Jennifer Bassett (adaptation) has 10 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 11 narrators, with an average listener rating of 5★ across 1 ratings. The most-rated is The Prisoner of Zenda (Adaptation).
The Prisoner of Zenda (Adaptation)
Summary
"We must leave for Zenda at once, to find the King!" cried Sapt. "If we’re caught, we’ll all be killed!" So Rudolf Rassendyll and Sapt gallop through the night to find the King of Ruritania. But the King is now a prisoner in the Castle of Zenda. Who will rescue him from his enemies, the dangerous Duke Michael and Rupert of Hentzau? And who will win the heart of the beautiful Princess Flavia? An Oxford Bookworms Library reader for learners of English, adapted from the Anthony Hope original by Diane Mowat.
©1993 Oxford University Press (P)2008 Oxford University Press
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Adaptation)
Summary
You are walking through the streets of London. It is getting dark and you want to get home quickly. You enter a narrow side-street. Everything is quiet, but as you pass the door of a large, windowless building, you hear a key turning in the lock. A man comes out and looks at you. You have never seen him before, but you realize immediately that he hates you. You are shocked to discover, also, that you hate him. Who is this man that everybody hates? And why is he coming out of the laboratory of the very respectable Dr Jekyll? An Oxford Bookworms Library reader for learners of English, adapted from the Robert Louis Stevenson original by Rosemary Border.
©1991 Oxford University Press (P)2008 Oxford University Press
Dracula (Adaptation)
Summary
In the mountains of Transylvania there stands a castle. It is the home of Count Dracula – a dark, lonely place, and at night the wolves howl around the walls. In the year 1875 Jonathan Harker comes from England to do business with the Count. But Jonathan does not feel comfortable at Castle Dracula. Strange things happen at night, and very soon, he begins to feel afraid. And he is right to be afraid, because Count Dracula is one of the Un-Dead – a vampire that drinks the blood of living people. An Oxford Bookworms Library reader for learners of English.
©1996 Oxford University Press (P)2008 Oxford University Press
Robinson Crusoe (Adaptation)
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I often walked along the shore, and one day I saw something in the sand. I went over to look at it more carefully.... It was a footprint – the footprint of a man!’In 1659 Robinson Crusoe was shipwrecked on a small island off the coast of South America. After fifteen years alone, he suddenly learns that there is another person on the island. But will this man be a friend – or an enemy? An Oxford Bookworms Library reader for learners of English, adapted from the Daniel Defoe original by Jennifer Bassett.
©1993 Oxford University Press (P)2008 Oxford University Press
The Thirty-Nine Steps (Adaptation)
Summary
I turned on the light, but there was nobody there. Then I saw something in the corner that made my blood turn cold. Scudder was lying on his back. There was a long knife through his heart, pinning him to the floor.’ Soon Richard Hannay is running for his life across the hills of Scotland. The police are chasing him for a murder he did not do, and another, more dangerous enemy is chasing him as well - the mysterious ’Black Stone’. Who are these people? And why do they want Hannay dead? An Oxford Bookworms Library reader for learners of English, adapted from the John Buchan original by Nick Bullard.
©1994 Oxford University Press (P)2008 Oxford University Press
A Tale of Two Cities (Adaptation)
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The Marquis lay there, like stone, with a knife pushed into his heart. On his chest lay a piece of paper, with the words: Drive him fast to the grave. This is from JACQUES. ’The French Revolution brings terror and death to many people. But even in these troubled times people can still love and be kind. They can be generous and true-hearted . . . and brave. An Oxford Bookworms Library reader for learners of English, adapted from the Charles Dickens original by Ralph Mowat.
©1994 Oxford University Press (P)2008 Oxford University Press
Tales from Longpuddle (Adaptation)
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Tony Kytes is a favourite with the girls but he’s not terribly clever. If you meet an old girlfriend and she asks for a ride home in your wagon, do you say yes? And then if you meet the girl you are planning to marry, what do you do? Very soon, Tony is in a great muddle, and does not know how to escape from it. These stories are set in an English country village of the nineteenth century, but Hardy’s tales of mistakes and muddles and marriages belong in any place, at any time. An Oxford Bookworms Library reader for learners of English, adapted from the Thomas Hardy original by Jennifer Bassett.
©2003 Oxford University Press (P)2008 Oxford University Press
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Adaptation)
Summary
"When we are happy, we are always good," says Lord Henry, "but when we are good, we are not always happy." Lord Henry’s lazy, clever words lead the young Dorian Gray into a world where it is better to be beautiful than to be good; a world where anything can be forgiven - even murder - if it can make people laugh at a dinner party. An Oxford Bookworms Library reader for learners of English, adapted from the Oscar Wilde original by Jill Nevile.
©1989 Oxford University Press (P)2008 Oxford University Press
Gulliver's Travels (Adaptation)
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Soon I felt something alive moving along my leg and up my body to my face, and when I looked down, I saw a very small human being, only 15 centimetres tall . . . I was so surprised that I gave a great shout.’ But that is only the first of many surprises which Gulliver has on his travels. He visits a land of giants and a flying island, meets ghosts from the past and horses which talk. An Oxford Bookworms Library reader for learners of English, adapted from the Jonathan Swift original by Clare West.
©1993 Oxford University Press (P)2008 Oxford University Press
A Little Princess (Adaptation)
Summary
Sara Crewe is a very rich little girl. She first comes to England when she is seven, and her father takes her to Miss Minchin’s school in London. Then he goes back to his work in India. Sara is very sad at first, but she soon makes friends at school. But on her 11th birthday, something terrible happens, and now Sara has no family, no home, and not a penny in the world. An Oxford Bookworms Library reader for learners of English adapted from the Frances Hodgson Burnett original by Jennifer Bassett.
©1997 Oxford University Press (P)2008 Oxford University Press