Wings of the Dove

Level 5 Penguin Reader

Henry James

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Penguin
16 March 2023

ELT literature & fiction readers; Classic fiction (Children's&YA); Romance & relationships stories (Children's&YA); Languages & ESL; English as a Second Language - Reader; English as a Second Language - Languages; English as a Second Language - Reader

Series: Penguin ELT Readers

Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reading series, designed for teenagers and young adults learning English as a foreign language.

With carefully adapted text, new illustrations, language practise activities and additional online resources, the Penguin Readers series introduces language learners to bestselling authors and compelling content. Titles include popular classics, exciting contemporary fiction, and thought-provoking non-fiction.

The Wings of the Dove, a Level 5 Reader, is B1 in the CEFR framework. The text is made up of sentences with up to four clauses, introducing present perfect continuous, past perfect, reported speech and second conditional. It is well supported by illustrations, which appear regularly.

Kate and Densher are in love and want to get married. Densher is a poor journalist, and Kate's aunt tells her that she must marry someone rich. But Kate has a plan. She decides to deceive Milly, a sweet young heiress who is very ill. She wants Milly to marry Densher so he can get her money after she dies. Will Kate's plan succeed?

By: Henry James
Imprint: Penguin
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 7mm
Weight: 90g
ISBN: 9780241589144
ISBN 10: 0241589142
Series: Penguin ELT Readers
Pages: 80
Publication Date: 16 March 2023
Recommended Age: From 12 to 17 years
Audience: ELT/ESL , Children/juvenile , Young adult , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly , English as a second language
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Henry James was born in 1843 in New York and died in London in 1916. In addition to many short stories, plays, books of criticism, autobiography and travel, he wrote some twenty novels, the first published being Roderick Hudson (1875). They include The Europeans, Washington Square, The Portrait of a Lady, The Bostonians, The Princess Casamassima, The Tragic Muse, The Spoils of Poynton, The Awkward Age, The Wings of the Dove, The Ambassadors and The Golden Bowl.