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Decline and Fall
from the back cover: After a wild, drunken party, Paul Pennyfeather is forced to leave Oxford and begin a new life out in the wide world. His experiences take him from a boys' private school in Wales, where he meets some rather strange people, to a life of luxury in a grand country house and the Ritz Hotel, and then to seven years' hard labour in prison. Where will it all end? The black humour…
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780194792585
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- 120p; ill; bw; pbk
- Series Title
- Oxford Bookworms stage 6
- Call Number
- WAU
Cold Comfort Farm
from the back cover: The farm lies in the shadow of a hill, and the farmyard rarely sees the sun, even in summer, when the sukebind hangs heavy in the branches. Here live the Starkadders - Aunt Ada Doom, Judith, Amos, Seth, Reuben, Elfine... They lead messy, untidy lives, full of dark thoughts, moody silences, and sudden noisy quarrels. That is, until their attractive young cousin arrives from…
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780194792554
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- 104p; ill; bw; pbk
- Series Title
- Oxford Bookworms 6
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- GIB
Jane Eyre
from the back cover: Jane Eyre is alone in the world. Disliked by her aunt's family, she is sent away to school. Here she learns that a young girl, with neither money nor family to support her, can expect little from the world. She survives, but she wants more from life than simply to survive: she wants respect, and love. When she goes to work for Mr Rochester, she hopes she has found both at …
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780194792622
- Collation
- 120p; ill; bw; pbk
- Series Title
- Oxford Bookworms 6
- Call Number
- BRO
A Tangled Web
from the back cover: 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 com…
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780194228145
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- 104p; ill; bw; pbk
- Series Title
- Oxford Bookworms Collection
- Call Number
- BRA
Great Expectations
from the back cover: In a gloomy, neglected house Miss Havisham sits, as she has sat year after year, in a wedding dress and veil that were once white, and are now faded and yellow with age. Her face is like a death's head; her dark eyes burn with bitterness and hate. By her side sits a proud and beautiful girl, and in front of her, trembling with fear in his thick country boots, stands young …
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780194792264
- Collation
- 104p; ill; bw; pbk
- Series Title
- Oxford Bookworms 5
- Call Number
- WES
Far from the Madding Crowd
from the back cover: 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 …
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780194792233
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- 104p; ill; bw; pbk
- Series Title
- Oxford Bookworms 5
- Call Number
- HAR
The Great Gatsby
from the back cover: Gatsby's mansion on Long Island blazes with light, and the beautiful, the wealthy, and the famous drive out from New York to drink Gatsby's champagne and to party all night long. But Jay Gatsby, the owner of all this wealth, wants only one thing - to find again the woman of his dreams, the woman he has held in his heart and his memory for five long years. The Great Gatsby,…
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780194786171
- Collation
- 104p; ill; bw; pbk
- Series Title
- Oxford Bookworms 5
- Call Number
- FIT
Heat and Dust
from the back cover: Heat and dust - these simple, terrible words describe the Indian summer. Year after year, endlessly, it is the same. And everyone who experiences this heat and dust is changed for ever. We often say, in these modern times, that sexual relationships have changed, for better or for worse. But in this book we see that things have not changed. Whether we look back sixty years,…
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780194792271
- Collation
- 104p; ill; bw; pbk
- Series Title
- Oxford Bookworms 5
- Call Number
- JHA
The Dead of Jericho
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780194792202
- Collation
- 120p; ill; bw; pbk
- Series Title
- Oxford Bookworms 5
- Call Number
- DEX
Sense and Sensibility
from the back cover: Sometimes the Dashwood girls do not seem like sisters. Elinor is all calmness and reason, and can be relied upon for practical, common sense opinions. Marianne, on the other hand, is all sensibility, full of passionate and romantic feeling. She has no time for dull common sense - or for middle-aged men of thirty-five, long past the age of marriage. True love can only be…
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780194792332
- Collation
- 104p; ill; bw; pbk
- Series Title
- Oxford Bookworms 5
- Call Number
- AUS
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