Pleasant Books in Easy English, Stage 2: A Number of Things
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Part of a series designed to be suitable for students at upper intermediate level, including those preparing for the Cambridge First Certificate examinations. These simplified editions keep within a 2000 word vocabulary, contain exercise material and an introduction to the text and author.
Australia is one of the last places where life still exists after nuclear war starts. Commander Dwight Towers and his Australian liason officer is sent to the coast of North America to discover whether a stray radio signal is a sign of life.
La novela de Charles Dickens retrata un mundo dividido entre París y Londres durante la tumultuosa Revolución Francesa. La historia comienza con la liberación del Dr. Manette, quien ha pasado dieciocho años como prisionero político en la Bastilla, reuniéndose con su hija en Inglaterra. Allí, dos hombres contrastantes—Charles Darnay, un aristócrata francés exiliado, y Sydney Carton, un brillante pero desprestigiado abogado inglés—se entrelazan a través de su amor por Lucie Manette. Mientras navegan por las pacíficas calles de Londres, se ven inevitablemente atraídos hacia el violento caos de París durante el Reinado del Terror, donde enfrentan la sombría realidad de La Guillotine. La obra captura la amplitud de la visión de Dickens, explorando la mezcla de drama épico y tragedia personal en la narrativa. Celebrado por su impacto duradero, Dickens ha dejado una huella indeleble en la literatura.
The titles in this series are mainly new editions of titles in the Longman Simplified English Series. They are suitable for students at upper intermediate level, including those preparing for the Cambridge First Certificate.
'Penguin Readers' is a series of novels, film novelizations and original titles that introduces students at all levels to the pleasures of reading.
The titles in this series are mainly new editions of titles in the Longman Simplified English Series. They are suitable for students at upper intermediate level, including those preparing for the Cambridge First Certificate.
Longman Structural Readers are graded both by structure and vocabulary in six stages, ranging from post-beginners to intermediate level. Real beginners can start with Easystarts and progress to LSR Stage 1. Most books in the series contain exercise material.