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Артур Конан Дойл – Sherlock Holmes Short Stories

A level 2 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Retold for Learners of English by Clare West. Sherlock Holmes is the greatest detective of them all. He sits in his room, and smokes his pipe. He listens, and watches, and thinks. He listens to the steps coming up the stairs; he watches the door opening – and he knows what question the stranger [...]

Артур Конан Дойл – Sherlock Holmes: Two Plays

A level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Retold for Learners of English by John Escott. Sherlock Holmes is the greatest detective the world has ever seen, and he knows it. As the famous bank-robber, John Clay, says to him, ‘You think of everything, Mr Holmes. You’re very clever.’ People come to him with problems that no [...]

Уильям Уилки Коллинз – The Woman in White

A level 6 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Retold for Learners of English by Richard G. Lewis. The woman in white first appears at night on a lonely heath near London and is next seen at a grave-side in Cumberland. Who is she? Where has she come from, and what is her history? She seems alone and friendless, frightened and confused. And it [...]

Erskine Childers – The Riddle of the Sands

A level 5 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Retold for Learners of English by Peter Hawkins. When Carruthers joins his friend Arthur Davies on his yacht Dulcibella, he is expecting a pleasant sailing holiday in the Baltic Sea. But the holiday turns into an adventure of a different kind. He and Davies soon find themselves sailing in the [...]

Льюис Кэрролл – Through the Looking-Glass

A level 3 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Retold for Learners of English by Jennifer Bassett. I wish I could get through into looking-glass house,’ Alice said. ‘Let’s pretend that the glass has gone soft and… Why, I do believe it has! It’s turning into a kind of cloud!’, A moment later Alice is inside the [...]

Mark Foster, Phillip Burrows – Oranges in the Snow

A Starter level Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Written for Learners of English by Phillip Burrows and Mark Foster. ‘Everything’s ready now. We can do the experiment,’ says your assistant Joe. You are the famous scientist Mary Durie working in a laboratory in Alaska. When you discover something very new and valuable, [...]

John Buchan – The Thirty-Nine Steps

A level 4 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Retold for Learners of English by Nick Bullard. ‘I turned on the light, but there was nobody there. Then I saw something in the corner that made my blood turn cold. Scudder was lying on his back. There was a long knife through his heart, pinning him to the floor.’, Soon Richard Hannay [...]

Лаймен Фрэнк Баум – The Wizard of Oz

A level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Retold for Learners of English by Rosemary Border. Dorothy lives in Kansas, USA, but one day a cyclone blows her and her house to a strange country called Oz. There, Dorothy makes friends with the Scarecrow, the Tin Man, and the Cowardly Lion. But she wants to go home to Kansas. Only one person can [...]

Jennifer Bassett – The Phantom of the Opera

A level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Written for Learners of English by Jennifer Bassett. It is 1880, in the Opera House in Paris. Everybody is talking about the Phantom of the Opera, the ghost that lives somewhere under the Opera House. The Phantom is a man in black clothes. He is a body without a head, he is a head without a body. [...]

Jennifer Bassett – The President's Murderer

A level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library graded readers. Written for Learners of English by Jennifer Bassett. The President is dead! A man is running in the night. He is afraid and needs to rest. But there are people behind him – people with lights, and dogs, and guns. A man is standing in front of a desk. His boss is very angry, and the man is tired [...]

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