Author : Edith Nesbit
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 18,94 MB
Release : 2007-12-27
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780194791281
Suitable for younger learners Word count 9,295
Author : Edith Nesbit
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 40,80 MB
Release : 2014-09-30
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0194631990
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 John Escott. 'We have to leave our house in London,' Mother said to the children. 'We're going to live in the country, in a little house near a railway line.' And so begins a new life for Roberta, Peter, and Phyllis. They become the railway children - they know all the trains, Perks the station porter is their best friend, and they have many adventures on the railway line. But why has their father had to go away? Where is he, and will he ever come back?
Author : Lewis Carroll
Publisher : Seven Books
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 33,48 MB
Release : 2024-09-25
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 3988655856
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is an 1865 English children's novel by Lewis Carroll, a mathematics don at the University of Oxford. It details the story of a girl named Alice who falls through a rabbit hole into a fantasy world of anthropomorphic creatures. It is seen as an example of the literary nonsense genre. The artist John Tenniel provided 42 wood-engraved illustrations for the book.It received positive reviews upon release and is now one of the best-known works of Victorian literature; its narrative, structure, characters and imagery have had a widespread influence on popular culture and literature, especially in the fantasy genre. It is credited as helping end an era of didacticism in children's literature, inaugurating an era in which writing for children aimed to "delight or entertain". The tale plays with logic, giving the story lasting popularity with adults as well as with children. The titular character Alice shares her name with Alice Liddell, a girl Carroll knewscholars disagree about the extent to which the character was based upon her.
Author : Jackie Maguire
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 42,3 MB
Release : 2007-12-06
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780194233835
Suitable for younger learners Word count 6,508
Author : Jules Verne
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 36,60 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1465548505
Author : H. G. Wells
Publisher : Modernista
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 43,95 MB
Release : 2024-05-30
Category :
ISBN : 9180949290
A stranger with a striking appearance arrives in the small village of Bramblehurst on a cold, snowy day. His face is completely covered in bandages, with only a fake nose protruding. The villagers wonder why he is disguised, and when mysterious burglaries begin to occur, they decide to unmask the stranger. What they discover is not just a man trapped by his own creation, but a chilling reflection of the unsolvable secrets deep within human nature. The Invisible Man is a timeless classic that not only entertains and thrills, but also sheds light on questions of human nature and the dangers that arise when the boundaries of science are crossed. It is a captivating and thought-provoking reading experience that has challenged readers for generations to contemplate their own life choices. H. G. WELLS [1866-1946] was a British author and pioneer in the science fiction genre. His works, including The Time Machine and The War of the Worlds, delved into futuristic and societal critique themes. Wells’s visionary portrayals of technology, social structures, and extraterrestrial life made him one of the most influential writers in his field and a precursor to modern science fiction.
Author : Geoffrey Trease
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 34,67 MB
Release : 2010-05-20
Category :
ISBN : 9780571269952
All over Athens the cocks were crowing, the sky was turning from dark-blue to oyster-grey, and the city was waking to one of its great events, the annual festival in the vast open-air theatre. Alexis, son of Leon, was full of anticipation as he dreamed of having his own plays performed there one day. But he was to be involved in more than playwriting before the day was over, for among the spectators at the horse race, by the light of the flaming torches, he heard Hippias, the arrogant dandy, and a stranger with a beaked nose and over-high cheekbones, plotting to overthrow the democracy of Athens. For the rest of the year, two things possessed Alexis: his comedy "The Gadfly," and the plans he laid with his friend Corinna to trap the conspirators and save his beloved city. His exultation and anxiety grew together as the fateful Theatre Festival arrived once more. Geoffrey Trease has combined a fast-moving dramatic story with a vivid and accurate picture of a great historical period.
Author : Geoffrey Trease
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 36,88 MB
Release : 2008-01-03
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780194791144
Suitable for younger learners Word count 10,800
Author : L. Frank Baum
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 41,26 MB
Release : 2007-11-08
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780194789264
Word count 5,440 Suitable for younger learners CD: American English Bestseller
Author : Tim Vicary
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 39,65 MB
Release : 2014-09-22
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0194631419
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.
