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Rain, Rain, Go Away! The Return Romeo and Juliet Sherlock Holmes The Strange Case of
of Sherlock Holmes Investigates Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Nicola Prentis William Shakespeare
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Robert Louis Stevenson
Adventure – Original Adapted by Derek Sellen
Adapted by Blanche Malvern Extra activities by Jennifer Adapted by Kenneth Brodey Adapted by J. Butler and M. L. De Vanna
In a dystopian future where access Activities by Stanley Roberts Gascoigne and Rebecca Raynes Activities by J. Gascoigne and K.
to clean water is controlled by the Dossiers by Robert Hill Activities by Kenneth Brodey Brodey
Keepers, thirst is a part of everyday Crime – Classic
life. Kailani, a young girl, goes into Love – Classic Crime – Classic Mystery & horror – Classic
the desert, to the Edge, to find In 1891, the great detective
water for her sick brother. If she Sherlock Holmes disappeared. The Montagues and the Capulets Sherlock Holmes is at work in three Doctor Jekyll is a brilliant scientist,
fails, he might die. A month after Holmes’s disa- hate each other and so when stories: solving the problem of a hat but his research leads him to
ppearance, his good friend and Romeo and Juliet fall in love they and a goose in ‘The Blue Carbuncle’; discover a monster – a monster
Dossiers: colleague Dr Watson published an are forced into secrecy and finding a missing fiancé in ‘A Case that is part of himself! He tries to
article in the newspaper, explaining subterfuge. Will true love survive? of Identity’; and discovering the control this violent creature, who is
Dystopian Stories; The World’s Driest that Holmes died while struggling identity of a strange creature in known as Mr Hyde, but gradually
Places; Water; Water; Everywhere? with his arch-enemy Professor Dossiers: ‘The Yellow Face’. Mr Hyde becomes stronger and
Moriarty. But is that what really stronger…
happened? In Fair Verona; Settings and Sources Dossiers:
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Tales of the Three Men in a Boat The Three Musketeers The Time NEW The Tragedy
Supernatural Machine of Richard III
Jerome K. Jerome Alexandre Dumas père
Charles Dickens, Edgar Allan Poe, H. G. Wells William Shakespeare
E. Nesbit, F. M. Crawford Adapted by Gina D. B. Clemen Adapted by Jennifer Gascoigne
Adapted by Derek Sellen Adapted by Richard Elliott
Adapted by Peter Foreman Humour & comedy – Classic Adventure – Classic
Science fiction – Classic
Mystery & horror – Classic What can possibly happen to three D’Artagnan travels to Paris hoping Tragedy – Classic
friends and their dog when they to join the Musketeers, a group of The Time Traveller visits the year
Dickens makes our spines tingle in take a peaceful boat trip on the adventurers who serve Louis XIII. A 802,701. The people seem to live After a long civil war between the
his famous tale of a haunted River Thames? Well, just about series of misadventures brings him peacefully with nothing to do but Houses of Lancaster and York,
railwayman. In Allan Poe’s Ligeia anything! Enjoy their funny to a duel with none other than eat fruit, gather flowers and play. England is enjoying a period of
the ghost of a woman returns. adventures as they visit historic three of his heroes — the But what is the hidden secret of peace under King Edward IV. But
Nesbit shows us how there really is sites on the beautiful Thames. Musketeers Porthos, Athos, and this world? What happens on the Edward’s younger brother, Richard,
a good reason to be scared of the Aramis. The three men ask darkest night? In one of the resents Edward’s power, Richard
dark. And Crawford tells of a ship’s Dossiers: D’Artagnan to join them in their greatest science fiction novels, H.G. begins to aspire secretly to the
passenger who encounters a struggle to protect Queen Anne Wells explores the future of the throne and decides to kill anyone he
horrible ‘thing’ in his cabin. Fox-Terriers; Queen Elizabeth I; against the plots of power-hungry human race. has to in order to become king.
Life on the River; Preserving Food; Cardinal Richelieu.
Dossiers: The Magna Carta; Famous People and Dossiers: Dossiers:
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in the 17th century; Dumas beyond Richard III on screen and stage
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Treasure Island Twelfth Night The Vampire’s Tear
Robert Louis Stevenson William Shakespeare Gina D. B. Clemen
Adapted by Christopher Hall Adapted by Nancy Timmins Crime – Original
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Humour & comedy – Classic A diamond is on display at a New
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After surviving a shipwreck off the summer job at the museum and
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where Captain Flint has hidden his herself as a boy to get a position at to join him for a summer of fun.
treasure, Jim, Trelawney and the court of Duke Orsino, who is in One night the diamond disappears
Dr Livesey sail to the island to look love with beautiful Olivia. Unknown and a security guard is found dead.
for it. But during the voyage Jim to Viola, her twin brother Sebastian Suddenly there is a vampire scare in
discovers more about the ship’s has also survived the shipwreck. New York City. The three teenagers
company, which includes Long John When he too arrives in Illyria, start investigating…
Silver. confusion and misunderstandings
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American Horror Beowulf The Canterbury Tales A Christmas Carol Dracula
Five Terrifying Tales Retold by Robert Hill Geoffrey Chaucer Charles Dickens Bram Stoker
Edgar Allan Poe Legend – Classic Adapted by Robert Hill Adapted by Peter Foreman Adapted by Kenneth Brodey
Adapted by Kenneth Brodey The mighty warrior Beowulf offers Human interest – Classic Human interest – Classic Mystery & horror – Classic
to help the King of the Danes in a
Mystery & horror – Classic quest to kill the vicious monster In Chaucer’s classic, much-loved Mean old Ebenezer Scrooge doesn’t When Jonathan Harker goes to
Grendel and free his people from collection of tales a host of like Christmas. He doesn’t like Transylvania to visit Count Dracula
Edgar Allan Poe is one of the first terror. After killing Grendel, medieval characters come alive on people. He only likes money. But on business, he discovers that his
masters of modern short stories. Beowulf must also kill the the page – and they are as lively when the ghost of his friend, Old client’s motives for coming to
But he is best remembered for his monster’s mother before he can and colourful now as they were Marley, visits him on Christmas Eve, England are rather more sinister
strange style of horror. A man who return to his homeland, where he seven hundred years ago! In this it’s the beginning of a very strange than they first appeared.
drains away his wife’s life to make eventually becomes king. But he is retelling of five of the stories in night. Next morning he wishes This classic horror story has
his painting seem alive; an animal called for a new adventure, as a modern English, Chaucer’s pilgrims everybody a Merry Christmas! So fascinated readers ever since it
lover who becomes obsessed by a great dragon comes to destroy his entertain us with tales of knights, what has changed bad old Scrooge? came out in 1897.
cat; a young man obsessed by an kingdom. Will Beowulf’s efforts lovers, resourceful women, and
old man’s blue eye… cost him his life this time? more. Dossiers: Dossiers:
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Dickens’s time; The Christmas Story Victorian Villains; Monsters and Fears
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Far from the NEW Hamlet, The House of the Jack the Ripper Katherine Mansfield
Madding Crowd Prince of Denmark Seven Gables Short Stories
Peter Foreman
Thomas Hardy William Shakespeare Nathaniel Hawthorne Katherine Mansfield
Crime – Classic
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Human interest – Classic has become famous all over the
Independent-minded Bathsheba The most famous play by the world. Who was he? There have In The Garden Party, Mansfield
Everdene is in charge of her own world’s most famous dramatist The seventeenth-century house of been hundreds of suspects and explores class consciousness,
farm at a time when few women begins with Hamlet’s return to the seven gables shelters an old theories but nobody has yet sensitivity and the co-existence of
owned property. She must also Denmark after the sudden and curse and a terrible secret. discovered his identity. life and death. In The Singing Lesson, a
make a difficult choice, between unexpected death of his father, the Hepzibah and Clifford Pyncheon are Jack the Ripper takes you back to the young music teacher experiences a
three very different men who love King. One night the ghost of the old tormented by the memories and dark streets of Victorian London, to cascade of emotions in the space of
her. Set in the beautiful English King appears to Hamlet and tells ghosts of the past, until the love of investigate the story of the most a few hours. Feminism, vanity and
countryside, Far from the Madding him that he was poisoned – by his two young people changes the mysterious killer in the history of materialism are the themes of A Cup
Crowd is one of Thomas Hardy's brother! The ghost makes Hamlet course of destiny… crime. of Tea.
most romantic and popular novels. promise to take revenge...
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The Last of the Macbeth The Merchant of Venice A Midsummer Moby Dick
Mohicans Night’s Dream
William Shakespeare William Shakespeare Herman Melville
James Fenimore Cooper William Shakespeare
Adapted by James Butler Adapted by Robert Hill Adapted by Gina D. B. Clemen
Adapted by Gina D. B. Clemen Activities by Bruce Hodges Adapted by James Butler Activities by Bruce Hodges
Human interest – Classic Additional activities
Adventure – Classic Tragedy – Classic by Rebecca Raynes Adventure – Classic
Bassanio wants to impress Portia
During the Seven Years’ War Macbeth is a loyal and courageous but he doesn’t have enough money Humour & comedy – Classic Moby Dick is an epic tale of the
between the French and the British, servant of King Duncan. But, one to do so. He turns for help to voyage of the whaling ship the
Cora and Alice Munro are on their day, after a battle he meets three Antonio, who is forced to borrow Two young lovers, Hermia and Pequod and its captain, Ahab, who
way to Fort Henry to join their witches, who tell him that one day from Shylock, a Jewish Lysander, meet in the wood with pursues the great white whale
father, the commander. But their he will be King of Scotland. Soon moneylender. When Antonio’s the intention of running away and almost around the world.
American Indian guide, Magua, his obsession to become king and business starts going badly, getting married secretly. They are Ishmael, a sailor, arrives in New
betrays the group to the Iroquois. his wife’s cold-blooded ambition repayment becomes impossible and followed by Demetrius, who loves Bedford, where he meets
This is only the beginning of their lead to murder. Shylock is allowed to demand a Hermia, and Helena, who is in love Queequeg, a harpooner from the
many adventures. pound of the merchant’s flesh. with Demetrius. What they don’t South Pacific, who becomes his
Dossiers: know is that the wood is inseparable friend.
Dossiers: Dossiers: enchanted… Captain Ahab’s voyage is one of
Films of ‘Macbeth’; Scotland’s revenge and, in the end, one of
The Origins of the American Indian History; Witches; The Castles of Venice, a Centre of Commerce Dossiers: disaster.
People; The Iroquois Confederacy; The Scotland Venice; a City of Masks
American Indian Experience and Jews in Venice Shakespeare’s Sources; Dossier:
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The Moonstone Le Morte d’Arthur Much Ado About Northanger Abbey Othello
Nothing
Wilkie Collins Sir Thomas Malory Jane Austen William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
Adapted by Christopher Hall Adapted by Victoria Spence Adapted by Nancy Timmins Adapted by Lucy Parker
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On her eighteenth birthday, Rachel Le Morte d’Arthur tells the story of Catherine is going on her first visit Othello is a successful general, but
Verinder receives a very special King Arthur and the Knights of the Claudio is in love with Hero, but is to the city of Bath. She is seventeen a very simple man who trusts Iago
present, the Moonstone – a large Round Table. The tale begins with afraid that she will reject him. His and comes from a small town in the completely. When he elopes with
yellow diamond from India. But that Arthur’s birth, his education, and friend, Don Pedro, volunteers to countryside. When she makes and marries Desdemona, he is
night the Moonstone is stolen… his rise to the throne. It also make her fall in love with him at a friends with Henry and his sister overwhelmed by the happiness that
In what T. S. Eliot called ‘the first, recounts the tragic love story of Sir masked ball. The trick works and Eleanor, she will find herself in the seems to be his. Iago, embittered by
the longest, and the best of modern Lancelot and Guinevere, the Hero agrees to marry Claudio. But middle of a family tragedy. Henry’s his failure to win promotion in the
detective novels’, Wilkie Collins destruction of the Round Table and Don Pedro’s brother, Don John, home, Northanger Abbey, is the army, decides to poison the
tells a story full of mystery, Arthur’s mysterious disappearance organises a plot to make Claudio scene of a crime. Or is it all just a general’s happiness…
suspense and psychological insight. or death. think that Hero is unfaithful… product of Catherine’s imagination?
Dossiers:
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The First London Theatres; The
Imperialism on the Indian; Medieval Romance Literature; Tragic and Comic Elements in ‘Much King George III and Regency England; Portrayal of Othello
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Power and Ambition The Sign of Four A Study in Scarlet The Tempest
in Shakespeare
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Sir Arthur Conan Doyle William Shakespeare
Adapted by Jane Elizabeth
Cammack Adapted by Nancy Timmins Adapted by Nancy Timmins Adapted by Jennifer Gascoigne
Activities by Eleanor Donaldson Activities by Richard Elliott
Tragedy – Classic and Eleanor Donaldson Human interest – Classic
Crime – Classic
A power-hungry Richard III, a Crime – Classic Thirteen years ago Prospero was
remorseful Macbeth, a revengeful Sherlock Holmes is bored. But a robbed of his title and sent to die at
Prince Hamlet, a powerful Julius fascinating new case is just around In an empty house lies a dead man. sea with his daughter. They made
Caesar, and a ruthless and the corner. The attractive Mary There are no wounds on his body. their home on a remote island. One
ambitious King Henry V: various Morstan arrives at 221B Baker On the wall, the word RACHE – day a ship passes near the island.
aspects of power and ambition Street with a strange story to tell. German for ‘revenge’ – is written in Prospero, now a powerful magician,
feature in these five stories based Her father vanished ten years ago: blood. With the help of his friend creates a big storm and makes it
on plays by William Shakespeare. four years later she receives six Doctor Watson can Sherlock sink. All the passengers manage to
beautiful pearls, one each year. She Holmes use his deductive powers to get to the island safely. The storm
Dossiers: has been invited to meet the sender find the murderer? is part of Prospero’s plan for
of these pearls and asks Sherlock Set in London in the 1880s, A Study revenge.
Ghosts; Witches and Revenge; Holmes and Doctor Watson for in Scarlet is the first Holmes and
The Influence on Shakespeare’s Plays their help. Watson mystery, the beginning of a Dossiers:
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Three Men on the Tom Jones The Tragedy The Turn of the Screw The Valley of Fear
Bummel of Dr Faustus
Henry Fielding Henry James Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Jerome K. Jerome Christopher Marlowe
Adapted by James Butler Adapted by Maud Jackson Adapted by Nancy Timmins
Adapted by Gina D. B. Clemen Activities by Justin Rainey Adapted by James Butler Activities by Justin Rainey Activities by Eleanor Donaldson
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Humour & comedy – Classic Adventure – Classic Mystery & horror – Classic Crime – Classic
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Three friends, George, Harris and J Kindly Mr Allworthy returns home In the 1840s, a young woman is The great detective Sherlock
need a change in their lives and to find that someone has left a baby Doctor Faustus, a brilliant scholar, employed as governess to two Holmes is needed to solve a murder
they decide to go on a bicycle trip boy in his house. He adopts him and enters into an agreement with the children in an English country in Sussex, England. A card with the
through the beautiful Black Forest names him Tom Jones. Devil. He agrees to sell his soul in house. The children are beautiful initials VV 341 has been left by the
in Germany, where they meet with Mr Allworthy’s sister, Bridget, has a return for twenty-four years of and charming, and – for a while – body, and discovering the facts of
all kinds of hilarious adventures as son called Blifil. What happens knowledge, power and riches. But the young woman thinks her the case gets ever more difficult.
they get into and out of trouble… when Tom falls in love with a he eventually realises the full position is both easy and pleasant. The answers to this mystery lie far
neighbouring gentleman’s daughter, implications of his rash action. Then she begins to see the ghosts away from the scene of the crime
Dossiers: Sophia, whose family want her to of the former governess Miss Jessel and across the Atlantic, in a place
marry Blifil? Dossiers: and the manservant Peter Quint... known as ‘The Valley of Fear’.
The Golden Age of Bicycles; The Black
Forest Dossiers: Christopher Marlowe and Elizabethan Dossiers: Dossiers:
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Washington Square Wicked and The Woman in White
Humorous Tales
Henry James Wilkie Collins
Saki
Adapted by Gina D. B. Clemen Adapted by Christopher Hall
Activities by Anna Maria Patrone Adapted by Kenneth Brodey Activities by Frederick Garland
and Rebecca Raynes
Humour & comedy – Classic Mystery & horror – Classic
Love – Classic
A dramatic intrusion ends a long Late one night, on a lonely road
Catherine Sloper, an insignificant, family feud, a man is strangely near London, Walter Hartright, a
plain girl, will one day inherit a influenced by his pets, a cat brings young drawing teacher, meets a
substantial fortune from her father. scandal to British society and a solitary woman dressed in white.
When her overwhelming passion for little boy battles to enjoy life with This is the opening scene of The
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Emma Frankenstein Gothic Great Expectations The Great Gatsby
Short Stories
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W. W. Jacobs, Amelia B. Edwards
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Emma Woodhouse, handsome, aspiration to understand the with an escaped prisoner and the hosts Long Island’s most
clever and rich, has a perfect life. mysteries of creation lead Victor Bram Stoker (the author of Dracula) acquaintance of an eccentric old extravagant parties, while he
She has decided never to get Frankenstein to create life from takes student Malcolm Malcolmson woman and a beautiful young girl desperately seeks his long lost love.
married but to live as the mistress death. But the results are not what through a terrifying ordeal inside a change the course of his life. He is Scott Fitzgerald’s novel is both a
of Hartfield, her father’s house in he expects and his rejection of his judge’s house. Travel, if you dare, in suddenly dissatisfied with his social pitiless and moving exposure of ‘the
the beautiful English countryside. monstrous creation causes dire a ghostly coach – with three dead status and wants to become a American Dream’.
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Heart of Darkness Jane Eyre The Murders Pamela A Passage to India*
in the Rue Morgue
Joseph Conrad Charlotte Brönte Samuel Richardson E. M. Forster
and The Purloined Letter
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through colonial Africa. He makes a sent away to school. When Jane Brodey house. But, when her mistress dies, Moore to decide whether to marry
perilous journey by steamboat to leaves school to work as a Pamela is left at the mercy of Mr B, the latter’s son, Ronny. Obsessed
rescue Kurtz, an ivory agent, who is governess at Thornfield Manor Crime – Classic her mistress’s son, who sets out to with understanding the ‘real India’,
seriously ill. He arrives at Kurtz’s owned by Mr Rochester, she finally seduce her. Will Mr B succeed, or the two women make friends with
station to find that the agent has finds some happiness. But some Two cases of detection for Auguste will Pamela’s virtuous behaviour Dr Aziz, who invites them to the
taken control of the whole area. In strange events are signals that the C. Dupin. Who committed the find its own reward? A fascinating mysterious Marabar caves…
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The Picture of Dorian Pride and Prejudice A Selection The Problem Robinson Crusoe
Gray from Dubliners of Cell 13
Jane Austen Daniel Defoe
Oscar Wilde James Joyce Jacques Futrelle
Adapted by Jennifer Gascoigne Adapted by Maud Jackson
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Rainey Human interest – Classic Adventure – Classic
Mrs Bennet has five daughters to Mystery & horror – Classic
Mystery & horror – Classic be married: Jane, Elizabeth, Mary, These stories from James Joyce’s When the captain tells Robinson,
Kitty and Lydia. So, when rich and ‘Dubliners’ take you inside the ‘Lock me in any cell in any prison ‘Young man, you should never
When the superbly handsome friendly Mr Bingley comes to live in tragedies and comedies of Irish life anywhere at any time, wearing only go to sea again…’, Robinson ignores
Dorian Gray sees his portrait he their village bringing an even richer, in the early twentieth century. Meet normal clothes and I’ll escape in a his advice, with terrible
makes a terrible wish: that the but unfriendly, Mr Darcy with him, unforgettable characters, including week.’ For Professor Van Dusen, consequences. He is forced into
portrait will grow older and that he Mrs Bennet is delighted and a boy who died for love, determined otherwise known as ‘The Thinking slavery and escapes, but he is then
will remain young forever. But what hopeful. However, something goes mothers and romantic dreamers. Machine’, nothing is impossible. shipwrecked on a desert island,
happens to the portrait that no one wrong, as Mr Bingley loses interest Many of them are forced to see the Logic is his passion. One hour later where he manages to survive
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Meet unforgettable characters, including a boy who died for love, A Selection from Dubliners
determined mothers and romantic dreamers. Many of them are
forced to see the truth about their lives. One of Ireland’s greatest
writers gives you his view of his native city.
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The Scarlet Letter Sense and Sensibility Sons and Lovers A Tale of Two Cities The Taming
of the Shrew
Nathaniel Hawthorne Jane Austen D. H. Lawrence Charles Dickens
William Shakespeare
Adapted by Gina D. B. Clemen Adapted by Blanche Malvern Adapted by Blanche Malvern Adapted by James Butler
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Love – Classic and Lucia De Vanna
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In 17th-century Puritan Boston, Humour & comedy – Classic
Hester Prynne gives birth to an Elinor and Marianne Dashwood are Mrs Morel is a strong, intelligent, Dr Manette is falsely imprisoned for
illegitimate child and is condemned sisters. Both are intelligent and domineering woman. She is 18 years by the Marquis of Baptista’s two beautiful daughters
to wear the scarlet letter ‘A’ as a beautiful, but there the similarities antagonistic to her husband and Evrémonde. He is eventually are ready for marriage. Bianca,
sign of her adultery. Hester refuses end. Elinor values propriety and gives all her love to her sons. The released and goes to England to join pursued by three different suitors,
to reveal the identity of her lover, common sense; Marianne has Morels’ younger son, Paul, grows up his daughter Lucie, who marries the cannot marry until someone dares
and is forced to lead a life of extravagant Romantic ideas. Jane close to his mother. As he grows up, Frenchman Charles Darnay of the to marry her sister, the proud and
humiliation. Meanwhile, Hester’s Austen explores two ways of he is torn between a passionate Evrémonde family. During the Reign contemptuous Katharine. Then
husband settles in Boston and, after thinking and acting – the ‘sense’ of love for his mother and his lovers, of Terror Darnay travels to Paris Petruchio arrives in Padua and
making her swear to keep his Elinor and the ‘sensibility’ of first Miriam and then Clara. where he is imprisoned and proposes to Katharine. Will he be
identity secret, tries to discover Marianne – as they try to find sentenced to be executed... able to turn her into a model of
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Tess of the Vanity Fair Wuthering Heights
d’Urbervilles
William Makepeace Thackeray Emily Brontë
Thomas Hardy
Adapted by James Butler Adapted by Maud Jackson
Adapted by Maud Jackson Activities by Kenneth Brodey Activities by Justin Rainey
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Amelia Sedley and Becky Sharp are Wuthering Heights is home to the
The Durbeyfield family are poor and two friends. Amelia comes from a Earnshaw family, who adopt an
simple people, but their ancestors wealthy family but her father is orphan called Heathcliff. When they
were the mighty d’Urbervilles, an made bankrupt. She marries George grow up, Catherine Earnshaw and
ancient and noble family. When the Osborne, a vain and shallow young Heathcliff fall deeply in love. But
Durbeyfields meet with misfortune, man who does not really love her. Catherine decides to marry Edgar
they send their oldest daughter, Becky Sharp, on the other hand, Linton from the big house across
Tess, to visit her wealthy cousin comes from a penniless family, and the moors. Heathcliff runs away in
and ask for help, but the wealthy is determined to use her beauty and despair. When he returns some
cousin has a young son, Alec Stoke- charm to find a good position in life. years later, a series of terrible
d’Urberville, who finds Tess very events destroys the relationship
attractive… Dossiers: between the Lintons and the
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The Mill on the Floss Silas Marner Wuthering Heights
George Eliot George Eliot Emily Brontë
Adapted by Maud Jackson Adapted by Maud Jackson Adapted by Maud Jackson
Activities by Justin Rainey Activities by Justin Rainey Activities by Justin Rainey
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Human interest – Classic Love – Classic
Love – Classic
Silas, a weaver, is betrayed by his Wuthering Heights is home to the
Maggie and Tom Tulliver are sister best friend and the woman he Earnshaw family, who adopt an
and brother. Maggie is passionate, loves. He loses all faith in humanity orphan called Heathcliff. Catherine
impulsive, intelligent and often and moves to the village of Raveloe. Earnshaw becomes great friends
makes mistakes. Tom is practical, There he lives a solitary life, with Heathcliff and they fall in love.
unimaginative, judgemental, honest working and hoarding his gold But Catherine decides to marry
and hardworking. When their father coins, until one day his gold is Edgar Linton. Heathcliff runs away,
is declared bankrupt, Tom works stolen… but when he returns a series of
hard to pay his father’s debts, while events starts to destroy the
Maggie forms unsuitable friendships Dossiers: relationship between the Lintons
and is eventually ostracised by her and the Earnshaws.
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DISCOVERY Features: STEP ONE | A2 STEP ONE | A2
Reading & Training Discovery is a series of factual readers. It is designed • informative texts on a range Great British Writers London
for teenagers, young adults and adults who, through reading about subjects of interesting subject matter
of interest, can improve their English and broaden their knowledge at the with vocabulary footnotes Derek Sellen Gina D. B. Clemen
same time. The series covers a range of interesting subject matter, from
famous people to places such as cities, countries and natural wonders. • use of photographs and Who was a spy for Queen Elizabeth How many different languages are
These readers use Black Cat’s expansive reading approach. The dossiers illustrations with captions I’s secret service? Which writer kept spoken in London? What’s the
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understanding beyond the information provided by the text. • wide range of activities Who wrote poems about the Easter Piccadilly get its name? Book a seat
The Discovery series is graded grammatically and lexically according to the promoting understanding of Revolution in Ireland? in a haunted theatre and enjoy the
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four language skills of the most important British Get to know this sensational city
Level Common European Cambridge English Trinity novelists, poets and playwrights starting from its glorious history all
Framework Language Level • Cambridge and Trinity exam- from Shakespeare to Graham the way to its captivating present.
of Reference Assessment style activities Greene, and discover more about Discover the magic that is London!
3, 4 different periods of literature in
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The British Isles The English-speaking Exploring Places Natural Environments STEP THREE | B1.2
World
Derek Sellen Gina D. B. Clemen Joanna Burgess American Cities
Janet Cameron
The British Isles tells the story of Today we know a lot about faraway Our planet is full of natural Gina D. B. Clemen
England, Wales, Scotland and English is one of the most widely places – we have maps, wonders: the forests, the oceans
Ireland. It includes the most spoken languages in the world. photographs and detailed and the Polar regions and deserts. How much did the Dutch pay for
important events in their history, as Have you ever wondered why? descriptions. But the first explorers They have existed for thousands of Manhattan Island in 1614? Where is
well as key information about their Here we go on a journey over five knew nothing about where they years, but these environments and the world’s blue jeans
cultures. The British Isles is full of continents to look at countries were going. Their courage drove the plants and animals which live in headquarters? New York, San
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the beaches of the Caribbean, from Who were these remarkable what you can do to help. exciting cities. Similar in some ways
Dossiers: the plains of Kenya to the shores of people? Where is the final frontier? and yet completely different in
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Black Cat’s Total series is made up For the revised 2015 Exam students through every aspect. There is a Grammar • 16 topic-based units
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Cambridge writers, who have used Total FIRST – New Edition is a preparation course for practise the more complex tasks covered in the exam unit
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consideration the age, language Cambridge English exam specifications for 2015. at each part of the exam (Reading and Use of English, by-step through the exam
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English Grammar English Grammar Framework English Grammar Framework English Grammar Framework
Framework
Reference and practice for elementary Reference and practice for Reference and practice for intermediate
English Grammar Framework a series of students at A2 level pre-intermediate students at B1 level students at B2 level
reference and practice books for learners at Jennifer Gascoigne, Gillian Hammond Jennifer Gascoigne
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selfstudy tools, for homework or as English Grammar Framework A2 is designed for students at pre-intermediate level and for students at intermediate level and it is
supplements to a coursebook... for students at the levels described as A1 or ideal for students preparing for the also ideal for students preparing for the
A2. Also ideal for students preparing for the Cambridge ESOL PET exam, Trinity exams Cambridge ESOL FCE exam, Trinity exams
Series features: Cambridge ESOL KET exam, Trinity exams grades 5 and 6 and the Achiever level of the grades 7 and 8 and the Communicator level of
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• Clear and simple grammar explanations levels of the City and Guilds suite of exams.
• Lively colour illustrations to provide a Features: Features:
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context for the language • 65 units • 52 units
• 52 units • Supplementary exercises providing • Supplementary exercises providing
• Practice exercises including controlled • Audio CD/CD-ROM which offers
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exercises on all the topic areas in the
• A range of text types: dialogues, Waystage learning objectives of the • Audio CD/CD-ROM which covers all the • Audio CD/CD-ROM which covers all the
emails, stories etc. CEFR plus KET-style exercises topic areas of the Threshold learning topic areas of the Vantage learning
objectives of the CEFR. objectives of the CEFR.
• Opportunities for both written and oral
practice Book (128 p.) + 978-88-530-0711-7 Book (160 p.) + 978-88-530-0820-6 Book (128 p.) + 978-88-530-0962-3
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• Supplementary exercises at the end of Answer key (16 p.) Answer key (16 p.) Answer key (16 p.)
each volume
• Vocabulary suggested by the Common
European Framework of Reference
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• Detailed appendices
• Index
• Audio CD-ROM with recordings of the
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• For B1 and B2 levels downloadable free
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CROSS CURRICULUM/SUPPLEMENTARY
Going for CLIL British History
Seen Through Art
Cross-curricular texts and activities
pre-intermediate
Gina D. B. Clemen
Gina D. B. Clemen, Laura Stagno
Going for CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning) is
designed for young teenagers at elementary level (CEFR British History Seen Through Art relates the significant events
A1-A2). of British History with a detailed commentary on the most
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Going for CLIL is divided into three graded sections (A1, presented in full colour.
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• Cross-curricular approach
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ASPECTS
More than you’d expect!
Victoria Heward
Levels Towards B1, B1, B2.
Divided into 12 units covering fundamental Features: Teacher’s Book:
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topics at different language levels (towards • Interdisciplinary topics • Preliminary, First and IELTS writing
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• First • First
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IELTS writing samples
• Unit tests
• First practice test
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Viewpoints • Science&Technology: science, research Cultural Links Countries and Places: geographical, socio-
and the history of industry and technology economical and cultural passport of English-
Language – Art – An exploration of the speaking countries
Society – Literature • Art: traditional painting and avant-garde English-speaking world
art, architecture, photography, films and Flashback: the main historical events of
Ann Farley, Betty Walters music Philippa Bowen, Margherita Cumino English-speaking countries, from the
Industrial Revolution to the Great Depression
Viewpoints takes us on a tour through the And much more: Cultural Links explores and discovers the to the difficult Irish Question and many more
culture of the English-speaking world, • Travel (tourist attractions, landscapes, English-speaking world and offers links
inspired by the words of some of the most through the British Isles across North People and Lifestyle: contemporary issues
important writers. national parks), America, India, Australia, New Zealand and such as family and how it is changing, fashion,
The volume is divided into ten units, based on more. sport, social networking
texts by Shelley, Dickens, Wilde, Joyce, • Food (traditional food and eating habits,
Carroll, Poe, Twain, Hawthorne, Fitzgerald, food and festivities), Cultural Links consists of 7 topics (files), Education: traditional and contemporary
Salinger, in order to deal with the key dealing with the differences and similarities of British Education, characteristics of north-
aspects of English-speaking countries and • Homes (typical homes, the life in the the countries which are part of the English- American schools, school programmes like
cultures. countryside and in the city), speaking World. Erasmus and much more
• Language&Education: how the English • Leisure (free time activities and sports). 7 Files to discover the Institutions: an overview of the English-
language has changed, how it has spread in English-speaking World speaking World institutions, interactions with
the world and the British and American At the end of the book, a Map and Fact File the European Union.
education systems section (the UK, the USA, Ireland, Canada, Language: how much has the English
Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, India) language changed? How does English manage Features:
• Media&Society: work, young people and enhances the volume with a global view of to create and keep a common link among far-
the media, in the English-speaking world the English-speaking world. off countries and people of the world? • each File consists of two parts: Facts
and figures deals with the topic and
• Environment: the most important Features: Identity: what does English national identity allows the student to learn about the
ecological issues, pollution and ecological mean to English-speaking countries in an ever topic itself. Global view focuses on
politics • 10 units made up of 6 double-page increasing multi-ethnic and multicultural teenage issues and challenges the
sections, 4 sections are dedicated to world? students to think about themselves and
cultural studies and 2 sections to the world around them
literature and art
• Word bank for lexical practice
• a range of activities practicing the four
skills • each File is accompanied by activities
on the four skills
• the student’s book is accompanied by a
DVD featuring the digital book, extra
material in pdf, audio files and videos
Student’s Book (168 p.) + DVD 978-88-530-1360-6 Book (144 p.) 978-88-530-1024-7
978-88-530-1378-1 978-88-530-0394-2
Teacher’s Book (128 p.) Teacher’s Book (64 p.)
+ class audio CD + class audio CD 79
EAR – EARLYREADS – A selection from 69 Jumping Frog (The) 43 Nutcracker (The) 26 Star and the Colours (The) 14
GA – GREEN APPLE Stories for the Curious 39
RT – READING & TRAINING Emma 60 Jungle Book (The) – EAR 18 Oliver Twist 35 Stories of Ghosts and Mystery 45
RC – READING CLASSICS Strange Case of Dr Jekyll
IL – INTERACT WITH LITERATURE Eighth Sister (The) 42 Jungle Book (The) – GA 26 Oscar Wilde’s Short Stories 35 and Mr Hyde (The) – RT 50
LS – READING&TRAININIG LIFE SKILLS Strange Case of Dr Jekyll
English-speaking World (The) 67 Just So Stories 26 Othello 56 and Mr Hyde (The) – RC 69
Study in Scarlet (A) 57
Enormous Turnip (The) 14 Katherine Mansfield Short Stories 54 Owl’s Song (The) 16 Sweet and Sour 68
Sun and the Wind (The) 14
Exploring Places 67 Kidnapped 43 Pamela 61 Tale of Two Cities (A) 63
Tales from Camelot – GA – LS 11
£1,000,000 Banknote (The) 46 N Extraordinary Miss Sunshine (The) 10 Kim 48 Passage to India (A) – RT 61 Tales from The Thousand
– GA – LS and One Nights 39
Act II Murder 40 King Arthur and his Knights 34 Peter and the Wolf 18 Tales of the Supernatural 51
N Far from the Madding Crowd 54 Tales to Talk About 68
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 34 Last of the Mohicans (The) 55 Peter Pan 26 Taming of the Shrew (The) 63
Festivals! 21 Tempest (The) – GA 27
Adventures of Tom Sawyer (The) - GA 29 Last Unicorn (The) 31 Phantom of the Opera (The) 49 Tempest (The) – RT 57
Final Problem and Other Stories (The) 46 Ten Women Ten Stories 68
Adventures of Tom Sawyer (The) - Legends from the British Isles 31 Picture of Dorian Gray (The) – RT 61 Tess of the D’Urbervilles 64
Fisherman and his Soul (The) 42 Three Men in a Boat – RT 51
GA – LS 10 Les Misérables 49 Picture of Dorian Gray (The) – RC 69 Three Men in a Boat – RT – LS 12
Five Children and IT 25 Three Men on the Bummel 58
Aesop’s Fables 19 Little Mermaid (The) 18 Pickwick Papers (The) 49 Three Musketeers (The) 51
Four Continents 69 Time Games 45
Akron House Mystery 29 Little Red Riding Hood 15 Pinocchio 26 N Time Machine (The) 51
Tom Jones 58
Aladdin 21 Frankenstein at School 19 Little Women 31 Power and Ambition in Shakespeare 57 Tragedy of Dr Faustus (The) 58
Tragedy of Richard III (The) 51
N Alaska Adventure 38 Frankenstein – RT 60 London 66 Pride and Prejudice 61 Treasure of Franchard (The) 33
Treasure Island – GA 35
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves 21 Freddy Finds the Thief 19 Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime 48 Prince and the Pauper (The) – Treasure Island – RT 52
and Other Stories GA – LS 10 Trip to the Safari Park (A) 15
Alice’s Adventures Ghost Ship of Bodega Bay (The) 25 Tristan and Isolde 40
Lost Treasure of Bodega Bay (The) 31 Prince and the Pauper (The) – GA 32 True Story of Pocahontas (The) 33
in Wonderland – GA 24 Gingerbread Man (The) 14 Truth about Professor Smith (The) 40
Lost World (The) 43 Problem of Cell 13 (The) 62 Turn of the Screw (The) – RT 58
Alice’s Adventures Gothic Short Stories 60 Turn of the Screw (The) – RC 69
Love in Shakespeare: Five Stories 48 Project Vampire 32 Twelfth Night 52
in Wonderland – RT 41 Great Adventure at Two Monsters 22
Yellowstone (The) 30 Luckiest Girl in the World (The) 43 Puss in Boots 20 Ugly Duckling (The) 15
Alien Alert in Seattle 38 Valley of Fear (The) 58
Great British Writers 66 Macbeth – Green Apple Drama 36 Rain, Rain, Go Away! 50 Vampire’s Tear (The) 52
Amazing Characters 68 Vanity Fair 64
Great English Monarchs Macbeth – RT 55 Railway Children (The) 32 Voices from Inside 68
American Cities 67 and their Times 34 Washington Square 59
Mad Teacher (The) 16 Rajah’s Diamond (The) 44 Wicked and Humorous Tales 59
American Folk Tales 29 Great Expectations – GA 30 Willing Ghost (The) 45
Maggie and Max Visit the Ransom of Red Chief Wind in the Willows (The) 28
American Horror 53 Great Expectations – RT 60 Haunted Castle 17 and Other Stories (The) 44 Woman in White (The) 59
Wonderful Wizard of Oz (The) 28
Animal Tales 41 Great Gatsby (The) – RT 60 Magic Computer Mouse (The) 20 Rapunzel 17 N Wonderful Wizard of Oz (The)
– GA – LS 10
Anne of Green Gables 24 Great Mysteries of Our World 46 Magic Pot (The) 16 Recipe for Success 39 World of Difference (A) 68
Wuthering Heights – RT Step 5 64
Around the World in Eighty Days – RT 41 Gulliver’s Travels – RT 47 Master of Ballantrae (The) 48 Relationships 68 Wuthering Heights – RT Step 6 65
Zed the Magician 22
Around the World in Eighty Days 11 Gulliver’s Travels – RT – LS 12 Merchant of Venice (The) 55 Return of Sherlock Holmes (The) 50 Zorro! 28
– RT – LS
Halloween Horror 25 Message from a Ghost (A) 38 Robin Hood 35
Bathsheba the Witch 24
Halloween Holiday 21 Miami Police File: the O’Nell Case 38 N Robinson Crusoe – GA 33
Beauty and the Beast 24
Hamlet Prince of Denmark 42 Midsummer Night’s Dream (A) – GA 32 Robinson Crusoe – RT 62
Beowulf 53
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark Midsummer Night’s Dream (A) – RT 55 Rob Roy 44
Black Arrow (The) 29
– RT Step 4 54 Mill on the Floss (The) 65 Romeo and Juliet –
Black Beauty 24 Green Apple Drama 36
Happy Prince and Million Dollar Theft
Bonds of Love 68 Romeo and Juliet – RT 50
Boscombe Valley Mystery (The) 41 The Selfish Giant (The) 25 in San Francisco 35
Sandokan 27
Bottle Imp (The) 29 Heart of Darkness – RT 61 Mind the Characters 68
Scarlet Letter (The) 63
British and American Festivities 30 Heart of Darkness – RC 69 Miss Grace Green 15
and the Clown Brothers Secret Garden (The) – GA 27
British Isles (The) 67 Henny Penny 15
Missing in Sydney 39 Secret Garden (The) – RT – LS 11
Bugaboo the Wicked Witch 17 Home for Christmas 38
Call of the Wild (The) 34 Moby Dick 55 Secret Garden (The) – RT 44
Hound of the Baskervilles (The) 47
Canterbury Tales (The) 53 Monster in the Box 18 Secret of the Stones (The) 27
Canterville Ghost (The) – EAR 22 House of the Seven Gables (The) 54
Moonfleet 49 Selection from Dubliners (A) – RT 62
Canterville Ghost (The) – GA 30 I Want To Be You 30
Moonstone (The) 56 Sense and Sensibility 63
Canterville Ghost (The) – RT 46 Ideal Husband (An) 68
Morte d’Arthur (Le) 56 Sherlock Holmes and the Red Circle 33
Canterville Ghost (The) – RT – LS 12 Importance
of Being Earnest (The) – IL 68 Mowgli learns to swim 16 Sherlock Holmes Investigates 50
Christmas Carol (A) – RT 53
Importance Much Ado About Nothing 56 Sherlock Holmes Stories 39
Christmas Fun 20
of Being Earnest (The) – RC 69 Murder at Coyote Canyon 43 Short Stories
Cinderella 17
Importance 47 Murders in the Rue Morgue and – Dickens, Stevenson et al. 69
Classic Detective Stories 46 of Being Earnest (The) – RT
The Purloined Letter (The) 61 – Oscar Wilde 69
David Copperfield 34 Jack the Ripper 54
Musicians of Bremen (The) 18 Sign of Four (The) 57
INDEX N David Copperfield – GA – LS N Jane Eyre – RT – LS 12
11 Mystery in New Orleans 44 Silas Marner 65
Jane Eyre – RT Step 3 47
Dorothy 14 Mystery in San Francisco 32 Sleeping Beauty 20
Jane Eyre – RT Step 5 61
Dracula 53 Natural Environments 67 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs 22
Dracula and his Family 19 Jason and the Argonauts 31 Nasreddin – Ten Stories 22 Sons and Lovers 63
Dream Come True (A) 41 Journey to the Centre of the Earth 42 N North and South – RT – LS 12 Space Monsters 20
Dubliners Julius Caesar 48 Northanger Abbey 56 Splintering Frame (The) 68
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