Love Story
AMERICAN ENGLISH
This is a love story you won’t forget. Oliver Barrett meets Jenny Cavilleri. He plays sports, she plays music. He’s rich, and she’s poor. They argue, and they fight, and they fall in love.
So they get married, and make a home together. They work hard, they enjoy life, they make plans for the future. Then they learn that they don’t have much time left.
Their story has made people laugh, and cry, all over the world
(Word count 8,755)
Australia and New Zealand
What do you find in these two countries at the end of the world? One is an enormous island, where only twenty million people live – and the other is two long, narrow islands, with ten sheep for every person. One country has the biggest rock in all the world, and a town where everybody lives under the ground; the other has a beach where you can sit beside the sea in a pool of hot water, and lakes that are bright yellow, green, and blue.
Open this book and start your journey – to two countries where something beautiful or surprising waits around every corner.
(Word count 10,270)
Dancing with Strangers. Stories from Africa
‘Sometimes I think this search is hopeless. So much has happened since I last saw my friends. Perhaps they have died or the rebels have taken them away. But I know I have to find Laker. I know she needs me.’ In a country torn by war, it is easy to stop hoping. All Atita has is an old photograph. She does not even know if she will recognize Laker after all these years …
Bookworms World Stories collect stories written in English from around the world. This volume has stories by African writers Jackee Budesta Batanda, Jack Cope. Mandla Langa. and M. G. Vassanji.
(Word count 11.990)
Tales of Mystery and Imagination
American English
The human mind is a dark, bottomless pit, and sometimes it works in strange and frightening ways. That sound in the night… is it a door banging in the wind, or a murdered man knocking inside his coffin? The face in the mirror… is it yours, or the face of someone standing behind you, who is never there when you turn round?
These famous short stories by Edgar Allan
Poe, that master of horror, explore the dark world of the imagination, where the dead live and speak, where fear lies in every shadow of the mind…
(Word count 11,960)
The Secret Garden
Little Mary Lennox is a bad-tempered, disagreeable child. When her parents die in India, she is sent back to England to live with 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 high walls of the secret garden… which has been locked for ten years. And no one has the key.
(Word count 10,715)
The Picture of Dorian Gray
American English
When we are happy, we are always good,’ says Lord Henry, ‘but when we are good, we are not always happy.’
Lord Henry’s lazy, clever words lead the young Dorian Gray into a world where it is better to be beautiful than to be good; a world where anything can be forgiven – even murder – if it can make people laugh at a dinner party.
(Word count 10,245)