The Withered Arm - With Audio Level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library

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The Withered Arm - With Audio Level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library is written by Thomas Hardy and published by Oxford University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0194632296 (ISBN 10) and 9780194632294 (ISBN 13).

A level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. This version includes an audio book: listen to the story as you read. Retold for Learners of English by Jennifer Bassett. 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, a hundred 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 . . .