"it was evilly come by, and will bring a curse with it." Growing up the quiet coastal village of Moonfleet in Dorset, John Trenchard is fascinated by stories of the notorious Colonel John Mohune, whose restless ghost is said to stalk the churchyard at night, and his treasure: a great diamond stolen when he betrayed the King a hundred years before.…
A famous painting is going to the Grierson Gallery in LA and they want a top man to come to the United States. He can talk about the artist. The National Gallery in London send Mr Bean. But something is very wrong with Mr Bean! He's very, very strange. And dangerous! After he arrives, accidents start to happen.
Richard trekt door Thailand. Op een avond hoort hij over het geheime strand, een nirwana voor de jonge rugzaktoerist op zoek naar avontuur, seks en de ultieme vakantie. Dit paradijs bevindt zich ergens op een van de vele kleine eilanden die Thailand omringen, onvindbaar voor buitenstaanders. De volgende dag vindt Richard een kaart met routebeschrijving op zijn deur; de man die de kaart daar heeft bevestigd, heeft vervolgens zijn polsen doorgesneden. Zo begint voor Richard een tocht naar dit onbekende Thailand. Hij vindt het paradijs bij een selecte gemeenschap die vreedzaam leeft in het Shangri-la. Witte stranden, kleurrijke koraalriffen en akkers vol met drugs. Maar ook in het paradijs is niet alles perfect en al snel verschijnen de eerste barsten in het plaatje.
Contemporary / British English Young Prince Einon is dying. Only the Great Dragon can help him But first the boy has to say, 'I won't be a cruel king. I'll love my people and be kind to them.' But Einon is cruel, and everybody in the country is afraid. Now the Dragon, good Sir Bowen and the peasants have to fight in a great battle between Good and Bad.
A famous painting is going to the Grierson Gallery in LA and they want a top man to come to America. He can talk about the artist. The National Gallery in London sent Mr Bean. But something is very wrong with Mr Bean! He's very, very strange. And dangerous! After he arrives accidents start to happen.
The procession that crosses Chaucer's pages is as full of life and as richly textured as a medieval tapestry. The Knight, the Miller, the Friar, the Squire, the Prioress, the Wife of Bath, and others who make up the cast of characters -- including Chaucer himself -- are real people, with human emotions and weaknesses. When it is remembered that Chaucer wrote in English at a time when Latin was the standard literary language across western Europe, the magnitude of his achievement is even more remarkable. But Chaucer's genius needs no historical introduction; it bursts forth from every page of The Canterbury Tales. If we trust the General Prologue, Chaucer intended that each pilgrim should tell two tales on the way to Canterbury and two tales on the way back. He never finished his enormous project and even the completed tales were not finally revised. Scholars are uncertain about the order of the tales. As the printing press had yet to be invented when Chaucer wrote his works, The Canterbury Tales has been passed down in several handwritten manuscripts.
(Penguin Readers Level 1)Mr Jealous / Joanna Strange --Roberto / Joanna Strange --Alien spacecraft / Robin Waterfield --Flowers for Maria / Chris Rice --The bully / Annette Barnes, Jean Hines and Jennie Weldon
