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Oxford
Bookworms
Collection
Unadapted short stories
by well-known
authors for advanced
learners of English
Oxford Bookworms library
SIX VOLUMES OF THEMED SHORT STORIES BY WELL-KNOWN AUTHORS,
BOTH CLASSIC AND MODERN. THE TEXTS ARE NOT ABRIDGED OR
ADAPTED IN ANY WAY, BUT HAVE BEEN SELECTED FOR CONTENT AND
LANGUAGE THAT WILL BE UNDERSTOOD BY THE ADVANCED STUDENT.
EACH STORY HAS A SHORT INTRODUCTION, ACTIVITIES THAT EXPLOIT
THE TEXT, AND NOTES ON CULTURALLY DIFFICULT VOCABULARY.
Series Advisers: H.G.
Widdowson, Jennifer
Bassett
And All for Love …
Maeve Binchy
Edith Wharton
Virginia Woolf
James Joyce
H.E. Bates
Graham Greene
Fay Weldon
Patricia Highsmith
John Morrison
Somerset Maugham
Edited by Diane Mowat and Jennifer
Bassett
What sad, appalling, and surprising things people
do in the name of love and for the sake of love. These
short stories give us love won and love lost, love
revenged, love thrown away, love in triumph, love in
despair. It might be love between men and women,
children and parents, even humans and cats; but
whichever it is, love is a force to be reckoned with.
ISBN 978 0 19 4228169
Crime Never Pays
Agatha Christie
Ruth Rendell
Graham Greene
Angela Noel
Dorothy L. Sayers
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Margery Allingham
Patricia Highsmith
Edited by Clare West
Murder: the unlawful, intentional killing of a human
being – a terrible crime. But murder stories are always
fascinating. Who did it? And how? Or why? And was
it murder, or just an unfortunate accident? Who will
triumph, the murderer or the detective? This collection
contains a wide range of murder stories, from the
astute detection of the famous Sherlock Holmes, to the
chilling psychology of Ruth Rendell.
ISBN 978 0 19 4226936
The Eye of Childhood
John Updike
Graham Greene
William Boyd
Susan Hill
D. H. Lawrence
Saki
Penelope Lively
Bernard MacLaverty
Frank Tuohy
Morley Callaghan
Edited by John Escott and
Jennifer Bassett
What does it feel like to be a child? Learning how to
negotiate with the unpredictable adult world, learning
how to pick a path through life’s traps and hazards,
learning when the time has come to put away childish
things. The writers of these short stories show us the
world as seen from the far side of the child-adult
divide, a gap that is sometimes small, and sometimes
an unbridgeable chasm.
ISBN 978 0 19 422813 8
From the Cradle
to the Grave
Evelyn Waugh
Roald Dahl
Somerset Maugham
Saki
Frank Sargeson
Raymond Carver
H.E. Bates
Susan Hill
Edited by Clare West
These stories explore the trials of life from youth to
old age: the idealism of young people, the stresses
of marriage, the anxieties of parenthood, and the
loneliness and fears of older people. The wide variety
of writing styles includes black humour, satire, and
compassionate and realistic observation of the follies
and foibles of humankind.
ISBN 978 0 19 4226929
A Tangled Web
Ray Bradbury
Roald Dahl
Maeve Binchy
V.S. Naipaul
Somerset Maugham
Frederick Forsyth
Clare Boylan
Paul Theroux
Oscar Wilde
Joanna Trollope
Edited by Christine Lindop
and Alison Sykes-McNulty
Deception is usually frowned on as morally
unacceptable, but is it always wrong? Can hiding
or distorting the truth sometimes have good effects,
adding to the sum of human happiness? These ten
stories are full of secrets and lies, from a light-hearted
bit of fun to dark and desperate deceit; but whether
harmless or evil, deception can sometimes lead to
quite unexpected complications
.
ISBN 978 0 19 4228145
A Window on the Universe
Ray Bradbury
Bill Brown
Philip K. Dick
Arthur C. Clarke
Jerome Bixby
Isaac Asimov
Brian Aldiss
Roald Dahl
John Wyndham
Edited by Jennifer Bassett
What does the future hold in store for the human
race? Aliens from distant galaxies, telepathic horror,
interstellar war, time-warps, the shriek of a rose,
collision with an asteroid – the unknown lies around
every corner, and the universe is a big place. These
nine science-fiction stories offer possibilities that are
fantastic, humorous, alarming, but always thought-
provoking.
ISBN 978 0 19 4226943
ADVANCED
CEFR C2
