The singers and dancers at the Opera House are frightened. They have seen a stranger the stage - a man in mask. There have been accidents. People have been hurt. People have disappeared. Raoul is in love with Christine - a beautiful young opera singer. But she is quiet and afraid. Does she know the stranger?
This book is in British English. Here you can find:
notes about the life of Gaston Leroux;
notes about the story;
free resources including worksheets, tests and author data sheets at www.macmillanreaders.com.
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Award-winning readers series of original fiction for learners of English. At seven levels, this impressive selection of carefully graded readers offers exciting reading for every student's capabilities.
The first killing went well. Perfectly, in fact. Though I always knew it would. I had planned it well. Arrangements, organisation – these are things I'm good at. Now I've discovered I'm good at killing too.' The police are in a race against time to catch the murderer before he kills again. And again … Paperback-only version. Also available with Audio CDs including complete text recordings from the ... |
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In this book there are four short stories by D. H. Lawrence (one of the greatest writers of 20th-century English literature):
"The Virgin and the Gipsy" - When a handsome gipsy visits the home of Yyvette Saywell, it will change the way she sees herself and her life, forever.
"The Lovely Lady" - Pauline lives with her son Robert and her niece Ciss, in a beautiful house. One day Ciss hears Pauline talking to herself, and learns of secrets which will change all their lives.
"The Rocking Horse Winner" - Haster has a husband, a fine house and three beautiful children, but she isn't happy. ... |
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Number 1 New York Times bestselling author.
They can only hurt you if you try to teach them. ... The Unteachables are a notorious class of misfits, delinquents, and academic train wrecks. They're so bad they've been removed from the student body and isolated in room 117.
Their teacher is Mr. Zachary Kermit, the most burned-out teacher in all of Greenwich. He's living for retirement, but the superintendent has his own plans to torpedo that idea - and it involves assigning him to the Unteachables...
The Unteachables never thought they'd find a teacher who had a worse attitude than they did. And Mr. ... |
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Aboard the USCSS Nostromo, Jonesy leads a simple life enjoying The Company cat food and chasing space rodents. Until one day, his cryostasis catnap is rudely interrupted. The humans have a new pet and it's definitely not house-trained.
In space, no one can hear you meow.
This full-color, illustrated book offers a cat's eye view of all the action from the movie "Alien". With new and original artwork by artist Rory Lucey, this is the perfect gift for all Alien fans (and cat lovers). ... |
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Award-winning readers series of original fiction for learners of English. At seven levels, this impressive selection of carefully graded readers offers exciting reading for every student's capabilities.
Detective Flick Laine meets handsome Dr Jack Daly at a party in Denver, USA. When Daly calls later, inviting her to meet him to 'talk about something', she accepts. But before they can talk, the doctor is found dead in an apparent case of suicide. Flick is put in charge of the investigation. How did the doctor die? And what has love to do with it? ... |
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Complete and unabridged with an afterword by Anna South.
A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... When red-headed orphan Anne Shirley arrives at Green Gables, she feels sure she's found the home she has always longed for. Her new adoptive parents, the Cuthberts, are less certain - they had asked the orphanage for a boy. But before long, Anne's irrepressible optimism and loving nature charms them. While her temper is unpredictable and her extravagant imagination makes her dreamily whimsical and prone to comic mishap, they come to love Anne as if she were their own child.
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Complete and unabridged.
A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... "Tales of the Jazz Age" features some of F. Scott's Fitzgerald's best-loved short stories and "novelettes" including "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" and "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz". Set in the Jazz Age, Fitzgerald's own term for the Roaring Twenties of newly confident, post-war America, this collection shows a comic genius at work, fashioning every genre from low farce to shrewd social insight, along with fantasy of extraordinary invention. These stories illuminate the unique talent who went ... |
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The new graded readers series of original fiction, adapted fiction and factbooks especially written for teenagers.
Katy is reluctantly at a children's camp for the summer. She thinks she's too old to be with a hundred strangers. But soon it becomes clear that something strange is happening to the other children at the camp. What is it? And why aren't Katy and her new friend Riley affected? This is a British English version of the title.
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Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup.
Winner of the DT/McKinsley Business Book of the Year Award 2018. ... The full inside story of the breathtaking rise and shocking collapse of Theranos, the multibillion-dollar biotech startup, by the prize-winning journalist who first broke the story and pursued it to the end, despite pressure from its charismatic CEO and threats by her lawyers.
In Bad Blood, John Carreyrou tells the riveting story of the biggest corporate fraud since Enron, a tale of ambition and hubris set amid the bold promises of Silicon Valley.
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Illustrator: Kay Widdowson. ... "My Fairytale Time: Puss in Boots" book is an enchantingly illustrated, simple retelling of how a talking cat in boots works his magic to live a life of luxury with his master, the miller's son! It's a fantastic picture book, with stunning illustrations that bring fairytale characters to life in kids' imaginations. Brightly coloured illustrations, clear text and humorous language encourage children who are learning to read and appeal to kids who enjoy story time.
"My Fairytale Time: Puss in Boots":
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A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... Pinkie Brown, a neurotic teenage gangster wielding a razor blade and a bottle of sulfuric acid, commits a brutal murder - but it does not go unnoticed. Rose, a naive young waitress at a rundown cafe, has the unwitting power to destroy his crucial alibi, and Ida Arnold, a woman bursting with easy certainties about what is right and wrong, has made it her mission to bring about justice and redemption.
Set among the seaside amusements and dilapidated boarding houses of Brighton's pre-war underworld, "Brighton Rock" by Graham Greene is both a ... |
