Les Miserables - With Audio Level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library

Les Miserables - With Audio Level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library
Author: Jennifer Bassett
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 69
Release: 2015-03-05
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 0194630889

A level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. This version includes an audio book: listen to the story as you read. Retold for Learners of English by Jennifer Bassett. France, 1815. Jean Valjean leaves prison after nineteen years. These are dangerous and troubled times, and life is hard. Valjean must begin a new life, but how can he escape his past, and his enemy, Inspector Javert? This story for Bookworms is loosely based on the famous novel Les Miserables by Victor Hugo, one of France's greatest writers. The novel was written in 1862, and the story has been retold many times - in a musical, in plays for radio and theatre, and in more than fifty films for television and cinema.

47 Ronin: A Samurai Story from Japan - With Audio Level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library

47 Ronin: A Samurai Story from Japan - With Audio Level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library
Author: Jennifer Bassett
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 67
Release: 2015-03-05
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 0194630838

A level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. This version includes an audio book: listen to the story as you read. Written for Learners of English by Jennifer Bassett. When Lord Asano drew his sword on Lord Kira one spring day in 1701, it began a story that is now a national legend in Japan. Lord Kira lived, but Lord Asano died, and after his death, his samurai became ronin, samurai without a master. And so began their long plan for revenge on Lord Kira. Their loyalty to their dead master made them famous, and people in Japan remember them to this day. The story of the forty-seven ronin has been told and retold for 300 years - in plays, novels, and films. A major Hollywood film was made about the forty-seven ronin in 2013.

The Mystery of Manor Hall - With Audio Starter Level Oxford Bookworms Library

The Mystery of Manor Hall - With Audio Starter Level Oxford Bookworms Library
Author: Jane Cammack
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 47
Release: 2015-03-05
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 0194631206

A Starter level Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. This version includes an audio book: listen to the story as you read. Written for Learners of English by Jane Cammack. Manor Hall is an old dark house with a mystery. Nobody can go into the music room. But one night Tom and Milly hear something. The noise is coming from the music room. Tom and Milly open the door. Someone in the music room is singing. Tom and Milly are afraid, but they can't move. Can Tom and Milly discover the mystery of Manor Hall?

Remember Miranda

Remember Miranda
Author: Rowena Akinyemi
Publisher: Oxford University
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2000
Genre: Readers
ISBN: 9780194229548

The books are graded at six vocabulary levels, ranging from 400 words (Beginning) to 2,500 words (Advanced.)

Mary Queen of Scots

Mary Queen of Scots
Author: Tim Vicary
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 52
Release: 1992
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Depicts the turbulent life and times of the famous queen.

The Phantom of the Opera - With Audio Level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library

The Phantom of the Opera - With Audio Level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library
Author: Jennifer Bassett
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 64
Release: 2014-09-30
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 0194631915

A level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. This version includes an audio book: listen to the story as you read. Written for Learners of English by Jennifer Bassett. 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?

Sherlock Holmes Short Stories

Sherlock Holmes Short Stories
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 466
Release: 2018-12-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1787552543

Curated new collections. The fascination with Conan Doyle’s enigmatic anti-hero Sherlock Holmes, and his pompous narrator Dr Watson, has barely subsided over the years. Inspiring a long line of detective stories and Whodunnits, Holmes is a constant feature on TV, and movie screens, with new audio and radio shows joining the frenzy. The Holmes tales have earned their place amongst the most influential of popular fantasy, crime and gothic stories.