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Robert Dewsnap

    The Bottle Imp
    Easy Readers: The Canterville Ghost
    El tercer hombre
    The Speckled Band
    The hound of the Baskervilles
    Black Boy
    • Black Boy

      • 103 páginas
      • 4 horas de lectura

      With an introduction by Jerry W. Ward, Jr. Black Boy is a classic of American autobiography, a subtly crafted narrative of Richard Wright's journey from innocence to experience in the Jim Crow South. An enduring story of one young man's coming off age during a particular time and place, Black Boy remains a seminal text in our history about what it means to be a man, black, and Southern in America. "Superb...The Library of America has insured that most of Wright's major texts are now available as he wanted them to be tread...Most important of all is the opportunity we now have to hear a great American writer speak with his own voice about matters that still resonate at the center of our lives." --Alfred Kazin, New York Time Book Review "The publication of this new edition is not just an editorial innovation, it is a major event in American literary history." --Andrew Delbanco, New Republic

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    • The hound of the Baskervilles

      • 188 páginas
      • 7 horas de lectura

      The Penguin English Library Edition of The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle "Mr Holmes, they were the footprints of a gigantic hound!" The terrible spectacle of the beast, the fog of the moor, the discovery of a body: this classic horror story pits detective against dog, rationalism against the supernatural, good against evil. When Sir Charles Baskerville is found dead on the wild Devon moorland with the footprints of a giant hound nearby, the blame is placed on a family curse. It is left to Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson to solve the mystery of the legend of the phantom hound before Sir Charles' heir comes to an equally gruesome end. The Hound of the Baskervilles gripped readers when it was first serialised and has continued to hold its place in the popular imagination. The Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War.

      The hound of the Baskervilles
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    • Part of the High Impact series this classic text is retold in an accessible style for those with a reading age of six to seven years. Can Sherlock Holmes solve the mystery of the death of Helen's sister in time to save Helen's own life?

      The Speckled Band
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    • El tercer hombre

      • 124 páginas
      • 5 horas de lectura

      Guerra Fría, Viena, 1947. El norteamericano Holly Martins, un mediocre escritor de novelas del Oeste, llega a la capital austríaca cuando la ciudad está dividida en cuatro zonas ocupadas por los estados aliados de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Holly va a visitar a Harry Lime, un amigo de la infancia que le ha prometido trabajo. Pero su llegada coincide con el entierro de Harry, que ha muerto atropellado por un coche. El jefe de la policia militar británica le hace saber que su amigo estaba gravemente implicado en el mercado negro.

      El tercer hombre
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    • Humour: The well-known story about an American family who moves into an old English castle. We follow the trag-comic complications between a poor ghost and the modern American family.

      Easy Readers: The Canterville Ghost
    • This classic story is has been simplified and abridged to suit the needs of learners of English. For use in schools and private study.

      The Bottle Imp
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