A housewife,a tramp,a lawyer,a waitress,an actress -ordinary people living ordinary Lives in New York at the beginning of thiscentury.The city has changed greatly sincethat time,but its people are much the same.Some are rich,some are poor,some are happy,someare 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 livesof these New Yorkers.(Word count 5,895)
Sally is always running and she hasher phone with her all the time:at home,on the train,at work,at lunchtime,andat the shops. But then one afternoon suddenly she has adifferent phone and it changes her life.
' Please,Mr Murdstone!Don't beat me!I've tried to learn my lessons,really I have,sir!'sobs David. Although he is only eight years old,Mr Murdstone does beat him,and David is so frightened that he bites his cruel stepfather's hand.Forthat,he is kept locked in his room for five days and nights,and nobody is allowed to speak to him. As David grows up,he learns that life is full of troubleand misery and cruelty.But he also finds laughter andkindness,trust and friendship...and love.
He is not beautiful. His mother does notwant him, children run away from him. People laugh at him, and call him ‘The Elephant Man’. Then someone speaks to him-and listens to him! At the age of 27, Joseph Merrick finds a friend for thefirst time in his life. This is a true and tragic story. It is also a famous film.
Little Mary Lennox is a bad-tempered,disagreeable child.When her parents diein India,she is sent back to England to livewith her uncle in a big,lonely,old house. There is nothing to do all day except walk in the gardens and watch the robin flying over the highwalls of the secret garden…which has been locked for tenyears.And no one has the key.
There are broken hearts and kisses and then weddings, so this is a story about love. There are actors who are funny becausethey cannot act, so it is also a story thatmakes people laugh. And there are fairies, spirits of the night, so it is a story about mischief and magictoo. What happens when love and laughter come togetherwith magic in an Athenian forest? A Midsummer Night's Dream was written in about 1596 and is one of Shakespeare's most popular plays. It hasbeen retold for Bookworms, not as a play, but as a story.
