One Way Ticket

ONE-WAY TICKET
SHORT STORIES

A train is a closed world. Each carriage is like a small room, with windows and doors, but you can't get out when the train is moving. The world outside is far away, and you can forget your home, your work, your friends. On a train you sit with strangers. You don't know anything about them, but you sit next to them for hours, or perhaps days, in the same smallroom. You can't get away from them. As the wheels of the train turn, these stories show us three different people. A beautiful young wife - going on holiday with her new husband, through the green hills of England. A carefree young man - travelling across the mountains of Yugoslavia, looking for work. A sensible middle-aged man - travelling north through the forests and lakes of Finland, hoping fora quiet journey. Three different journeys, three different people - all locked in the closed world of the train . . . where anything can happen.

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One-Way Ticket
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Series Editor: Jennifer Bassett Founder Editor: Tricia Hedge Activities Editors: Jennifer Bassett and Alison Baxter

To my brothers, Nickand Rod, who do a lot of travelling around Europe by train

JENNIFER

BASSETT

One-Way Ticket
SHORT STORIES

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CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION

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The Girl with Green Eyes South for the Winter Mr Harris and the Night Train
GLOSSARY

ACTIVITIES: Before Reading ACTIVITIES: While Reading ACTIVITIES: After Reading
ABOUT THE AUTHOR ABOUT B O O K W O R M S

A complete recording of this Bookworms edition of One-Way Ticket is available on cassette ISBN 0 19 422736 7 Printed in Spain by Unigraf S.L. Illustrated by: Nick HarrisThe Girl with Green Eyes

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