Oxford Bookworms Library: Stage 5: Heat and Dust - 1800 Headwords

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. Heat and dust - these simple, terrible words describe the Indian summer.

Year after year, endlessly, it is the same. And everyone who experiences this heat and dust is changed for ever.

We often say, in these modern times, that sexual relationships have changed, for better or for worse.

But in this book we see that things have not changed.

Whether we look back sixty years, or a hundred and sixty, we see that it is not things that change, but people. And, in the heat and dust of an Indian summer, even people are not very different after all. CEFR B2 Word count 24,125