by Montague Rhodes James · Longman · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780582505414
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«The Crown» is the mystery tale by M. R. James, published by Longman in paperback (27 pages, in English).
Paxton spends the summer in Seaburgh, a small coastal town in England, fascinated by old objects and stories. When he digs an old crown out of the earth, a shadow follows him. The story raises what that crown is, why it matters to England, and what the lurking presence wants from Paxton.
Text adapted for the Penguin Readers series, level 1 (beginner, 300 words). Published in 2002.
Intended for students of English as a second language who are starting to read graded texts.
Montague Rhodes James was an English medievalist scholar and author who served as provost of King's College, Cambridge (1905–1918), and of Eton College (1918–1936) as well as Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge (1913–1915). James's scholarly work is still highly regarded, but he is best remembered for his ghost stories, which are considered by many critics and authors as the finest in the English language and widely influential on modern horror.
