Classics, modern fiction, non-fiction, and more. Written for secondary and adult students, the Oxford Bookworms Library has seven reading levels from A1 to C1 of the CEFR. Dublin, Ireland, in the early years of the twentieth century, is a poor city where hard drinking, dishonesty, and violence lurk just beneath the surface. Glance inside a few people's lives, and you soon find loneliness and disappointment, self-hate, and despair. The people in these stories are paralyzed, locked into the circles of their everyday lives, caught waiting between life and death. For some, there is a way out - but will circumstances or their own fear stop them from taking it? CEFR B2/C1 word count 31,238.