Helbling Blue Reader: The Great Gatsby Book with Audio CD

Published 2011.

CEF level B1 Helbling Readers: A great new series of graded reading material. Choose from well-loved classics and high-quality original fiction.

Helbling Readers Blue Series - Classic Stories

A series of well-known classic stories by world-famous authors, that have been chosen and adapted, to appeal to teenage and young adult readers. Careful selection of stories with suitable content and language level has allowed the flavour of the originals to remain.

Reflection boxes throughout the stories draw links between the themes explored and the student's own experience.

Jonathan Harker travels to Transylvania to see a local nobleman, Count Dracula. Jonathan realises that things are not what they seem at Castle Dracula and, before he knows it, his nightmare begins. Jay Gatsby is the man who has everything: money, influential friends and fabulous parties. Day and night his Long Island mansion is full of beautiful people laughing and dancing and talking about their mysterious host. For the rich and handsome Gatsby always seems to be alone in the crowd and there always seems to be something missing from his life. What is the secret from Gatsby's past? And what does he silently hope will fill his life?