《格列佛游记》是 书虫?牛津英语文学名著简写本 中的一本。小说讲述了主人公格列佛误入小人国、巨人国、飞岛国、慧骃国的旅行奇遇,故事情节妙趣横生,细节描写翔实,语言辛辣幽默。该书以其尖锐的批判精神和独特的幽默感获得读者的一致赞誉,作者乔纳森?斯威夫特不仅深刻地揭示和讽刺了当时欧洲各国的政治和社会弊端,还对社会贫困、疾病和不公等问题进行了反思和探讨,引起了广泛的社会关注。《格列佛游记》出版几个世纪以来,被翻译成几十种语言,在世界各国广为流传,成为一部经典的长篇游记体讽刺小说。
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. 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
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
《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。
《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。
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. 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... CEFR A1-A2 Word count 5,840
《远大前程》是 书虫?牛津英语文学名著简写本 中的一本,是英国作家查尔斯?狄更斯晚年写成的长篇小说,成书于1860年至1861年之间。全书叙述了孤儿匹普从7岁开始的三个人生阶段。作者通过主人公视角的自我审视,把一个孩子的蜕变描绘得合情合理,真实可信 由于经济和社会地位的变化,本性淳朴善良的孩子竟会变得虚伪,忘恩负义,是非颠倒,但在真相与真情面前,善良的品质最终占据上风,将主人公从歧路拉回正途。整部小说人物刻画细腻入微,语言生动自然,情节紧凑而引人入胜,既具有深刻的社会意义,又具有极强的艺术感染力。
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. Sherlock Holmes is the greatest detective of them all. He sits in his room, and smokes his pipe. He listens, and watches, and thinks. He listens to the steps coming up the stairs; he watches the door opening - and he knows what question the stranger will ask. In these three of his best stories, Holmes has three visitors to the famous flat in Baker Street - visitors who bring their troubles to the only man in the world who can help them. CEFR A2-B1 Word count 6,280
《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。
《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. In a city in Arabia there lives a boy called Aladdin. He is poor and often hungry, but one day he finds an old lamp. When he rubs the lamp, smoke comes out of it, and then out of the smoke comes a magical jinnee. With the jinnee's help, Aladdin is soon rich, with gold and jewels and many fine things. But can he win the love of the Sultan's daughter, the beautiful Princess Badr-al-Budur? CEFR A1-A2 Word count 5,240
《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。
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. Dublin, Ireland, in the early years of the twentieth century. It is a poor city, and there is hard drinking, dishonesty, and violence just beneath the surface everywhere you look. Glance inside a few people's lives, and you soon find loneliness and disappointment, self-hate, and despair. The people in these stories are paralysed: locked into the circles of their everyday lives, where they are caught waiting between life and death. For some, there is a way out - but will circumstances, or their own fear, stop them from taking it? CEFR B2-C1 Word count 31,238
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 are so many things that a mother wishes to teach her daughter. How to lose your innocence but not your hope. How to keep hoping, when hope is your only joy. How to laugh for ever. This is the story of four mothers and their daughters - Chinese- American women, the mothers born in China, and the daughters in America. Through their eyes we see life in pre-Revolutionary China, and life in downtown San Francisco; women struggling to find a cultural identity that can include a past and a future half a world apart. CEFR B2-C1 Word count 31,120
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
《理智与情感》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。小说中,埃莉诺与玛丽安两姐妹出生在英国的一个乡绅家庭。姐姐埃莉诺明事理、言行谨慎,懂得克制感情;妹妹玛丽安天真热情、行事感性。两姐妹各自的爱情风波迭起。《理智与情感》反映了当时英国中产阶级的生活和价值观,也对爱情、婚姻、亲情等问题作出了独特的解读,其中的人物形象和情节具有深刻的现实意义和社会价值,对英国小说的发展和英国文学史的演变产生了深远的影响。
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 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. They said Steve Biko was a man of violence; then why did he talk of peace? They said he wanted revolution; so why did he talk of friendship? They said he died of hunger; why was his body broken and bruised? This is the story of a man's fight with the government of South Africa. It is the story of all people who prefer truth to lies. It is the story of all people who cry 'Freedom', and who are not afraid to die. CEFR B2-C1 Word count 29,420
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
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. Christmas is humbug, Scrooge says - just a time when you find yourself a year older and not a penny richer. The only thing that matters to Scrooge is business, and making money. But on Christmas Eve three spirits come to visit him. They take him travelling on the wings of the night to see the shadows of Christmas past, present, and future - and Scrooge learns a lesson that he will never forget. CEFR B1 Word count 10,385
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
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?
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
《园会》是 书虫?牛津英语文学名著简写本 中的一本,是20世纪英国文学史上一部著名的短篇小说集。作者凯瑟琳?曼斯菲尔德在简单的故事情节里,通过貌似平凡的小事,用敏感的笔触深入发掘人物内心深处细微的变化,在客观的叙述中流露出对当时社会阶级差别的抗议,揭露了社会底层人民的疾苦。《园会》也是集中体现曼斯菲尔德精湛的艺术技巧和独特的艺术风格的一部作品。作者融入了现代主义的写作技巧,通过深入刻画和细腻描写拓展了小说的意境。