Angielski
Washington Square Level 4 Oxford Bookworms Library
James, Henry
A level 4 Oxford Bookworms Library graded readers. Retold for Learners of English by Kieran McGovern When a handsome young man begins to court Catherine Sloper, she feels she is very lucky. She is a quiet, gentle girl, but neither beautiful nor clever; no one had ever admired her before, or come to the front parlour of her home in Washington Square to whisper soft words of love to her. But in New York in the 1840s young ladies are not free to marry where they please. Catherine must have her father's permission, and Dr Sloper is a rich man. One day Catherine will have a fortune of 30,000 dollars a year . . .
Weddings - With Audio Level 1 Factfiles Oxford Bookworms Library
Lindop, Christine
A level 1 Factfiles Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. This version includes an audio book: listen to the story as you read. Written for Learners of English by Christine Lindop. 'The bride wore a long white dress, with flowers in her hair. After the wedding, there was a party, and people gave presents to the bride and groom.' This wedding was nearly two thousand years ago, in Rome. Some things don't change. But some things do. Today you can have a wedding on a mountain, or under the sea, or 'Elvis' can sing for you. And different things happen in different places. Little birds made of paper, small trees, money in the bride's shoe, and lots of noise - they are all important for weddings somewhere. Welcome to the wonderful world of weddings!
When God Laughs & Other Stories
Jack London
“When God Laughs & Other Stories” 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. When God Laughs & Other Stories is a series of short stories by Jack London. It consists of twelve moving and thrilling stories such as: When God Laughs, A Wicked Woman, Make Westing or The Curious Fragment.
White Death - With Audio Level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library
Vicary, Tim
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 Tim Vicary. Sarah Harland is nineteen, and she is in prison. At the airport, they find heroin in her bag. So, now she is waiting to go to court. If the court decides that it was her heroin, then she must die. She says she did not do it. But if she did not, who did? Only two people can help Sarah: her mother, and an old boyfriend who does not love her now. Can they work together? Can they find the real criminal before it is too late?
White Death Level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library
Vicary, Tim
A level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library graded readers. Written for Learners of English by Tim Vicary Sarah Harland is nineteen, and she is in prison. At the airport, they find heroin in her bag. So, now she is waiting to go to court. If the court decides that it was her heroin, then she must die. She says she did not do it. But if she did not, who did? Only two people can help Sarah: her mother, and an old boyfriend who does not love her now. Can they work together? Can they find the real criminal before it is too late?
Jack London
“White Fang” 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. White Fang is the name of the book's eponymous character, a wild wolfdog. The story details White Fang's journey to domestication in Yukon Territory and the Northwest Territories during the 1890s Klondike Gold Rush. It is a companion novel (and a thematic mirror) to London's best-known work, The Call of the Wild, which is about a kidnapped, domesticated dog embracing his wild ancestry to survive and thrive in the wild.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
White Nights - a short story by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, a Russian novelist, philosopher and short story writer. Many literary critics rate him as one of the greatest psychological novelists in world literature. Like many of Dostoyevsky's stories, "White Nights" is told in the first person by a nameless narrator. The narrator is a young man living in Saint Petersburg who suffers from loneliness. He gets to know and falls in love with a young woman, but the love remains unrequited.
Widmo przeszłości. The Mystery of Cloomber
Arthur Conan Doyle
Książka w dwóch wersjach językowych: polskiej i angielskiej. Widmo przeszłości, czy też Tajemnica Cloomber - The Mystery of Cloomber to powieść brytyjskiego autora Sir Arthura Conan Doyle'a. Narratorem jest John Fothergill West, Szkot, który przeprowadził się z rodziną z Edynburga do Wigtownshire, aby opiekować się majątkiem przyrodniego brata swojego ojca, Williama Farintosha. W pobliżu ich rezydencji, Branksome, znajduje się Cloomber Hall, przez wiele lat nieużytkowany. W końcu jednak zamieszkuje w nim John Berthier Heatherstone, służący ongiś w armii indyjskiej. Generał Heatherstone jest znerwicowany do tego stopnia, że wpada w obłęd. W miarę rozwoju opowieści staje się jasne, że jego obawy są związane z niektórymi ludźmi w Indiach, których w jakiś sposób obraził. W jego obecności ludzie słyszą dziwny dźwięk, podobny do pobrzmiewania dzwonka, który jest bardzo niemiły. Co roku jego obłęd osiąga apogeum około piątego października, po czym jego lęki na chwilę ustępują. Po pewnym czasie w zatoce dochodzi do rozbicia się statku, a wśród ocalałych jest trzech buddyjskich mnichów, którzy weszli na statek z Kurrachee To jednak nie jest koniec tej dziwnej historii...
George Bernard Shaw
“Widowers' Houses” is a play by George Bernard Shaw, an Irish playwright who became the leading dramatist of his generation, and in 1925 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Widowers' Houses was the first play by George Bernard Shaw to be staged. This is one of three plays Shaw published as Plays Unpleasant in 1898. They were termed "unpleasant" because they were intended, not to entertain their audiences – as the traditional Victorian theatre was expected to – but to raise awareness of social problems and to censure exploitation of the labouring class by the unproductive rich. The other plays in the group are The Philanderer and Mrs. Warren's Profession.
Wieści znikąd. News from Nowhere
William Morris
Książka w dwóch wersjach językowych: polskiej i angielskiej. A dual Polish-English language edition. Jest to klasyczna praca łącząca utopijny socjalizm i miękkie science fiction, napisana przez artystę, projektanta i pioniera socjalistycznego Williama Morrisa. W powieści narrator, William zasypia po powrocie ze spotkania w Lidze Socjalistycznej i budzi się, aby znaleźć się w społeczeństwie przyszłości funkcjonującym w oparciu o wspólną własność i demokratyczna kontrolę środków produkcji. W tym społeczeństwie nie ma własności prywatnej, dużych miast, władzy, systemu monetarnego, rozwodów, sądów, więzień ani systemów klasowych. To agrarne społeczeństwo funkcjonuje po prostu dlatego, że ludzie czerpią przyjemność z przyrody i dlatego czerpią przyjemność ze swojej pracy.
Wigilia Bożego Narodzenia. A Christmas Carol
Charles Dickens
"Charles Dickens: Wigilia Bożego Narodzenia. A Christmas Carol. Książka w dwóch wersjach językowych: polskiej i angielskiej. A dual Polish-English language edition. Opowiadanie Karola Dickensa jest moralitetem w stylu wiktoriańskim. Pokazuje głębokie doświadczenie i przemianę skąpca Ebenezera Scroogea, zachodzącą w czasie nocy wigilijnej. Jest on samotnikiem, nielubiącym ludzi, a dbającym jedynie o pomnażanie swojego majątku. W noc wigilijną ukazuje mu się duch Jakuba Marleya jego zmarłego partnera w interesach, cierpiącego pod ciężarem łańcucha win który wykuł sobie za życia. A co było dalej, dowiesz się czytelniku przeczytawszy opowieść do końca. (https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opowieść_wigilijna) A Christmas Carol is a novella by English author Charles Dickens, first published by Chapman & Hall on 19 December 1843. It tells the story of bitter old miser Ebenezer Scrooge and his transformation resulting from supernatural visits by Jacob Marley and the Ghosts of Christmases Past, Present and Yet to Come. The novella met with instant success and critical acclaim. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Christmas_Carol)"
William and Kate - With Audio Level 1 Factfiles Oxford Bookworms Library
Lindop, Christine
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 Christine Lindop. Everybody took photos of Prince William when he first arrived at the University of St Andrews. Crowds of photographers came to the little Scottish town next to the sea and took pictures of this new student - the nineteen-year-old grandson of the Queen of England. But nobody photographed Kate Middleton on her first day at the university. She moved in quietly, ready to begin her studies in art history. She was just an ordinary student with an ordinary future in front of her. Or was she?
William and Kate Level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library
Lindop, Christine
A level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Written for Learners of English by Christine Lindop. Everybody took photos of Prince William when he first arrived at the University of St Andrews. Crowds of photographers came to the little Scottish town next to the sea and took pictures of this new student - the nineteen-year-old grandson of the Queen of England. But nobody photographed Kate Middleton on her first day at the university. She moved in quietly, ready to begin her studies in art history. She was just an ordinary student with an ordinary future in front of her. Or was she?
William Shakespeare - With Audio Level 2 Oxford Bookworms Library
Bassett, Jennifer
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 Jennifer Bassett. William Shakespeare. Born April 1564, at Stratford-upon-Avon. Died April 1616. Married Anne Hathaway: two daughters, one son. Actor, poet, famous playwright. Wrote nearly forty plays. But what was he like as a man? What did he think about when he rode into London for the first time . . . or when he was writing his plays Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet . . . or when his only son died? We know the facts of his life, but we can only guess at his hopes, his fears, his dreams.
William Shakespeare Level 2 Oxford Bookworms Library
Bassett, Jennifer
A level 2 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Retold for Learners of English by Jennifer Bassett William Shakespeare. Born April 1564, at Stratford-upon-Avon. Died April 1616. Married Anne Hathaway: two daughters, one son. Actor, poet, famous playwright. Wrote nearly forty plays. But what was he like as a man? What did he think about when he rode into London for the first time . . . or when he was writing his plays Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet . . . or when his only son died? We know the facts of his life, but we can only guess at his hopes, his fears, his dreams.
Władca Czarnego Zamku. The Lord of Château Noir
Arthur Conan Doyle
Było to w tym czasie, kiedy niemieckie hordy zalewały Francję. Zdziesiątkowana armia młodej republiki odeszła za Ren na północ i za Loarę na południe. Od strony Renu w głąb kraju wdzierały się niepowstrzymane trzy fale uzbrojonych ludzi. Fale te oddalały się od siebie, to znowu zbliżały, mając na celu wspólne opanowanie Paryża, który należało okrążyć jakby pierścieniem ogromnego jeziora. Następnie jezioro to dało początek oddzielnym potokom. Jeden z nich popłynął ku północy, drugi na południe, aż do Orleanu, trzeci na zachód, do Normandii. Serca Francuzów targała rozpacz i oburzenie. Na ich przepięknym kraju wróg wycisnął piętno hańby. Walczyli za ojczyznę, lecz byli pokonani. Bili się do ostatniej kropli krwi i nie mogli dać rady niezliczonym pułkom piechoty, tej kawalerii, tym śmiercionośnym armatom. Obcoplemieńcy zawładnęli ich krajem i byli nieugięci w swym ogromie. Pozostała tylko, jako jedyny środek zbawienia, walka w pojedynkę...