Did you ever wonder about the difference between “Easy Readers” and their original book ?
Here are some examples, with a scan of the first page of each book’s first chapter…
Can you see the difference between each original book and its Easy Reader version ?
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Let’s start and compare British author Jane Austen‘s famous novel “Pride and Prejudice”,
with first, the original book and then, different versions of Easy Readers.
“Pride and Prejudice”
(a novel by Jane Austen)
(for more information about the story, see the wikipedia entry here or here in simple English)
The original book:
about 400 pages (Penguin Classics edition)
The Easy Reader versions:
(1) Penguin Readers
about 140 pages (with exercises),
Level 5 (2300 headwords), about 42,000 words in total
(2) Scholastic Readers
about 90 pages (with exercises, fact files and pictures of the 2005 movie),
Level 3 (1500 headwords)
(3) Oxford Bookworms Readers
about 120 pages (with exercises),
Level 6 (2500 headwords), about 30,000 words in total
(4) Macmillan Readers
about 95 pages (with exercises),
Level 5 (about 1600 basic words)
(4) Black Cat Readers
about 160 pages (with exercises),
Step 5 (B2.2)
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Other examples:
The original:
Persuasion, by Jane Austen
about 230 pages
The Easy Reader version:
about 45 pages (with exercises)
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The original:
Death on the Nile, by Agatha Christie
about 315 pages
The Easy Reader version:
about 100 pages (with exercises)
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