Tom Sawyer does not like school.He doesnot like work,and he never wants to getout of bed in the morning.But he likesswimming and fishing,and havingadventures with his friends.And he has a lot of adventures.One night,he and his friend Huck Finngo to the graveyard to look for ghosts. They don't see any ghosts that night.They see somethingworse than a ghost-much,much worse...(Word count 5,825)
A housewife,a tramp,a lawyer,a waitress,an actress -ordinary people living ordinary Lives in New York at the beginning of thiscentury.The city has changed greatly sincethat time,but its people are much the same.Some are rich,some are poor,some are happy,someare sad,some have found love,some are looking for love. O.Henry's famous short stories-sensitive,funny,sympathetic -give us vivid pictures of the everyday livesof these New Yorkers.(Word count 5,895)
Six women are dead because of the Whitechapel Killer.Now another womanlies in a London street and there is bloodeverywhere.She is very ill. You are the famous detective Mycroft Pound;can you catch the killer before he escapes?
It is 1880,in the Opera House in Paris. Everybody is talking about the Phantom ofthe Opera,the ghost that lives somewhereunder the Opera House.The Phantom is aman in black clothes.He is a body without a head,he is a head without a body.He has a yellow face,hehas no nose,he has black holes for eyes.Everybody is afraidof the Phantom-the singers,the dancers,the directors,thestage workers… But who has actually seen him?
London in the 1830s was no place to be ifyou were a hungry ten-year-old boy,anorphan without friends or family,with nohome to go to,and only a penny in yourpocket to buy a piece of bread. But Oliver Twist finds some friends-Fagin,the Artful Dodger,and Charley Bates.They give him food and shelter,and play games with him,but it is not until some days laterthat Oliver finds out what kind of friends they are and whatkind of 'games' they play…
Little Mary Lennox is a bad-tempered,disagreeable child.When her parents diein India,she is sent back to England to livewith her uncle in a big,lonely,old house. There is nothing to do all day except walk in the gardens and watch the robin flying over the highwalls of the secret garden…which has been locked for tenyears.And no one has the key.
