Proza
Francis Scott Fitzgerald
Arcydzieło literatury amerykańskiej. Tajemniczy i niewiarygodnie bogaty Jay Gatsby urządza w swoim luksusowym domu dekadenckie przyjęcia, choć rzadko się na nich pokazuje. Krążą o nim legendy, także o pochodzeniu jego fortuny. Pytań i plotek jest znacznie więcej na przykład dlaczego wpatruje się w blask okien po drugiej stronie zatoki. Fitzgerald opowiada ponadczasową historię o nierealnych pragnieniach i ludzkich przywarach, o miłości i wyrachowaniu, a także o złamanych przez życie, zdesperowanych i zagubionych młodych Amerykanach w okresie prosperity po pierwszej wojnie światowej. To także portret szaleństw lat dwudziestych, epoki, w której świat szemranych interesów miesza się ze światem bankierów, bieda z bajecznymi fortunami, amerykański sen z Wielkim kryzysem, a namiętne pragnienia zderzają z bolesnym upadkiem. Ten wielki Gatsby, uznany za jedną z najważniejszych powieści XX wieku, ukazuje się w nowym przekładzie Macieja Świerkockiego, dzięki któremu maestria Francisa Scotta Fitzgeralda wybrzmiewa w pełni.
Tomasz Białkowski
W każdym z nas jest jakaś zadra, nieważne jak szerokim uśmiechem próbujemy ją maskować. Uporządkowane życie Seweryna Vorbla to fasada, choć on sam długo nie zdaje sobie z tego sprawy. Rutynowe dla pięćdziesięciolatka badania lekarskie uruchamiają w mężczyźnie refleksję na temat swojej kondycji - nie tylko fizycznej. Napięcia w relacji z rodzicami, niespełnienie zawodowe, samotność w małżeństwie, groteskowość relacji z kochanką - to tylko część obrazu życia Vorbla, bohatera tak zwykłego, że trudno się z nim nie utożsamić. Specyficzna mieszanka komedii i dramatu zachwyci miłośników "Dnia Świra" Marka Koterskiego.
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
Powieść rozgrywa się w latach 60. lub 70. XIX wieku w rodzinnym mieście Lagerlöf w Värmland i dotyczy pewnego człowieka, który kocha swoją córkę ponad wszystko inne na świecie, ale kiedy ta przenosi się do Sztokholmu i nie ma od niej wieści, wpada w świat marzeń, w którym jest znanym cesarzem Portugalii. Całe jego życie jest zdominowane przez myśli o powrocie córki i tym, co się wtedy wydarzy. Mija 15 lat, zanim dziewczyna powraca do domu. Jest zszokowana szalonym klaunem, jakim stał się jej ojciec. Pewnego dnia zabiera ze sobą matkę, znów pozostawiając ojca, by udać się do Malmö i rozpocząć nowe życie. Jednak kiedy parowiec wyrusza w tę podróż, ojciec rzuca się w wodę, aby go zatrzymać... To jednak nie jest koniec tej wzruszającej opowieści. Zachęcamy do lektury!
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.
Herbert George Wells
The Bulpington of Blup, a 1932 novel by H. G. Wells, is a character study analyzing the psychological sources of resistance to Wellsian ideology, and was influenced by Wellss acquaintance with Carl Gustav Jung and his ideas. Theodore Bulpington is a very ordinary man with a very vivid imagination. Ill at ease with himself, he sees a way to recreate his identity by adding layer upon layer of deception. This he does with such panache that eventually he becomes an impostor, a liar and a cheat. But with so many different masks to hold in place, his carefully woven deception soon spirals out of control and heads towards the chaos of mental torment. The novel is also of interest for its extended analysis of psychological responses to World War I.
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.
The Call of the Wild Level 3 Oxford Bookworms Library
London, Jack
A level 3 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. 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.
The Canterville Ghost - With Audio Level 2 Oxford Bookworms Library
Wilde, Oscar
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 John Escott. There has been a ghost in the house for three hundred years, and Lord Canterville's family have had enough of it. So Lord Canterville sells his grand old house to an American family. Mr Hiram B. Otis is happy to buy the house and the ghost - because of course Americans don't believe in ghosts. The Canterville ghost has great plans to frighten the life out of the Otis family. But Americans don't frighten easily - especially not two noisy little boys - and the poor ghost has a few surprises waiting for him.
The Canterville Ghost Level 2 Oxford Bookworms Library
Wilde, Oscar
A level 2 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Retold for Learners of English by John Escott There has been a ghost in the house for three hundred years, and Lord Canterville's family have had enough of it. So Lord Canterville sells his grand old house to an American family. Mr Hiram B. Otis is happy to buy the house and the ghost - because of course Americans don't believe in ghosts. The Canterville ghost has great plans to frighten the life out of the Otis family. But Americans don't frighten easily - especially not two noisy little boys - and the poor ghost has a few surprises waiting for him.
The Cat Starter Level Oxford Bookworms Library
Escott, John
A Starter level Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Written for Learners of English by John Escott. The Cat steals things from houses in Hollywood. He steals from movie stars and nobody can stop him. Or can they? Natalie is a movie star. Nathan is her stand-in. Nathan does all Natalie's stunts in the movie. But when Natalie and Nathan see The Cat driving away from Zak Wakeman's Hollywood home, they both go after him. Natalie drives fast. 'Be careful,' Nathan tells her. 'You have a movie to finish!'
The Fifteenth Character - With Audio Starter Level Oxford Bookworms Library
Border, Rosemary
A Starter level Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. This version includes an audio book: listen to the story as you read. Written for Learners of English by Rosemary Border. 'It's an interesting job,' says Sally about her work at Happy Hills. And today is a very exciting day because Zapp the famous singer is coming. Everybody is having a wonderful time. But suddenly something goes wrong - very wrong.
The Fifteenth Character Starter Level Oxford Bookworms Library
Border, Rosemary
A Starter level Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Written for Learners of English by Rosemary Border. 'It's an interesting job,' says Sally about her work at Happy Hills. And today is a very exciting day because Zapp the famous singer is coming. Everybody is having a wonderful time. But suddenly something goes wrong - very wrong.
The Girl with Green Eyes Starter Level Oxford Bookworms Library
Escott, John
A Starter level Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Written for Learners of English by John Escott. Greg is a porter at the Shepton Hotel in New York. When a girl with beautiful green eyes asks him for help, Greg can't say no. The girl's name is Cassie, and she says she is an artist. She tells Greg that her stepfather has her sketchbooks, and now she wants them back. Cassie says her stepfather is staying at Greg's hotel ...so what could go wrong?
The Great Gatsby - With Audio Level 5 Oxford Bookworms Library
Fitzgerald, F. Scott
A level 5 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. Gatsby's mansion on Long Island blazes with light, and the beautiful, the wealthy, and the famous drive out from New York to drink Gatsby's champagne and to party all night long. But Jay Gatsby, the owner of all this wealth, wants only one thing - to find again the woman of his dreams, the woman he has held in his heart and his memory for five long years. The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald's masterpiece, is one of the great American novels of the twentieth century. It captures perfectly the Jazz Age of the 1920s, and goes deep into the hollow heart of the American Dream.
The Great Gatsby Level 5 Oxford Bookworms Library
Fitzgerald, F. Scott
A level 5 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Retold for Learners of English by Clare West. Gatsby's mansion on Long Island blazes with light, and the beautiful, the wealthy, and the famous drive out from New York to drink Gatsby's champagne and to party all night long. But Jay Gatsby, the owner of all this wealth, wants only one thing - to find again the woman of his dreams, the woman he has held in his heart and his memory for five long years. The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald's masterpiece, is one of the great American novels of the twentieth century. It captures perfectly the Jazz Age of the 1920s, and goes deep into the hollow heart of the American Dream.
The Hound of the Baskervilles - With Audio Level 4 Oxford Bookworms Library
Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan
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 Patrick Nobes. Dartmoor. A wild, wet place in the south-west of England. A place where it is easy to get lost, and to fall into the soft green earth which can pull the strongest man down to his death. A man is running for his life. Behind him comes an enormous dog - a dog from his worst dreams, a dog from hell. Between him and a terrible death stands only one person - the greatest detective of all time, Sherlock Holmes.
The Hound of the Baskervilles Level 4 Oxford Bookworms Library
Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan
A level 4 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Retold for Learners of English by Patrick Nobes Dartmoor. A wild, wet place in the south-west of England. A place where it is easy to get lost, and to fall into the soft green earth which can pull the strongest man down to his death. A man is running for his life. Behind him comes an enormous dog - a dog from his worst dreams, a dog from hell. Between him and a terrible death stands only one person - the greatest detective of all time, Sherlock Holmes.
The Jungle Book - With Audio Level 2 Oxford Bookworms Library
Kipling, Rudyard
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 Ralph Mowat. In the jungle of Southern India the Seeonee Wolf-Pack has a new cub. He is not a wolf - he is Mowgli, a human child, but he knows nothing of the world of men. He lives and hunts with his brothers the wolves. Baloo the bear and Bagheera the panther are his friends and teachers. And Shere Khan, the man-eating tiger, is his enemy. Kipling's famous story of Mowgli's adventures in the jungle has been loved by young and old for more than a hundred years.
The Jungle Book Level 2 Oxford Bookworms Library
Kipling, Rudyard
A level 2 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Retold for Learners of English by Ralph Mowat In the jungle of Southern India the Seeonee Wolf-Pack has a new cub. He is not a wolf - he is Mowgli, a human child, but he knows nothing of the world of men. He lives and hunts with his brothers the wolves. Baloo the bear and Bagheera the panther are his friends and teachers. And Shere Khan, the man-eating tiger, is his enemy. Kipling's famous story of Mowgli's adventures in the jungle has been loved by young and old for more than a hundred years.
Elle Kennedy
Odkryj emocje na lodzie i miłość poza taflą w wyjątkowej serii off-campus on lubi zdobywać nie tylko bramki... John Logan może mieć każdą dziewczynę. Dla gwiazdy hokejowej ligi uniwersyteckiej życie to nieustająca zabawa i szybkie numerki, ale za zabójczym uśmiechem i luzackim wdziękiem kryje się przybierający na sile strach przed nieuchronną przyszłością bez perspektyw, która czeka go po ukończeniu studiów. Spotkanie z seksowną Grace Ivers, studentką pierwszego roku, jest odskocznią, której właśnie tak bardzo potrzebuje Jednak gdy po bezmyślnym błędzie ona znika z jego horyzontu, Logan postanawia udowodnić, że zasługuje na drugą szansę. ale dla niej będzie musiał wejść na wyższy poziom gry Po kiepskim pierwszym roku studiów Grace Ivers wraca na uniwerek w Briar starsza, mądrzejsza, a do tego wybiła sobie z głowy aroganckiego hokeistę, któremu niemal oddała dziewictwo. Nie jest już tą naiwną i prostolinijną dziewczyną, która dawała się wodzić za nos, gdy spiknęli się po raz pierwszy. Jeśli John Logan myśli, że ona znów będzie na każde jego skinienie jak wszystkie znane mu hokejowe króliczki, to jest w błędzie. Chce ją odzyskać? Musi się więc mocno postarać. W tej rozgrywce to Grace dyktuje warunki i ma zamiar dać Loganowi porządny wycisk. Więcej hokejowych namiętności od Elle Kennedy? Tak, poproszę! The Mistake. Błąd to mądra, poprawiająca samopoczucie i przyprawiająca o omdlenie powieść, która sprawi, że fani rzucą serca na lodowisko. Sarina Bowen, autorka bestsellera Dobry chłopak