《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 。
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
《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。
《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。
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
《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。
《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。
《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。
《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。
《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. It is 1866, and there is trouble in the world's oceans. What is the extraordinary thing that people have seen there, travelling faster than a whale and cutting holes in the bottom of the strongest ships? Dr Aronnax joins the search for the 'monster', hoping for an exciting adventure. But when he meets the mysterious Captain Nemo, his adventure becomes more extraordinary than he had ever imagined, and he discovers a new underwater world, full of wonders, but of strange dangers too... CEFR B1-B2 Word count 15,748
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
《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. Dr Huxtable has a school for boys in the north of England. When the Duke of Holdernesse decides to send his young son there, that is good news for the school. The Duke is a very important person, and Dr Huxtable is happy to have his son in the school. But two weeks later Dr Huxtable is the unhappiest man in England. Why? And why does he take the train down to London and go to Baker Street? Why does he need the help of the famous detective Sherlock Holmes? Because someone has kidnapped the Duke's son... CEFR A1-A2 Word count 5,800
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
《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. 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. When Christmas comes for the four March girls, there is no money for expensive presents and they give away their Christmas breakfast to a poor family. But there are no happier girls in America than Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy. They miss their father, of course, who is away at the Civil War, but they try hard to be good so that he will be proud of his 'little women' when he comes home. This heart-warming story of family life has been popular for more than a hundred years. CEFR B1-B2 Word count 14,920
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
《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。
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. 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. 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
