by Cornell Woolrich · Longman · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780175570485
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«Rear Window» is a suspense story by Cornell Woolrich, published as a graded reader by Longman in paperback (64 pages, in English).
In this suspense story, a man with a broken leg spends his time confined to his apartment and watches his neighbors from the window. What he sees leads him to suspect that one of them has committed a murder. A short tale of intrigue, intended for intermediate-level students of English.
It is part of the Nelson Graded Readers collection, at level 4. The original story, «It Had to Be Murder», was published in 1942 and served as the basis for the movie by Alfred Hitchcock.
Recommended for students of English as a second language (ESL) and for adult readers looking for a short, accessible suspense story.
Cornell George Hopley Woolrich was an American novelist and short story writer. He sometimes used the pseudonyms William Irish and George Hopley. His biographer, Francis Nevins Jr., rated Woolrich the fourth best crime writer of his day, behind Dashiell Hammett, Erle Stanley Gardner and Raymond Chandler.
