William Shakespeare - With Audio Level 2 Oxford Bookworms Library
William Shakespeare - With Audio Level 2 Oxford Bookworms Library

Author: Jennifer Bassett

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2014-09-30

Total Pages: 64

ISBN-13: 0194632261

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A level 2 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. This version includes an audio book: listen to the story as you read. Retold for Learners of English by Jennifer Bassett. William Shakespeare. Born April 1564, at Stratford-upon-Avon. Died April 1616. Married Anne Hathaway: two daughters, one son. Actor, poet, famous playwright. Wrote nearly forty plays. But what was he like as a man? What did he think about when he rode into London for the first time . . . or when he was writing his plays Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet . . . or when his only son died? We know the facts of his life, but we can only guess at his hopes, his fears, his dreams.

One Thousand Dollars and Other Plays - With Audio Level 2 Oxford Bookworms Library
One Thousand Dollars and Other Plays - With Audio Level 2 Oxford Bookworms Library

Author: O. Henry

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2015-03-05

Total Pages: 64

ISBN-13: 0194630978

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A level 2 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. This version includes an audio book: listen to the story as you read. Retold for Learners of English by John Escott. Money or love? Which is more important in life? Can money buy anything? Can it help a young man to marry the girl he loves? Does money really make people happy, or does it just cause problems? These four plays about money, love, and life are adapted from short stories written a hundred years ago by the great American storyteller O. Henry. Henry had his own difficulties with money and loneliness, and wrote from personal experience.

Henry VIII and his Six Wives - With Audio Level 2 Oxford Bookworms Library
Henry VIII and his Six Wives - With Audio Level 2 Oxford Bookworms Library

Author: Janet Hardy-Gould

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2014-09-30

Total Pages: 70

ISBN-13: 0194631680

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A level 2 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. This version includes an audio book: listen to the story as you read. Written for Learners of English by Janet Hardy-Gould. There were six of them – three Katherines, two Annes, and a Jane. One of them was the King’s wife for twenty-four years, another for only a year and a half. One died, two were divorced, and two were beheaded. It was a dangerous, uncertain life. After the King’s death in 1547, his sixth wife finds a box of old letters – one from each of the first five wives. They are sad, angry, frightened letters. They tell the story of what it was like to be the wife of Henry VIII of England.

A Midsummer Night's Dream - With Audio Level 3 Oxford Bookworms Library
A Midsummer Night's Dream - With Audio Level 3 Oxford Bookworms Library

Author: William Shakespeare

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2015-03-05

Total Pages: 94

ISBN-13: 019463101X

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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. Written for Learners of English by William Shakespeare. There are broken hearts and kisses and then weddings, so this is a story about love. There are actors who are funny because they cannot act, so it is also a story that makes people laugh. And there are fairies, spirits of the night, so it is a story about mischief and magic too. What happens when love and laughter come together with magic in an Athenian forest? A Midsummer Night's Dream was written in about 1596 and is one of Shakespeare's most popular plays. It has been retold for Bookworms, not as a play, but as a story.

England - With Audio Level 1 Factfiles Oxford Bookworms Library
England - With Audio Level 1 Factfiles Oxford Bookworms Library

Author: John Escott

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2016-02-01

Total Pages: 67

ISBN-13: 0194632342

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A level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. This version includes an audio book: listen to the story as you read. Written for Learners of English by John Escott. Twenty-five million people come to England every year, and some never go out of London. But England is full of interesting places to visit and things to do. There are big noisy cities with great shops and theatres, and quiet little villages. You can visit old castles and beautiful churches - or go to festivals with music twenty-four hours a day. You can have an English afternoon tea, walk on long white beaches, watch a great game of football, or visit a country house. Yes, England has something for everybody - what has it got for you?

Les Miserables - With Audio Level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library
Les Miserables - With Audio Level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library

Author: Jennifer Bassett

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2015-03-05

Total Pages: 69

ISBN-13: 0194630889

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A level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. This version includes an audio book: listen to the story as you read. Retold for Learners of English by Jennifer Bassett. France, 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 loosely based on the famous novel Les Miserables 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 television and cinema.

The Murder of Mary Jones - With Audio Level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library
The Murder of Mary Jones - With Audio Level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library

Author: Tim Vicary

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2015-03-05

Total Pages: 47

ISBN-13: 0194630900

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A level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. This version includes an audio book: listen to the story as you read. Written for Learners of English by Tim Vicary. At the start of this play, the court room is full for today's trial. Two young men, Simon Clark and Dan Smith, stand up. The clerk asks, 'Are you guilty of the murder of Mary Jones?' 'Not guilty!' they reply. But perhaps they are guilty. The police found the murder weapon in their stolen car, and there was blood on Simon's face. If the court finds them guilty, they will go to prison for a very long time. Can the lawyers find out the truth, by asking the right questions? Everyone in court wants to know who murdered Mary Jones, especially her mother, and her boyfriend, Jim. You can help to find the answer, too!

47 Ronin: A Samurai Story from Japan - With Audio Level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library
47 Ronin: A Samurai Story from Japan - With Audio Level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library

Author: Jennifer Bassett

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2015-03-05

Total Pages: 67

ISBN-13: 0194630838

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A level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. This version includes an audio book: listen to the story as you read. Written for Learners of English by Jennifer Bassett. When Lord Asano drew his sword on Lord Kira one spring day in 1701, it began a story that is now a national legend in Japan. Lord Kira lived, but Lord Asano died, and after his death, his samurai became ronin, samurai without a master. And so began their long plan for revenge on Lord Kira. Their loyalty to their dead master made them famous, and people in Japan remember them to this day. The story of the forty-seven ronin has been told and retold for 300 years - in plays, novels, and films. A major Hollywood film was made about the forty-seven ronin in 2013.