Introduction to series:

"English books are written for the English, who have spoken English since they began to speak, and have read English since they began to read. They are not written for the bilingual foreigner. And the bilingual foreigner will not get from them what the Englishman gets from them; his vocabulary is too small. Books that are written in a vocabulary simple enough for him to read with ease are written for English children, and deal with subjects that only children and the childlike are interested in...

In every school in the world in which foreigners are learning English, the teacher is crying out for books that will bring to the foreigner who is learning English some of the pleasure that the English classics bring to the English boy and girl. This series is intended as an answer to that cry."

Condition: Good (some pencil marks inside and a couple of pen marks)

Type: Softback

Author: W. M. Thackeray (Abridged and simplified by E. M. Attwood, Illustrated by Monica Goddard) 

Language: English