Penguin Readers Level 7: The Woman in White (ELT Graded Reader)

Wilkie Collins

нояб. 2020 г. · Penguin UK

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Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reading series for teenagers and young adults learning English as a foreign language.

- Carefully adapted text.

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The Woman in White, a Level 7 Reader, is B2 in the CEFR framework.

One night when Walter Hartwright is walking home, he meets and helps the mysterious 'woman in white'. Soon after this meeting, Walter starts a job as a drawing teacher in the north of England and falls in love with his student, Laura Fairlie. But Laura is engaged to Sir Percival Glyde. Then Laura receives a letter warning her not to marry Glyde. Walter is sure that the letter comes from the woman in white...

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William Wilkie Collins (8 January 1824 - 23 September 1889) was an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer. His best-known works are The Woman in White (1859), No Name (1862), Armadale (1866), and The Moonstone (1868), considered the first modern English detective novel.