The books in the ‚Penguin Readers‘ series are selected from the classics, and film and TV stories, as well as original stories. They are simplified for the benefit of the reluctant reader, foreign language speakers and ESOL/EFL students.

‚Penguin Readers‘ are edited into simplified text together with audio CD recordings containing the full simplified text. They are ideal for all English language students.

Classic / British English When they were very young, Anne Elliot and Captain Wentworth were in love. They did not marry, but Anne never forgot her love for him. Now, many years later, they meet again.

Visiting the fashionable city of Bath, 17-year-old Catherine Morland looks for the excitement she finds in romantic fiction. She makes friends and falls in love. But when she is invited to Northanger Abbey, she experiences desperate unhappiness.

Classic / British English Emma Woodhouse is beautiful, clever and rich. She likes to arrange marriages between her friends and neighbours in the village of Highbury. But Emma makes a lot of mistakes and causes more problems than happy marriages.

Classic / British English Jane and Elizabeth Bennet are the oldest of five sisters in need of husbands, but it isn't easy to find the right man. Are Mr Bingley, Mr Darcy and Mr Wickham all that they seem?

Wenn Elisabeth Bennet zum erstenmal Herrn Darcy, einen Junggesellen und gleichzeitig eine günstige Partie, trifft, scheint er ihr eingebildet und distanziert.