Oxford Bookworms: The Song of Distant Earth and other stories

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 Havisha...

From Botswana to New Zealand, from Jamaica to Nigeria, from Uganda toMalaysia, from India to South Africa, these moving stories show us that thehuman heart is the same in every place. Children, wives, mothers, husbands,friends all have the same feelings of fear and pain, happiness and sadness.(br/)Bookworms World Stories collect stories written in English from around theworld, and the eight storie...

His thin, claw-like hands were folded loosely on the rug, purple-nailed. A few locks of dry white hair clung to his scalp, like wild flowers fighting for life on a bare rock. Published in 1939, when Raymond Chandler was 50, this is the first of the Philip Marlowe novels. Its bursts of sex, violence, and explosively direct prose changed detective fiction forever. She was trouble. She was tall and r...

In the spring of 1954, in the small seaside town of Skinners Bluff, Anna is filled with hope for the future and she dreams of the world beyond, but it's up to Anna to keep the family together - or is it? With summer approaching, secrets are revealed which will change the family forever. This is the story of a young girl's coming of age, when old dreams are challenged and new dreams discovered.

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 is soon rich, with gold and jewels and many fine things. But can he win the love of the Sultan's daughter, the beautiful Princess Badr-al-Budur?

Данная серия представляет профессионально подобранную библиотеку для подростков и старшеклассников, куда включены адаптированные версии классической и современной литературы, а также истории из реальной жизни. Серию отличает четкая уровневая система, обеспечивающая понимание содержания учащимися соответствующих уровней владения английским языком. Отличительные характеристики серии: - 10 стра...

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 will ask. In these three of his best stories, Holmes has three visitors to the famous flat in Baker Street - visitors who bring their troubles to the ...