Oxford Bookworms offer students at all levels the opportunity to extend their reading and appreciation of English. There are six stages, taking students from elementary to advanced level. At the lower stages, many of the texts have been specially written for the series, to provide elementary and lower-intermediate students with an introduction to real reading in English. At the higher stages, m…
Mary Shelley’s tragic story of a scientist who created a monster is perhaps even more compelling and meaningful today than when it was written nearly two centuries ago. From the bits and pieces of dead bodies, and the power of electricity, the brilliant Victor Frankenstein fashions a new form of life—only to discover, too late, the irreparable damage he has caused
Mary Shelley began writing Frankenstein when she was only eighteen. At once a Gothic thriller, a passionate romance, and a cautionary tale about the dangers of science, Frankenstein tells the story of committed science student Victor Frankenstein. Obsessed with discovering the cause of generation and life and bestowing animation upon lifeless matter, Frankenstein assembles a human being from st…
Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.
Inside The Wicked Wit of Charles Dickens, readers take a journey into the classically humorous and almost goofy side of one of the most famous writers in world history. readers will find a timeline of Charles Dickens's Life, several short stories, a whole chapter of Dickens's bumblings, and quotes from some of Dickens's most famous papers.
Mary Shelley's classic work, published when she was just twenty years old, tells the tale of eccentric scientist Victor Frankenstein, who creates a terrifying creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment. Inspired after a competition between Shelley, her husband Percy, Lord Byron and John Polidori to see who could write the best horror story, Frankenstein is in part a gothic novel and consid…
SC Cilandak ( Abu-abu / Bridging Early ) Freddy Thresher doesn't mean to get in trouble. It's just that everyone in his class has a better idea then he does for their animal reports. He's supposed to studey a nocturnal animal - so wouldn't it be great to stay up all night and sneak around outside with his best friend, Robbie? But Freddy makes a huge mistake and ends up getting his late-night…
Freddy Thresher is ready to race! Freddy's first-grade class is visiting an apple orchard, where they'll pick apples, drink cider, and, best of all, search for a special hidden apple in the trees. Whoever finds it first wins $5! But will sneaky Max Sellars cheat his way to the prize?