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Katherine Mansfield – The Garden Party and Other Stories

A level 5 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Retold for Learners of English by Rosalie Kerr. Oh, how delightful it is to fall in love for the first time! How exciting to go to your first dance when you are a girl of eighteen! But life can also be hard and cruel, if you are young and inexperienced and travelling alone across Europe… or if [...]

Christine Lindop – The Bridge and Other Love Stories

A level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Written for Learners of English by Christine Lindop. Luke is a good-looking young man, but he’s not very clever with words. Gemma is clever with words, but what does she want? Lucy and Becky are good friends, but what about Sam? He makes wonderful cakes, but does he make mistakes too? Nina [...]

Джером Джером – Three Men in a Boat

A level 4 Oxford Bookworms Library graded readers. Retold for Learners of English by Diane Mowat. ‘I like work. I find it interesting… I can sit and look at it for hours.’, With ideas like this, perhaps it is not a good idea to spend a holiday taking a boat trip up the River Thames. But this is what the three friends – and Montmorency the [...]

Томас Харди – Far from the Madding Crowd

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 [...]

John Escott – Agatha Christie, Woman of Mystery

A level 2 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Written for Learners of English by John Escott. What does the name ‘Agatha Christie’ mean? To many people, it means a book about a murder mystery – a ‘whodunnit’. ‘I’m reading an Agatha Christie,’ people say. ‘I’m not sure who the murderer is – I think it’s…’ But they [...]

Чарльз Диккенс – A Tale of Two Cities

A level 4 Oxford Bookworms Library graded readers. Retold for Learners of English by Ralph Mowat. ‘The Marquis lay there, like stone, with a knife pushed into his heart. On his chest lay a piece of paper, with the words: Drive him fast to the grave. This is from JACQUES.’, The French Revolution brings terror and death to many people. But even [...]

Judith Dean – Aladdin and the Enchanted Lamp

A level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Written for Learners of English by Judith Dean. In a city in Arabia there lives a boy called Aladdin. He is poor and often hungry, but one day he finds an old lamp. When he rubs the lamp, smoke comes out of it, and then out of the smoke comes a magical jinnee. With the jinnee’s help, Aladdin [...]

Peter Dainty – The Love of a King

A level 2 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Written for Learners of English by Peter Dainty. All he wanted to do was to marry the woman he loved. But his country said ‘No!’, He was Edward VIII, King of Great Britain, King of India, King of Australia, and King of thirty-nine other countries. And he loved the wrong woman. She was [...]

Льюис Кэрролл – Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

A level 2 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Retold for Learners of English by Jennifer Bassett. There, on top of the mushroom, was a large caterpillar, smoking a pipe. After a while the Caterpillar took the pipe out of its mouth and said to Alice in a slow, sleep voice, ‘Who are you?’, What strange things happen when Alice falls [...]

Arnold Bennett – Stories from the Five Towns

A level 2 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Retold for Learners of English by Nick Bullard. Arnold Bennett is famous for his stories about the Five Towns and the people who live there. They look and sound just like other people, and, like all of us, sometimes they do some very strange things. There’s Sir Jee, who is a rich businessman. [...]

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