《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。
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
《双城记》是 书虫?牛津英语文学名著简写本 中的一本,是狄更斯于1859年发表的一部小说,被公认为是19世纪英国文学的巅峰之作,也是世界文学史上的经典。书名中的 双城 指的是巴黎与伦敦。小说将巴黎、伦敦两个大城市连结起来,以无辜面临牢狱之灾的马内特医生和一心想要复仇的德法尔热夫妇的悲惨遭遇为线索,讲述法国贵族的一系列行为如何引起民众不满。此外,故事中间还穿插了法国贵族青年查尔斯和英国律师助手西德尼这一对双子星迥异的人生际遇。
《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. It is the year 2522, and the planet Earth is dying. The Artificial Ozone Layer is only 300 years old, but it is breaking up. Now the sun is burning down on Earth. There is no water. Without water, nothing can live. Trees die, plants die, animals die, people die... In a colony under the moon, people wait for news - news from home, news from the planet Earth. And in a spaceship high above Earth, a young man watches numbers on a computer screen. The numbers tell a story, and the young man is afraid. The planet Earth is burning, burning... CEFR A1-A2 Word count 5,320
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
《名利场》是 书虫?牛津英语文学名著简写本 中的一本,是19世纪英国长篇小说的经典之一。《名利场》以1815年滑铁卢战争为背景,围绕两位女主人公利蓓加和爱米莉亚的爱情和生活经历展开。作者通过对各种人物的刻画,向读者展示了一幅浩瀚的英国社会全景图,并将自己的评论穿插其中;他通过对社会伦理、家庭关系和人性的深刻剖析,对19世纪英国上层社会的种种弊端进行了深刻的批判。《名利场》除了在社会批判和人物塑造上颇见功力之外,在写作手法上也标新立异。
《大卫?科波菲尔》是 书虫?牛津英语文学名著简写本 中的一本,是查尔斯?狄更斯于1849年至1850年间出版的一部长篇小说,小说生动有趣又感人肺腑,以主人公大卫?科波菲尔的成长为主线展开。大卫是不幸的,他是遗腹子,童年丧母,遭到继父的恶劣对待,后被送到伦敦工作;但大卫又是幸运的,他有善良保姆辟果提的关爱,有面冷心热姨婆的帮助,还有聪慧温柔的阿格尼斯一直以来的支持和鼓舞。在经历了人生的重重风雨之后,大卫最终获得了幸福。本书被誉为英国19世纪文学的一大杰作,它在英国文学史上具有重要的地位,是维多利亚时代的代表作之一,对后来英国小说的发展产生了深远影响。
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. Gatsby's mansion on Long Island blazes with light, and the beautiful, the wealthy, and the famous drive out from New York to drink Gatsby's champagne and to party all night long. But Jay Gatsby, the owner of all this wealth, wants only one thing - to find again the woman of his dreams, the woman he has held in his heart and his memory for five long years. The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald's masterpiece, is one of the great American novels of the twentieth century. It captures perfectly the Jazz Age of the 1920s, and goes deep into the hollow heart of the American Dream. CEFR B2 Word count 23,445
《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. Horseracing is the sport of kings, perhaps because racehorses are very expensive animals. But when they win, they can make a lot of money for the owners, for the trainers, and for the people who put bets on them. Silver Blaze is a young horse, but already the winner of many races. One night he disappears, and someone kills his trainer. The police want the killer, and the owner wants his horse, but they can't find them. So what do they do? They write to 221B Baker Street, of course - to ask for the help of the great detective, Sherlock Holmes. CEFR A1-A2 Word count 5,925
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. Down by the river bank, where the wind whispers through the willow trees, is a very pleasant place to have a lunch party with a few friends. But life is not always so peaceful for the Mole and the Water Rat. There is the time, for example, when Toad gets interested in motor-cars - goes mad about them in fact... The story of the adventures of Mole, Rat, Badger, and Toad has been loved by young and old for over a hundred years. CEFR B1 Word count 11,540
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. 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 the fields. But she doesn't meet Miranda, the children's mother, because Miranda is dead. She died two years ago, and Cathy cannot learn anything about her. Everybody remembers Miranda, but nobody wants to talk about her... CEFR A1-A2 Word count 5,060
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 our world today a hummingbird is a small, brilliantly coloured bird in tropical forests. In the far distant future, Hummingbird (Hummy for short) is a girl of sixteen who lives somewhere in the Galaxy, on a planet called Just Like Home. She has the name 'Hummingbird' in big letters on all her clothes, but she has never seen a real hummingbird. She has never seen any living animal or bird at all. The Book of Remembering says that there were once many animals on a planet called Earth, but that was before the Burning, a long, long time ago... CEFR B1 Word count 8,915
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. Six women are dead because of the Whitechapel Killer. Now another woman lies in a London street and there is blood everywhere. She is very ill. You are the famous detective Mycroft Pound; can you catch the killer before he escapes? CEFR A1 Word count 1,450
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. Every day is the same. Nothing exciting ever happens to me,' thinks Adam one boring Monday morning. But today is not the same. When he helps a beautiful young woman because some men want to take her bag, life gets exciting and very, very dangerous. CEFR A1 Word count 690
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. When Black Beauty is trained to carry a rider on his back, or to pull a carriage behind him, he finds it hard at first. But he is lucky - his first home is a good one, where his owners are kind people, who would never be cruel to a horse. But in the nineteenth century many people were cruel to their horses, whipping them and beating them, and using them like machines until they dropped dead. Black Beauty soon finds this out, and as he describes his life, he has many terrible stories to tell. CEFR B1-B2 Word count 15,400
《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。
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
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. Fourteen-year-old Molly and her cousins Daisy and Gracie were mixed-race Aborigines. In 1931 they were taken away from their families and sent to a camp to be trained as good 'white' Australians. They were told to forget their mothers, their language, their home. But Molly would not forget. She and her cousins escaped and walked back to Jigalong, 1,600 kilometres away, following the rabbitproof fence as their guide across the desert. This is the true story of that walk, told by Molly's daughter, Doris. It is also a prize-winning film. CEFR B1 Word count 10,600
《书虫·牛津英汉双语读物(升级版)一级(1)》是\"书虫·牛津英汉双语读物(升级版)\"中的一个套装,套装内共11本单书,分别是:《绿野仙踪》《阿拉丁和神灯》《猴爪》《 的赢家》《福尔摩斯与赛马》《象人》《失踪的\"邦蒂号\"》《别了,好莱坞先生》《真相追踪》《加拿大可以等》和《单程票》。每本书配读前、读中和读后练习,学生扫描书后二维码,可免费听音频,查看练习题答案,并进行读后测评,适合初一、初二年级学生阅读与学习。
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. When the children dug a hole in the gravel-pit, they were very surprised at what they found. 'It' was a Psammead, a sand-fairy, thousands of years old. It was a strange little thing - fat and furry, and with eyes on long stalks. It was often very cross and unfriendly, but it could give wishes - one wish a day. 'How wonderful!' the children said. But wishes are difficult things. They can get you into trouble... CEFR A2-B1 Word count 5,945