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La escritora D. K. Swan adaptó el texto original de B. Lumsden Milne para brindarnos el presente volumen de relatos cortos titulado “The magic slippers and other stories” llenos de magia y fantasía.
Katrina Kirby is a detective. People call her ‘K’. There has been a murder in a big country house. ‘K’ knows that one of five people murdered Sir Michael Gray. Who did it? How? Why? This is a detective story with a difference: ‘K’ needs your help with her...
“Dick Turpin” es uno de esos personajes situados entre la historia y la leyenda de los que pocas personas saben con certeza qué vicisitudes de su vida ocurrieron realmente y cuales no. Tony Barton nos ayuda recordándonos algunos datos de su vida.
"El libro de casos del Dr. Finlay" es una deliciosa colección de historias episódicas del Dr. Finlay y su vida en el pueblo ficticio escocés de Tannochbrae durante los años de entreguerras y basadas en las propias experiencias de A. J. Cronin como médico. La BBC pasó a dramatizar...
“In the beginning”, many, many years ago, there were two tribes. Dom is a boy from the hunting tribe, and Va is a girl from the farming tribe. The two tribes fight. But the story of Dom and Va is a love story. Longman American Structural Readers is a...
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...
Victor «Frankenstein» thinks he has found the secret of life. He takes parts from dead people and builds a new `man’? But this monster is so big and frightening that everyone runs away from him even Frankenstein himself! The monster is like an enormous baby who needs love. But...
The Otises are a practical American family. They don’t believe in “The Canterville Ghost”. They don’t believe in ghosts … until they move to Canterville Chase, an old English country estate inhabited by the ghost of Sir Simon de Canterville. The family is amused by Sir Simon’s failed attempts...
This is a series of simplified stories, designed as an introduction to literature. The series offers classics, best-sellers, film-titles and original stories. Each book has extensive exercises, a detailed introduction and information about the syllabus. They are published at six levels: level 1 - beginner (300 words); level 2...
“A Christmas Carol” es un cuento navideño, el primero de los que sobre este tema escribió Charles Dickens (1812-1870). Narra cómo el protagonista, un hombre avaro, frío y sin corazón, recibe la víspera de Navidad la visita del fantasma de su fallecido socio, quien le advierte que se le van a...
