"Simply Shakespeare" is a series of simple stories which transpose the plots of various Shakespeare plays into contemporary settings. All titles are written at "Simply Stories Level 3".
It is difficult to be really bad at something, but the people in this book manage to succeed The book features tales of drivers who can't drive, travellers who get lost all the time and policemen who can't catch criminals.
Elizabeth porte en elle la chorée de Huntington, une maaldie héréditaire incurable transmise par les femmes, dont sa mère est morte. Sa cousine Cosette, qu'elle considère comme sa mère adoptive décide, une fois devenue veuve, de changer de vie et elle s'installe dans la « Maison aux escaliers » qu'elle a achetée. Elisabeth vient l'y rejoindre quelque temps après. Elle découvrira là une bande de parasites qui profitent scandaleusement de la richesse et de la générosité de Cosette. Elisabeth leur présentera Bell dont la beauté et la ressemblance avec un portrait d'un peintre de la Renaissance l'obsèdent ; Bell à son tour leur fera connapitre Mark dont Cosette tombera éperdument amoureuse. Dans une ambiance de bohême dorée, une monstrueuse machination s'ourdit dont le dénouement tragique et cruel ne laissera personne indemne...
In these four stories, F. Scott Fitzgerald shows, with humour, how different people react in a variety of different situations, showing readers both the dark and light sides of human nature.
Original / British EnglishKim is running through the streets of the old town. She is frightened. A man with dark eyes and a knife is looking for her. He is going to catch her. This holiday in beautiful Barcelona is suddenly very dangerous. Where is Kims friend Dave? What can she do?
Teenager Clive Rayner becomes involved in a raid on a warehouse in which the night watchman is accidentally injured. In the aftermath, Clive is reassured by his mother, the vicar and the social worker that it wasn't really his fault, when in fact his need is for confirmation of his guilt.
