Victor Frankenstein thinks he has found the secret of life. He takes parts from dead people and builds a new 'man'. But this monster is so big and frightening that everyone runs away from him - even Frankenstein himself! The monster is like an enormous baby who needs love. But nobody gives him love, and soon he learns to hate. And, because he is so strong, the next thing he learns is how to kill..
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The famous Canterville Ghost haunts an old house, but the ghost becomes unhappy when the new owners play tricks on him! In the other stories, we meet Lord Arthur Savile, who has to murder someone before he can get married, and we discover the secret life of beautiful Lady Alroy.
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A famous painting is going to the Grierson Gallery in LA and they want a top man to come to the United States. The National Gallery in London send Mr Bean. After he arrives, accidents start to happen…
Contemporary / British English
Mr Bean doesn’t understand the world.
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Billy Elliot is not very good at sports. One day he discovers ballet dancing, and it's something he can do well. His father and brother don't approve. Will Billy continue to dance?Eleven-year old Billy Elliot is different from other boys. He is not very clever or good at sport. Then, one day, he discovers ballet dancing.
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One hot summer day, Alice sees a white rabbit and follows it, arriving in Wonderland. A classic tale and a wonderful story.One hot summer day, Alice sees a white rabbit and runs after it. She follows it down a rabbit-hole – and arrives in ‘Wonderland’. Here, caterpillars can talk and rabbits have watches.
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[Penguin Readers Level 5]
[lire la quatrième du livre Sherlock Holmes Short Stories]
A tree full of enormous spiders, a living thing with no face, a picture that comes alive, and a boy with no heart. These are some of the frightening things in these stories by M. R. James, one of the greatest horror writers of all time.
[lire la quatrième du livre The Locked Room and Other Horror Stories ( [...]]
The eerie tales of Edgar Allan Poe remain among the most brilliant and influential works in American literature.
[lire la quatrième du livre The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Stories]
Édition bilingue français-anglais.
Erskine Caldwell (1903-1987), Molly Cotton-Tail (Molly Queue-de-Coton). Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961), The Battler (Le champion). John O'hara (1905-1970), Graven Image (L'idole). Stephen Crans (1871-1900), The Bride comes to Yellow Sky (La mariée arrive à Yellow Sky).
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ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON (1850-1894) L'Etrange Cas du Dr Jekyll et de Mr Hyde The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Nouvelles traduites et présentées par Georges Hermet Le docteur Jekyll est un médecin londonien, précurseur des tendances de la médecine psychanalytique moderne. Ayant diagnostiqué deux éléments de sa personnalités, il les dissocie grâce à des poudres chimiques.
[lire la quatrième du livre L'étrange cas du Dr Jekyll et de Mr Hyde]
In this collection of Roald Dahl's finest stories, we meet some quite ordinary people who behave in extraordinary ways.
[lire la quatrième du livre Tales and other tales]
This series provides a wide variety of reading material for all learners of English. The books are retold versions of popular classics and contemporary titles as well as specially written stories.
[lire la quatrième du livre Romeo and Juliet]
This collection of stories is made up of twelve original and imaginative tales by Bierce including his masterpiece "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge", as well as "A Horseman in the Sky", "An Heiress from Redhorse”, ??oeThe Man and The Snake”, and others.
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Petite divinité domestique, tour à tour silencieuse et volubile, le grillon est l'âme de la maison. Symbole du bonheur et de la sérénité, il apaise les cœurs rongés par le doute, la colère et l'aigreur.
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Le jour de la garden-party annuelle des Sheridan est enfin arrivé. Aussi excitée que nerveuse, Laura papillonne entre le fleuriste, le traiteur et les musiciens. Mais la mort bouleverse soudain toute cette belle organisation... Quatre nouvelles tour à tour comiques, touchantes, cruelles et déchirantes, mais toujours envoûtantes.
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" The Red-Headed League " and ' " The Speckled Band " are taken from Conan Doyle's " The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes ". In these two stories we join Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson in Victorian London as they try to solve two of their most mysterious and terrifying cases.
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Language readers; Classic fiction (pre c 1945); ELT: learning material & coursework
[lire la quatrième du livre Wuthering Heights + audio CD]
La collection Macmillan adventures (lectures Macmillan) est une série de quatre récits d'aventure totalement adaptés au niveau de vos élèves et accompagnés de ressources gratuites pour travailler la compréhension. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer : Tom Sawyer est un garçon du sud des Etats-Unis vivant sur la rive droite du Mississippi avant la guerre de Sécession.
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When Mole decides to leave his underground home and meets. Rat, he discovers a completely new world on the river bank in the Wild Wood. And Toad's passion for fast cars leads them on a series of adventures, which end with a battle against the ferrets and weasels, who have captured Toad Hall.
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One day a big cyclone takes Dorothy and her house from Kansas, USA, to a magical country called OZ. But Dorothy wants to go back home to Kansas, and only the country's famous wizard can help her. Follow Dorothy on her many adventures and meet her new friends, the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman and the Lion. But be careful of the Wicked Witch!
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Prospero, Duke f Milan, lives on a lonely island with his daughter Miranda, Caliban (a monster) and Ariel (a magic spirit). He learns to do magic and he wants to punish his bad brother, Antonio. He creates a magic storm - a tempest. All the people with Antonio on the ship land on Prospero's island. Many strange things happen to them, but in the end they all come together again.
[lire la quatrième du livre The Tempest]
This series provides a wide variety of reading materials for all learners of English. The books are retold versions of popular classics and contemporary titles as well as specially written stories.
[lire la quatrième du livre The Hound of the Baskervilles]
« Au début des années 1990, j'étais correspondant à Londres pour le New Yorker Magazine. C'était un travail excitant et quelque peu étrange : être correspondant étranger dans mon propre pays, jeter un regard neuf sur des coutumes établies et essayer de les expliquer à un public éloigné qui partage la même langue et pourtant peu d'usages communs.
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Sherlock Holmes ? Une grande silhouette mince et athlétique, un long manteau, un chapeau à oreillettes, une pipe, une loupe et surtout un talent exceptionnel pour résoudre les énigmes policières les plus complexes...
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Three university students go on holiday to a remote part of Wales. They are going to stay in a cottage without electricity or a telephone in a remote part of the country. But who is the bearded man that haunts them?
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La collection Macmillan adventures (lectures Macmillan) est une série de quatre récits d'aventure totalement adaptés au niveau de vos élèves et accompagnés de ressources gratuites pour travailler la compréhension. A propos de L. A. Winners : Lenny Samuel est engagé pour trouver un ancien cheval de course.
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Philip Ashley's older cousin Ambrose, who raised the orphaned Philip as his own son, has died in Rome. Philip, the heir to Ambrose's beautiful English estate, is crushed that the man he loved died far from home. He is also suspicious. While in Italy, Ambrose fell in love with Rachel, a beautiful English and Italian woman.
[lire la quatrième du livre My Cousin Rachel]
