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The English Library

Conditions of Borrowing

The books on the list below can be borrowed in room 13a for a period of two weeks. If you want to try reading a book in English and have chosen a title, ask for it by any teacher of English.

Part of the library are also grammar books and books on realia, which can be borrowed for a period of one week on the same conditions.

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English Books in Original

 

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NOVELS

Ackroyd, P.                    Dan Leno& The Limehouse Golem

Alcott, L. M.                   Little Women

Amis, K.                         Lucky Jim

Amis, M.                        Time’s Arrow*

Austen, J.                       Pride and Prejudice

Austen, J.                       Sense and Sensibility

Austen, J.                       Northanger Abbey

Auster, P.                       The New York Trilogy

Bach, R.                         Jonathan Livingston Seagull*

Bainbridge, B.                 The Bottle Factory Outing

Baldwin, J.                      Go Tell It On the Mountain

Barnes, J.                       Love, etc.

Barnes, J.                       A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters

Beckett, S.                      First Love and Other Novellas*

Bellow, S.                       Seize the Day

Brontë, Ch.                     Jane Eyre

Brontë, E.                       Wuthering Heights

Brookner, A.                   Hotel du Lac

Brown, D.                      The Da Vinci Code

Brown, D.                      Deception Point

Brown, D.                      Digital Fortress

Bryson, B.                      Shakespeare

Burgess, A.                    A Clockwork Orange

Burroughs, W.S.             Naked Lunch

Burroughs, W.S.             Junky

Caldwell, J.                     Desperate Voyage

Capote, T.                      Breakfast at Tiffany’s*

Cather, W.                      My Ántonia

Chatwin, B.                    Utz*

Clavell, J.                        King Rat

Coetzee, J.M.                 Life and Times of Michael K.

Conrad, J.                       Lord Jim

Cook, R.                         Vector Contagion

Cooper, J. F.                   The Last of the Mohicans

Crane, S.                        The Red Badge of Courage

Cronin, A.J.                    The Citadel

Cunningham, M.              The Hours

Defoe, D.                       Robinson Crusoe

Desai, A.                        Fasting, Feasting

Dickens, Ch.                   A Christmas Carol

Dickens, Ch.                   Oliver Twist

Drabble, M.                    The Radiant Way

Drabble, M.                    Jerusalem the Golden*

duMaurier, D.                 Rebecca

Eliot, G.                          Silas Marner

Faulkner, W.                   As I Lay Dying

Fielding, H.                     Bridget Jones’s Diary

Fielding, H.                     Olivia Joules and the Overactive Imagination

Fitzgerald, F.S.                The Great Gatsby

Forester, C.S.                 Mr Midshipman Hornslower

Forester, C.S.                 The Gun

Forster, E.M.                  Passage to India

Fowles, J.                       The Collector

Frank, A.                        Diary of a Young Girl

Frazier, Ch.                     Cold Mountain

Golding, W.                     Lord of the Flies

Golding, W.                     Pincher Martin*

Golding, W.                     The Spire*

Gordimer, N.                   The World of Strangers

Gordimer, N.                   The House Gun

Gordimer, N.                   The Pickup

Greene, G.                      The Quiet American

Groom, W.                      Forrest Gump

Guterson, D.                   Snow Falling on Cedars

Hailey, A.                       Hotel (cassette)*

Hailey, A.                       Airport (cassette)*

Hardy, Th.                      The Mayor of Casterbridge

Hardy, Th.                      The Well-Beloved

Hawthorne, N.                The Scarlet Letter

Heller, J.                         Catch XXII*

Hemingway, E.               Farewell to Arms

Hemingway, E.               The Old Man and the Sea

Hemingway, E.               The Essential Hemingway

Hope, A.                        The Prisoner of Zenda

Hornby, N.                     About a Boy

Hornby, N.                     Slam

Hurston, Z. N.                Their Eyes Were Watching God

Hustvedt, S.                    The Sorrows of an American

Huxley, A.                      The Brave New World*

Ishiguro, K.                     The Remains of the Day

Ishiguro, K.                     When We Were Orphans

James, H.                       The Turn of the Screw

James, H.                       The Ambassadors

Jerome, Jerome K.          Three Men in a Boat

Jerome, Jerome K.          Three Men on a Bummel

Jhabvala, R.P.                 Heat and Dust

Joyce, J.                         A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Boy

Kerouac, J.                     On the Road

Kerouac, J.                     Maggie Cassidy        

Kesey, K.                       One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

Keyes, D.                       Flowers for Algernon

Kipling, R.                      The Jungle Book

Kneale, M.                     English Passengers

Kureishi, H.                    Black Album

Lawrence, D. H.             The Rainbow

Lawrence, D. H.             The Virgin and the Gipsy

Lee, H.                           To Kill a Mockingbird

le Guin, U.                      The Farthest Shore

Levin, I.                          Rosemary’s Baby

Lewis, S.                        Babbit

Lively, P.                        Moon Tiger

Lodge, D.                       The British Museum is Falling Down

London, J.                       White Fang and The Call of the Wind

London, J.                       The Call of the Wild

MacLaverty, B.              Cal*

Mailer, N.                       Barbary Shore

Mailer, N.                       Deer Park

Malouf, D.                      Remembering Babylon          

Martel, I.                        The Life of Pi

McCabe, P.                    Mondo Desperado

McCourt, F.                    ’Tis

MacDonald, B.               Onions in the Stew

McEwan, I.                    Amsterdam

Melville, H.                     Billy Bud

Morrison, T.                    The Bluest Eye

Morrison, T.                    A Mercy

Morrison, T.                    Song of Solomon

Ondaatje, M.                   The English Patient

Ondaatje, M.                   Anil’s Ghost

Orwell, G.                       Animal Farm

Orwell, G.                       Nineteen Eighty-Four

Pierre, DBO                   Vernon God Little

Potok, Ch.                      Chosen

Roy, A.                          The God of Small Things

Rowling, J.K.                  Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Rowling, J.K.                  Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone

Salinger, J.D.                  The Catcher in the Rye

Saroyan, W.                    The Human Comedy

Scott, W.                        Ivanhoe

Sebold, A.                       The Lovely Bones

Serraillier, I.                    The Silver Sword

Sillitoe, A.                       The Loneliness of a Long-Distance Runner

Smith, A.                        Hotel World

Smith, Z.                         White Teeth

Spark, M.                       The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie*

Spark, M.                       Memento Mori

Steele, D.                       Fine Things

Steinbeck, J.                   Travels with Charlie

Steinbeck, J.                   The Pearl

Steinbeck, J.                   Of Mice and Men

Stevenson, R.L.              Kidnapped

Stevenson, R.L.              Treasure Island

Stevenson, R.L.              Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

Streatfeild, N.                 Ballet Shoes

Styron, W.                      The Long March       

Sutcliff, R.                      The Eagle of the Ninth

Tan, A.                           The Joy Luck Club

Treece, H.                      Hands of the King

Treece, H.                      The Children’s Crusade

Trollope, J.                      Friday Nights

Twain, M.                       The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Twain, M.                       The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Vonnegut, K.                  Slaughterhouse 5

Wain, J.                          Hurry On Down

Walker, A.                      The Color Purple

Waugh, E.                      Decline and Fall

West, N.                         The Day of the Locust and The Dream Life of Balso Snell

Wharton, E.                 Age of Innocence

Wilde, O.                        The Picture of Dorian Gray

Winterson, J.               Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit

Woolf, V.                       Mrs. Dalloway

 

SHORT STORIES

Aesop                            Aesop’s Fables

Allen, W.                        Without Feathers

Allende, I.                       The Stories of Eva Luna

Atwood, M.                    Murder in the Dark

Bellow, S.                       Something to Remember Me By*

Chaucer, G.                    The Canterbury Tales

Chesterton, G. K.            Father Brown Stories 1

Chesterton, G. K.            The Innocence of Father Brown

Conrad, J.                       Typhoon and Other Stories

Dahl, R.                          The Great Automatic Grammatizator and Other Stories 

Dahl, R.                          Ten Short Stories

Dickens, Ch.                   Christmas Books

du Maurier, D.                The Birds And Other Stories

Fitzgerald, F.S.                The Diamond as Big as the Ritz

Gordimer, N.                   Selected Stories

Grimm, Brothers             Grimm’s Fairy Tales

Hemingway, E.               The Essential Hemingway

Joyce, J.                         Dubliners

Kipling, R.                      Just So Stories

Lawrence, D.H.              The Fox and Other Stories*

London, J.                       Stories

Malamud, B.                   The Magic Barrel

Mansfield, K.                  The Garden Party and Other Stories*

O.Henry                         Selected Stories

Poe, E.A.                       Selected Tales

Poe, E.A.                       Spirits of the Dead – Tales and Poems

Proulx, A.                       Brokeback Mountain

Rushdie, S.                     East – West

Saki                                The Best of Saki

Saki                                Phoenix Short Stories

Saki                                Tobermory and Other Stories

Saroyan, W.                    My Name is Aram*

Self, W.                          Grey Area and Other Stories

Swift, G.                         Learning to Swim

Thurber, J.                      The Secret Life of Walter Mitty and Other Fables

Thurber, J.                      Fables for Our Time*

Twain, M.                       The Complete Short Stories of Mark Twain

Updike, J.                       Licks of Love

Wilde, O.                        The Happy Prince and Other Stories

Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime

 

anthologies:

The American Short Story The Penguin Book of American Short Stories*

British Short Stories of Today

The Penguin Book of Modern British Short Stories*

The Penguin Book of English Short Stories*

The Second Penguin Book of English Short Stories*

The Penguin Book of Irish Short Stories*

Scottish Folk and Fairy Tales

Crime Never Pays

A Window on the Universe

Zero Hour and Other Modern Stories

The Eye of Childhood

And All for Love

From Cradle to the Grave

More Modern Short Stories

Science Fiction Stories

A Seven Seas Sampler

 

HUMOUR BOOKS

Dahl, R.                          Revolting Rhymes

Herriot, J.                       If Only They Could Talk*

Herriot, J.                       It Shouldn’t Happen to a Vet*

Jerome, Jerome K.          Three Men in a Boat

Jerome, Jerome K.          Three Men on a Bummel

MacDonald, B.               Onions in the Stew

Mikes, G.                        How to be a Brit

Ross, L.Q.                      The Education of Hyman Kaplan

 

CRIME / THRILLER

Chesterton, G. K.            Father Brown Stories 1

Christie, A.                     The Thirteen Problems

Christie, A.                     The Seven Dials Mystery

Christie, A.                     There Is a Tide

Christie, A.                     Best Detective Stories of Agatha Christies

Collins, W.                      The Moonstone

Connoly, J.                      Bad Men

Cook, R.                         Marker

Sir Doyle, A.C.               Study in Scarlet

Sir Doyle, A.C.               The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Sir Doyle, A.C.               Sherlock Holmes

Fleming, I.                      Dr No

Fleming, I.                      Live and Let Die

Fleming, I.                      On Her Majesty’s Secret Service

Forsyth, F.                      The Fourth Protocol

Francis, D.                      Rat Race

Francis, D.                      Field of Thirteen

Francis, D.                      10-lb Penalty

Francis, D.                      Odds Against

Gardner, E. S.                 The Case of the Sleepwalker’s Niece

Gardner, E.                     The Case of the Rolling Bones

Gardner, E.                     The Case of the Silent Partner

Gardner, E.                     The Case of the Caretaker’s Cat

Grisham, J.                     The Innocent Man

Harris, T.                        The Silence of the Lambs

le Carré, J.                      Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

Ludlum, R.                      The Bourne Identity

Ludlum, R.                      The Bourne Supermacy

Marsh, N.                       Scales of Justice

McCall Smith, M.            The No.1 Ladies Detective Agency

Puzo, M.                         The Sicilian

Rendell, R.                   Live Flesh

 

SCIENCE FICTION / FANTASY

Adams, D.                      The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

Adams, D.                      The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

Asimov, I.                       The Complete Stories, Volume I

Bradbury, R.                   Fahrenheit 451

Lewis, C.S.                     The Chronicles of Narnia

Pratchett, T.                   Going Postal (CD)

Pratchett, T.                   Monstrous Regiment

Pratchett, T.                   Thud!

Pratchett, T.                   Thud! (CD)

Pratchett, T.                   Witches Abroad

Tolkien, J.R.R.                Tales from the Perilous Realm

Wyndham, J.                   The Day of the Triffids

anthology Science Fiction Stories

 

POETRY

Blake, W.                       Selected Poems

Burns, R.                        Selected Poems

Dahl, R.                          Revolting Rhymes

Erdrich, L.                      Jacklight

Frost, R.                         The Road Not Taken

Whitman, W.                  Selected Poems

Wilde, O.                        The Ballad of the Reading Gaol

anthology                        Poetry Please!

modern love

 

PLAYS

Albee, E.                        Delicate Balance

Allen, W.                        Without Feathers

Beckett, S.                      Waiting for Godot

Beckett, S.                      Endgame and Act Without Words

Bond, E.                         Bingo

Bond, E.                         Saved

Friel, B.                          Translations

Horovitz, I.                     Hopscotch & The 57th*

Jones, LeRoi                   Dutchman and The Slave

Mamet, D.                      Oleanna

Marber, P.                      Closer

Miller, A.                        The Crucible

Miller, A.                        Death of a Salesman

Norman, M.                    ’Night, Mother

O’Casey, S.                    Three Plays

O’Neill, E.                      Long Day’s Journey Into Night

O’Neill, E.                      Three Plays

Osborne, J.                     Look Back in Anger

Pinter, H.                        The Birthday Party*

Shaffer, P.                      Amadeus

Shaffer, P.                      Equus           

Shakespeare, W.             Coriolanus

Shakespeare, W.             Hamlet

Shakespeare, W.             King Lear

Shakespeare, W.             Macbeth

Shakespeare, W.             Measure for Measure

Shakespeare, W.             Much Ado about Nothing

Shakespeare, W.             Othello

Shakespeare, W.             Romeo and Juliet

Shakespeare, W.             The Merchant of Venice

Shakespeare, W.             The Winter’s Tale

Shaw, G.B.                     Pygmalion

Shaw, G.B.                     Saint Joan

Stoppard, T.                    Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead*

Thomas, D.                     Under Milk Wood*    

Wesker, A.                     The Wesker Trilogy

Wilde, O.                        The Importance of Being Earnest

Wilde, O.                        An Ideal Husband

Wilder, Th.                     Our Town, The Skin of Our Teeth, The Matchmaker

Williams, T.                    Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and Other Plays*

Williams, T.                    A Streetcar Named Desire

Wilson, A.                      Fences

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Simplified Books in English

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300 words

Level 1 Penguin Readers

Twain, M.             The Adventures of Tom Sawyer      2x

Prince, A.              A Biker’s Ghost

Stewart, P.             Brown Eyes          2x

O’Neill, R.             Dark Streets

O’Henry                The Gift of the Magi and Other Stories

Hawthorne, N.      The House of the Seven Gables

Escott, J.               Prince William

Irving, W.             Rip van Winkle and The Legend of…

Johnson, P.           The Winner

 

400 words

Stage 1 Oxford Bookworms (Black Series)

Vicary, T.              The Coldest Place on Earth

Vicary, T.              Elephant Man

Border, R.              The Lottery Winner

Akinyemi, R.         Love or Money

Vicary, T.              Mary Queen of Scots*       4x

Jacobs, W. W.     The Monkey’s Paw

Vicary, T.              Mutiny on the Bounty

Bassett, J.             One-way Ticket

Bassett, J.             The President’s Murderer

Akinyemi, R.         Remember Miranda

Vicary, T.              White Death         4x

 

Level 1 Cambridge English Readers

Leather, S.             The Big Picture

Moses, A.             John Doe              2x

Prouse, Philip      Help!

 

500 words

Stage 1 Longman Picture Classics

Twain, M.             Huckleberry Finn

 

Stage 1 Longman Classics

Carroll, L.              Alice in Wonderland

Sewell, A.              Black Beauty

Swan, D.K.            Five Famous Fairy Tales*

Swan, D.K.            King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table

Swan, D.K.            Robin Hood

 

 

600 words

Level 2 Penguin Readers

Schwartz, D.         Baywatch + cass.

Du Maurier, D.     The Birds

Wilde, O.               The Canterville Ghost and The Model Millionaire       2x

Hermes, P.             Fly Away Home + cass.

Lawrence, D.H.    The Fox                 2x

Strasser, T.           Jumanji

Kipling, R.             The Jungle Book                 2x

Tempest, D.          King Arthur and the Knights of the …

Chandler, R.          The Lady in the Lake   2x

Cooper, J.F.          The Last of the Mohicans

Nesbit, E.              The Railway Children

Kipling, R.             The Room in the Tower and Other Ghost Stories

Burnett, F.H.         The Secret Garden

Stevenson, R. L.  Treasure Island + cass.

 

700 words

Stage 2 Oxford Bookworms (Black Series)

Escott, J.               Agatha Christie – Woman of Mystery

Montgomery, L.M.  Anne of Green Gables

Wilde, O.               The Canterville Ghost

Escott, J.               Dead Man’s Island

Vicary, T.              Death in the Freezer

Hannam, J.            The Death of Karen Silkwood          2x

Wright, R.             Ear – Rings from Frankfurt

Nesbit, E.              Five Children and It

Vicary, T.              Grace Darling

Hardy-Gould,J.     Henry VIII and His Six Wives

Cookson, C.          Matty Doolein

Foreman, P.           The Mystery of Allegra

O Henry                New Yorkers – Short Stories              5x

Border, R.              The Piano

Christopher, J.      Return to Earth

Defoe, R.               Robinson Crusoe

Conan Doyle, A.  Sherlock Holmes – Short Stories

Bennett, A.           Stories from the Five Towns*          2x

Boston, L.M.        A Stranger at Green Knowe

Mark, J.                 Too Old to Rock and Roll and Other St.

Amis, K.                We Are All Guilty

Bassett, J.             William Shakespeare                          2x

 

 

 

750 words

Level 2 Streamline Graded Readers

Viney, P.                Casualty*

 

(lower-intermediate level)

Level 2 Macmillan Bookshelf

Buckley, P.            The Big Heat

 

800 words

Level 2 Cambridge English Readers

du Maurier, D.      Don´t Loook Now

Harmer,J.            The Double Mass Mystery

Moses, A.             Jojo’s Story

MacAndrew, R.   Logan’s Choice

Tomlinson, B.       Superbird

 

900 words

Stage 2 Longman Classics

Chaucer, G.           The Canterbury Tales

Dickens, Ch.         A Christmas Carol               2x

Swift, J.                  Gulliver’s Travels

Twain, M.             The Prince and the Pauper

Irving, W.             Rip van Winkle and Other Stories

 

1,000 words

Stage 3 Oxford Bookworms (Black Series)

Vicary, T.              The Brontë Story

Vicary, T.              Chemical Secret

Shelley, M.           Frankenstein

Swift, J.                  Gulliver´s Travels

Vicary, T.              Justice

Stevenson, R. L.  Kidnapped

Dibdin, M.            The Last Sherlock Holmes Story

Segal, E, Love Story

Bates, H.E.            Lovely Rose

Cross, G.               On the Edge

Wilde, O.               The Picture of Dorian Gray  2x

Vicary, T.              Skyjack!

Gilbert, H.              The Star Zoo

Poe, E. A.              Tales of Mystery and Imagination

Saki                        Tooth and Claw – Short Stories

Peyton, K.M.        ‘Who, Sir? Me, Sir?’                          

Bagley, D.             Wyatt’s Hurricane

 

Stage 1 American Literary Classics

Twain, M.             The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Poe, E. A.              Six Tales of Fear

 

1,200 words

Level 3 Penguin Readers

Barnes, J. A.         Amistad

Sewell, A.              Black Beauty

Poe, E. A.              The Black Cat and Other Stories

Pile, S.                    The Book of Heroic Failures

Wallace, R.           Braveheart + cass.

Collins, A.             British Life

Westwood, Ch.    Calling All Monsters

Chaucer, G.           The Canterbury Tales

Wyndham, J.        The Chrystalids

Escott, J.                The Climb

Harris, W.              Dangerous Game

Stoker, B.              Dracula

Joyce, J.                Dubliners              3x

Poe, E.A.               The Fall of the House of Usher and other st.

Hardy, Th.            Far from the Madding Crowd

Groom, W.            Forrest Gump

Williams, R.          Great Football Stories: Football Babylon

Mikes, G.               How to be an Alien

Bronte, Ch.           Jane Eyre              3x

Haggard, H. R.     King Solomon’s Mines      2x

Fine, A.                 Madame Doubtfire

Hood, Th. et al.    The Man With Two Shadows and Other Ghost St

Dahl, R.                 Matilda                  2x

Pile, S.                    More Heroic Failures

Woolfe, V.            Mrs Dalloway

Lerner, A. J.          My Fair Lady

Durrell, G.              My Family and Other Animals         3x

Curtis, R.               Notting Hill

Steinbeck, J.          The Pearl

James, H.               The Portrait of a Lady        2x

Gilchrist, Ch.         Princess Diana

Fleischer, L.          Rain Man              2x

Gates, B.                The Road Ahead

Gilchrist, Ch.         The Royal Family                2x

Hodgson Burnett, F.   The Secret Garden

Austen, J.             Sense and Sensibility

Conan Doyle, A.  Sherlock Holmes and the Mystery of Boscombe Pool                2x

Waller, S.              Simply Shakespeare – Romeo and Juliet

Bassett, J.             Simply Shakespeare – Hamlet

Gallico, P.              The Snow Goose and Other Stories

Buchan, J.             The Thirty-Nine Steps

James, H.               The Turn of the Screw

Rawling, M.K.      The Yearling

 

Lower Intermediate level Longman Fiction

Evans, N.              The Horse Whisperer

 

Stage B Danish Easy Readers

Herriot, J.              If Only They Could Talk*

Dahl, R.                 The Way Up To Heaven and Other Stories

 

1,300 words

Stage 3 Longman Classics

Twain, M.             The Adventures of Tom Sawyer*

Gray, Ch.               Bob Geldof*

Stevenson, R. L.  Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Heaton, B.             Stories from Shakespeare

 

Level 3 Cambridge English Readers

Prowse, P.             Double Cross

Campbell, C.         The Ironing Man

 

1,400 words

Stage 4 Oxford Bookworms (Black Series)

Forester, C.S.        The African Queen

Chandler, R.          The Big Sleep

Grisham, J.            The Client

Nabb, M.               Death of an Englishman

Lindop, C.             Doors To a Wider Place

Stevenson, R. L.  Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

Conan Doyle,A.   The Hound of the Baskervilles

Alcott, Z.M.         Little Women

Conrad, J.              Lord Jim*              2x

Blackmore, R.D.   Lorna Doon

Christie, A.           The Mirror Cracked from Side to Side

Peters, E.               Morbid Taste for Bone

Leroux, G.              The Phantom of the Opera

Wilde, O.               The Picture of Dorian Gray

Francis, D.            Reflex

Eliot, G.                  Silas Marner

McCall Smith        Tears of the Giraffe

Clarke, A. C.         The Songs of Distant Earth – Short Stories

Buchan,J.              The Thirty-Nine Steps       2x

Jerome K. J.          Three Men in a Boat

Lively, P.               The Whispering Knights

Wells, H.G.           The Time Machine

Ransome, A.         We Didn’t Mean to Go to Sea

 

Stage 4 Oxford Bookworms (Green Series)

Swift, J. Gulliver‘s Travels

 

Grade 1 Oxford Progressive English Readers

Carroll, L.              Alice in Wonderland

Kipling, R.             Just-So Stories

 

1,500 words

Oxford Alpha Classics

Dickens, Ch.         Hard Times*

Dickens, Ch.         Oliver Twist

 

Level 5 Streamline

Iggulden, M.        The Sacrifice

 

1,600 words

Intermediate level Longman Fiction

anthology             Crime Story Collection       2x

 

Intermediate level Macmillan Readers

Fleming, I.             Goldfinger

 

1,700 words

Level 4 Penguin Readers

Orwell, G.              1984

Hornby, N.            About a Boy

Beddall, F.             Alexander the Great

Levin, I.                 The Boys from Brazil

Grisham, J.            The Client

Francis, D.            The Danger

Forsyth, F.            The Day of the Jackal         2x

Frank, A.               The Diary of a Young Girl

Mansfield, K.       The Doll’s House and Other Stories               3x

du Maurier, D.      The Dream and Other Stories           2x

Allsop, J.               Elementary Very Short stories

Austen, J.             Emma

Binchy, M.            Evening Class

Chandler, R.          Farewell, My Lovely           2x

Hardy, T.               Far From the Madding Crowd

Holden, W.           The Full Monty

Puzzo, M.              The Godfather

Mitchell, M.          Gone With the Wind 1, 2

Vine, B.                 The House of Stairs

James, M.R.          The Locked Room and Other Horror St

Crichton, M.         The Lost World: Jurassic Park

Curtis, R.               Love Actually

Eliot, G.                  The Mill on the Floss         2x

Theroux, P.           The Mosquito Coast

Shute, N.               On the Beach       2x

Wilde, O.               The Picture of Dorian Gray

Bruno, A.              Seven

Grisham, J.            The Street Lawyer

Grisham, J.            The Street Lawyer

London, J.             White Fang

Evans, D.              Women in Business

 

1,800 words

Stage 5 Oxford Bookworms (Black Series)

Tey, J.                      Brat Farrar

Dickens, Ch.           David Copperfield             3x

Dexter, C.              The Dead of Jericho

Paretsky, S.             Deadlock

Christie, A.           Death on the Nile

Dick, P.K.              Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?  2x

Mansfield, K.       The Garden Party and Other Short Stories

Asimov, I.             Ghost Stories

Border, R.              Ghost Stories

Dickens, Ch.         Great Expectations

Doyle, A.C.           The Hound of the Baskervilles

Jhabvala, R. P.      Heat and Dust

Asimov, I.             I, Robot                                3x

Wodehouse, P.G.  Jeeves and Friends

McBain, E.            King’s Ransom

Christie, A.           A Murder is Announced

Grisham, J.            The Partner

Francis, D.            Reflex

Verne, J. Round the world in Eighty Days

West, C.                                Treading on Dreams

Stewart, M.T.       This Rough Magic

Buchan, J.             The Thirty-nine Steps

James, M.R.          The Unquiet Grave

Wells, H.G.           The War of the Worlds

Lively, P.               The Whispering Knight

Bronte, E.              Wuthering Heights

 

Stage 4 Longman Fiction

Bronte, E.              Jane Eyre

 

1,900 words

Level 4 Cambridge English Readers

Kershaw, G.          Nothing but the Truth

Naylor, H.             When Summer Comes

2,000 words

Upper Intermediate level Longman Fiction

Hailey, A.              Airport

anthology             British and American Short Stories

Fitzgerald, F.S.     The Great Gatsby

du Maurier, D.      Jamaica Inn

Brontë,  Ch.          Jane Eyre

du Maurier, D.      Rebecca

Verne, J. Round the World in Eighty Days

Conan Doyle, A.  Sherlock Holmes Short Stories

anthology             Stories of Detection and Mystery

Poe, E. A.              Tales of Mystery and Imagination

Dahl, R.                 Taste and Other Tales

 

Stage C Danish Easy Readers

London, J.             The Call of the Wild*

Dahl, R.                 Edward the Conqueror and Other Stories*

Stevenson, R. L.  Treasure Island*

 

2,100 words

Grade 2 Oxford Progressive English Readers

Dickens, Ch.         A Christmas Carol

Chesterton, G. K. The Dagger and the Wings and Other Father Brown Stories

Kipling, R.             Jungle Book

O Henry                Life Without Katy and Other Stories

Conrad, J.              Lord Jim

Twain, M.             The Prince and the Pauper

Foulds, D.             Tales of King Arthur

 

2,300 words

Level 5 Penguin Readers

Scott Fitzgerald, F.    The Baby Party and Other Stories    2x

Mantle, J.              Benetton

Cronin, J.A.          The Citadel

Frazier, Ch.            Cold Mountain    2x

Paretsky, Sara      Deadlock

Paternak, B.          Dr Zhivago

Grisham, J.            The Firm

Curtis, R.               Four Weddings and a Funeral          3x

Border, Rosemary Ghost Stories

Steinbeck, J.          The Grapes of Wrath

Lessing, D.           The Grass is Singing

Doyle, Sir A.C.     The Hound of the Baskervilles

Wells H.G.            The Invisible Man

Hardy, T.               Jude the Obscure

Ellroy, J. L.A. Confidential

Hardy, Th.             The Mayor of Casterbridge

Gleeson, J.             The Moneymaker

Lamb, Ch.&M.      More Tales from Shakespeare

Kerpouac, J.         On the Road

anthology             Outsanding Short Stories

Grisham, J.            The Pelican Brief                 4x

Austen, J.             Pride and Prejudice

La Plante, L.          Prime Suspect

Hope, A.               The Prisoner of Zenda

Grisham, J.            The Rainmaker

du Maurier, D.      Rebecca

Doyle, Sir A.C.     Sherlock Holmes Stories

Lawrence, D. H.   Sons and Lovers

Bryant, S.              The Story of the Internet

Stevenson, R.L.    The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

Dickens, C.           A Tale of Two Cities

Lamb, C.&M.        Tales from Shakespeare

Dahl, R.                 Taste and Other Stories

Highsmith, P.        The Talented Mr Ripley

Grisham, J.            A Time to Kill

anthology             A Twist in the Tale – Five Short Stories

Wells, H.G.           The War of the Worlds

Trollope, A.          The Warden

Wyndham, J.          Web

Bronte, E.                Wuthering Heights           2x

Clarke, A.C.            2001- A Space Odyssea   2x

 

2,400 words

Stage D Danish Easy Readers

anthology                An Anthology of English Humour*

 

2,500 words

Stage 6 Oxford Bookworms (Black Series)

Escott, J.                 American Crime Stories

Briley, J.   Cry Freedom       2x

Waugh, E.               Decline and Fall

Binchy, M.              Dublin People – Short Stories

Bagley, D.             The Enemy

Brontë,C.                Jane Eyre

Escott, J.               The Fly and Other Horror Stories

Tan, A.                    The Joy Luck Club

Wyndham, J.          Meteor

Dickens, C.             Oliver Twist

Austen, J.               Pride and Prejudice           2x

Hardy, Th.              Tess of the d’Urbervilles 2x

 

2,800 words

Level 5 Cambridge English Readers

Leather, S.               Death in the Dojo

Moses, A.               Dolphin Music

 

3,000 words

Level 6 Penguin Readers

Garland, A.              The Beach

Huxley, A.               Brave New World

Gates, B.                  Business& the Speed of Thought

de Bernieres, L.      Captain Corelli’s Mandolin

Paton, A.                 Cry, Beloved Country

Grisham, J.              The Chamber

Watson, J.D.           The Double Helix

Steinbeck, J.           East of Eden

Francis, D.              The Edge

Angelou, M.           I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Chandler, R.            The Long Goodbye

Dahl, R.                    Man from the South and Other Stories

Hugo, V.                  Les Misérables

King, S.                   Misery

Golden, A.              Memoirs of a Geisha

Collins, W.              The Moonstone                                2x

Prescott, Richard   Officially Dead

Dickens, C.              Oliver Twist

Dickens, C.            A Tale of Two Cities

Ishiguro, K.          The Remains of the Day

Forster, E.M.        A Room with a View

Grisham, J.             The Runaway Jury

Collins, M.A.        Saving Private Ryan

Keneally, Th.        Schindler’s List

Guterson, D.         Snow Falling on Cedars

McCullough, C.   The Thorn Birds                  2x

Fielding, H.           Tom Jones

Collins, W.            The Woman in White

Bronte, E.              Wuthering Heights

 

Advanced level Longman Fiction

Huxley, A.             Brave New World

 

Stage 3 American Literary Classics

The Autobiography of Mark Twain

 

3,100 words

Grade 3 Oxford Progressive English Readers

Wilde, O.               The Canterville Ghost and Other Stories

Buck, P.S.              The Good Earth

Dickens, C.           The Pickwick Papers

Crane, S.                The Red Badge of Courage

Eliot, G.                  Silas Marner

Wyatt, H.G.          Stories of Shakespeare’s Plays 2

Foulds, D.             Tales of Crime and Detection

 

3,700 words

Grade 4 Oxford Progressive English Readers

Hardy, T.               Far from the Madding Crowd

anthology             The Gifts and Other Stories

Wilde, O.               The Picture of Dorian Gray

Wyatt, H.G.          Stories of Shakespeare’s Plays 3

Poe, E. A.              Tales of Mystery and Imagination

Wells, H.G.           The War of the Worlds

 

 

3,800 words

Level 6 Cambridge English Readers

Maley, A.        He Knows Too Much

Harmer, J.              Trumpet Voluntary             2x

 

5,000 words

Grade 5 Oxford Progressive English Readers

Scott Fitzgerald, F. The Diamond as Big as the Ritz and Other Stories

Shelley, M.              Frankenstein

Hardy, T.                  The Mayor of Casterbridge

Saki                           The Stalled Ox and Other Stories

Thackeray, W.M.   Vanity Fair

 

Resource Library

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GRAMMAR

Project Grammar

Essential Grammar in Use

Essential Grammar in Use Supplementary

English Grammar in Use

English Grammar in Use Supplementary Exercises

Exercises Oxford Exam Excellence

 

REALIA

Spotlight on the Britain

Spotlight on the USA

Spotlight on Australia

Gateway to Canada

Aspects of Britain and the USA

In the USA

American Life and Institutions

About Britain

When in Britain

Britain

Teach Yourself English: Language, Life & Culture

Australia

An Illustrated History of Britain

An Illustrated History of the USA

Outline of US History (USIS)

Outline of US economy (USIS)

In the English-speaking World

The English Speaking World

Some Basic Facts about the ESC

Globetrotter

 

Oxford Bookworms Factfiles series:

England

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London

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Food and Drink in Britain

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The History of the English Language

Martin Luther King

 

An Outline of English Literature

Outline of American Literature (Longman)

Outline of American Literature (USIS)

Literature in English: Britain and Ireland

Oxford Guide to British and American Culture

 

FCE/CAE RESOURCES

First Certificate Language Practice

Grammar and Vocabulary for FC

FC Practice Tests Plus with key (Longman) + cassettes

FC Practice Tests Plus with key for updated exam from December 2008 (Longman) + CD

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FC Examination Papers for updated exam from December 2008 1 – 4 with answers (CUP) + CD

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Oxford Wordpower English In Use – Interactive CD-ROM

CAE Examination Papers 3 – 5 + CD

CAE Examination Papers for updated exam from December 2008 1 – 4 with answers (CUP) + CD