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.

Listen along with downloadable MP3 audio. In a hole under the floorboards Silas Marner the linen-weaver keeps his gold.

Every day he works hard at his weaving, and every night he takes the gold out and holds the bright coins lovingly, feeling them and countingthem again and again.

The villagers are afraid of him and he has no family, no friends.

Only the gold is his friend, his delight, his reason for living.

But what if a thief should come in the night and take his gold away?

What will Silas do then? What could possibly comfort him for the loss of his only friend?CEFRB1/B2Word count 16,065