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English short stories for beginner Levels
01. «Robinson Crusoe» for Beginner Levels
My name is Robinson. I am from England. I am eighteen years old. My father is German. My mother is English. I have two brothers. I have one sister. We are a good family…Read Online and Free Download
02. «The Little Prince» for Beginner Levels
The book says, “Snakes eat the whole animal. And they sleep for six months.” I think about the life in the forest. I make my first picture. This is my picture number one…Read Online and Free Download
03. “Rich Man, Poor Man” (for Beginner Levels A1)
One day a postman came to my village. The postman brought me a letter from my son, Saul…Read Online and Free Download
04. «South for the Winter» for Beginners
I never stay in one country for a long time. It gets boring. I like to move on, see new places, meet different people. It’s a good life, most of the time…Read Online and Free Download
05. «Blue Moon Beach» — for Beginners
I’m sitting and watching birds. I’m at Blue Moon Beach. I think it is the best beach in the world. The water is warm and blue. The sand is very white. Blue Moon Beach is my beach. I’ve lived here all my life…Read Online and Free Download
06. «Sister Love» for Beginner Levels
Marcia met Howard Collins at church. Marcia was thirty-five years old, Howard was forty-one. Howard lived with his mother in a small house on the south side of the town…Read Online and Free Download
07. «The Umbrella» for Beginner Levels
It is raining. The sky is grey. Carla goes to the market. She looks at the umbrellas. She likes a red umbrella. It’s very smart. It costs ten dollars. Carla is a student. She doesn’t have much money…Read Online and Free Download
08. «Jane Eyre» for Beginner Levels
In 1825, I was ten years old. My father and mother were dead. I lived with my aunt and uncle, Mr. and Mr.’s Reed. Their house was called Gates head Hall…Read Online and Free Download
09. «A Pretty Face» for Beginner Levels
Zoe is seventeen years old. She works in a bookstore, in the little town of Newport. Zoe likes books and she likes her work. But after work she likes to act in plays with the Newport Players…Read Online and Free Download
10. «Marcel and the Shakespeare Letters» for Beginner Levels
Marcel is a French mouse. He’s a detective and he lives in Paris. But Marcel doesn’t live in Paris all year…Read Online and Free Download
11. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (for Beginner Levels A1)
So Aunt Polly looked, and Tom was out of the house in a second. She laughed quietly. ‘I never learn. I love that Tom, my dead sister’s child, but he isn’t an easy boy for an old lady…Read Online and Free Download
12. A Little Princess (for Beginner Levels A1)
One cold winter day a little girl and her father arrived in London. Sara Crewe was seven years old, and she had long black hair and green eyes…Read Online and Free Download
13. Island for Sale (for Beginner Levels A1)
There are many islands in the sea near Scotland. This story is about one of these islands. The name of the island is Lana…Read Online and Free Download
14. Anna and the Fighter (for Beginner Levels A1)
Anna did not sleep all night. She was excited. Early in the morning, her father called her…Read Online and Free Download
15. The Last of the Mohicans (for Beginner Levels A1)
It was the year 1757. The place was the dangerous and wild land, west of the Hudson River. It was the third year of the war in North America…Read Online and Free Download
16. Love or Money? (for Beginner Levels A1)
The Clarkson family lived in the country near Cambridge, about half a mile from the nearest village and about a mile from the river. They had a big, old house with a beautiful garden…Read Online and Free Download
17. Prince William (for Beginner Levels A1)
It is the evening of 21 June 1982 — the first day of summer. Newspaper and television reporters near the doors of St Mary’s Hospital in Paddington, London, talk quickly into their telephones…Read Online and Free Download
18. The Monkey’s Paw (for Beginner Levels A1)
It was cold and dark out in the road and the rain did not stop for a minute. But in the little living-room of number 12 Castle Road it was nice and warm. Old Mr White and his son…Read Online and Free Download
19. Titanic (for Beginner Levels A1)
In April 1912 the Titanic arrived in Southampton in the south of England. Everyone was excited about the new ship. It was the biggest ship in the world, the most beautiful, perhaps the fastest. And it was much safer than older ships.…Read Online and Free Download