Biblioteca de la EOI de Oviedo

Título: Pride and Prejudice

Autor: Jane Austen

Editorial: Longman

Obra adaptada: SI

Nivel: Intermedio

Reseña: It is the love story of two couples. The girls, Jane and Elizabeth, are sisters and they live with their family comfortably although they are not very rich. The boys, Mr Bingley and Mr Darcy, are close friends, and both of them belong to the upper class. Bingley is a gentleman and Darcy belongs to the nobility.
The two couples fall in love, but the social differences, the pride, and the prejudice make the success of their love difficult.

Valoración: 5/5

Laura Herrero Fernández

Título: The Dragons of Tiananmen Square

Autor: John Hare

Editorial: Edward Arnold Readers Library

Obra adaptada: SI

Nivel: Intermedio

Reseña: This story is about a boy, Charles Welsh, a British student, who went to China to visit his cousin but…, suddenly, an innocent visit to the Great Wall changed everything. He was involved in a terrible and tragic story lived in China in 1989.
I recommend this book to the people who like fiction and tragic stories. I didn’t like it very much.

Valoración: 2/5

Gustavo Álvarez Alija

Título: The Time Machine

Autor: H.G.Wells

Editorial: Penguin Readers

Obra adaptada: SI

Nivel: Intermedio

Reseña: This book is about a scientist who lived at the 20nd century. This man invented a machine which let him travel through the time.
With the intention of getting to know the future of the human race, he travelled to the year 802,701.
He expected to find a better world with a developed society. Instead, he found a primitive world where two opposite races lived. One of these lived at the surface and its population danced and sang and wore flowers. And the other one lived in the dark depth or earth.
On this enviroment, the scientist lived a lot of exciting adventures.
I liked it and I recommend you this book if you like adventure books and fantastic stories.

Valoración: 4/5

Mª Teresa Pereiro Álvarez

Título: The Secret of Secco Canyon

Autor: Patricia Matthews

Editorial: Contemporary Books

Obra adaptada: SI

Nivel: Intermedio

Reseña: A lot of Native-American artifacts have been turning up on the market. It is suspected that a new Indian cliff dwelling has been discovered and is being looted. Rob Harding is working undercover as a ranch hand in order to identify the culprits. But what seemed to be an easy job begins to get complicated because of strange incidents…
This book is ideal to familiarize yourself with a lot of new vocabulary, expressions and phrasal verbs. Though it is not a book you can read leisurely without using a dictionary. Anyway, once you have started reading this mystery novel you won’t be able to put it down.

Valoración: 4/5

Marta León García

Título: No Comebacks

Autor: Frederick Forsyth

Editorial: Heinemann

Obra adaptada: SI

Nivel: Intermediate

Reseña: This book includes four short stories. One of these stories is about a rich man who fell in love and thought that he could buy the love of the woman. The second narrates a robbery of a lorry but inside it there wasn’t what the thief expected. The third is about the millionaire’s will. The last story relates a game of cards with special companions.

Valoración: 3/5

Tamara González Barja

Título: King Solomon’s Mines

Autor: Sir H. Rider Gaggard

Editorial: Logman Classics

Obra adaptada: SI

Nivel: Intermedio

Reseña: Allan Quatermain, an English adventurer, Sir Henry Curtis and Captain Good are seeking Sir Henry’s brother in Africa. He was last seen travelling north into the unexplored interior, on a quest for the legendary King Solomon’s Mines. They travel a long way over a difficult country to the hidden land of the Kukuanas in search of King Solomon’s treasure. They find enough diamonds to make them the richest men in Europe but they are trapped inside the mines…
I would recommend this book because it’s very interesting and exciting. The plot is really easy to follow and the vocabulary isn’t too difficult.

Valoración: 4/5

Miriam Rodríguez García

Título: The Freedom Trap

Autor: Desmond Bagley

Editorial: Collins English Library

Obra adaptada: SI

Nivel: Intermedio

Reseña: This is a thriller about a guy who had stolen diamonds. He was found guilty of stealing and he was sentenced to twenty years in prison. There, he had a good behavior and he met the Scarperers, a powerful group of criminals who arranged escapes for long-term prisoners.
I would recommend this book because it is very interesting, exciting and it has quite an emotive ending. When you’re half way through the book you get surprised because the plot changes entirely. I found it difficult to understand, because there were a lot of phrasal verbs that I didn’t know.

Valoración: 4/5

Leire Peña Noval

Título: Lorna Doone

Autor: R. D. Blackmore

Editorial: Longman

Obra adaptada: SI

Nivel: Intermedio

Reseña: This is the story of two different families. The Doones were the owners of Doone Valley and the Ridds were the owners of a farm. Both were always fighting because the Doones stole from the farmers and from travellers on the roads and anyone who stood up against them was killed.
One day Carver Doone killed Ridds’s father and John Ridd would kill the man who had killed his father. Later he fell in love with Lorna Doone.
I didn’t like the book very much because they were always fighting and it was a bit boring.

Valoración: 3/5

Andrea González Leivas.

Título: Drácula

Autor: Bram Stoker

Editorial: Longman

Obra adaptada: SI

Nivel: Intermedio

Reseña: Bram Stoker’s Dracula is a thriller about a vampire who attacks his victims at night; the fearsome Count Dracula.
Jonathan Harker, with Dr. Van Helsing’s help, must fight Count Dracula and save Mina’s soul, Jonathan’s girlfriend.
I would recommend its reading to everyone who likes thrillers. It’s a very good horror book to read; it’s very entertaining.

Valoración: 4/5

Isabel González Fernández

Título: The Mill on the Floss

Autor: George Eliot

Editorial: Penguin

Obra adaptada: SI

Nivel: Intermedio

Reseña: This story is a famous nineteenth- century book, written by George Eliot which was Mary Ann Evans’s pen-name. The book is about a young girl, Maggie, who lives in a small town in England. She lives with her parents and they have their own mill. Maggie’s brother, Tom, studies at his teacher’s house far from home. Maggie, sometimes, goes to visit Tom. There, she meets a weak man, Philip. They fall in love but Philip’s father and Maggie’s family are enemies, so they can’t be together. Therefore, Maggie must choose between her family and Philip.
It’s a sad story but it’s very amusing too, and the vocabulary is quite easy so you can read it without difficulty, although there are some new words which you can learn.

Valoración:

Patricia Díaz Díaz

Título: Nothing but the Truth

Autor: George Kershaw

Editorial: Cambridge University Press

Obra adaptada: SI

Nivel: Intermedio

Reseña: Hu is a Chinese student at an international school in Bangkok. One of the teachers tries to bribe her and other students giving them extra English lessons. At first, Hu doesn’t say anything for fear. But after a journey, and acting in a musical, and thanks to the help of her classmates, she decides to say nothing but the truth.
I really recommend this book because it is very exciting and quite easy to understand. It shows you a real adventure of a teenager and it also has some comic situations

Valoración: 4/5

Marta Fernández Illanes