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)
Six women are dead because of the Whitechapel Killer.Now another womanlies in a London street and there is bloodeverywhere.She is very ill. You are the famous detective Mycroft Pound;can you catch the killer before he escapes?
Sara Crewe is a very rich little girl.She first comes to England when she is seven,and her father takes her to Miss Minchin's school in London.Then he goes back to his work in India.Sara is very sad at first,but she soon makes friends at school. But on her eleventh birthday,something terrible happens, and now Sara has no family,no home,and not a penny in the world...
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.
'The moment I first met you,I noticedyour pride,your sense of superiority,and your selfish disdain for thefeelings of others.You are the lastman in the world whom I could ever be persuaded to marry',said Elizabeth Bennet. And so Elizabeth rejects the proud Mr Darcy.Cannothing overcome her prejudice against him?Andwhat of the other Bennet girls their fortunes,andmisfortunes,in the business of getting husbands? This famous novel by Jane Austen is full of wise andhumorous observation of the people and manners ofher times.
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.
London in the 1830s was no place to be ifyou were a hungry ten-year-old boy,anorphan without friends or family,with nohome to go to,and only a penny in yourpocket to buy a piece of bread. But Oliver Twist finds some friends-Fagin,the Artful Dodger,and Charley Bates.They give him food and shelter,and play games with him,but it is not until some days laterthat Oliver finds out what kind of friends they are and whatkind of 'games' they play…
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.
Tom Sawyer does not like school.He doesnot like work,and he never wants to getout of bed in the morning.But he likesswimming and fishing,and havingadventures with his friends.And he has a lot of adventures.One night,he and his friend Huck Finngo to the graveyard to look for ghosts. They don't see any ghosts that night.They see somethingworse than a ghost-much,much worse...(Word count 5,825)
