Author : Buchi Emecheta
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,5 MB
Release : 2008-01-10
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780194792189
Word count 22,620
Author : Buchi Emecheta
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 34,60 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780807616284
A young Ibo girl named Aku-nna flees an unwanted marriage to be with her true love, Chike, the son of a prosperous former slave. However, Aku-nna's uncle refuses the bride price from Chike's family, an action that frightens Aku-nna for it foreshadows her own death in childbirth.
Author : Edith Wharton
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 35,81 MB
Release : 2012-02-10
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0194630617
A level 5 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Retold for Learners of English by Clare West. Into the narrow social world of New York in the 1870s comes Countess Ellen Olenska, surrounded by shocked whispers about her failed marriage to a rich Polish Count. A woman who leaves her husband can never be accepted in polite society. Newland Archer is engaged to young May Welland, but the beautiful and mysterious Countess needs his help. He becomes her friend and defender, but friendship with an unhappy, lonely woman is a dangerous path for a young man to follow - especially a young man who is soon to be married.
Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 24,46 MB
Release : 2012-02-10
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0194786366
A level 5 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Retold for Learners of English by Clare West. 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; her dark eyes burn with bitterness and hate. By her side sits a proud and beautiful girl, and in front of her, trembling with fear in his thick country boots, stands young Pip. Miss Havisham stares at Pip coldly, and murmurs to the girl at her side: ‘Break his heart, Estella. Break his heart!’
Author : Christine Lindop
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 46,5 MB
Release : 2014-09-30
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0194632393
A level 1 Factfiles Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. This version includes an audio book: listen to the story as you read. Written for Learners of English by Christine Lindop. ‘The bride wore a long white dress, with flowers in her hair. After the wedding, there was a party, and people gave presents to the bride and groom.’ This wedding was nearly two thousand years ago, in Rome. Some things don’t change. But some things do. Today you can have a wedding on a mountain, or under the sea, or ‘Elvis’ can sing for you. And different things happen in different places. Little birds made of paper, small trees, money in the bride’s shoe, and lots of noise – they are all important for weddings somewhere. Welcome to the wonderful world of weddings!
Author : Edith Wharton
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 34,11 MB
Release : 2015-03-05
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0194631362
A level 5 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. Into the narrow social world of New York in the 1870s comes Countess Ellen Olenska, surrounded by shocked whispers about her failed marriage to a rich Polish Count. A woman who leaves her husband can never be accepted in polite society. Newland Archer is engaged to young May Welland, but the beautiful and mysterious Countess needs his help. He becomes her friend and defender, but friendship with an unhappy, lonely woman is a dangerous path for a young man to follow - especially a young man who is soon to be married.
Author : Thomas Hardy
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 19,59 MB
Release : 2012-02-10
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 019478634X
A level 5 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Retold for Learners of English by Clare West. Bathsheba Everdene is young, proud, and beautiful. She is an independent woman and can marry any man she chooses – if she chooses. In fact, she likes her independence, and she likes fighting her own battles in a man’s world. But it is never wise to ignore the power of love. There are three men who would very much like to marry Bathsheba. When she falls in love with one of them, she soon wishes she had kept her independence. She learns that love brings misery, pain, and violent passions that can destroy lives . . .
Author : Buchi Emecheta
Publisher : Penguin Classics
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 25,46 MB
Release : 2023
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780241578124
'Sad, sonorous, occasionally hilarious, an extraordinary first novel' Washington Post 'Striking . . . brings sexism and classism into equal focus' The Paris Review Adah is a single mother of five, living in a dank, crumbling housing estate for 'problem families', avoiding the rats and rubbish. It's not quite the new start in London she had planned. As she navigates the complicated welfare system that keeps her trapped in poverty, can she cling to her dream of a better life, and find somewhere that feels like home? Buchi Emecheta's scorching debut novel drew on her own experiences to paint a moving picture of hope, unexpected friendship, and survival. In the Ditch joins The Joys of Motherhood and Second-Class Citizen in Penguin Modern Classics, with a bespoke cover design from Turner Prize-winning artist Chris Ofili. 'Buchi Emecheta was the foremother of black British women's writing' Bernardine Evaristo
Author : Arthur James Wells
Publisher :
Page : 1008 pages
File Size : 26,47 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Bibliography, National
ISBN :
Author : Charlotte Bronte
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 26,98 MB
Release : 2015-03-05
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0194631079
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.
