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The return of Sherlock Holmes

1987
Presents three short mysteries featuring the great detective.

The Swiss family Robinson

1988
Relates the fortunes of a shipwrecked family as they adapt to life on an island with abundant animal and plant life.

The prince and the pauper

1987
When young Edward VI of England and a poor boy who resembles him exchange places, each learns something about the other's very different station in life.

Oliver Twist

1987
In nineteenth century England a young orphan escapes from the workhouse and goes to live with a gang of thieves. Simplified to a vocabulary of 1800 words.

Pride and prejudice

1991
Human foibles and early-nineteenth-century manners are satirized in a controlled-vocabulary adaptation of Jane Austen's classic tale of country English family life.

The Canterbury tales

1987
Adaptation of eight stories from the original collection of twenty-four, written in simplified English and prose style, relating tales told by pilgrims on their way to the shrine of St. Thomas in Canterbury.

King Arthur and the knights of the Round Table

1987
Presents illustrated retellings of seven Arthurian legends adapted from Sir Thomas Malory's fifteenth-century book "Morte d'Arthur, " and includes questions based on the text, and a brief glossary.

Wuthering Heights

1989
Against a background of English moors in the 18th century, the lives of two families become intertwined through marriage, passion, and the dominating force of a man called Heathcliff.

The snow goose and other stories

1993
Against the backdrop of World War II, friendship develops between a lonely crippled painter and a village girl, when together they minister to an injured snow goose.
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