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Oxford Bookworms Library (400 headwords). In the summer of 1910, a race began. A race to be the first man at the South Pole, in Antarctica. Robert Falcon Scott, an Englishman, left London in his ship, the Terra Nova, and began the long journey south. Five days later, another ship also began to travel ...
When he was a boy, he was poor and hungry. When he was a young man, he was still poor and hungry. He learnt how to steal horses, he learnt how to fight, he learnt how to live - outside the law. Australia in the 1870s was a hard, wild place. Rich people had land, poor people didn''''t. So the rich got ...
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 fast. Now the sun is burning down on Earth with a white fire. There is no water. Without water, nothing can live. Trees die, plants die, animals die, people die.In a colony under ...
As they walk through a park in the distant future, Harl and Ellen talk about their work and their lives. But they will never have a life together because their work as scientists is more important to them than their love. Harl plans to leave Earth, on a long and dangerous journey through space. Ellen ...
Richard is bored with the quiet life of his village. He would like to have a motor-car and drive it.very fast. But Richard lives in a future world where there are no cars, only bicycles and small villages and green forests. And now he is twelve years old, and like the other children, he must do his Year ...
Life is always hard for the poor, in any place and at any time. Ethan Frome is a farmer in Massachusetts. He works long hours every day, but his farm makes very little money. His wife, Zeena, is a thin, grey woman, always complaining, and only interested in her own ill health. Then Mattie Silver, a young ...
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! ...
When did you last meet a polar bear, or go to a magician for help? These stories offer many different experiences. Some are strange, some are scary, some are sad, some are blackly funny. A few are shocking - when Lin Lin returns home for a funeral, she learns a dark and terrible family secret which may ...
Oxford Bookworms Library (1400 headwords). General Sternwood has four million dollars, and two young daughters, both pretty and both wild. He´s an old, sick man, close to death, but he doesn´t like being blackmailed. So he asks private detective Philip Marlowe to get the blackmailer off his back. Marlowe ...
Bathsheba Everdene is young, proud, and beautiful. She is an independent woman and can marry any man she chooses - if she chooses. In fact, she likes her independence, and she likes fighting her own battles in a man''s world. But it is never wise to ignore the power of love. There are three men who would ...
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´The Marquis lay there, like stone, with a knife pushed into his heart. On his chest lay a piece of paper, with the words: Drive him fast to the grave. This is from JACQUES.´ The French Revolution brings terror and death to many people. But even in these troubled times people can still love and be ...
I turned on the light, but there was nobody there. Then I saw something in the corner that made my blood turn cold. Scudder was lying on his back. There was a long knife through his heart, pinning him to the floor.'' Soon Richard Hannay is running for his life across the hills of Scotland. The police ...
'I turned on the light, but there was nobody there. Then I saw something in the corner that made my blood turn cold. Scudder was lying on his back. There was a long knife through his heart, pinning him to the floor.' Soon Richard Hannay is running for his life across the hills of Scotland. The police ...
´I can drive a truck,´ says Kim on her first day at work in the office. When Kim´s passenger Andy finds something strange under the truck things get dangerous - very dangerous.
What do you do if you have a boring job in a restaurant, serving fast food to people who have no time to eat? Smile, and do your best? Perhaps it´s better to find a place where time doesn´t matter so much. What if you dream of travelling to other countries, but your friends just laugh? Do you stay ...
Every town should have a ''card'' - someone who gets talked about, someone who does mad and wonderful things, someone who makes you laugh. Bursley in the Five Towns has a ''card'': Edward Henry Machin (Denry for short). Denry begins life in a poor little house where the rent is twenty-three pence a week. ...
At nineteen Anne Elliot refuses an offer of marriage from Frederick Wentworth, persuaded to do so by Lady Russell, a friend of her dead mother. Wentworth is a sailor, with no money and an uncertain future, says Lady Russell - just a nobody, certainly not worthy of a baronet\''s daughter. Eight years ...
The Greek island of Corfu lies like a jewel, green and gold, in the Ionian sea, where dolphins swim in the sparkling blue water. What better place for an out-of-work actress to relax for a few weeks? But the island is full of danger and mysteries, and Lucy Waring''''s holiday is far from peaceful. She ...
´Curtis Colt didn´t kill that liquor store woman, and that´s a fact. It´s not right that he should have to ride the lightning - that´s what prisoners call dying in the electric chair. Curtis doesn´t belong in it, and I can prove it.´ But can Curtis´s girlfriend prove it? Murder has undoubtedly ...