A Midsummer Night's Dream - With Audio Level 3 Oxford Bookworms Library

Shakespeare, William

A level 3 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. This version includes an audio book: listen to the story as you read. Written for Learners of English by William Shakespeare. There are broken hearts and kisses and then weddings, so this is a story about love. There are actors who are funny because they cannot act, so it is also a story that makes people laugh. And there are fairies, spirits of the night, so it is a story about mischief and magic too. What happens when love and laughter come together with magic in an Athenian forest? A Midsummer Night's Dream was written in about 1596 and is one of Shakespeare's most popular plays. It has been retold for Bookworms, not as a play, but as a story.

A Midsummer Night's Dream Level 3 Oxford Bookworms Library

Shakespeare, William

A level 3 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Written for Learners of English by William Shakespeare. There are broken hearts and kisses and then weddings, so this is a story about love. There are actors who are funny because they cannot act, so it is also a story that makes people laugh. And there are fairies, spirits of the night, so it is a story about mischief and magic too. What happens when love and laughter come together with magic in an Athenian forest? A Midsummer Night's Dream was written in about 1596 and is one of Shakespeare's most popular plays. It has been retold for Bookworms, not as a play, but as a story.

A Princess of Mars

Edgar Rice Burroughs

“A Princess of Mars“ is a novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, an American fiction writer, who created such great characters as Tarzan and John Carter of Mars.   A Princess of Mars is a science fantasy novel, the first of the Barsoom series. It features the characters of John Carter and Carter's wife Dejah Thoris. Full of swordplay and daring feats, the novel is considered a classic example of 20th-century pulp fiction. The story is set on Mars, imagined as a dying planet with a harsh desert environment. This vision of Mars was based on the work of the astronomer Percival Lowell, whose ideas were widely popularized in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.  

A Son of the Sun

Jack London

“A Son of the Sun” is a book by Jack London, an American novelist. A pioneer of commercial fiction and an innovator in the genre that would later become known as science fiction.   A Son of the Sun is a novel by Jack London. It is set in the South Pacific at the beginning of the 20th century and consists of eight separate stories. David Grief is a forty-year-old English adventurer who came to the South seas years ago and became rich. As a businessman he owns offices in Sydney, but he is rarely there. Since his wealth spreads over a lot of islands, Grief has some adventures while going among these islands. London depicts the striking panorama of the South seas with adventurers, scoundrels, swindlers, pirates, and cannibals.  

A Tale of Two Cities

Charles Dickens

A Tale of Two Cities - a novel by Charles Dickens, an English writer who is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era.   A Tale of Two Cities is set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. The novel tells the story of the French Doctor Manette, his 18-year-long imprisonment in the Bastille in Paris and his release to live in London with his daughter Lucie, whom he had never met.  

A Tale of Two Cities - With Audio Level 4 Oxford Bookworms Library

Dickens, Charles

A level 4 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. This version includes an audio book: listen to the story as you read. Retold for Learners of English by Ralph Mowat. '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 kind. They can be generous and true-hearted . . . and brave.

A Tale of Two Cities Level 4 Oxford Bookworms Library

Dickens, Charles

A level 4 Oxford Bookworms Library graded readers. Retold for Learners of English by Ralph Mowat '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 kind. They can be generous and true-hearted . . . and brave.

Adonais

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Książka w dwóch wersjach językowych: polskiej i angielskiej. A dual Polish-English language edition. Adonais utwór angielskiego poety romantycznego Percy'ego Bysshe Shelleya, będący elegią na cześć młodo zmarłego Johna Keatsa, opublikowany w 1821. Poemat jest napisany strofą spenserowską, czyli zwrotką dziewięciowersową rymowaną ababbcbcc. Składa się z pięćdziesięciu pięciu takich strof. Na język polski utwór przełożył Jan Kasprowicz. A oto fragment z przedmowy: John Keats umarł w Rzymie, na suchoty, w dwudziestym czwartym roku życia, dnia 27 grudnia 1820 i pochowany został na romantycznym i samotnym cmentarzu protestantów tego miasta, u stóp piramidy, będącej grobem Cestiusza, w pobliżu murów i baszt, obecnie rozpadłych, a które ongi okalały Rzym starożytny. Cmentarz jest wśród otoczenia ruin miejscem otwartym, w zimie pokrytym fiołkami i stokrotkami. Można by się nieomal zakochać w Śmierci na myśl, że zwłoki nasze na tak uroczym spoczną miejscu. Duch opłakiwanej istoty, której pamięci te niegodne poświęciłem wiersze, był niemniej delikatnym i wiotkim, jak pięknym; gdzie zaś istnieje obfitość robactwa, cóż dziwnego, że robak kwiecie młode podgryzł jeszcze w zawiązku? Surowa krytyka jego Endymiona, wydrukowana w Quarterly Rewiew, wpłynęła w sposób najgwałtowniejszy na jego umysł wrażliwy, a spowodowane przez nią wstrząśnienie skończyło się tym, że pękło mu w płucach jedno z naczyń krwionośnych; szybko wywiązały się suchoty, a późniejsze ze strony krytyków sprawiedliwszych uznanie prawdziwej wielkości sił jego ducha nie zdołało uleczyć już blizny, tak lekkomyślnie zadanej. Można by słusznie powiedzieć, że nieszczęśliwi ci ludzie nie wiedzą, co czynią. Rozsiewają obelgi i plotki, nie zważając wcale, azali grot zatruty nie ugodzi w serce, stwardniałe od mnogości otrzymanych razów, albo, jak u Keatsa, z przenikliwszej stworzone materii.