Fikcja
Suah Bae
Bohaterka utrzymuje całą rodzinę, chwytając się dorywczych prac. Jej matka jest alkoholiczką, brat - emigruje, a młodsza siostra z trudem radzi sobie w szkole. Przelotna znajomość z Cheolsu urywa się, gdy ten znika na obowiązkową służbę wojskową. Pewnego dnia dziewczyna wyrusza, by odwiedzić Cheolsu na poligonie, a jej podróż staje się pościgiem za ulotnym cieniem tego, którego szuka. Koreańska pisarka Bae Suah wciąga czytelnika w gęstą opowieść o przytłaczającej codzienności, od której ucieczką mogą być jedynie wyobraźnia lub całkowita apatia. Ale wyobraźnia, jeśli tylko wymknie się spod kontroli, potrafi przeobrazić senny, znany świat w niepokojącą, nieznaną przestrzeń. Bae snuje opowieść, której wydźwięk zmienia się z każdą kolejną lekturą. Pomiędzy wersami pyta nas: czy o tym, kim jesteśmy, decyduje to, jak widzi nas świat, czy może to, jak sami siebie postrzegamy?
Tess of the d'Urbervilles - With Audio Level 6 Oxford Bookworms Library
Hardy, Thomas
A level 6 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. This version includes an audio book: listen to the story as you read. Retold for Learners of English by Clare West. A pretty young girl has to leave home to make money for her family. She is clever and a good worker; but she is uneducated and does not know the cruel ways of the world. So, when a rich young man says he loves her, she is careful - but not careful enough. He is persuasive, and she is overwhelmed. It is not her fault, but the world says it is. Her young life is already stained by men's desires, and by death.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles Level 6 Oxford Bookworms Library
Hardy, Thomas
A level 6 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Retold for Learners of English by Clare West. A pretty young girl has to leave home to make money for her family. She is clever and a good worker; but she is uneducated and does not know the cruel ways of the world. So, when a rich young man says he loves her, she is careful - but not careful enough. He is persuasive, and she is overwhelmed. It is not her fault, but the world says it is. Her young life is already stained by men's desires, and by death.
Selma Lagerlöf
Niezwykła książka o miłości ojcowskiej, o sile więzi ojca z córką, o tęsknocie i próbie uczucia. Oto, nie można przecież uważać za człowieka jak należy tego, którego serce nie bije żywym tętnem, ani z bólu, ani też z radości. Selma Lagerlöf – pierwsza kobieta nagrodzona literacką Nagrodą Nobla – w pełnej emocji książce pokazuje nie tylko niesamowitą relację rodzinną, ale również obraz życia na szwedzkiej wsi XIX-tego wieku. Głównym bohaterem jest Jan, ojciec Klary. Dziewczynka od chwili narodzenia staje się najważniejszą osobą w jego życiu. Przychodzi jednak moment, kiedy ukochana córka musi opuścić dom rodzinny. Jan, przeżywając wyjazd dziecka, tworzy własny mit o jej postaci… Poza bardzo silnym wątkiem emocjonalnym, książka ta niesie interesujący obraz ówczesnych obyczajów Szwecji. Dowiadujemy się na przykład, że poważnym nietaktem jest obecność rodziców w czasie chrztu dziecka… O oddziaływaniu tej powieści na innych twórców świadczyć może fakt, że Tętniące serce aż trzykrotnie zostało sfilmowane.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - With Audio Level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library
Twain, Mark
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 Nick Bullard. Tom Sawyer does not like school. He does not like work, and he never wants to get out of bed in the morning. But he likes swimming and fishing, and having adventures with his friends. And he has a lot of adventures. One night, he and his friend Huck Finn go to the graveyard to look for ghosts. They don't see any ghosts that night. They see something worse than a ghost - much, much worse . . .
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library
Twain, Mark
A level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Retold for Learners of English by Nick Bullard Tom Sawyer does not like school. He does not like work, and he never wants to get out of bed in the morning. But he likes swimming and fishing, and having adventures with his friends. And he has a lot of adventures. One night, he and his friend Huck Finn go to the graveyard to look for ghosts. They don't see any ghosts that night. They see something worse than a ghost - much, much worse . . .
The Bront Story Level 3 Oxford Bookworms Library
Vicary, Tim
A level 3 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Retold for Learners of English by Tim Vicary On a September day in 1821, in the church of a Yorkshire village, a man and six children stood around a grave. They were burying a woman: the man's wife, the children's mother. The children were all very young, and within a few years the two oldest were dead, too. Close to the wild beauty of the Yorkshire moors, the father brought up his young family. Who had heard of the Bronts of Haworth then? Branwell died while he was still a young man, but the three sisters who were left had an extraordinary gift. They could write marvellous stories - Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall . . . But Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Bront did not live to grow old or to enjoy their fame. Only their father was left, alone with his memories.
The Call of the Wild - With Audio Level 3 Oxford Bookworms Library
London, Jack
A level 3 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. This version includes an audio book: listen to the story as you read. Retold for Learners of English by Nick Bullard. When men find gold in the frozen north of Canada, they need dogs - big, strong dogs to pull the sledges on the long journeys to and from the gold mines. Buck is stolen from his home in the south and sold as a sledge-dog. He has to learn a new way of life - how to work in harness, how to stay alive in the ice and the snow . . . and how to fight. Because when dog falls down in a fight, he never gets up again.