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Editor’s Choice
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2
Dominoes
LEVEL 3
1000 Headwords • CEFR B1 • Story length: 51 pages
Average word count: 13,000
Cambridge English: Preliminary (PET) • IELTS 3.5 – 4.5 • TOEIC 550 – 780 • TOEFL 57 – 86
Miss Mary Morstan has a strange
story to tell.
Since her father disappeared, she
has received a large pearl through
the post on the same day, every year
for six years. Who is sending them?
And what about her father’s paper
with the words ‘The Sign of Four’
written on it?
SHERLOCK HOLMES:
THE SIGN OF FOUR
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Text adaptation by Jeremy Page
Word count 13,857
ISBN 9780194610308
British English
MYSTERY & HORROR
THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO
Alexandre Dumas
Text adaptation by Clare West
Word count 18,222
ISBN 9780194247771
Audio British English
WORLD LITERATURE
CONAN THE BARBARIAN:
RED NAILS
Robert E. Howard
Text adaptation by Bill Bowler
Word count 11,844
ISBN 9780194610292
American English
‘Conan!’ cried Valeria. ‘What are
you doing here?’
Conan the Barbarian follows Valeria
the Pirate south. Together they escape
from a fierce dragon, and enter a
strange city in the desert. Two enemy
clans live in the city, and Conan and
Valeria are soon asked to join in the
war between them.
TV & FILM ADVENTURE
THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN
BUTTON & OTHER STORIES
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Text adaptation by Clare West
Word count 12,618
ISBN 9780194610018
American English
What happens when a man
lives his life backwards, or a
family owns a diamond as big
as the Ritz Hotel?
How can a boring girl become
more popular, a careless young
woman become more sensible,
or a cut-glass bowl destroy a
married woman’s life?
STORY COLLECTIONS
HARD TIMES
Charles Dickens
Text adaptation by Susan Kingsley
Word count 14,121
ISBN 9780194247788
British English
MANSFIELD PARK
Jane Austen
Text adaptation by Clare West
Word count 13,069
ISBN 9780194247863
British English
DIAN AND THE GORILLAS
Norma Shapiro
Word count 15,057
ISBN
ISBN 9780194247856
American English
THE FAITHFUL GHOST AND
OTHER TALL TALES
Selected by Bill Bowler
Text adaptation by Bill Bowler
Word count 12,933
ISBN 9780194247832
British English
LITTLE HOUSE ON THE PRAIRIE
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Text adaptation by Jann Huizenga
Word count 14,895
ISBN 9780194247757
American English
THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS
James Fenimore Cooper
Text adaptation by Bill Bowler
Word count 15,107
9780194247764
American English
REVOLUTION
Jann Huizenga and Linda Huizenga
Word count 13,324
ISBN 9780194247849
American English
MY FAMILY AND
OTHER ANIMALS
Gerald Durrell
Text adaptation by Bill Bowler
Word count 14,085
ISBN 9780194247825
British English
THE MOONSTONE
Wilkie Collins
Text adaptation by Merinda Wilson
Word count 12,981
ISBN 9780194247795
British English
TRUE TALES
TV & FILM ADVENTURE
STORY COLLECTIONS
HUMAN INTEREST
WORLD LITERATURE
TV & FILM ADVENTURE
WORLD LITERATURE
TRUE TALES
MYSTERY & HORROR
THE VESUVIUS MOSAIC
Joyce Hannam
Word count 11,549
ISBN 9780194247870
British English
THE SECRET AGENT
Joseph Conrad
Text adaptation by Lesley Thompson
Word count 14,554
ISBN 9780194247801
British English
HUMAN INTEREST
MYSTERY & HORROR
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