With carefully adapted text, new illustrations, language practise activities and additional online resources, the Penguin Readers series introduces language learners to bestselling authors and compelling content. Titles include popular classics, exciting contemporary fiction, and thought-provoking non-fiction • "The Secret Life of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4", a Level 3 Reader, is A2 in the CEFR framework. The text is made up of sentences with up to three clauses, introducing first conditional, past continuous and present perfect simple for general experience. It is well supported by illustrations, which appear on most pages • Adrian Mole is a 13 year old boy. Adrian writes a diary about his school, his family and, of course, love. "There's a new girl in our class
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Eighty-five-year-old Hendrik Groen is fed up to his false teeth with coffee mornings and bingo • Along with fellow members of the Old-But-Not-Dead Club, he embarks on a wild spree of octogenarian anarchy. But the home's director will not stand for any more drunken bar crawls, illicit fireworks or geriatric romance. The good name of the care home will not be disgraced • But when Hendrik learns of a plan to close the home down he realises life outside it could be much worse. He and the gang must stop the closure before it's too late. Or drop dead trying
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Walter Mitty is an ordinary man living an ordinary life. But he has dreams - vivid, extraordinary day dreams - in which the life he leads is one of excitement and even adventure, in which he - a weary, put upon middle-aged man - is the hero of his own story • A man can dream, can't he? • The Secret Life of Walter Mitty is just one of the brilliant humorous and witty stories written by James Thurber and collected here
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Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reader series for learners of English as a foreign language. With carefully adapted text, new illustrations and language learning exercises, the print edition also includes instructions to access supporting material online • Titles include popular classics, exciting contemporary fiction, and thought-provoking non-fiction, introducing language learners to bestselling authors and compelling content • The eight levels of Penguin Readers follow the Common European Framework of Reference for language learning (CEFR). Exercises at the back of each Reader help language learners to practise grammar, vocabulary, and key exam skills. Before, during and after-reading questions test readers' story comprehension and develop vocabulary
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Two rival spies. One fake marriage. What could possibly go wrong • When rumours of an assassination plot against the Queen begin to circulate, Alice is immediately assigned to the case • However, she won't be working alone • Enter Daniel Bixby. Unflappable master spy and Alice's greatest rival • Together they must assume the identity of husband and wife in order to gain access to the traitor party • Alice is determined to remain professional. This is work after all • But when an attraction starts to grow there may be more at stake than just the throne
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Evie Hamilton's biggest worry in life is whether or not she can fit in a manicure on her way to fetch her daughter from clarinet lessons • Little does she know that her charmed and happy life is about to be turned upside-down • For one sunny morning a letter lands on Evie's immaculate doormat. It's a bombshell, knocking her carefully arranged and managed world completely askew as it threatens to sabotage all she holds dear • What will be left and what will change forever? • Is Evie strong enough to fight for what she loves? • And can her entire world really be as fragile as her best china?
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The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 ? is the first book in Sue Townsend's brilliantly funny Adrian Mole series, reissued in Penguin's ORIGINALS collection of iconic teen fiction.Meet Adrian Mole, a hapless teenager providing an unabashed, pimples-and-all glimpse into adolescent life.Writing candidly about his parents' marital troubles, the dog, his life as a tortured poet and 'misunderstood intellectual', Adrian's painfully honest diary is still hilarious and compelling reading thirty years after it first appeared
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Facts meet fiction in this exciting, intricate Victorian detective story! • Jane Pinny has moved to the very grand Lytton House to be a Maid Of All Work. And being a Maid Of All Work means that she has to do… well, ALL the work, obviously! Cleaning, dusting, scrubbing, washing – there’s SO much to do in a Victorian country house. But when a priceless jade necklace belonging to the lady of the house disappears, Jane turns accidental detective (with the help of her best friend, a pigeon called Plump…) – can she solve the mystery of the missing jewels before it’s too late? • Perfect for fans of Horrible Histories, filled with amazing facts and historical trivia, with an exciting story and brilliant illustrations, you won’t be able to put this SECRET DIARY down!
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Суббота, 25 января • 10 часов утра. Я болен от всех этих волнений, слишком слаб, чтобы много писать. Никто не заметил, что я не завтракал • 2 часа дня....... Возможно, когда я стану знаменитым и мой дневник будет обнаружен, люди поймут, как мучительно быть 13-летним нераскрытым интеллектуалом • 6 вечера, Пандора! Моя потерянная любовь! Теперь я никогда не буду гладить твои волосы цвета патоки! (Хотя мой синий фломастер все еще в вашем распоряжении.) • "Тайный дневник Адриана Моула" Сью Таунсенд - это веселый взгляд на проблемную жизнь подростка- "непонятого интеллектуала" • Книга на английском языке • Saturday January 25th • 10 a.m. I am ill with all the worry, too weak to write much. Nobody has noticed I haven't eaten any breakfast • 2 p.m....... Perhaps when I am famous and my diary is discovered people will understand the torment of being a 13 3/4-year-old undiscovered intellectual
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Friday January 2nd • I felt rotten today. It's my mother's fault for singing 'My Way' at two o'clock in the morning at the top of the stairs. Just my luck to have a mother like her. There is a chance my parents could be alcoholics. Next year I could be in a children's home • Meet Adrian Mole, a hapless teenager providing an unabashed, pimples-and-all glimpse into adolescent life as he writes candidly about the dog, his parents' marital troubles and life as a tortured poet and 'misunderstood intellectual.' • Forty years after it first appeared, Sue Townsend's comic masterpiece continues to be rediscovered by new generations of readers
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William D. Cohan's The Last Tycoons: The Secret History of Lazard Freres & Co. is the astonishing story of the world's most elite and legendary investment bank - and the men who reigned over it all • For over 150 years Lazard Freres had stood apart from other Wall Street firms by offering ultra-wealthy clients the wisdom of its 'Great Men': from Felix Rohatyn, the escapee from Nazi-occupied France turned financial genius, to Michel David-Weill, the inscrutable French billionaire 'Sun King'; from Steve Rattner, the boy wonder from Long Island who clashed violently with the old guard, to larger-than-life CEO Bruce Wasserstein, 'Bid-Em-Up-Bruce', who broke with the bank's traditions and made himself billions in the process. They amassed unimaginable fortunes and would stop at nothing to make a deal, until their titanic egos started to jeopardize everything
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The eighth of John le Carre's espionage novels to feature his most enduring and well-loved character, George Smiley, and a gripping feat of narrative brilliance, The Secret Pilgrim is published in Penguin Modern Classics with an afterword by the author • The Cold War is over and Ned has been demoted to the training academy. He asks his old mentor, George Smiley, to address his passing-out class. There are no laundered reminiscences; Smiley speaks the truth - perhaps the last the students will ever hear. As they listen, Ned recalls his own painful triumphs and inglorious failures, in a career that took him from the Western Isles of Scotland to Hamburg and from Israel to Cambodia. He asks himself: Did it do any good? What did it do to me? And what will happen to us now? In this late Smiley novel, the great spy gives his own humane and unexpected answers
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