1984 (ELT Graded Reader)

On the Road swings to the rhythms of 1950s underground America, jazz, sex, generosity, chill dawns and drugs, with Sal Paradise and his hero Dean Moriarty, traveller and mystic, the living epitome of Beat. Now recognized as a modern classic, its American Dream is nearer that of Walt Whitman than Scott Fitzgerald, and it goes racing towards the sunset with unforgettable exuberance, poignancy and autobiographical passion.

Electric... Filled with staccato bursts of humor and tragedy (Jodi Picoult )A novel of life and death and the people caught in between, The Fault in Our Stars is John Green at his best. You laugh, you cry, and then you come back for more (Markus Zusak, Author Of The Book Thief )Damn near genius... Simply devastating... Fearless in the face of powerful, uncomplicated, unironized emotion (TIME )Funny... Poignant... Luminous (Entertainment Weekly )

Set in a city torn apart by feuds and gang warfare, Shakespeare's immortal drama tells the story of star-crossed lovers, rival dynasties and bloody revenge. Romeo and Juliet is a hymn to youth and the thrill of forbidden love, charged with sexual passion and violence, but also a warning of death : a dazzling combination of bawdy comedy and high tragedy.

It seemed to be an impossible task to outdo the former edition of "Dorian Gray" in the World's Classics series, but Bristow has achieved his goal. The quality of the explanatory notes is, simply, superb, and the introduction is succint but informative,