The withered arm (Simplified ed)

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/A2Word count5,735