Classic stories adapted by leading author of graded readers
A Christmas Carol * War of the Worlds * Animal Farm
Adventure/Suspense
Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan SwiftAround the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky by Stephen Crane
Classic Novels
Animal Farm by George OrwellThe Prisoner of Zenda by Anthony Hope
The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
The War of the Worlds by H.G Wells
Detective
Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan-DoyleFather Brown by G.K Chesterton
Drama/Romance
The Lady with the Little Dog by Anton ChekhovThe Old Jest by Jennifer Johnston
The Long Black Veil (Dill/Wilkin)
Pale Horse, Pale Rider - Katherine Anne Porter
Harvest Moon - love & loss in London
Ghost/Horror
The Canterville Ghost by Oscar WildeA Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
The Signalman by Charles Dickens
Whistle and I’ll Come by M.R James B2
Man-Size-in-Marble by E. Nesbit
The Listeners by Walter de la Mare poem
The Body Snatcher by Robert Louis Stevenson
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
Macbeth advanced
Comic
Diary of a Nobody by George & Weedon GoldsmithThree Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome
My Financial Career by Stephen Leacock
Based on real events
TitanicJournal of a Plague Year by Daniel Defoe
Staplehurst Train Disaster
Elizabeth Barrett & Robert Browning
Shooting an Elephant by George Orwell
A Thief Regrets - robber turns life around
Mary Celeste Mystery
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