Robinson Crusoe - With Audio Level 2 Oxford Bookworms Library

Robinson Crusoe - With Audio Level 2 Oxford Bookworms Library
Author: Daniel Defoe
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 64
Release: 2014-09-30
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 0194632024

A level 2 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. This version includes an audio book: listen to the story as you read. Retold for Learners of English by Diane Mowat. 'I often walked along the shore, and one day I saw something in the sand. I went over to look at it more carefully . . . It was a footprint - the footprint of a man!' 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?

Henry VIII and his Six Wives - With Audio Level 2 Oxford Bookworms Library

Henry VIII and his Six Wives - With Audio Level 2 Oxford Bookworms Library
Author: Janet Hardy-Gould
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 70
Release: 2014-09-30
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 0194631680

A level 2 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. This version includes an audio book: listen to the story as you read. Written for Learners of English by Janet Hardy-Gould. There were six of them – three Katherines, two Annes, and a Jane. One of them was the King’s wife for twenty-four years, another for only a year and a half. One died, two were divorced, and two were beheaded. It was a dangerous, uncertain life. After the King’s death in 1547, his sixth wife finds a box of old letters – one from each of the first five wives. They are sad, angry, frightened letters. They tell the story of what it was like to be the wife of Henry VIII of England.

The Children of the New Forest - With Audio Level 2 Oxford Bookworms Library

The Children of the New Forest - With Audio Level 2 Oxford Bookworms Library
Author: Captain Marryat
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 64
Release: 2014-09-22
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 019463146X

A level 2 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. This version includes an audio book: listen to the story as you read. Retold for Learners of English by Rowena Akinyemi. England in 1647: King Charles is in prison, and Cromwell's men are fighting the King's men. These are dangerous times for everybody. The four Beverley children have no parents; their mother is dead and their father died while fighting for the King. Now Cromwell's soldiers have come to burn the house - with the children in it. The four of them escape into the New Forest - but how will they live? What will they eat? And will Cromwell's soldiers find them?

OBWL2: New Yorkers Short Stories

OBWL2: New Yorkers Short Stories
Author: O. Henry
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2000-01-27
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780194229814

A housewife, a tramp, a lawyer, a waitress, an actress - ordinary people living ordinary lives in New York at the beginning of this century. The city has changed greatly since that time, but its people are much the same. Some are rich, some are poor, some are happy, some are 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 lives of these New Yorkers.

The Death of Karen Silkwood

The Death of Karen Silkwood
Author: Joyce Hannam
Publisher:
Total Pages: 44
Release: 1991
Genre: Murder
ISBN: 9780194216715

This series of readers is aimed at students at 6 levels from elementary to advanced. All stages have exercises for classroom or private use, plus a glossary to help with vocabulary. This elementary level book tells the true story of events leading to the death of a factory worker.

Lost Libraries

Lost Libraries
Author: J. Raven
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2004-01-31
Genre: History
ISBN: 0230524257

This pioneering volume of essays explores the destruction of great libraries since ancient times and examines the intellectual, political and cultural consequences of loss. Fourteen original contributions, introduced by a major re-evaluative history of lost libraries, offer the first ever comparative discussion of the greatest catastrophes in book history from Mesopotamia and Alexandria to the dispersal of monastic and monarchical book collections, the Nazi destruction of Jewish libraries, and the recent horrifying pillage and burning of books in Tibet, Bosnia and Iraq.