《傲慢与偏见》是 书虫?牛津英语文学名著简写本 中的一本，是英国作家简?奥斯丁创作的长篇小说。小说的背景是18世纪末至19世纪初的英国，全书围绕中产阶级家庭贝内特一家的故事展开。主角是二女儿伊丽莎白，她在舞会上认识了达西，但是耳闻他为人傲慢，一直对他心生排斥，经历一番周折，伊丽莎白解除了对达西的偏见，达西也放下傲慢，有情人终成眷属。这部作品以日常生活为素材，一反当时社会上流行的感伤小说内容和矫揉造作的写作方法，生动反映了当时处于保守和闭塞状态下的英国乡镇生活和世态人情。
Classics, modern fiction, non-fiction and more. Written for secondary and adult students the Oxford Bookworms Library has seven reading levels from A1-C1 of the CEFR. It is Molly Clarkson's fiftieth birthday. She is having a party. She is rich, but she is having a small party - only four people. Four people, however, who all need the same thing: they need her money. She will not give them the money, so they are waiting for her to die. And there are other people who are also waiting for her to die. But one person can't wait. And so, on her fiftieth birthday, Molly Clarkson is going to die. CEFR A1-A2 Word count 6,010
《简?爱》是 书虫?牛津英语文学名著简写本 中的一本，是英国作家夏洛蒂?勃朗特于1847年发表的长篇小说。该小说以简?爱的成长历程为主线，描绘了她对自我和真爱的追求，展现了她不安于现状，独立自主，自尊自强，勇敢坚韧的品质。小说发表之初在英国文坛引起轰动，被认为是一部具有浓厚浪漫主义色彩的现实主义小说，也是一部带有自传色彩的作品，是夏洛蒂?勃朗特 诗意的生平写照 。《简?爱》被英国小说家萨克雷赞誉为 一位伟大天才的杰作 。
Classics, modern fiction, non-fiction and more. Written for secondary and adult students the Oxford Bookworms Library has seven reading levels from A1-C1 of the CEFR. 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 help her, and that is the country's famous Wizard. So Dorothy and her friends take the yellow brick road to the Emerald City, to find the Wizard of Oz... CEFR A1-A2 Word count 5,440
《远大前程》是 书虫?牛津英语文学名著简写本 中的一本，是英国作家查尔斯?狄更斯晚年写成的长篇小说，成书于1860年至1861年之间。全书叙述了孤儿匹普从7岁开始的三个人生阶段。作者通过主人公视角的自我审视，把一个孩子的蜕变描绘得合情合理，真实可信 由于经济和社会地位的变化，本性淳朴善良的孩子竟会变得虚伪，忘恩负义，是非颠倒，但在真相与真情面前，善良的品质最终占据上风，将主人公从歧路拉回正途。整部小说人物刻画细腻入微，语言生动自然，情节紧凑而引人入胜，既具有深刻的社会意义，又具有极强的艺术感染力。
《雾都孤儿》是 书虫?牛津英语文学名著简写本 中的一本，本书是19世纪初英国文学史上的一部长篇小说。该小说以 雾都 伦敦为背景，讲述了孤儿奥利弗的悲惨遭遇和他与恶势力作斗争的故事。奥利弗在济贫院出生并长大，饱受欺凌，终于逃脱之后，却误入贼窝，被迫与盗匪为伍，但他心性善良，不愿与坏人同流合污，所幸，在一系列机缘巧合之中，在众多善良人的帮助之下，奥利弗成功查明身世并获得了幸福。本书通过一个孤儿的遭遇，描述了正义与邪恶之间的斗争，赞美了人性的善良，抨击了虚伪的慈善机构和极差的社会治安，揭露了当时英国社会存在的贫富不均和道德堕落等问题。
Classics, modern fiction, non-fiction and more. Written for secondary and adult students the Oxford Bookworms Library has seven reading levels from A1-C1 of the CEFR. A housewife, a tramp, a lawyer, a waitress, an actress - ordinary people living ordinary lives in New York at the beginning of the twentieth 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, some are looking for love. O. Henry's famous short stories - sensitive, funny, sympathetic - give us vivid pictures of the everyday lives of these New Yorkers. CEFR A2-B1 Word count 5,895
Classics, modern fiction, non-fiction and more. Written for secondary and adult students the Oxford Bookworms Library has seven reading levels from A1-C1 of the CEFR. One day, a farmer tells a farm boy to take everything out of an old building and throw it away. 'It's all rubbish,' he says. In the middle of all the rubbish, the boy finds a beautiful old piano. He has never played before, but now, when his fingers touch the piano, he begins to play. He closes his eyes and the music comes to him - and the music moves his fingers. When he opens his eyes again, he knows that his life is changed for ever... CEFR A2-B1 Word count 6,070
Classics, modern fiction, non-fiction and more. Written for secondary and adult students the Oxford Bookworms Library has seven reading levels from A1-C1 of the CEFR. 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. He has a yellow face, he has no nose, he has black holes for eyes. Everybody is afraid of the Phantom - the singers, the dancers, the directors, the stage workers... But who has actually seen him? CEFR A1-A2 Word count 6,230
Classics, modern fiction, non-fiction and more. Written for secondary and adult students the Oxford Bookworms Library has seven reading levels from A1-C1 of the CEFR. In the jungle of Southern India the Seeonee Wolf- Pack has a new cub. He is not a wolf - he is Mowgli, a human child, but he knows nothing of the world of men. He lives and hunts with his brothers the wolves. Baloo the bear and Bagheera the panther are his friends and teachers. And Shere Khan, the maneating tiger, is his enemy. Kipling's famous story of Mowgli's adventures in the jungle has been loved by young and old for more than a hundred years. CEFR A2-B1 Word count 6,510
《呼啸山庄》是 书虫?牛津英语文学名著简写本 中的一本，是19世纪英国文学史上一部著名的长篇小说，讲述了英国约克郡荒原上两户人家两代人之间的爱情纠葛。整部小说充满强烈的反压迫、争幸福的斗争精神，又笼罩着离奇、紧张的浪漫气氛。《呼啸山庄》在英国小说中占据了一个显著的位置，被公认为英国文学史上一部 奇特的小说 ，人们经常探讨它关于人类悲痛与渴望的强烈主题和复杂巧妙的叙事结构。根据这部小说改编的影视作品至今久演不衰。
Classics, modern fiction, non-fiction and more. Written for secondary and adult students the Oxford Bookworms Library has seven reading levels from A1-C1 of the CEFR. 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, sleepy voice, 'Who are you?' What strange things happen when Alice falls down the rabbit-hole and into Wonderland! She has conversations with the Caterpillar and the Cheshire Cat, goes to the Mad Hatter's tea party, plays croquet with the King and Queen of Hearts... CEFR A2-B1 Word count 6,315
Classics, modern fiction, non-fiction and more. Written for secondary and adult students the Oxford Bookworms Library has seven reading levels from A1-C1 of the CEFR. 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 the graveyard to look for ghosts. They don't see any ghosts that night. They see something worse than a ghost - much, much worse... CEFR A1-A2 Word count 5,825
Classics, modern fiction, non-fiction and more. Written for secondary and adult students the Oxford Bookworms Library has seven reading levels from A1-C1 of the CEFR. You are walking through the streets of London. It is getting dark and you want to get home quickly. You enter a narrow side-street. Everything is quiet, but as you pass the door of a large, windowless building, you hear a key turning in the lock. A man comes out and looks at you. You have never seen him before, but you realize immediately that he hates you. You are shocked to discover, also, that you hate him. Who is this man that everybody hates? And why is he coming out of the laboratory of the very respectable Dr Jekyll? CEFR B1-B2 Word count 12,520
《三十九级台阶》是 书虫?牛津英语文学名著简写本 中的一本，是英国作家约翰?巴肯所著的一部精彩的冒险小说，对后世此类小说的创作产生了深远影响。该小说以第一次世界大战爆发前为背景，讲述了一个扣人心弦的冒险故事。主人公理查德?汉内长期生活在非洲，回到伦敦后，他遇到了斯卡德先生，从而被卷入一场跨国阴谋之中。后来斯卡德先生遇害，汉内成为警方通缉的对象，同时德国黑暗组织也对他穷追不舍。他不断与追捕者斗智斗勇，并且破译了斯卡德留下的密码，找到了 三十九级台阶 中蕴藏的关键信息，最终成功挫败了黑暗组织的阴谋。
《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》是 书虫?牛津英语文学名著简写本 中的一本。小说中，年轻的亨利?巴斯克维尔继承了一笔丰厚的财产，却受到三百多年来有关 巴斯克维尔的猎犬 的家族诅咒。家族继承者们相继去世，且现场都会出现这只庞大的猎犬。福尔摩斯和华生接受了亨利先生的委托，前往巴斯克维尔庄园调查此事。最终，福尔摩斯揭开了真相并解救了巴斯克维尔家族的命运。该书是福尔摩斯系列故事中最著名的一部侦探小说，其影响力强大且持久，为推动英国小说发展做出了重要贡献。
《都柏林人》是 书虫?牛津英语文学名著简写本 中的一本，是爱尔兰作家詹姆斯?乔伊斯久负盛名的短篇小说集。该作品创作于1904年，以都柏林的市民生活为主题，具有鲜明的现实主义风格，为乔伊斯后来的作品奠定了基础。乔伊斯采用白描的手法，用15个短篇故事，分别从少年、青年、中老年的几个角度展现了当时都柏林中下层市民的生活百态，把当时弥漫于整个爱尔兰社会的麻不仁、死气沉沉的精神状态表现得淋漓尽致。《都柏林人》体现了乔伊斯对人生和社会的深刻观察的思考，并以叙事技巧的革新、精练而深刻的语言风格，影响了后世作家。
Classics, modern fiction, non-fiction and more. Written for secondary and adult students the Oxford Bookworms Library has seven reading levels from A1-C1 of the CEFR. Christmas is humbug, Scrooge says - just a time when you find yourself a year older and not a penny richer. The only thing that matters to Scrooge is business, and making money. But on Christmas Eve three spirits come to visit him. They take him travelling on the wings of the night to see the shadows of Christmas past, present, and future - and Scrooge learns a lesson that he will never forget. CEFR B1 Word count 10,385
《纯真年代》是 书虫?牛津英语文学名著简写本 中的一本，是美国作家伊迪丝?华顿于1920年发表的现实主义长篇小说。故事发生在19世纪70年代末80年代初的纽约上流社会，讲述了上流阶层贵公子纽兰与门当户对的梅及其表姐之间的情感故事。华顿从自己的亲身经历与熟悉的环境中取材，从独特的视角，用大量细腻的环境和心理描写，探讨了美国 镀金时代 上流阶层中女性的命运和地位以及人性中的纠结和矛盾。《纯真年代》被兰登书屋评为 20世纪百大英文小说 。
Classics, modern fiction, non-fiction and more. Written for secondary and adult students the Oxford Bookworms Library has seven reading levels from A1-C1 of the CEFR. 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!' CEFR B2 Word count 24,045
Classics, modern fiction, non-fiction and more. Written for secondary and adult students the Oxford Bookworms Library has seven reading levels from A1-C1 of the CEFR. This famous play is one of the finest English comedies. Algernon knows that his friend Jack does not always tell the truth. For example, in town his name is Ernest, while in the country he calls himself Jack. And who is the girl who gives him presents 'from little Cecily, with all her love'? But when the beautiful Gwendolen says that she can only love a man called Ernest, Jack decides to change his name. Then Cecily agrees to marry Algernon, but only if his name is Ernest, too, and things become difficult for the two young men. CEFR A2-B1 Word count 6,347
Classics, modern fiction, non-fiction and more. Written for secondary and adult students the Oxford Bookworms Library has seven reading levels from A1-C1 of the CEFR. In the summer of 1910, a race began. A race to be the first man at the South Pole, in Antarctica. Robert Falcon Scott, an Englishman, left London in his ship, the Terra Nova, and began the long journey south. Five days later, another ship also began to travel south. And on this ship was Roald Amundsen, a Norwegian. But Antarctica is the coldest place on earth, and it is a long, hard journey over the ice to the South Pole. Some of the travellers never returned home. This is the story of Scott and Amundsen, and of their famous and dangerous race. CEFR A1-A2 Word count 5,400
《红字》是 书虫?牛津英语文学名著简写本 中的一本，是美国作家纳撒尼尔?霍桑创作的优秀长篇小说。《红字》讲述了17世纪新英格兰地区的一个悲剧。年轻的妻子赫斯特?普林与牧师相恋并生下女儿，为世人所不容。她一直戴着表示自己所犯错误的红字A，不肯告知情人身份，懦弱的情人内心备受煎熬，赫斯特的丈夫则在发现秘密后决定复仇。这部小说体现了清教主义社会对人性的压抑和摧残，也表达了霍桑本人的罪恶观，即人应当敢于正视罪恶的存在，从负罪感中解脱。
Classics, modern fiction, non-fiction and more. Written for secondary and adult students the Oxford Bookworms Library has seven reading levels from A1-C1 of the CEFR. Cedric Errol is seven years old. He lives with his mother in a little house in New York. They don't have much money, but mother and son are very good friends. Cedric is a kind, friendly little boy, and everybody likes him. His father was English, but he is now dead, and Cedric and his mother are alone in the world. But one day a lawyer arrives from England with some very surprising news about Cedric's grandfather. CEFR A1-A2 Word count 7,250
