This award-winning collection of adapted classic literature and original stories develops reading skills for low-beginning through advanced students.
Accessible language and carefully controlled vocabulary build students' reading confidence.
Introductions at the beginning of each story, illustrations throughout, and glossaries help build comprehension.
Before, during, and after reading activities included in the back of each book strengthen student comprehension.
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A novel of love and society from the author of The Pisoner of Zenda.

A swashbuckling tale of romance and adventure by the author of The Prisoner of Zenda. Newly designed and typeset in a modern 6-by-9-inch format by Waking Lion Press.

The year is 1882, and British army officer Harry Feversham has a loving fiancee, the friendship of fellow soldiers, and a promising future in a nation at the height of its imperial power. But before he is deployed to fight in Africa, he resigns his post, receiving white feathers-symbols of cowardice-from three friends. Then he receives a fourth from his fiancee. How can he prove that he has acted from integrity rather than cowardice? Newly designed and typeset for easy reading by Boomer Books.

Lord Wheatley, looking for adventure, decides to purchase an island, Neopalia, a Turkish possession in the Aegean Sea. But when he travels there to take it over, the natives don't want to give it up, and they insist that Phroso be its ruler. Complications ensue when Wheatley falls in love with Phroso and a Turk, Mouraki Pasha, kidnaps her. Before he can possess either Neopalia or Phroso, Wheatley has to fight a lot of battles. Newly designed and typeset in a modern 6-by-9-inch format by Waking Lion Press.

In the garden the question was settled without serious difference of opinion. If Sir Robert Perry really could not go on-and Lady Eynesford was by no means prepared to concede even that-then Mr. Puttock, bourgeois as he was, or Mr. Coxon, conceited and priggish though he might be, must come in. At any rate, the one indisputable fact was the impossibility of Mr. Medland: this was, to Lady Eynesford's mind, axiomatic, and, in the safe privacy of her family circle (for Miss Scaife counted as one of the family, and Captain Heseltine and Mr. Flemyng did not count at all), she went so far as to...

Two famous novels of high adventure in one volume
Life for the young, blue-blooded Rupert Rassendyll is a round of carefree entertainments. Meanwhile in the central European state of Ruretania things are not going well. Political intrigue threatens to usurp the soon to be crowned dissolute playboy, Prince Rudolf. The aristocracy support Rudolf, but a pretender-Rudolf's half brother Michael-is waiting in the wings to take the throne by ensuring there are no other living claimants. Rassendyll-as a result of a dubious bloodline-bears a striking resemblance to Prince Rudolf. The Royalists...

In the garden the question was settled without serious difference of opinion. If Sir Robert Perry really could not go on-and Lady Eynesford was by no means prepared to concede even that-then Mr. Puttock, bourgeois as he was, or Mr. Coxon, conceited and priggish though he might be, must come in. At any rate, the one indisputable fact was the impossibility of Mr. Medland: this was, to Lady Eynesford's mind, axiomatic, and, in the safe privacy of her family circle (for Miss Scaife counted as one of the family, and Captain Heseltine and Mr. Flemyng did not count at all), she went so far as to...

Two famous novels of high adventure in one volume
Life for the young, blue-blooded Rupert Rassendyll is a round of carefree entertainments. Meanwhile in the central European state of Ruretania things are not going well. Political intrigue threatens to usurp the soon to be crowned dissolute playboy, Prince Rudolf. The aristocracy support Rudolf, but a pretender-Rudolf's half brother Michael-is waiting in the wings to take the throne by ensuring there are no other living claimants. Rassendyll-as a result of a dubious bloodline-bears a striking resemblance to Prince Rudolf. The Royalists...

The Dolly Dialogues was first published in 1894, the same year as Hope's The Prisoner of Zenda. At once witty and wistful, it gives a wry glimpse of late-Victorian 'smart' society. After a brief flirtation in Monte Carlo, confirmed bachelor Sam Carter and vivacious beauty Dorothea 'Dolly' Foster resume their charged friendship in London. When Dolly marries the wealthy Lord Mickleham, Sam attempts to feign indifference. But as they meet at parties, in drawing-rooms and in public parks, Sam's studied cynicism and Dolly's dimpled coquetry fail to disguise the true depth of their feelings...