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How do you get a licence if you want to keep a monkey? What can you do if your wife has a lover? How can you see into the future? Where can you go for an exciting but cheap holiday somewhere hot and far away? How can you persuade your girlfriend or boyfriend to marry you? The characters in these six ...
A housewife, a tramp, a lawyer, a waitress, an actress - ordinary people living ordinary lives in New York at the beginning of this century. The city has changed greatly since that time, but its people are much the same. Some are rich, some are poor, some are happy, some are sad, some have found love, ...
Thousands of years ago, people looked out across an ocean and asked themselves, ''What is on the other side?'' And the bravest of them began to travel and find the answers - beautiful islands, frozen lands, different peoples ...And there are still interesting questions about the oceans. How do they change ...
It is beautiful to look at, hard to reach, and terribly difficult to climb. Winds of 200 kilometres per hour or more scream across it day and night, while the temperature falls to -20°C or lower. Every year, some who try to climb the highest mountain in the world do not return. But for a century people ...
Everybody wants to win the lottery. A million pounds, perhaps five million, even ten million. How wonderful! Emma Carter buys a ticket for the lottery every week, and puts the ticket carefully in her bag. She is seventy-three years old and does not have much money. She would like to visit her son in ...
Oxford Bookworms Library, stage 1 (400 headwords). It is night in the south seas near Tahiti, and the ship HMS Bounty has begun the long voyage home to England. But the sailors on the ship are angry men, and they have swords and guns. They pull the captain out of bed and take him up on deck. He tries ...
Oxford Bookworms Library (400 headwords). Cathy Wilson is driving to Norfolk, to begin her new job with the Harvey family. She is going to look after the two young children, Tim and Susan. Cathy meets the children´s father, and their grandmother, and their aunt. She meets Nick, the farmer who lives across ...
England in 1647: King Charles is in prison, and Cromwell''''s men are fighting the King''''s men. These are dangerous times for everybody.( )The four Beverley children have no parents, their mother is dead and their father died while fighting for the King. Now Cromwell''''s soldiers have come to burn ...
Oxford Bookworms Library (700 headwords). 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. So why is he ...
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 ...
''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 in these troubled times people can still love and be ...
Oxford Bookworms Library (1400 headwords). One winter´s day in 1673 young John Ridd is riding home from school, across the wild lonely hills of Exmoor. He has to pass Doone valley - a dangerous place, as the Doones are famous robbers and murderers. All Exmoor lives in fear of the Doones. At home there ...
Oxford Bookworms Library (1400 headwords). General Sternwood has four million dollars, and two young daughters, both pretty and both wild. He´s an old, sick man, close to death, but he doesn´t like being blackmailed. So he asks private detective Philip Marlowe to get the blackmailer off his back. Marlowe ...
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 ...
Brilliant anti-heroine Becky Sharp will do anything to climb to society''s loftiest heights and couldn''t be more different from her rich, sweet-natured schoolmate, Amelia Sedley. Their parallel lives are marked by love, lust, marriage, fortune and loss, in all their different guises, as they navigate ...
It''s a good place for gold,'' said people in the 1840s, and they came from all over the world. ''It''s a good place for a prison,'' said the US government in the 1920s, and they put Al Capone there on the island of Alcatraz. ''It''s a good place for love,'' said the hippies in the 1960s, and they put ...
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Oxford Bookworms Library (400 headwords). Tom Sawyer does not like school. He does not like work, and he never wants to get out of bed in the morning. But he likes swimming and fishing, and having adventures with his friends. And he has a lot of adventures. One night, he and his friend Huck Finn go to ...
