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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.