Викторианская эпоха

A level 3 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Written for Learners of English by Tim Vicary. Charles Bravo died from the poison antimony. He took three days to die, and the doctors could do n…

A level 3 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Retold for Learners of English by Jill Nevile. ‘When we are happy, we are always good’, says Lord Henry, ‘but when we are good, we are not always…

A level 6 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Retold for Learners of English by Richard G. Lewis. The woman in white first appears at night on a lonely heath near London and is next seen at a…

A level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Retold for Learners of English by John Escott. Sherlock Holmes is the greatest detective the world has ever seen, and he knows it. As the famous …

A level 2 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Retold for Learners of English by Clare West. Sherlock Holmes is the greatest detective of them all. He sits in his room, and smokes his pipe. He…

A level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library graded readers. Retold for Learners of English by Jennifer Bassett. A woman and a man… words of love whispered on a summer night. Later, there is a child, but n…

A level 2 Oxford Bookworms Library graded readers. Retold for Learners of English by Jennifer Bassett. Tony Kytes is a favourite with the girls but he’s not terribly clever. If you meet an old gi…

A level 3 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Retold for Learners of English by Clare West. Little Mary Lennox is a bad-tempered, disagreeable child. When her parents die in India, she is sen…

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 arou…

A level 6 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Retold for Learners of English by Clare West. Jane Eyre is alone in the world. Disliked by her aunt's family, she is sent away to school. Here sh…

A level 5 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Retold for Learners of English by Clare West. The wind is strong on the Yorkshire moors. There are few trees, and fewer houses, to block its path…

A level 4 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Retold for Learners of English by John Escott. When Black Beauty is trained to carry a rider on his back, or to pull a carriage behind him, he fi…

A level 6 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Retold for Learners of English by Diane Mowat. When Becky Sharp and Amelia Sedley leave school, their feet are set on very different paths. Kind,…

A level 2 Oxford Bookworms Library graded readers. Written for Learners of English by Tim Vicary. All they could hear was the wind, and the waves crashing on to the rocks. All they could see was …

A level 4 Oxford Bookworms Library graded readers. Retold for Learners of English by Kate Mattock. Life in the small English town of Cranford seems very quiet and peaceful. The ladies of Cranford…

A level 3 Oxford Bookworms Library graded readers. Retold for Learners of English by Rosemary Border. Conradin is ten years old. He lives alone with his aunt. He has two big secrets. The first is…

Когда Элси выходила замуж за аристократа Руперта Бейнбриджа, она верила, что впереди у нее прекрасная беззаботная жизнь. Но судьба распоряжается по-своему. Вскоре после свадьбы Элси теряет мужа и…

После безрадостного и голодного детства в школе-приюте она, казалось, была обречена на бедность и прозябание. Но деятельный и свободолюбивый характер привел ее на службу в богатый замок, а высоки…

В Англии к середине XIX века медицина по-прежнему считается скорее волшебством, чем наукой, а женщине не подобает даже произносить слова «роды» или «геморрой»… Миром хирургии безраздельно властву…

В книгу вошли стихотворения английских поэтов эпохи королевы Виктории (XIX век). Всего 57 поэтов, разных по стилю, школам, мировоззрению, таланту и, наконец, по их значению в истории английской л…