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.
Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reading series for teenagers and young adults learning English as a foreign language.
- Carefully adapted text.
- Accompanying audio and digital version with the print edition, accessed securely online.
- The series includes popular classics, bestselling modern fiction, and thought-provoking non-fiction.
- The eight levels of Penguin Readers are mapped to the CEFR, and Lexile measured.
- Beautiful new illustrations for levels 2 to 6. Starter and level 1 titles in graphic-novel format, for beginner learners.
- Language practice exercises and a glossary in every book, additional activities and lesson plans online.
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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...
