Oxford Bookworms Library: Level 1:: The Withered Arm

Classics, modern fiction, non-fiction and more. Written for secondary and adult students the Oxford Bookworms Library has seven reading levels from A1-C1 of the CEFR.

A woman and a man... words of love whispered on a summer night. Later, there is a child, but no wedding-ring. And then the man leaves the first woman, finds a younger woman, marries her... It''s an old story. Yes, it''s an old, old story. It happens all the time - today, tomorrow, ahundred years ago. People don''t change. But this story, set among the green hills of southern England, has something different about it. Perhaps it is only a dream, or perhaps it is magic - a kind of strange dark magic that begins in the world of dreams and phantoms...

CEFR A1/A2
Word count5,735