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A level 4 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Written for Learners of English by John Escott.Scarlet is the colour of sin, and the letter ‘A’ stands for ‘Adultery’. In the 1600s, in Boston, Massachusetts, love was allowed only between a husband and a wife. A child born outside marriage was a child of sin.Hester Prynne must wear the scarlet letter on her dress for the rest of her life. How can she ever escape from this public shame? What will happen to her child, growing up in the shadow of the scarlet letter? The future holds no joy for Hester Prynne.And what will happen to her sinful lover – the father of her child?

A level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library graded readers. Written for Learners of English by Rosemary Border.Everybody wants to win the lottery. A million pounds, perhaps five million, even ten million. How wonderful! Emma Carter buys a ticket for the lottery every week, and puts the ticket carefully in her bag. She is seventy-three years old and does not have much money. She would like to visit her son in Australia, but aeroplane tickets are very expensive. Jason Williams buys lottery tickets every week too. But he is not a very nice young man. He steals things. He hits old ladies in the street, snatches their bags and runs away…

A level 3 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Written for Learners of English by Tim Vicary.Charles Bravo died from the poison antimony. He took three days to die, and the doctors could do nothing to help him. There were three people who had reasons for wanting Charles Bravo dead – Florence Bravo herself, Charles Bravo's new young wife; Dr James Gully, Florence's former lover; and Mrs Jane Cox, Florence's friend and companion. But the enquiry into the death in 1876 could not decide who the murderer was, and for more than 130 years people have wondered who did kill Charles Bravo…

A level 2 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Written for Learners of English by Peter Dainty.All he wanted to do was to marry the woman he loved. But his country said 'No!'He was Edward VIII, King of Great Britain, King of India, King of Australia, and King of thirty-nine other countries. And he loved the wrong woman.She was beautiful and she loved him – but she was already married to another man.It was a love story that shook the world. The King had to choose: to be King, or to have love… and leave his country, never to return.