Jennifer Bassett is een begenadigd auteur wiens uitgebreide werk voor taalleerders de brug slaat tussen boeiende verhalen en literaire waardering. Haar bijdragen als serie-editor en productieve schrijfster tonen een diep begrip van hoe verhalen aangepast en gecreëerd kunnen worden die resoneren bij lezers. Bassett's vermogen om toegankelijke maar betekenisvolle verhalen te creëren, maakt haar een belangrijke figuur in de educatieve literatuur. Haar toewijding ligt in het toegankelijk en plezierig maken van diverse literaire ervaringen voor een wereldwijd publiek.
Dit boek maakt deel uit van de TREDITION CLASSICS serie, die zich richt op het opnieuw beschikbaar maken van publieke domein boeken. De serie is ontstaan uit een passie voor literatuur en streeft ernaar om waardevolle werken uit de wereldliteratuur te behouden en te herdrukken.
Oxford Bookworms Library
The teacher's handbooks offer an introduction to the Oxford Bookworms Library series with guidance on using graded readers, answers to the exercises in the books, photocopiable tests and an answer key.
Jean Valjean is free at last after nineteen years in prison. Cold and hungry, he is rejected by everyone he meets. But Jean's life is changed forever when he discovers love. He spends the rest of his life helping people, like himself, who have been victims of poverty and social injustice - "les miserables"--Page 4 of cover.
Sara Crewe, a pupil at Miss Minchin's London school, is left in poverty when her father dies but is later rescued by a mysterious benefactor.
The books are graded at six vocabulary levels, ranging from 400 words (Beginning) to 2,500 words
Tells the story of Bathsheba Everdene, who must choose among three suitors in Wessex in the 1840s.
Hurricane Mabel is far out in the Atlantic Ocean and moving slowly northwards. Perhaps it will never come near land at all. But if it hits the island of San Fernandez, many thousands of people will die. There could be winds of more than 250 kilometres an hour. There could be a huge tidal wavefrom the sea, which will drown the capital city of St Pierre. Mabel will destroy houses, farms, roads, bridges . . . Only one man, David Wyatt, believes that Mabel will hit San Fernandez, but nobody will listen to him...
'I want you to find my wife,' he said. 'She's been missing for a month.' 'Okay,' I said. 'I'll find your wife.' Derace Kingsley's wife ran away to Mexico to get a quickie divorce and marry a Casanova-wannabe named Chris Lavery. Or so the note she left her husband insisted. Trouble is, when Philip Marlowe asks Lavery about it he denies everything and sends the private investigator packing with a flea lodged firmly in his ear. But when Marlowe next encounters Lavery, he's denying nothing - on account of the two bullet holes in his heart. Now Marlowe's on the trail of a killer, who leads him out of smoggy LA all the way to a murky mountain lake . . . 'Chandler's best novels carry the crime story to levels of artistry that have rarely been matched' Daily Mail 'Brilliant . . . the story travels at exhilarating speed' The Times
Word count 10,650 Suitable for younger learners
