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Elinor is as prudent as her sister Marianne is impetuous. Each must learn from the other after they are forced by their father's death to leave their home and enter into the contests of polite society. The charms of unsuitable men and the schemes of rival ladies mean that their paths to success will be beset with disappointment.
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This classic pirate adventure is full of swashbuckling pirates, buried loot and danger. Young Jim Hawkins sets out to discover the long-lost treasure of the evil, infamous and now-dead pirate, Captain Flint. But this will be no easy ride, as bloodthirsty plans are afoot. Can Jim find the treasure and get out alive?.
4) Brat Farrar
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The "Oxford Bookworms Library" extends the range of activities and teaching support of "Oxford Bookworms" and includes in each book an Activities section of "Before Reading", "While Reading" and "After Reading" exercises. The six stages offer stories at different levels of ability.
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Enthralled by his own exquisite portrait, Dorian Gray exchanges his soul for eternal youth and beauty. Influenced by his friend Lord Henry Wotton, he is drawn into a corrupt double life, indulging his desires in secret while remaining a gentleman in the eyes of polite society. Only his portrait bears the traces of his decadence.
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Oxford bookworms library volume stage 6
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Collins
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1960
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(Oxford Bookworms Library is a new edition of the original Oxford Bookworms Black and Green series, merging the two series into one with new covers. Sixteen additional pages inside each book allow extra pages of activities and increased author and series information. Some of the titles have new illustrations.)
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A mysterious benefactor provides Philip Pirrip with the chance to escape his poor upbringing. Aspiring to be a gentleman, and encouraged by his expectations of wealth, he abandons his friends and moves to London. His expectations prove to be unfounded, however, and he must return home penniless.
8) Oliver Twist
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'A parish child - the orphan of a workhouse - the humble, half-starved drudge - to be cuffed and buffeted through the world, despised by all, and pitied by none' Dark, mysterious and mordantly funny, Oliver Twist features some of the most memorably drawn villains in all of fiction - the treacherous gangmaster Fagin, the menacing thug Bill Sikes, the Artful Dodger and their den of thieves in the grimy London backstreets. Dicken's novel is both an angry...
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The inspiration for the film starring Dev Patel: A sprawling masterpiece about a boy making his way to manhood in nineteenth-century England. � David Copperfield?s father died before he was born, but he grew up loved and comfortable-until he turned seven and his mother married Edward Murdstone. His new stepfather could not banish little Davy fast enough, sending him to live with the housekeeper, Peggotty, and her fisherman brother. � Murdstone...
10) Cranford
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(Oxford Bookworms Library is a new edition of the original Oxford Bookworms Black and Green series, merging the two series into one with new covers.)
12) Dracula
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'Alone with the dead! I dare not go out, for I can hear the low howl of the wolf through the broken window' A chilling masterpiece of the horror genre, Dracula also illuminated dark corners of Victorian sexuality. When Jonathan Harker visits Transylvania to advise Count Dracula on a London home, he makes a horrifying discovery. Soon afterwards, a number of disturbing incidents unfold in England: an unmanned ship is wrecked at Whitby; strange puncture...
13) Frankenstein
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'Never did I behold a vision so horrible as his face, of such loathsome, yet appalling hideousness' A twisted, upside-down creation myth, Mary Shelley's chilling Gothic tale lays bare the dark side of science, and the horror within us all. It tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, who plunders graveyards to create a new being from the bodies of the dead - but whose botched creature causes nothing but murder and destruction. Written after a nightmare...
14) Chemical Secret
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Oxford bookworms library volume stage 3
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Oxford University Press
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(Oxford Bookworms Library is a new edition of the original Oxford Bookworms Black and Green series, merging the two series into one with new covers. Sixteen additional pages inside each book allow extra pages of activities and increased author and series information. Some of the titles have new illustrations.)
15) Grace Darling
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Oxford Bookworms library volume stage 2
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Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
1991
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English
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(Oxford Bookworms Library is a new edition of the original Oxford Bookworms Black and Green series, merging the two series into one with new covers. Sixteen additional pages inside each book allow extra pages of activities and increased author and series information. Some of the titles have new illustrations.)
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Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
1997
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English
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The "Oxford Bookworms Library" extends the range of activities and teaching support of "Oxford Bookworms" and includes in each book an Activities section of "Before Reading", "While Reading" and "After Reading" exercises. The six stages offer stories at different levels of ability.
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Oxford Bookworms library volume stage 3
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Oxford U.P
Pub. Date
2000
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English
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Oxford Bookworms Library volume stage 2
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Oxford U.P
Pub. Date
2000
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English
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