The Brontë Story - With Audio Level 3 Oxford Bookworms Library

The Brontë Story - With Audio Level 3 Oxford Bookworms Library

Author: Tim Vicary

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2014-09-22

Total Pages: 80

ISBN-13: 0194631419

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A level 3 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. This version includes an audio book: listen to the story as you read. Retold for Learners of English by Tim Vicary. On a September day in 1821, in the church of a Yorkshire village, a man and six children stood around a grave. They were burying a woman: the man’s wife, the children’s mother. The children were all very young, and within a few years the two oldest were dead, too. Close to the wild beauty of the Yorkshire moors, the father brought up his young family. Who had heard of the Brontës of Haworth then? Branwell died while he was still a young man, but the three sisters who were left had an extraordinary gift. They could write marvellous stories – Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall . . . But Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë did not live to grow old or to enjoy their fame. Only their father was left, alone with his memories.


Jane Eyre - With Audio Level 6 Oxford Bookworms Library

Jane Eyre - With Audio Level 6 Oxford Bookworms Library

Author: Charlotte Bronte

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2015-03-05

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13: 0194631079

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A level 6 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. This version includes an audio book: listen to the story as you read. Retold for Learners of English by Clare West. Jane 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 than simply 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.


The Bronte Story

The Bronte Story

Author: Tim Vicary

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 60

ISBN-13: 9780194226882

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These autobiographies of Afro-American ex-slaves comprise the largest body of literature produced by slaves in human history. The book consists of three sections: selected reviews of slave narratives, dating from 1750 to 1861; essays examining how such narratives serve as historical material; and essays exploring the narratives as literary artifacts.


The Piano Level 2 Oxford Bookworms Library

The Piano Level 2 Oxford Bookworms Library

Author: Rosemary Border

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2012-02-10

Total Pages: 64

ISBN-13: 019478682X

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A level 2 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Written for Learners of English by Rosemary Border. One day, a farmer tells a farm boy to take everything out of an old building and throw it away. 'It's all rubbish,' he says. In the middle of all the rubbish, the boy finds a beautiful old piano. He has never played before, but now, when his fingers touch the piano, he begins to play. He closes his eyes and the music comes to him - and the music moves his fingers. When he opens his eyes again, he knows that his life is changed for ever . . .


The Enemy

The Enemy

Author: Desmond Bagley

Publisher: House of Stratus Limited

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 9781842320051

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Financial consultant, Malcolm Jaggard, begins a desperate investigation when flourishing industrialist and former Russian scientist, George Ashton, the father of Jaggard's fiancée, mysteriously disappears following a vicious acid attack on his daughter. Ashton is traced from his home in Buckinghamshire to the wintry forests of Sweden, in a compelling tale about rivalries between intelligence groups and shocking experiments in genetic engineering.


Sherlock Holmes Short Stories

Sherlock Holmes Short Stories

Author: Arthur Conan Doyle

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2018-12-15

Total Pages: 481

ISBN-13: 1787552543

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Curated new collections. The fascination with Conan Doyle’s enigmatic anti-hero Sherlock Holmes, and his pompous narrator Dr Watson, has barely subsided over the years. Inspiring a long line of detective stories and Whodunnits, Holmes is a constant feature on TV, and movie screens, with new audio and radio shows joining the frenzy. The Holmes tales have earned their place amongst the most influential of popular fantasy, crime and gothic stories.


The Thirteenth Tale

The Thirteenth Tale

Author: Diane Setterfield

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2007-10-09

Total Pages: 448

ISBN-13: 0743298039

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In this rousingly good ghost story, Setterfield's debut novel rejuvenates the genre with a closely plotted, clever foray into a world of secrets, confused identities, lies, and half-truths.


A Christmas Carol Level 3 Oxford Bookworms Library

A Christmas Carol Level 3 Oxford Bookworms Library

Author: Charles Dickens

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2012-02-10

Total Pages: 70

ISBN-13: 0194786714

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A level 3 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Retold for Learners of English by Clare West. Christmas is humbug, Scrooge says - just a time when you find yourself a year older and not a penny richer. The only thing that matters to Scrooge is business, and making money. But on Christmas Eve three spirits come to visit him. They take him travelling on the wings of the night to see the shadows of Christmas past, present, and future - and Scrooge learns a lesson that he will never forget....