adventures. One night, he and his friend Huck Finn go to the graveyard to look for ghosts. They don't see any ghosts that night. They see something worse than a ghost - much, much worse... (Word count 5,825) Eredeti név: THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYERKiadás éve: 2008Oldalak száma: 56 oldalKötésmód: puhatáblás, ragasztókötöttISBN: 9780194789004EAN: 2013300293193

Eredeti név: THE PRESIDENT'S MURDERER - OBW LIBRARY 1Kiadás éve: 2008Oldalak száma: 56 oldalKötésmód: puhatáblás, ragasztókötöttISBN: 9780194788854EAN: 9780194788854

Do you believe in ghosts? Jerry doesn't. He's a nineteen-year-old American, who just wants a good holiday with his friend, Brad. They are travelling round the north of England by bicycle. But strange things begin to happen in the small hotel where they are staying. First, Brad seems to think that he has been there before. And then a girl called Ellen appears ...The first of these three original plays is set in the seventeenth century, and the other two take place in modern times. In each play, a ghost comes back from the dead to change the lives of living people.Kiadás éve: 2008Oldalak száma: 56 oldalKötésmód: puhatáblás, ragasztókötöttISBN: 9780194235013EAN: 2013300312528

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 the hedges around the hayfield comes the rich, sweet smell of wild flowers, and the hay will make a fine, soft bed.Kiadás éve: 2008Oldalak száma: 56 oldalKötésmód: puhatáblás, ragasztókötöttISBN: 9780194790802EAN: 2013300312719

All he wanted to do was to marry the woman he loved. But his country said 'No!' He was Edward VIII, King of Great Britain, King of India, King of Australia, and King of thirty-nine other countries. And he loved the wrong woman. She was beautiful and she loved him - but she was already married to another man. It was a love story that shook the world. The King had to choose: to be King, or to have love ...and leave his country, never to return.Eredeti név: THE LOVE OF A KING - OBW 2.Kiadás éve: 2008Oldalak száma: 56 oldalKötésmód: puhatáblás, ragasztókötöttISBN: 9780194790864EAN: 9780194790864

Mr James Conway wants to make money. He wants to build new houses and shops - and he wants to build them on an old graveyard, on the island of Haiti. There is only one old man who still visits the graveyard; and Mr Conway is not afraid of one old man. But the old man has friends - friends in the graveyard, friends who lie dead, under the ground. And when Mr Conway starts to build his houses, he makes the terrible mistake of disturbing the sleep of the dead... Eredeti név: VOODOO ISLAND - OBW 2.Kiadás éve: 2008Oldalak száma: 56 oldalKötésmód: puhatáblás, ragasztókötöttISBN: 9780194790758EAN: 9780194790758

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. 'Never in a million years!' Word count 10,295Eredeti név: WHO, SIR? ME, SIR?Kiadás éve: 2008Oldalak száma: 72 oldalKötésmód: ragasztottISBN: 9780194791366EAN: 2013300311804

On a stormy winter night, a stranger knocks at the door of a shepherd's cottage. He is cold and hungry, and wants to get out of the rain. He is welcomed inside, but he does not give his name or his business. Who is he, and where has he come from? And he is only the first visitor to call at the cottage that night... In these three short stories, Thomas Hardy gives us pictures of the lives of shepherds and hangmen, dukes and teachers. But rich or poor, young or old, they all have the same feelings of fear, hope, love, jealousy...Eredeti név: THE THREE STRANGERS AND OTHER STORIES - OBW 3.Kiadás éve: 2008Oldalak száma: 72 oldalKötésmód: puhatáblás, ragasztókötöttISBN: 9780194791335EAN: 2013300298761

Allegra is an unusual name. It means 'happy' in Italian, but the little girl in this story is sometimes very sad. She is only five years old, but she tells Adrian, her new friend, that she is going to die soon. How does she know? And who is the other Allegra? The girl in a long white nightdress, who has golden hair and big blue eyes. The girl who comes only at night, and whose hands and face are cold, so cold ... Word count 6,115)Eredeti név: THE MYSTERY OF ALLEGRA Kiadás éve: 2008Oldalak száma: 56 oldalKötésmód: ragasztottISBN: 9780194790666EAN: 2013300313419

'I can drive a truck', says Kim on her first day at work in the office. When Kim's passenger Andy finds something strange under the truck things get dangerous - very dangerous. Word count 1,400Kiadás éve: 2008Oldalak száma: 40 oldalKötésmód: fűzveISBN: 9780194234207EAN: 9780194234207

What do you do if you have a boring job in a restaurant, serving fast food to people who have no time to eat? Smile, and do your best? Perhaps it's better to find a place where time doesn't matter so much. Our world is full of these kinds of problems. They make life interesting, and sometimes very funny. These five short plays show people trying to decide what to do in unexpected or difficult situations.Kiadás éve: 2008Oldalak száma: 56 oldalKötésmód: puhatáblás, ragasztókötöttISBN: 9780194235006EAN: 2013300312511

'My brother preferred being with mother and me. He used to help us prepare vegetables in the kitchen or make the bread. But what he liked best was listening to my mother's stories.'Kiadás éve: 2008Oldalak száma: 88 oldalKötésmód: puhatáblás, ragasztókötöttISBN: 9780194792356EAN: 2013300312320

'How can Mr Frank be angry now?' thinks Mike happily. His film is good and he is the only cameraman on the volcano. Now he can go home.Kiadás éve: 2008Oldalak száma: 40 oldalKötésmód: kartonISBN: 9780194234368EAN: 2013300299942

Nani Tama looked at each of us - Dad, Auntie Hiraina, my cousin Timi, and myself. His eyes were angry. 'You fullas want me to die here in this room? Looking at these four walls? When the whakapapa is not yet finished?' But Nani Tama gets his own way, and his grandson drives him through the night, to find the missing pieces from the family history.Kiadás éve: 2008Oldalak száma: 72 oldalKötésmód: papírkötésISBN: 9780194791397EAN: 9780194791397

Everybody has bad dreams. Horrible things move towards you in the dark, things you can hear but not see. Then you wake up, in your own warm bed, and turn over to go back to sleep. But imagine that you wake up on a hard floor, in a darkness blacker than the blackest night. You listen to the silence, and smell a wet dead smell. Death is all around you, waiting ... In these stories by Edgar Allan Poe, death whispers at you from every dark corner, and fear can send you mad ... (Word count 6,000)Kiadás éve: 2008Oldalak száma: 56 oldalKötésmód: puhatáblás, ragasztókötöttISBN: 9780194790871EAN: 2013300312566

Money or love? Which is more important in life? Can money buy anything? Can it help a young man to marry the girl he loves? Does money really make people happy, or does it just cause problems? O Henry had his own difficulties with money and loneliness, and wrote from personal experience.Kiadás éve: 2008Oldalak száma: 56 oldalKötésmód: puhatáblás, ragasztókötöttISBN: 9780194235204EAN: 2013300312559

Bill and Sam arrive in the small American town of Summit with only two hundred dollars, but they need more, and Sam has an idea for making a lot of money. When things start to go very wrong, both men soon regret their visit - and ther idea.Kiadás éve: 2008Oldalak száma: 40 oldalKötésmód: puhatáblás, ragasztókötöttISBN: 9780194234153EAN: 3000001905400