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A human being is a soft, weak creature. It needs constant supplies of air, water, and food

You are walking through the streets of London. It is getting dark and you want to get home quickly. You enter a narrow side-street. Everything is quiet, but as you pass the door of a large, windowless building, you hear a key turning in the lock. A mancomes out and looks at you. You have never seen him before, but you realize immediately that he hates you. You are shocked to discover, also, that you hate him. Who is this man that everybody hates? And why is he coming out of the laboratory of the veryrespectable Dr Jekyll?

Curtis Colt didn't kill that liquor store woman, and that's a fact. It's not right that he should have to ride the lightning - that's what prisoners call dying in the electric chair. Curtis doesn't belong in it, and I can prove it.' But can Curtis'sgirlfriend prove it? Murder has undoubtedly been done, and if Curtis doesn't ride the lightning for it, then who will? These seven short stories, by well-known writers such as Dashiel Hammett, Patricia Highsmith, and Nancy Pickard, will keep you on theedge of your seat.

Oxford Bookworms Library Level 2: The Jungle BookRudyard KiplingRetold by Ralph MowatCEFR A2/B1Word count 6,510Headwords 700In the jungle of Southern India the Seeonee Wolf- Pack has a new cub. He is not a wolf - he is Mowgli, a humanchild, but he knows nothing of the world of men. He lives and hunts with his brothers the wolves. Baloo the bear and Bagheera the panther are his friends and teachers. And Shere Khan, the maneating tiger, is his enemy. Kipling's famous story of Mowgli'sadventures in the jungle has been loved by young and old for more than a hundred years.

In 1944 Hery Tillotson brings his new wife, Margaret, Home to his farmhouse in the English countryside. Margaret is a strange, unpleasant woman, determined, it seems, to make Henry's life miserable. 'Poor Henry!' say his friends, as they visit at weekedsand holidays. 'What an awful life he has!' But Henry is not all the sad and dissapointed man we might expect him t obe. He manages to enjoy life, and indeed, has quite a lot of fun, one way and another...Mary Wesley's story taes a sharp but light-hearted look at love, sex, and marriage - and the things people will do to get what they want.

In a gloomy, neglected house Miss Havisham sits, as she has sat year after year, in a wedding dress and veil that were once white, and are now faded and yellow with age. Her face is like a death's head

Oxford Bookworms Library: Level 4: Emma PaperbackEmma Woodhouse, beautiful, clever and rich, has no wish to marry, but she enjoys making matches for those around her. It was Emma who found the perfect husband for her governess Miss Taylor. So when her dear friend Mr Knightley tells her that she shouldlet people choose their own husbands and wives, she will not listen. But does Emma really understand people as well as she thinks? And is she even right about her own feelings, when she says that she will never fall in love?

Soon I felt something alive moving along my leg and up my body to my face, and when I looked down, I saw a very small human being, only fifteen centimetres tall... I was so surprised that I gave a great shout.' But that is only the first of manysurprises which Gulliver has on his travels. He visits a land of giants and a flying island, meets ghosts from the past and horses which talk...

It was a very inconvenient time for murder. Florence was full of Christmas shoppers and half the police force was already on holiday. At first it seemed quite an ordinary murder. Of course, there are always a few mysteries. In this case, the dead man hadbeen in the habit of moving his furniture at three o'clock in the morning. Naturally, the police wanted to know why. The case became more complicated. But all the time, the answer was right under their noses. They just couldn't see it. It was, after all,a very ordinary murder.

A csomag az alábbi könyveket tartalmazza 1-1 példányban:The Adventures of Tom SawyerThe Elephant ManA Little PrincessLove or Money?The Monkey's PawThe Phantom of the OperaThe President's MurdererSherlock Holmes and the Duke's SonWhite DeathThe Wizard of Oz

Careful, Connie, please. Your little sister's eyes are looking angry. Look at the sudden lines around her mouth. Connie, a sister is a good thing. Even a younger sister. 'Mercy, who are you going out with?' Connie gets an answer to her question, but itis not the answer she wants to hear. And what is the price of peace between sisters? The stories in this volume of World Stories come from Sierra Leone, Malawi, Ghana, Zimbabwe, and Nigeria, and are by African writers Abioseh Nicol, Ken Lipenga, Ama AtaAidoo, Paul Tiyambe Zeleza, and Sefi Atta.

I don't know that you have done anything wrong,' Miss Hepplewhite said. 'But it is possible that you have done something rather dangerous.' William and Susie thought they were just playing a game when they cooked a witch's brew in the old barn and said aspell over it, but Martha was not so sure. And indeed, the three friends soon learn that they have called up something dark and evil out of the distant past...