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...
Count Dracula is a vampire. He drinks people's blood. When he leaves his lonely castle in the mountains of Transylvania to come to England, Professor Helsing is the only one who understands the danger. But can he stop Dracula's deadly intentions? Bram Stoker's “Dracula” is the world's most famous...
«It was in the spring of the year 1894 that all London was interested, and the fashionable world dismayed, by the murder of the Honourable Ronald Adair under most unusual and inexplicable circumstances...».
“The Return of Sherlock Holmes” is a collection of 13 Sherlock Holmes (three in this book) stories,...
Mark Twain was born Samuel L. Clemens in Florida, Missouri on November 30, 1835. He worked as a printer, and then became a steamboat pilot. He traveled throughout the West, writing humorous sketches for newspapers. In 1865, he wrote the short story, The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, which...
Robert Louis Stevenson, Edimburgo, Gran Bretaña, ¿1850? Vailima, Samoa, 1894), hijo de un dominante constructor de faros, tuvo desde niño varias crisis pulmonares que le llevaron a una constante y nostálgica peregrinación en busca de climas más cálidos, hasta que en 1888 embarca hacia los mares del Sur y...
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...
La pata de mono es un relato breve de terror escrito por W. W. Jacobs, humorista inglés, en 1902. En esta historia la “pata de un mono muerto” es un talismán que cumple a quien la posea tres deseos, pero estos deseos se cumplen de forma contraproducente.
A non-fiction book, ideal for elementary learners of English looking to improve and practise their English. The book is filled with useful vocabulary that is carefully graded and easy to understand, it also comes with audio, so that you can listen at the same time as reading. Twenty-five million...
"La célebre rana saltadora del condado de Calaveras" es un cuento de 1865 de Mark Twain. Fue su primer gran éxito como escritor y atrajo la atención nacional. La historia también se ha publicado como "Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog", "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" y,...
"Three of Poe's terrifying” tales of madness are presented here at elementary level. In “The black cat” the carzy narrator's horrible crime is exposed to the police by his cat. The wild artist in “The oval portrait” takes the life out of his wife to be able to put...
