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Editor’s Choice
STAGE 4
1,400 Headwords • CEFR B1 – B2 •Average story length: 72 pages
Average word count: 16,000 • Cambridge English: Preliminary (PET) • Cambridge English: First (FCE)
• IELTS 3.5 – 6.0 • TOEIC 550 – 940 • TOEFL 57 – 109
Dartmoor. A wild, wet place in the
south-west of England. A place
where it is easy to get lost, and to
fall into the soft green earth which
can pull the strongest man down to
his death.
THE HOUND OF THE
BASKERVILLES
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Retold by Patrick Nobes
Word count 19,330
ISBN 9780194610605
Scarlet is the colour of sin, and the
letter ‘A’ stands for ‘Adultery’. In the
1600s, in Boston, Massachusetts, love
was allowed only between a husband
and a wife. A child born outside
marriage was a child of sin.
Hester Prynne must wear the scarlet
letter on her dress for the rest of her life.
THE SCARLET LETTER
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Retold by John Escott
Word count 15,965
ISBN 9780194610636
American English
CLASSICS
THE AFRICAN QUEEN
C. S. Forester
Retold by Clare West
Word count 15,250
ISBN 9780194791649
‘I turned on the light, but there was
nobody there. Then I saw something
in the corner that made my blood turn
cold. Scudder was lying on his back.
There was a long knife through his
heart, pinning him to the floor.’
Soon Richard Hannay is running for
his life across the hills of Scotland.
THE THIRTY-NINE STEPS
John Buchan
Retold by Nick Bullard
Word count 17,170
ISBN 9780194610650
DR JEKYLL AND MR HYDE
Robert Louis Stevenson
Retold by Rosemary Border
Word count 12,520
ISBN 9780194610346
You are walking through the streets
of London. It is getting dark and you
want to get home quickly. You enter
a narrow side-street. Everything is
quiet, but as you pass the door of
a large, windowless building, you
hear a key turning in the lock. A man
comes out and looks at you...
FANTASY & HORROR
GULLIVER’S TRAVELS
Jonathan Swift
Retold by Clare West
Word count 15,325
ISBN 9780194610384
‘Soon I felt something alive moving
along my leg and up my body to
my face, and when I looked down,
I saw a very small human being,
only fifteen centimetres tall . . . I
was so surprised that I gave a great
shout.’ But that is only the first of
many surprises which Gulliver has
on his travels.
CLASSICS
CRIME & MYSTERY
THRILLER & ADVENTURE
HUMAN INTEREST
Oxford Bookworms Library
CRANFORD
Elizabeth Gaskell
Retold by Kate Mattock
Word count 15,015
ISBN 9780194791670
CLASSICS
BLACK BEAUTY
Anna Sewell
Retold by John Escott
Word count 15,400
ISBN CD Pack: 9780194793155
HUMAN INTEREST
DEATH OF AN ENGLISHMAN
Magdalen Nabb
Retold by Diane Mowat
Word count 14,815
ISBN 9780194791687
CRIME & MYSTERY
DESERT, MOUNTAIN, SEA
Sue Leather
Word count 15,580
ISBN 9780194791694
TRUE STORIES
DISASTER
Mary McIntosh
Word count 14,791
ISBN CD Pack: 9780194236065
FACTFILES (NON-FICTION)
THE BIG SLEEP
CRIME & MYSTERY
A DUBIOUS LEGACY
Mary Wesley
Retold by Rosalie Kerr
Word count 15,100
ISBN 9780194791717
HUMAN INTEREST
THE EAGLE OF THE NINTH
Rosemary Sutcliff
Retold by John Escott
Word count 14,950
ISBN 9780194791724
DOORS TO A WIDER PLACE:
STORIES FROM AUSTRALIA
Retold by Christine Lindop
Word count 15,862
ISBN (CD Pack) 9780194792806
WORLD STORIES
Raymond Chandler
Retold by Rosalie Kerr
Word count 15,960
ISBN 9780194791656
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FACTFILES
THRILLER & ADVENTURE
