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You're fast asleep, and nothing is happening. Or is it? In fact, your body is hard at work. Your lungs are taking oxygen from the air, and your heart is pumping blood round your body. Millions of pieces of information are travelling backwards andforwards to your brain all the time. Muscles are reparing themselves, and in your lymph nodes special cells are cleaning germs and waste from the body. You may think that nothing is happening, but in the extraordinary machine that is the human body, itis very busy indeed...

Three different parts of the world, but all of them dangerous, lonely places. Three different women, but all of them determined to go - and to come back alive! Robyn Davidson walked nearly 3,000 kilometres across the Australian desert - with a dog andfour camels. Arlene Blum led a team of ten women to the top of Annapurna - one of the highest mountains in the world. Only eight came down again. Naomi James sailed around the world alone, on a journey lasting more than 250 days.

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When Black Beauty is trained to carry a rider on his back, or to pull a carriage behind him, he finds it hard at first. But he is lucky - his first home is a good one, where his owners are kind people, who would never be cruel to a horse. But in thenineteenth century many people were cruel to their horses, whipping them and beating them, and using them like machines until they dropped dead. Black Beauty soon finds this out, and as he describes his life, he has many terrible stories to tell.

- Short stories written for native speakers in unabridged and unadapted form- Classic and modern English authors- Each volume focuses on a theme- Support is provided through an introduction, notes, vocabulary support, and language activitiesWhat does it feel like to be a child? Learning how to negotiate with the unpredictable adult world, learninghow to pick a path through life's traps and hazards, learning when the time has come to put away childish things. The writers of these short stories show us the world as seen from the far side of the child-adult divide, a gap that is sometimes small, andsometimes an unbridgeable chasm.This collection contains stories by John Updike, Graham Greene, William Boyd, Susan Hill, D. H. Lawrence, Saki, Penelope Lively, Bernard MacLaverty, Frank Tuohy, and Morley Callaghan.

- Short stories written for native speakers in unabridged and unadapted form- Classic and modern English authors- Each volume focuses on a theme- Support is provided through an introduction, notes, vocabulary support, and language activitiesThese stories explore the trials of life from youth to old age: the idealism of young people, the stresses of marriage, the anxieties of parenthood, and the loneliness and fears of older people. The wide variety of writing styles includes black humour,satire, and compassionate and realistic observation of the follies and foibles of humankind.This collection contains stories by Evelyn Waugh, Roald Dahl, Somerset Maugham, Saki, Frank Sargeson, Raymond Carver, H.E. Bates, and Susan Hill.

After a wild, drunken party, Paul Pennyfeather is forced to leave Oxford and begin a new life out in the wide world. His experiences take him from a boys' private school in Wales, where he meets some rather strange people, to a life of luxury in a grandcountry house and the Ritz Hotel, and then to seven years' hard labour in prison. Where will it all end? The black humour of this story about English society in the 1920s is as fresh today as it was when the novel was first written.

- Short stories written for native speakers in unabridged and unadapted form- Classic and modern English authors- Each volume focuses on a theme- Support is provided through an introduction, notes, vocabulary support, and language activitiesWhat does the future hold in store for the human race? Aliens from distant galaxies, telepathic horror,interstellar war, time-warps, the shriek of a rose, collision with an asteroid - the unknown lies around every corner, and the universe is a big place. These nine science-fiction stories offer possibilities that are fantastic, humorous, alarming, butalways thought-provoking.This collection contains stories by:Ray BradburyBill BrownPhilip K. DickArthur C. ClarkeJerome BixbyIsaac AsimovBrian AldissRoald DahlJohn Wyndham

A sorozat célja, hogy híres magyar írók nagy regényeinek újraírt, egyszerűsített kiadásával segítse amagyar nyelvet tanulókat.

A csomag az alábbi könyveket tartalmazza 1-1 példányban:Anne of Green GablesThe Canterville GhostThe Death of Karen SilkwoodDraculaHenry VIII and his Six WivesHuckleberry FinnNew YorkersThe PianoRobinson CrusoeSherlock Holmes Short Stories

Level B1On 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 weredead, too.Close to the wild beauty of the Yorkshire moors, the father brought up his young family. Who had heard of the Bront‰s of Haworth then? Branwell died young, but his sisters became famous writers.But they did not live to grow old or to enjoy their fame. Only their father was left, alone with his memories.

'Tripitaka, can you go to the West for me - and for Buddha?'Guanyin asks the young monk Tripitaka to bring holy writings back from India. How will he and his strong helpers withstand their long and dangerous journey?

Make discussion work easy for students with Bookworms Club. These collections of graded short stories have been specially selected for Reading Circles - small groups of students who meet to talk about stories. With role sheets to help students preparefor the discussions, and stimulating graded stories, Bookworms Club provides the magic formula for getting students to talk in English.No Morning After by Arthur C.Clarke from 'The Songs of Distant Earth and Other Stories'The Nine Billion Names of God by Arthur C.Clarke from 'The Songs of Distant Earth and Other Sotries'Across the Australian Desert by Robyn Davidson from 'Desert, Mountain, Sea'Casting the Runes by M.R.James from 'The Unquiet Grave'The Songs of Distant Earth by Arthur C.Clare from 'The Songs from Distant Earth and Other Stories'Feuille d'Album by Katherine Mansfield from 'The Garden Party and Other Stories'The Doll's House by Katherine Mansfield from 'The Garden Party and Other Stories'

William ShakespeareRetold by Clare WestIn sixteenth-century Venice - a city of wealthy merchants and bankers - money is all-important. Bassanio ispenniless, but his great friend Antonio offers to help him by borrowing the money that he needs. To do this,though, Antonio must make an arrangement with an old enemy thatn puts his life in danger...The Merchant ofVenice is one of Shakespeare's most popular plays, and it has been performed all over the world. It is retoldin this Bookworm not as a play, but as a story.

Sherlock Holmes is the greatest detective the world has ever seen, and he knows it. As the famous bank-robber, John Clay, says to him, 'You think of everything, Mr Holmes. You're very clever.' People come to him with problems that no one, not even thepolice, can solve. Holmes sits, and thinks, and smokes his pipe, and in the end he finds the answer. In these plays, based on two of his stories, Holmes, helped by his old friend, Dr Watson, uses his great intelligence to solve two unusual andinteresting cases.

A warm summer night. The moon shines down on the quiet houses and gardens. Everyone is asleep. Everyone except the man in pyjamas and slippers, standing on the wet grass at the end of his garden, watching and waiting... In these three short stories, H.E. Bates presents ordinary people like you and me. But as we get to know them better, we see that their feelings are not at all ordinary. In fact, what happens to them - and in them - is passionate, and even extraordinary. Could this happen to you andme?CEFR B1

San Francisco lies under a cloud of radioactive dust. People live in half-deserted buildings, and keep electric animals as pets because many real animals have died. Most people emigrate to Mars - unless they have a job to do on Earth. Like Rick Deckard -android killer for the police and owner of an electric sheep. This week he has to find, identify, and kill six escaped androids. They're machines, but they look and sound and think like humans - clever, dangerous humans. The film Blade Runner was basedon this famous novel.

'For me, Watson, life is not so interesting,' says Holmes. 'I loved to read the newspaper, hoping to find some news of an interesting crime for me to investigate or a dangerous criminal for me to catch. Where are all those clever criminals these days?'Then, suddenly, a wild, excited young

Conradin is ten years old. He lives alone with his aunt. He has two big secrets. The first is that he hates his aunt. The second is that he keeps a small, wild animal in the garden shed. The animal has sharp, white teeth, and it loves fresh blood. Everynight, Conradin prays to this animal and asks it to do one thing for him, just one thing.This collection of short stories is clever, funny, and shows us 'Nature, red in tooth and claw'. In other words, it is Saki at his very best.