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Penguin Readers Starter Level: The Happy Prince (ELT Graded Reader): Abridged Edition

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By (author): Oscar Wilde

Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reader series for learners of English as a foreign language. With carefully adapted text, new illustrations and language learning exercises, the print edition also includes instructions to access supporting material online.

Titles include popular classics, exciting contemporary fiction, and thought-provoking non-fiction, introducing language learners to bestselling authors and compelling content.

The eight levels of Penguin Readers follow the Common European Framework of Reference for language learning (CEFR). Exercises at the back of each Reader help language learners to practise grammar, vocabulary, and key exam skills. Before, during and after-reading questions test readers' story comprehension and develop vocabulary.

The Happy Prince, a Starter level Reader, is A1 in the CEFR framework. Starter level is ideal for readers who are learning English for the first time. Short sentences contain a maximum of two clauses, using the present simple and continuous tenses, possessives, regular and irregular verbs, and simple adjectives. Illustrations support the text throughout, and many titles at this level are graphic novels.

In an old town in England, there is a statue of a happy prince. But the prince is not happy. He can see the sad things in the town. Then he meets a swallow. They help the people.

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Product Details
  • Weight: 64g
  • Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
  • Publication Date: 02 Feb 2023
  • Publisher: Penguin Random House Children's UK
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • Age Group: Ages 12+
  • ISBN13: 9780241588826

About Oscar Wilde

Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was born in Dublin in 1854. He went to Trinity College Dublin and then to Magdalen College Oxford where he began to propagandize the new Aesthetic (or 'Art for Art's Sake') Movement.Despite winning a first and the Newdigate Prize for Poetry Wilde failed to obtain an Oxford scholarship and was forced to earn a living by lecturing and writing for periodicals. After his marriage to Constance Lloyd in 1884 he tried to establish himself as a writer but with little initial success. However his three volumes of short fiction The Happy Prince (1888) Lord Arthur Savile's Crime (1891) and A House of Pomegranates (1891) together with his only novel The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891) gradually won him a reputation as a modern writer with an original talent a reputation confirmed and enhanced by the phenomenal success of his Society Comedies - Lady Windermere's Fan A Woman of No Importance An Ideal Husband and The Importance of Being Earnest all performed on the West End stage between 1892 and 1895.Success however was short-lived. In 1891 Wilde had met and fallen extravagantly in love with Lord Alfred Douglas. In 1895 when his success as a dramatist was at its height Wilde brought an unsuccessful libel action against Douglas's father the Marquess of Queensberry. Wilde lost the case and two trials later was sentenced to two years' imprisonment for acts of gross indecency. As a result of this experience he wrote The Ballad of Reading Gaol. He was released from prison in 1897 and went into an immediate self-imposed exile on the Continent. He died in Paris in ignominy in 1900.

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