Talented Mr Ripley

Level 6 Penguin Graded Readers

Patricia Highsmith

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Penguin Books Ltd
21 April 2022

ELT literature & fiction readers; Classic fiction (Children's&YA); Crime & mystery fiction (Children's&YA); Languages & ESL; English as a Second Language; English as a Second Language

Series: Penguin 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 Talented Mr Ripley, a Level 6 Reader, is B1+ in the CEFR framework. The longer text is made up of sentences with up to four clauses, introducing future continuous, reported questions, third conditional, was going to and ellipsis. A small number of illustrations support the text.

In the 1950s, Tom Ripley travels from the United States of America to Italy, to find Dickie Greenleaf and bring him home to his father. But when Tom sees Dickie's money and relaxed way of life, he becomes jealous and begins to make other plans.

By: Patricia Highsmith
Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 197mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 9mm
Weight: 105g
ISBN: 9780241542613
ISBN 10: 0241542618
Series: Penguin Readers
Pages: 112
Publication Date: 21 April 2022
Recommended Age: From 12 to 17 years
Audience: Young adult , College/higher education , Primary & secondary/elementary & high school , Preschool (0-5) , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Patricia Highsmith was born in Fort Worth, Texas in 1921 but moved to new York when she was six. In her senior year she edited the college magazine, having decided to become a writer at the age of sixteen. Her first novel Strangers on a Train, was made into a famous film by Alfred Hitchcock in 1951. Patricia Highsmith died in Locarno, Switzerland in 1995. Her last novel Small g- A Summer Idyll was published posthumously just over a month later.