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Tom needed help. So did Masters. At first everything went well.
But why had Tom left home? What did Masters do exactly? And who was the girl called Shirley?
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The woman looked around my office. She looked at the old furniture and the dirty windows. She looked at the broken blind and the plastic coffee cups in the waste bin. Then she looked at me. I wasn’t looking good. I hadn’t shaved. And my suit and hair were untidy. The woman didn’t speak.
Suddenly, she took a handkerchief out of her bag. She wiped the dust from the chair and she sat down.
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Maugham takes us from England to France, to Chicago and to the beautiful island of Tahiti.
Roger Charing is engaged to marry Ruth, but he changes his mind. We read how he makes his clever Escape.
Many men fali in love with Louise. But she is selfish and uses her poor health to live as she pleases.
In The Ant and the Grasshopper, George and Tom are brothers. One works hard and is unhappy. The other is lazy but enjoys his life.
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Sherlock Holmes is an extriordinary man, and for a number of years I have been this extraordinary man’s assistant. I have worked with him on many cases, and I have always written about these cases when we have finished our investigations.
From time to time, I publish these records, and this book contains four of them.
Why does an old builder leave all his money to a young lawyer?
Who gives a government document to enemy spies? How is a young man tricked into taking a new job? What can a foreign king do when a beautiful woman from his past appears?
Who can answer all these questions? Sherlock Holmes and his assistant Dr Watson, of course, in these four short stories about the famous detective.
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Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson help the police with the strange cases of:
The Blue Carbuncle
Two unusual clues for Holmes and Watson to follow – a hat and a goose!
Silver Blaze
A racehorse disappears before an important race.
Holmes has to find the horse and solve a murder.
The Six Napoleons
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Sleepy Hollow
“The horseman’s head still lies somewhere on the battlefield,” the people of Sleepy Hollow said. “Every night, he rides back to the battlefield to look for it.”
One dark night, Ichabod Crane-the village schoolmaster-saw the Headless Horseman. Or did he?
Rip Van Winkle
Rip Van Winkle did not like working on his farm and his wife was always angry with him. He wanted to forget his troubles for a day. So he took his dog and his gun and he walked up into the Catskill Mountains.
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The robber is waking up,’ a voice says.
There are lots of police in the bank. There is a policewoman in front of me. I’m lying on the floor near the empty safe. My hands are tied with rope.
‘I’m not a robber,’ I say. I’m a private detective.’ But next morning the newspapers say:
SAMUEL ARRESTED. IS PRIVATE DETECTIVE A BANK ROBBER?
RAIDERS ESCAPE. PRIVATE DETECTIVE LOSES HIS JOB.
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Frankie gave a cry. The ground had opened up in front of her. She began to slide down into a big black hole. Jack tried to stop her. He held her arm, but the hole was getting bigger each moment. Suddenly there was a roaring noise, and Jack slid down into the hole after Frankie.
‘We’ve fallen about three metres into the vault,’ Jack said to Frankie. ‘Can you see anything?’
‘No, but I can feel something,’ Frankie said. 1 can feel one of the coffins. Jack, this place is full of dead people! It’s full of rotting people and old bones. And the coffins are all rotting too. You can smell them.
This is a horrible place!’
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Steinbeck’s most powerful novel describes the lives of a homeless farming family as they travel across America in the Great Depression of the 1930s. When the Joad family loses its farm in Oklahoma, they join thousands of other families on the journey to a new life in California where they have heard there is work picking fruit. Every step of the way, the family face hardship and hostility as they struggle to survive in a country where kindness no longer exists.
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