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Oxford Bookworms Library Level 5: The Garden Party and Other Stories book+MP3 packKatherine Mansfield retold by Rosalie KerrCEFR B2Word count 22,665Oh, how delightful it is to fall in love for the first time! How exciting to go to your first dance when you are a girl of eighteen! But life can also be hard and cruel, if you are young and inexperienced and travelling alone across Europe... or if youare a child from the wrong social class... or a singer without work and the rent to be paid. Set in Europe and New Zealand, these nine stories by Katherine Mansfield dig deep beneath the appearances of life to show us the causes of human happiness anddespair.

Classics, modern fiction, non-fiction and more. Written for secondary and adult students the Oxford Bookworms Library has seven reading levels from A1-C1 of the CEFR.This famous play is one of the finest English comedies. Algernon knows that his friend Jack does not always tell the truth. For example, in town his name is Ernest, while in the country he calls himself Jack. And who is the girl who gives him presents'from little Cecily, with allher love'? But when the beautiful Gwendolen says that she can only love a man called Ernest, Jack decides to change his name. Then Cecily agrees to marry Algernon, but only if his name is Ernest, too, and things become difficult for the two young men.CEFR A2/B1Word count 6,347

Charles Bravo died from the poison antimony. He took three days to die, and the doctors could do nothing to help him. There were three people who had reasons for wanting Charles Bravo dead - Florence Bravo herself, Charles Bravo's new young wife

Oxford Bookworms Library Level 1: The Coldest Place on Earth book+MP3 packCEFR A1/A2Word count 5,400Listen along with downloadable MP3 audio.In the summer of 1910, a race began. A race to be the first man at the South Pole, in Antarctica. Robert Falcon Scott, an Englishman, left London in his ship, the Terra Nova, and began the long journey south. Five days later, another ship also began totravel south. And on this ship was Roald Amundsen, a Norwegian. But Antarctica is the coldest place on earth, and it is a long, hard journey over the ice to the South Pole. Some of the travellers never returned home. This is the story of Scott andAmundsen, and of their famous and dangerous race.

Oxford Bookworms Library Level 1: A Little Princess book+MP3 packListen along with downloadable MP3 audio.Frances Hodgson Burnett Retold by Jennifer BassettCEFR A1/A2Word count 5,840ara Crewe is a very rich little girl. She first comes to England when she is seven, and her father takes her to Miss Minchin's school in London. Then he goes back to his work in India. Sara is very sad at first, but she soon makes friends at school.But on her eleventh birthday, something terrible happens, and now Sara has no family, no home, and not a penny in the world...

Oxford Bookworms Library Level 6: Jane EyreCharlotte Bront‰ Retold by Clare WestCEFR B2/C1Word count 31,360Jane Eyre is alone in the world. Disliked by her aunt's family, she is sent away to school. Here she learns that a young girl, with neither money nor family to support her, can expect little from the world. She survives, but she wants more from life thansimply to survive: she wants respect, and love. When she goes to work for Mr Rochester, she hopes she has found both at once. But the sound of strange laughter, late at night, behind a locked door, warns her that her troubles are only beginning.

Oxford Bookworms Library Level 2: Hamlet Playscript audio packNewWilliam Shakespeare Retold by Alistair McCallumFormat: Mixed media formatListen along with downloadable MP3 audio.CEFR A2/B1Word count 5,945This famous play by William Shakespeare is one of the finest in the English language. Why does Hamlet, the young Prince of Denmark, look so sad? Why does he often say strange things? His family and friends are worried about him. Perhaps he is mad! ButHamlet thinks that he has discovered a terrible secret about a recent crime in his family. Now he has no time for Ophelia, the sweet girl who loves him, or his friends, who were at school with him. He sits alone, and thinks, and plans. What will hedecide to do? Will he ever be happy again?

A pretty young girl has to leave home to make money for her family. She is clever and a good worker

Oxford Bookworms Library Level 4: A Time of Waiting: Stories from Around the World book+mp3 packRetold by Clare WestCEFR B1/B2Word count 13,874When did you last meet a polar bear, or go to a magician for help? These stories offer many different experiences. Some are strange, some are scary, some are sad, some are blackly funny. A few are shocking - when Lin Lin returns home for a funeral, shelearns a dark and terrible family secret which may destroy her.Bookworms World Stories collect stories written in English from around the world. These stories are from Australia, Canada, India, Malaysia, Nigeria, Singapore, South Africa, and Trinidad.

In sixteenth-century Venice - a city of wealthy merchants and bankers - money is all-important. Bassanio is penniless, but his great friend Antonio offers to help him by borrowing the money that he needs. To do this, though, Antonio must make anarrangement with an old enemy that puts his life in danger... The Merchant of Venice is one of Shakespeare's most popular plays, and it has been performed all over the world. It is retold in this Bookworm not as a play, but as a story.

Oxford Bookworms Library Level 1: Les Misérables book+MP3 packCEFR A1/A2Word count 7,302France, 1815. Jean Valjean leaves prison after nineteen years. These are dangerous and troubled times, and life is hard. Valjean must begin a new life, but how can he escape his past, and his enemy, Inspector Javert? This story for Bookworms is looselybased on the famous novel Les Misérables by Victor Hugo, one of France's greatest writers. The novel was written in 1862, and the story has been retold many times - in a musical, in plays for radio and theatre, and in more than fifty films for televisionand cinema.

Könnyített olvasmány letölthető hanganyaggalOxford Bookworms Library Level 6: Oliver Twist book+MP3 audio packListen along with downloadable MP3 audio.CEFR B2/C1Word count 26,560London in the 1830s was no place to be if you were a hungry ten-year-old boy, an orphan without friends or family, with no home to go to, and only a penny in your pocket to buy a piece of bread. But Oliver Twist finds some friends - Fagin, the ArtfulDodger, and Charley Bates. They give him food and shelter, and play games with him, but it is not until some days later that Oliver finds out what kind of friends they are and what kind of 'games' they play...

Oxford Bookworms Library Level 3: Skyjack! book+MP3 packCEFR B1Word count 8,685When a large plane is hijacked, the Prime Minister looks at the list of passengers and suddenly becomes very,very frightened. There is a name on the list that the Prime Minister knows very well - too well. There is someone on that plane who will soon be dead - if the hijackers can find out who he is! And there isn't much time. One man lies dead on the runway.In a few minutes the hijackers will use their guns again. And the Prime Minister knows who they are going to kill.

It is 2088, and life in the city where Sala lives is hard: it's overcrowded, there are no jobs, and no one can leave, because the world outside is contaminated. Sala is lucky, because she has Cham, and they love each other. But when Cham gets the chancefor a new future, and Sala begins to make some extraordinary discoveries, will they agree about how to move forwards and what to do with their lives?

Angol könnyített olvasmányOxford Bookworms Library Level 5: Little Dorrit könyv + MP3CEFR B2Word count 25,189Arthur Clennam is back in England after many years abroad. He finds his mother as cold and hard as ever, but his father's recent death has thrown up a mystery, and he is determined to get to the bottom of it. Could it have anything to do with LittleDorrit, the quiet, kind girl who sews for his mother and goes back at night to her home in the Marshalsea Prison? As Arthur gets to know the Dorrit family, he is too busy looking for the truth about his mother's secret to notice that he has perhaps foundthe answer to his own happiness...

In 2008, Usain Bolt became the fastest man in the world. He won three gold medals at the Beijing Olympic Games that year - and he did it again in 2012, and in 2016. So how did a boy from a little Jamaican village become the world's greatest athlete? Andwhy do his fans love him so much?Word count 5,494

Új válogatott történetek szerte a világból, az Oxford kiadó könnyített olvasmány sorozatában.Stories from the Hart - Stories from Around the World by Jennifer BassettA sorozat előző kötetei:- Cries from the Heart- Songs from the Soul

New York, 1925. While her children play, Rosalia unpacks boxes in the family's new apartment. In one of them, she finds her old sketchbook, and when she looks at the pictures, they take her back to her journey to America from Italy by sea in 1910, as afourteen-year-old girl...

Angol egyszerűsített olvasmány - Újabb Sherlock Holmes kalandok az Oxford Bookworms sorozatban.Sherlock Holmes is famous around the world. When the police cannot solve a crime, they turn to Holmes. He never misses a clue, and when he looks carefully at a person, he can understand everything about them. These are two of the best Sherlock Holmesstories. In 'The Dead Coachman', Holmes investigates a burglary and a murder while he is staying in the countryside with his friend Doctor Watson. In 'The Last Mystery', Holmes is in danger from the evil Professor Moriarty, who is as clever as thedetective himself. They are both ready to fight to the death. But who will win?

What do you do if you have a boring job in a restaurant, serving fast food to people who have no time to eat? What if you dream of travelling to other countries, but your friends just laugh?Do you stay at home with them? Perhaps you hear that someone has bought the last bag of salt in town. Do you buy a bag from him at a high price? Our world is full of these kinds of problems. They make life interesting, and sometimes very funny. Thesefive short plays show people trying to decide what to do in unexpected situations.