The Oxford Book of English Ghost Stories

Author: Michael Cox
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 019955630X
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 504

Book Description
The thrill and chill of the ghost story is displayed in all its variety and vitality through this marvellous anthology. Ranging from the early 19th century to the 1960s, the collection reveals the development of the genre, and showcases many of its greatest expositors - from Sir Walter Scott, H. G. Wells, M. R. James, T. H. White, Walter de la Mare, and Elizabeth Bowen in the UK to Edith Wharton in America. Though its heyday coincided with the golden age of Empire in the nineteenth century, the ghost story enjoyed a second flowering between the two World Wars and its popularity is as great as ever.

Oxford Bookworms Library: Stage 2: The Canterville Ghost

Author: Oscar Wilde
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 9780194790536
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 64

Book Description
Suitable for young learners Word count 6,100 Bestseller

Oxford Bookworms Library: Stage 1: The Phantom of the Opera

Author: Jennifer Bassett
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 9780194789158
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 64

Book Description
Word count 6,230 Bestseller

Ghosts International: Troll and Other Stories - With Audio Level 2 Oxford Bookworms Library

Author: Sarah Walker
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019463096X
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 67

Book Description
A level 2 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. This version includes an audio book: listen to the story as you read. Retold for Learners of English by Sarah Walker. In Sweden, nobody wants a troll to come into their garden, but how do you stop them? On a lonely road at night in Oman, Abdul's car breaks down and he takes a ride with a stranger, but perhaps it is safer to walk. In England some young people play a scary game, and in Asia, a soldier returns home - at last. Every country in the world has stories about ghosts and spirits and monsters of one kind or another. Some people believe in ghosts, and some don't - but everyone enjoys a good ghost story.

The Unquiet Grave - Short Stories Level 4 Oxford Bookworms Library

Author: M. R. James
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0194630307
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 85

Book Description
A level 4 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Retold for Learners of English by Peter Hawkins. If you find a locked room in a lonely inn, don't try to open it, even on a bright sunny day. If you find a strange whistle hidden among the stones of an old church, don't blow it. If a mysterious man gives you a piece of paper with strange writing on it, give it back to him at once. And if you call a dead man from his grave, don't expect to sleep peacefully ever again. Read these five ghost stories by daylight, and make sure your door is locked.

A Christmas Carol Level 3 Oxford Bookworms Library

Author: Charles Dickens
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0194786714
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 70

Book Description
A level 3 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Retold for Learners of English by Clare West. Christmas is humbug, Scrooge says - just a time when you find yourself a year older and not a penny richer. The only thing that matters to Scrooge is business, and making money. But on Christmas Eve three spirits come to visit him. They take him travelling on the wings of the night to see the shadows of Christmas past, present, and future - and Scrooge learns a lesson that he will never forget....

The Canterville Ghost Level 2 Oxford Bookworms Library

Author: Oscar Wilde
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0194786994
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 64

Book Description
A level 2 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Retold for Learners of English by John Escott. There has been a ghost in the house for three hundred years, and Lord Canterville's family have had enough of it. So Lord Canterville sells his grand old house to an American family. Mr Hiram B. Otis is happy to buy the house and the ghost - because of course Americans don't believe in ghosts. The Canterville ghost has great plans to frighten the life out of the Otis family. But Americans don't frighten easily - especially not two noisy little boys - and the poor ghost has a few surprises waiting for him.

The Phantom of the Opera - With Audio Level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library

Author: Jennifer Bassett
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0194631915
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 64

Book Description
A level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. This version includes an audio book: listen to the story as you read. Written for Learners of English by Jennifer Bassett. It is 1880, in the Opera House in Paris. Everybody is talking about the Phantom of the Opera, the ghost that lives somewhere under the Opera House. The Phantom is a man in black clothes. He is a body without a head, he is a head without a body. He has a yellow face, he has no nose, he has black holes for eyes. Everybody is afraid of the Phantom - the singers, the dancers, the directors, the stage workers . . . But who has actually seen him?

The Canterville Ghost - With Audio Level 2 Oxford Bookworms Library

Author: Oscar Wilde
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0194631435
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 61

Book Description
A level 2 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. This version includes an audio book: listen to the story as you read. Retold for Learners of English by John Escott. There has been a ghost in the house for three hundred years, and Lord Canterville's family have had enough of it. So Lord Canterville sells his grand old house to an American family. Mr Hiram B. Otis is happy to buy the house and the ghost - because of course Americans don't believe in ghosts. The Canterville ghost has great plans to frighten the life out of the Otis family. But Americans don't frighten easily - especially not two noisy little boys - and the poor ghost has a few surprises waiting for him.

A Christmas Carol - With Audio Level 3 Oxford Bookworms Library

Author: Charles Dickens
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0194631478
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 80

Book Description
A level 3 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. This version includes an audio book: listen to the story as you read. Retold for Learners of English by Clare West. Christmas is humbug, Scrooge says - just a time when you find yourself a year older and not a penny richer. The only thing that matters to Scrooge is business, and making money. But on Christmas Eve three spirits come to visit him. They take him travelling on the wings of the night to see the shadows of Christmas past, present, and future - and Scrooge learns a lesson that he will never forget....