《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。

《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 。

《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。

《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。

《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。

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. 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

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. We must leave for Zenda at once, to find the King!' cried Sapt. 'If we're caught, we'll all be killed!' So Rudolf Rassendyll and Sapt gallop through the night to find the King of Ruritania. But the King is now a prisoner in the Castle of Zenda. Who will rescue him from his enemies, the dangerous Duke Michael and Rupert of Hentzau? And who will win the heart of the beautiful Princess Flavia? CEFR B1 Word count 10,710

《苔丝》是 书虫?牛津英语文学名著简写本 中的一本，是英国作家托马斯?哈代最著名的长篇小说之一。天真烂漫的少女苔丝?德北被亚历克?德伯侵犯后生下一子，幼子不幸夭折。苔丝在牛奶厂工作时与安吉尔?克莱尔两情相悦，安吉尔却在得知苔丝过往经历后远走他乡，苔丝独自面对艰难处境，与前来纠缠的亚历克发生冲突，最终被捕。托马斯?哈代通过苔丝的悲剧命运表达了对艰难求存的英国乡村劳动阶层的同情，谴责了维多利亚时代严苛的社会道德标准，苔丝面对困境时表现出顽强的生命力，彰显了哈代作品中崇高的悲剧精神。

《白衣女人》是 书虫?牛津英语文学名著简写本 中的一本。这部小说被广泛认为是威尔基?柯林斯杰出的作品之一，小说中的玛丽安?哈尔科姆一角被很多人视为侦探小说史上第一位女性侦探角色。《白衣女人》的成功不仅在于曲折离奇的故事情节和独辟蹊径的叙事结构，还在于其对当时社会问题的探讨和对人性的深刻洞察，这些问题包括女性地位、社会阶层、婚姻观念等。这部小说对后世的侦探小说创作有着巨大影响，至今仍然被人们广泛研究和阅读。

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. Mrs Proudie, the warlike wife of the new Bishop of Barchester, brings the Reverend Slope into the Bishop's Palace to help dominate her husband and the local clergy. But Slope is a snake in the grass, determined to win advancement for himself - even to fight Mrs Proudie. Their battle becomes a furious dance, involving rich, pretty Widow Bold, angry Archdeacon Grantly, man-eating Signora Neroni, confused Parson Quiverful and his fourteen noisy children. This classic comedy is Trollope's most famous novel. CEFR B2-C1 Word count 29,520

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 EDI (the European Department of Intelligence in Brussels) there are some very secret files - the Omega Files. There are strange, surprising, and sometimes horrible stories in these files, but not many people know about them. You never read about them in the newspapers. Hawker and Jude know all about the Omega Files, because they work for EDI. They think fast, they move fast, and they learn some very strange things. They go all over the world, asking difficult questions in dangerous places, but they don't always find the answers... CEFR A1-A2 Word count 5,830

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. Marilla Cuthbert and her brother Matthew want to adopt an orphan, to help on the farm at Green Gables. They ask for a boy, but they get Anne, who has red hair and freckles, and who talks and talks and talks. They didn't want a girl, but how can they send a child back, like an unwanted parcel? So Anne stays, and begins a new life in the sleepy, quiet village of Avonlea in Canada. But it is not so quiet after Anne comes to live there... CEFR A2-B1 Word count 5,860

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. I often walked along the shore, and one day I saw something in the sand. I went over to look at it more carefully... It was a footprint - the footprint of a man!' In 1659 Robinson Crusoe was shipwrecked on a small island off the coast of South America. After fifteen years alone, he suddenly learns that there is another person on the island. But will this man be a friend - or an enemy? CEFR A2-B1 Word count 6,830

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 a large plane is hijacked, the Prime Minister looks at the list of passengers and suddenly becomes very, very frightened. There is a name on the list that the Prime Minister knows very well - too well. There is someone on that plane who will soon be dead - if the hijackers can find out who he is! And there isn't much time. One man lies dead on the runway. In a few minutes the hijackers will use their guns again. And the Prime Minister knows who they are going to kill. CEFR B1 Word count 8,685

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 Becky Sharp and Amelia Sedley leave school, their feet are set on very different paths. Kind, foolish Amelia returns to her comfortable home and wealthy family, to await a suitable marriage, while Becky must look out for herself, earning her own living in a hard world. But Becky is neither kind nor foolish, and with her quick brain and keen eye for a chance, her fortunes soon rise, while Amelia's fall. Greed, ambition, loyalty, folly, wisdom... this famous novel gives us a witty and satirical picture of English society during the Napoleonic wars. CEFR B2-C1 Word count 32,940

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 650 in England. There is war everywhere because the old king is dead and he has no son. Only when the new king comes can the fighting stop and the strange, magical story of King Arthur begin. But first, Merlin the ancient magician has to find a way of finding the next king... CEFR A1 Word count 1,140

At home there is sad news waiting for young John, and he learns that he has good reason to hate the Doones. But in the years to come he meets Lorna Doone, with her lovely smile and big dark eyes. And soon he is deeply, hopelessly in love...

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. The Cat steals things from houses in Hollywood. He steals from movie stars and nobody can stop him. Or can they? Natalie is a movie star. Nathan is her stand-in. Nathan does all Natalie's stunts in the movie. But when Natalie and Nathan see The Cat driving away from Zak Wakeman's Hollywood home, they both go after him. Natalie drives fast. 'Be careful,' Nathan tells her. 'You have a movie to finish!' CEFR A1 Word count 1,292

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. Everybody took photos of Prince William when he first arrived at the University of St Andrews. Crowds of photographers came to the little Scottish town next to the sea and took pictures of this new student - the nineteen year- old grandson of the Queen of England. But nobody photographed Kate Middleton on her first day at the university. She moved in quietly, ready to begin her studies in art history. She was just an ordinary student with an ordinary future in front of her. Or was she? CEFR A1-A2 Word count 5,132

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. On a beautiful summer evening in the quiet town of Marlow, a young woman is walking home from church. She passes a man who is looking at the engine of his car. He turns round, smiles at her... and throws acid into her face. Then her father, the scientist George Ashton, disappears. And her sister, Penny, discovers that her husband-to-be, Malcolm, is a government agent. Why has Ashton disappeared, and why is Malcolm told to hunt for him? Who is George Ashton, anyway? And who is the enemy? CEFR B2-C1 Word count 28,850

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, I'm going to be famous,' John Lennon said when he was young - and soon he was! His band The Beatles became one of the greatest in the world, and people loved them. After John Lennon went solo, he wrote some of the most important songs of all time. He was a family man and a peace protestor - he wanted to change the world. But one autumn day, four gun shots rang out across New York, and took away that dream for ever... CEFR A1-A2 Word count 5,798

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. William Shakespeare. Born April 1564, at Stratfordupon- Avon. Died April 1616. Married Anne Hathaway: two daughters, one son. Actor, poet, famous playwright. Wrote nearly forty plays. But what was he like as a man? What did he think about when he rode into London for the first time... or when he was writing his plays Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet... or when his only son died? We know the facts of his life, but we can only guess at his hopes, his fears, his dreams. CEFR A2-B1 Word count 9,135