The inspiring stories of the people who changed history.
The amazing People readers are collections of short stories in which exceptional people from history tell their story.
Each title includes:
- A CD with a full reading of each person's story.
- A COBUILD glossary of the more difficult words
- A timeline to accompany each story
- Free online resources for students and teachers
In this book read about:
Voltaire, the French writer who believed in equality for all
Charlotte Bront?, the British novelist who wrote Jane Eyre
Mark Twain, the American who wrote Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer
Jacques Pr?vert, the writer known in France as 'the People's Poet'
Ayn Rand whose writing expressed her own philosophical ideas
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn who wrote about life in a Soviet Labour Camp