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.At nineteen Anne Elliot refuses an offer of marriage from Frederick Wentworth persuaded to do so by Lady Russell a friend of her dead mother. Wentworth is a sailor with no money and an uncertain future says Lady Russell just a nobody certainly not worthy of a baronet's daughter. Eight years later Wentworth returns a rich and successful captain looking for a wife. Anne is still unmarried but Captain Wentworth clearly prefers the company of the two Musgrove girls...