A ​Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (Oxford Bookworms)

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Sherlock ​Holmes Short Stories (Oxford Bookworms)
Sherlock ​Holmes is the greatest detective of them all. He sits in his room, and smokes his pipe. He listens, and watches, and thinks. He listens to the steps coming up his stairs; he watches the door opening - and he knows what question the stranger will ask. In these threeof his best stories, Holmes has three visitors to the famous flat in Baker Street - visitors who bring their troubles to the only man in the world wo can help them.

Elaine Kirn - Robin ​Hood (Regents Illustrated Classics)
Level ​A – beginning – 500 basic words The _Regents Illustrated Classics_ series provides highly motivational material for beginning and intermediate ESL students and for native speakers of English who want to develop basic reading skills. Each classic is presented in a fully illustrated format which aids comprehension and actually stimulates the desire to read. The for levels - beginning, low intermediate, and high intermediate - are all based on limited vocabulary and structure lists. Exercises are designed to develop reading strategies and build vocabulary. _Robin Hood_ is an old English folk tale; its author is unknown. It tells the story of a folk hero of twelfth century England who, through no fault of his own, becomes an outlaw. Robin lives in Sherwood Forest with his "band of merry men", which includes the giant Little John, the jolly monk Friar Tuck, and the young Will Scarlet. Fighting injustice and cruel laws, the men rob from the rich and pompous and give to the poor and needy. In the episodes in this book, Robin cleverly tricks the hated Sheriff of Nottingham again and again, wins an archery contest, and finally meets the king himself.

Rowena Akinyemi - Love ​or Money (Oxford Bookworms)
It ​is Molly Clarkson's fiftieth birthday. She is having a party. She is rich, but she is having a small party - only four people. Four people, however. who all need the same thing: they need her money. She will not give them the money, so they are waiting for her to die. And there are other people who are also waiting for her to die. But one person can't wait. And so, on her fiftieth birthday, Molly Clarkson is going to die.

Joyce Annette Barnes - Amistad ​(Penguin Readers)
It ​is 1839. The slave ship, Amistad, is carrying African slaves to America. There is a bloody fight on the ship, and the Africans are free. But soon they are in prison in the US. Must they return to their ‘owners’, or are they free people?

Jonathan Swift - Gulliver's ​Travels (Penguin Readers)
Gulliver ​travels across the sea from England and has an accident. He arrives in a country of very, very small people. What will they do with him? How will he talk to them? And why are the Big-enders fighting the Little-enders?

Chris Rice - Audrey ​Hepburn (Penguin Readers)
Audrey ​Hepburn was a beautiful and great actress. When there were unhappy times for her, Audrey would always show a warm, friendly face to the world. The world loved her, and people love her now! This is her story...

Winston Groom - Forrest ​Gump (Penguin Readers)
Everybody ​tells Forrest Gump that he's an idiot. But he's a great football player, and he plays the harmonica beautifully. He's also a brave soldier. But can he ever marry the girl he loves? This story of his journey through life is sometimes sad and sometimes very funny.

Kenneth Grahame - The ​Wind in the Willows (Oxford Bookworms)
Egyszerűsített ​olvasmány angol nyelven. Hasznos segítség a nyelvtanulásban. A kötet 3. nehézségi fokozatú, az olvasásához kb. 1000 szavas szókincs szükséges. "Oxford Bookworms Stage 3" Down by the river bank, where the wind whispers through the willow trees, is a very pleasant place to have a lunch party with a few friends. But life is not always so peaceful for the Mole and the Water Rat. There is the time, for example, when Toad gets interested in motor-cars-goes mad about them in fact...

Mark Twain - Huckleberry ​Finn (Oxford Bookworms)
"Oxford ​Bookworms Stage 2"

C. S. Forester - Mr ​Midshipman Hornblower (Oxford Bookworms)
'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.

Fiona Beddall - Alexander ​the Great (Penguin Readers)
Alexander ​the Great has fascinated people since his death more than 2300 years ago. By the age of thirty he ruled the biggest Empire the world had ever known. This remarkable leader brought civilization to millions and shaped our world.

Janet Hardy-Gould - Henry ​VIII and his Six Wives (Oxford Bookworms)
There ​were six of them - three Katherines, two Annes, and a Jane. One of them was the King's wife for twenty-four years, another for only a year and a half. One died, two were divorced, and two were beheaded. It was a dangerous, uncertain life. After the King's death in 1547, his sixth wife finds a box of old letters - one from each of the first five wives. They are sad, angry, frightened letters. They tell the story of what it was like to be the wife of Henry VIII of England.

Frances Hodgson Burnett - The ​Secret Garden (Oxford Bookworms)
Egyszerűsített ​olvasmány angol nyelven. Hasznos segítség a nyelvtanulásban. A kötet 3. nehézségi fokozatú, az olvasásához kb. 1000 szavas szókincs szükséges.

R. D. Blackmore - Lorna ​Doone (Oxford Bookworms)
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...

H. E. Bates - Go, ​Lovely Rose and Other Stories (Oxford Bookworms)
A ​warm summer night. The moon shines down on the quiet houses and gardens. Everyone is asleep. Everyone except the mand in pyjamas and slippers, standing on the wet grass at the end of his garden, watching and waiting... In these three stories, H. E. Bates presents ordinary people like you and me. But as we get to know them better, we see that their feelings are not at all ordinary. In fact, what happens to them - and in them - is passionate, and even extraordinary. Could this happen to you and me?

Tim Vicary - Mary, ​Queen of Scots (Oxford Bookworms)
England ​and Scotland in the 1500s. Two famous queens - Mary, the Catholic Queen of Scots, and Elizabeth I, the Protestant Queen of England. It was an exciting and a dangerous time to be alive, and to be a queen. Mary was Queen of Scotland when she was one week old. At sixteen, she was also Queen of France. She was tall and beautiful, with red-gold hair. Many men loved her and died for her. But she also had many enemies - men who said: 'The death of Mary is the life of Elizabeth.'

Irene Trimble - Pirates ​of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (Penguin Readers)
Elizabeth ​lives on a Caribbean island, a very dangerous place. A young blacksmith is interested i her, but pirates are interested too. Where do the pirates come from and wht do they want? Is there really a curse on their ship? And why can't they enjoy their gold?

Thomas Hardy - Far ​from the Madding Crowd (Oxford Bookworms)
Bathsheba ​Everdene is young, proud, and beautiful. She is an independent woman and can marry any man she chooses - if she chooses. In fact, she likes her independence, and she likes fighting her own battles in a man's world. But it is never wise to ignore the power of love. There are three men who would very much like to marry Bathsheba. When she falls in love with one of them, she soon wishes she had kept her independence. She learns that love brings misery, pain, and violent passions that can destroy lives... Egyszerűsített olvasmány angol nyelven. Hasznos segítség a nyelvtanulásban. A kötet 5. nehézségi fokozatú, az olvasásához kb. 1800 szavas szókincs szükséges. "Oxford Bookworms Stage 5"

M. R. James - The ​Crown (Penguin Readers)
The ​Crown is a ghost story. There is a magic crown under the ground in Seaburgh. It protects England – and William Agers protects the crown. Paxton is on holiday in Seaburgh and finds the crown. One night he takes it and then sees a shadow behind him. He runs quickly back to the hotel. Is the shadow William Agers? But Paxton knows that William Agers is dead! Paxton is afraid. He wants to put the crown back in the ground. Two men at his hotel help him put the crown in the ground again. The next day Paxton’s friends follow him to the beach. They see Paxton’s footprints in the sand – and some strange, long footprints too. They follow the footprints and find Paxton dead. The ghost of William Agers protected the crown – and it still protects the crown today.

Bernard Smith - The ​Last Photo (Penguin Readers)
Just ​as Pam is taking a photo of her brother Martin, a man walks in front of her. She's angry that the man ruined her photo. When they are looking at the photos later, her brother thinks the man in the photo is the same person the police are looking for. Can Pam's photo help them find this man?