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Level 4                                                              Wuthering Heights

                                  B1 (CEFR) / PET* (Cambridge)                      Wuthering Heights is the
                                              Headwords: 1200                       powerful tale of the love
                                                                                    between Heathcliff, a poor boy,
                                Jekyll And Hyde                                     and Catherine, a wealthy young
                                                                                    woman. However, Catherine
                                Few Victorian mysteries are more                    decides to marry her rich         Top Readers
                                haunting and sinister than Dr                       neighbour, Edgar Linton, to
                                Jekyll and Mr Hyde.                      maintain her social status and reputation.
                                                                         Hurt by her rejection, Heathcliff seeks
                                                                         revenge, with tragic consequences.

                                                                                    The Man Who Would Be
                                The Turn Of The Screw                               King
                                A new governess comes to a                          Peachey Carnehan and Daniel
                                large country house to care for                     Dravot, two former British soldiers,
                                two young children. Small but                       decide to travel to Kafiristan to
                                strange events begin to happen.                     become kings. Their journey is
                                The new governess tries to find                     difficult, but the men achieve their
                                answers, and is pulled deeply into                  goal and manage to become kings
                                the strange history of Bly house         and gods in the land of Kafiristan.
                                and its inhabitants.
                                                                                    The Lost World
                                The African Queen                                   Four intrepid adventurers travel
                                During World War One,                               to the Amazon jungle to find
                                missionary Rose Sayer and                           evidence of living dinosaurs.
                                mechanic Charlie Allnutt travel                     Trapped on an isolated plateau,
                                down the Ulanga River in a small                    the men must battle with
                                steamboat, the African Queen, to                    terrifying prehistoric creatures
                                escape the Germans...                               and menacing ape-men – will
                                                                         they survive the dangers of the lost world?
                                The Coral Island
                                When three young friends are                        Robinson Crusoe
                                shipwrecked on an island in the                                           New!
                                Pacific, they’re forced to use all                  Robinson Crusoe
                                their intelligence and courage to                   wants to live a life of
                                survive. Their tropical paradise is                 adventure, so at the
                                then threatened when dangerous                      age of twenty he leaves his home
                                natives and bloodthirsty pirates                    to become a sailor. After many
                     arrive on the island, and a thrilling adventure                adventures at sea, he buys a farm
                     in the South Seas begins.                                      in Brazil, and then he decides
                                                                         to journey to Guinea as a tradesman. But a
                                                                         tornado destroys his ship and he finds himself
                                David Copperfield                        on the beach of an uninhabited island...
                                When young David’s mother dies,
                                his cruel stepfather sends him
                                to work in a factory in London.
                                The working conditions are         Level 5
                                appalling and David decides to                        B2 (CEFR) / *FCE (Cambridge)
                                run away and start a new life in                                 Headwords: 1500
                                Dover... Join David Copperfield
                     as he journeys from heartbreak to happiness
                     in this extraordinary tale of courage and                      The Creeping Man
                     determination.                                                 In this exciting Sherlock Holmes
                                                                                    adventure, the famous detective’s
                                                                                    powers of deduction are put to    Readers
                                                                                    the test when he is called in to
                                                                                    investigate the bizarre behaviour
                                                                                    of a highly-respected professor...
               *Preliminary English Test          *Cambridge English: First
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