- Help your students read their way to better English with this new edition of the world"s best graded readers - now with a new range of World Stories, fully revised Factfiles, more audio, and new tests.The new edition includes the original Bookworms stories, plus the Starters, Playscripts and Factfiles, making it easy for you to see the full choice of books at each Stage.The highly acclaimed seven-stage system of grading, from Starter to Stage 6, remains the same, helping you to find the right level for all your students.He is not beautiful. His mother does not want him, children run away from him. People laugh at him, and call him "The Elephant Man".Then someone speaks to him - and listens to him! At the age of 27, Joseph Merrick finds a friend for the first time in his life.This is a true and tragic story. It is also a famous film.