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Название: OXFORD BOOKWORMS LIBRARY 4: A DUBIOUS LEGACY
Автор: Mary Wesley
Издательство: Oxford University Press
Год: 2008
Страниц: 96
Формат: PDF (текст изображением)
Размер: 3.36 mb
Жанр: Oxford University Press
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In 1944 Henry Tillotson brings his new wife, Margaret, home to his farmhouse in the English countryside. Margaret is a strange, unpleasant woman, determined, it seems, to make Henry's life miserable. 'Poor Henry!' say his friends, as they visit at weekends and holidays. 'What an awful life he has!' But Henry is not at all the sad and disappointed man we might expect him to be. He manages to enjoy life, and indeed, has quite a lot of fun, one way and another... Mary Wesley's story takes a sharp but light-hearted look at love, sex, and marriage — and the things people will do to get what they want.
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Название: OXFORD BOOKWORMS LIBRARY 4: THE EAGLE OF THE NINTH
Автор: Rosemary Sutcliff
Издательство: Oxford University Press
Год: 2008
Страниц: 96
Формат: PDF (текст изображением)
Размер: 3.36 mb
Жанр: Oxford University Press
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In the second century AD, when the Ninth Roman Legion marched into the mists of northern Britain, not one man came back. Four thousand men disappeared, and the Eagle, the symbol of the Legion's honour, was lost. Years later there is a story that the Eagle has been seen again. So Marcus Aquila, whose father disappeared with the Ninth, travels north, to find the Eagle and bring it back, and to learn how his father died. But the tribes of the north are wild and dangerous, and they hate the Romans...
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Название: OXFORD BOOKWORMS LIBRARY 4: THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES
Автор: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Издательство: Oxford University Press
Год: 2008
Страниц: 104
Формат: PDF
Размер: 3.64 mb
Жанр: Oxford University Press
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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.
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Автор: ln2121
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Название: OXFORD BOOKWORMS LIBRARY 4: LORD JIM
Автор: Joseph Conrad
Издательство: Oxford University Press
Год: 2008
Страниц: 112
Формат: PDF (текст изображением)
Размер: 3.92 mb
Жанр: Oxford University Press
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A hundred years ago a seaman's life was full of danger, but Jim, the first mate on board the Patna, is not afraid of danger. He is young, strong, confident of his bravery. He dreams of great adventures — and the chance to show the world what a hero he is. But the sea is no place for dreamers. When the chance comes, on a calm moonlit night in the Indian Ocean, Jim fails the test, and his world falls to pieces around him. He disappears into the jungles of south-east Asia, searching for a way to prove himself, once and for all...
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Название: OXFORD BOOKWORMS LIBRARY 4: LORNA DOONE
Автор: R.D. Blackmore
Издательство: Oxford University Press
Год: 2008
Страниц: 96
Формат: PDF (текст изображением)
Размер: 3.36 mb
Жанр: Oxford University Press
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One winter's day in 1673 young John Ridd is riding home from school, across the wild lonely hills of Exmoor. He has to pass Doone valley — a dangerous place, as the Doones are famous robbers and murderers. All Exmoor lives in fear of the Doones. At home there is sad news waiting for young John, and he learns that he has good reason to hate the Doones. But in the years to come he meets Lorna Doone, with her lovely smile and big dark eyes. And soon he is deeply, hopelessly, in love...
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Название: OXFORD BOOKWORMS LIBRARY 4: THE MOONSPINNERS
Автор: Mary Stewart
Издательство: Oxford University Press
Год: 2008
Страниц: 96
Формат: PDF (текст изображением)
Размер: 3.36 mb
Жанр: Oxford University Press
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When Nicola arrives in Crete a day early, she gets more than just an extra day of holiday. She comes to a village where no one can be trusted, and she becomes involved in a murder mystery that puts her own life in danger. This story is set in a small village in the mountains of Crete. This is an island where people have strong feelings, where arguments begin suddenly, and end quickly. And Nicola has arrived in the middle of an argument that could end very quickly — with a gun.
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Название: OXFORD BOOKWORMS LIBRARY 4: MR MIDSHIPMAN HORNBLOWER
Автор: C.S. Forester
Издательство: Oxford University Press
Год: 2008
Страниц: 96
Формат: PDF (текст изображением)
Размер: 3.36 mb
Жанр: Oxford University Press
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'Hornblower fired. There was a small cloud of smoke, but no bang. This is death, he thought. My pistol was the unloaded one'. But Horatio Hornblower does not die. He survives the duel with Simpson, learns to overcome his seasickness, and goes on to risk his life many times over. It is 1793, Britain is at war with France, and life on a sailing ship of war is hard and dangerous. But the hardest battles are fought by Hornblower within himself.
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Название: OXFORD BOOKWORMS LIBRARY 4: PERSUASION
Автор: Jane Austen
Издательство: Oxford University Press
Год: 2008
Страниц: 96
Формат: PDF (текст изображением)
Размер: 3.36 mb
Жанр: Oxford University Press
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At nineteen Anne Elliot refuses an offer of marriage from Frederick Wentworth, persuaded to do so by Lady Russell, a friend of her dead mother. Wentworth is a sailor, with no money and an uncertain future, says Lady Russell — just a nobody, certainly not worthy of a baronet's daughter. Eight years later Wentworth returns, a rich and successful captain, looking for a wife. Anne is still unmarried, but Captain Wentworth clearly prefers the company of the two Musgrove girls...
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Название: OXFORD BOOKWORMS LIBRARY 4: SILAS MARNER
Автор: George Eliot
Издательство: Oxford University Press
Год: 2008
Страниц: 96
Формат: PDF (текст изображением)
Размер: 3.36 mb
Жанр: Oxford University Press
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In a hole under the floorboards Silas Marner the linen-weaver keeps his gold. Every day he works hard at his weaving, and every night he takes the gold out and holds the bright coins lovingly, feeling them and counting them again and again. The villagers are afraid of him and he has no family, no friends. Only the gold is his friend, his delight, his reason for living. But what if a thief should come in the night and take his gold away? What will Silas do then? What could possibly comfort him for the loss of his only friend?
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Название: OXFORD BOOKWORMS LIBRARY 4: THE SILVER SWORD
Издательство: Oxford University Press
Год: 2008
Страниц: 88
Формат: PDF
Размер: 3.08 mb
Жанр: Oxford University Press
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Jan opened his wooden box and took out the silver sword. 'This will bring me luck', he said to Mr Balicki. 'And it will bring you luck because you gave it to me'. The silver sword is only a paper knife, but it gives Jan and his friends hope. Hungry, cold, and afraid, the four children try to stay alive among the ruins of bombed cities in war-torn Europe. Soon they will begin the long and dangerous journey south, from Poland to Switzerland, where they hope to find their parents again.
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Название: OXFORD BOOKWORMS LIBRARY 4: WASHINGTON SQUARE
Автор: Henry James
Издательство: Oxford University Press
Год: 2008
Страниц: 88
Формат: PDF
Размер: 3.08 mb
Жанр: Oxford University Press
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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...
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Название: OXFORD BOOKWORMS LIBRARY 5: DAVID COPPERFIELD
Автор: Charles Dickens
Издательство: Oxford University Press
Год: 2008
Страниц: 104
Формат: PDF
Размер: 3.64 mb
Жанр: Oxford University Press
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'Please, Mr Murdstone! Don't beat me! I've tried to learn my lessons, really I have, sir!' sobs David. Although he is only eight years old, Mr Murdstone does beat him, and David is so frightened that he bites his cruel stepfather's hand. For that, he is kept locked in his room for five days and nights, and nobody is allowed to speak to him. As David grows up, he learns that life is full of trouble and misery and cruelty. But he also finds laughter and kindness, trust and friendship... and love.
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Название: OXFORD BOOKWORMS LIBRARY 5: GREAT EXPECTATIONS
Автор: Charles Dickens
Издательство: Oxford University Press
Год: 2008
Страниц: 112
Формат: PDF (текст изображением)
Размер: 3.92 mb
Жанр: Oxford University Press
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In a gloomy, neglected house Miss Havisham sits, as she has sat year after year, in a wedding dress and veil that were once white, and are now faded and yellow with age. Her face is like a death's head; her dark eyes burn with bitterness and hate. By her side sits a proud and beautiful girl, and in front of her, trembling with fear in his thick country boots, stands young Pip. Miss Havisham stares at Pip coldly, and murmurs to the girl at her side: 'Break his heart, Estella. Break his heart!'
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Название: OXFORD BOOKWORMS LIBRARY 5: JEEVES AND FRIENDS
Автор: P.G. Wodehouse
Издательство: Oxford University Press
Год: 2008
Страниц: 104
Формат: PDF
Размер: 3.64 mb
Жанр: Oxford University Press
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What on earth would Bertie Wooster do without Jeeves, his valet? Jeeves is calm, tactful, resourceful, and has the answer to every problem. Bertie, a pleasant young man but a bit short of brains, turns to Jeeves every time he gets into trouble. And Bertie is always in trouble. These six stories include the most famous of P. G. Wodehouse's memorable characters. There are three stories about Bertie and Jeeves, and three about Lord Emsworth, who, like Bertie, is often in trouble, battling with his fierce sister Lady Constance, and his even fiercer Scottish gardener, the red-bearded Angus McAllister.
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Автор: ln2121
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Название: OXFORD BOOKWORMS LIBRARY 5: KING'S RANSOM
Автор: Ed McBain
Издательство: Oxford University Press
Год: 2008
Страниц: 112
Формат: PDF (текст изображением)
Размер: 3.92 mb
Жанр: Oxford University Press
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'Calling all cars, calling all cars. Here's the story on the Smoke Rise kidnapping. The missing boy is eight years old, fair hair, wearing a red sweater. His name is Jeffry Reynolds, son of Charles Reynolds, chauffeur to Douglas King'. The police at the 87th Precinct hate kidnappers. And these kidnappers are stupid, too. They took the wrong boy — the chauffeur's son instead of the son of the rich tycoon, Douglas King. And they want a ransom of $500,000. A lot of money. But it's not too much to pay for a little boy's life ...is it?
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Название: OXFORD BOOKWORMS LIBRARY 5: SENSE AND SENSIBILITY
Автор: Jane Austen
Издательство: Oxford University Press
Год: 2008
Страниц: 104
Формат: PDF
Размер: 3.64 mb
Жанр: Oxford University Press
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Sometimes the Dashwood girls do not seem like sisters. Elinor is all calmness and reason, and can be relied upon for practical, common sense opinions. Marianne, on the other hand, is all sensibility, full of passionate and romantic feeling. She has no time for dull common sense — or for middle-aged men of thirty-five, long past the age of marriage. True love can only be felt by the young, of course. And if your heart is broken at the age of seventeen, how can you ever expect to recover from the passionate misery that fills your life, waking and sleeping?
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Название: OXFORD BOOKWORMS LIBRARY 6: COLD COMFORT FARM
Автор: Stella Gibbons
Издательство: Oxford University Press
Год: 2008
Страниц: 144
Формат: DjVu
Размер: 1.00 mb
Жанр: Oxford University Press
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The farm lies in the shadow of a hill, and the farmyard rarely sees the sun, even in summer, when the sukebind hangs heavy in the branches. Here live the Starkadders — Aunt Ada Doom, Judith, Amos, Seth, Reuben, Elfine... They lead messy, untidy lives, full of dark thoughts, moody silences, and sudden noisy quarrels. That is, until their attractive young cousin arrives from London. Neat, sensible, efficient, Flora Poste cannot bear messes (they are so uncivilized). She begins to tidy up the Starkadders' lives at once...
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Название: OXFORD BOOKWORMS LIBRARY 6: CRY FREEDOM
Издательство: Oxford University Press
Год: 2008
Страниц: 128
Формат: PDF (текст изображением)
Размер: 4.48 mb
Жанр: Oxford University Press
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They said Steve Biko was a man of violence; then why did he talk of peace? They said he wanted revolution; so why did he talk of friendship? They said he died of hunger; why was his body broken and bruised? This is the story of a man's fight with the government of South Africa. It is the story of all people who prefer truth to lies. It is the story of all people who cry 'Freedom', and who are not afraid to die.
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Название: OXFORD BOOKWORMS LIBRARY 6: DEADHEADS
Издательство: Oxford University Press
Год: 2008
Страниц: 128
Формат: PDF (текст изображением)
Размер: 4.48 mb
Жанр: Oxford University Press
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An English rose garden on a summer's day. A small boy watches with interest as his great-aunt cuts the deadheads off the rosebushes with a sharp knife. What could be more peaceful, more harmless? Young Patrick grows up to be a calm, pleasant man, with a good job, a wife and two children, and the best rose garden for miles around. When somebody tells the police that Patrick Aldermann is killing people, Chief Superintendent Dalziel thinks it's probably all nonsense. But Inspector Pascoe is not so sure...
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Название: OXFORD BOOKWORMS LIBRARY 6: DUBLIN PEOPLE
Издательство: Oxford University Press
Год: 2008
Страниц: 128
Формат: PDF (текст изображением)
Размер: 4.48 mb
Жанр: Oxford University Press
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A young country girl comes to live and work in Dublin. Jo is determined to be modern and independent, and to have a wonderful time. But life in a big city is full of strange surprises for a shy country girl ...Gerry Moore is a man with a problem — alcohol. He knows he must give it up, and his family and friends watch nervously as he battles against it. But drink is a hard enemy to fight ...These stories by the Irish writer Maeve Binchy are full of affectionate humour and wit, and sometimes a little sadness.
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