Jan Carew "Lost Love and Other Stories"
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The stones in this book are exciting and sometimes very strange. Some are sad and some are happy. We meet many interesting people - a young man in love, a lonely customer in a shop, a shy soldier. Strange things happen to all these people. But life is strange sometimes.
Mr Brown (in ‘The Doll’ story) has a very quiet and boring life. But everything changes when he buys a doll. He hears voices. Things move and break. What is happening - and can he stop it? In ‘Lost Love’, a young man finds a girl and loves her. Then he loses her. Will he find her again? In ‘The Other Man’, a writer is afraid of a stranger in his room. Who is the other man, and what does he want? A young soldier, in ‘The Charm’, is afraid of fighting. How can he learn to be brave? And in ‘Journey’s End’, an intelligent young man without a job learns something about his future. Will it change his life?
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Text Analysis: Unique words: about 600 Total words: about 5,680
Hard words: ago, beard, brave, bury, case, charm, doll, fair, guard, king, leader, lonely, lost, mirror, petrol, shy, soldier, voice, war, wonder
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