Outstanding Short Stories

This book has been specially prepared to make enjoyable reading for people whom English is a second or foreign language. An English writer never thinks of avoiding unsual words, so that the learner, trying to read the book in its original, form, has to turn frequently to the dictionary and so loses much of the pleasure that the book ought to give.

This series planned for such readers. There are very few words used which outside the learner's vocabulary. These few extra words are needed for the story and are explained when they first appear. Long sentences and difficult sentence patterns have been simplified. The resulting language is good and useful English, and the simplified book keeps much of the charm and flavour of the original.

At the rather more difficult level there is The Bridge Series, which helps the reader to cross the gap between the limited vocabulary and structures of the Simplified English Series and full English.

It is the aim of these two series to enable thousands of readers in the English language, and in doing so, to equip themselves in the pleasantest possible way, to understand and appreciate any work written in English.