Behind the Headlines - Pleasant Books in Easy English Stage 3

Longman, 1965. — 92.The books of this series are intended for those who have left the age of fairy tales behind them, but require some reading material in easy English.
The vocabulary of stage 3 is limited to about 1,100 of the commonest words in English. At this stage the text may include all the tenses of the verb (Active and Passive), with the exception of the Future Perfect, but constructions involving might are not used. All normal subordinate clauses are admitted, though long and complicated sentences are avoided.
Some of the texts are: The San Francisco Fire, Signals across the Atlantic, The Finding of the Rosetta Stone, The Sinking of the Titanic, The Great Plague of London and many others.NB On pages 1-9; 22-65 there are translations of some words done with a pen or a pencil.