Young King-- Oscar Wilde's Story Collection (Longman English-Chinese Contrast..)

Author: Oscar Wilde
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Publish Date: 1999-11-01
Features: This book is in English-Chinese bilingual edition. One of the keys to learning English well is to read extensively. What to read? Many will answer: read classics. But what if classics are long and difficult? Then start with simplified versions. Longman English-Chinese Parallel Step-by-Step Reading Series is developed to meet this need. This series presents world-renowned classic stories in a progressive way, using simple English vocabulary and beautiful full-page illustrations. The series has four major features:
1. All selected content are world literary classics.
2. The English is natural, authentic, fluent, fresh, and written by famous English and American authors.
3. The language is simple and easy to understand, highly readable.
4. English-Chinese parallel, aiding comprehension.
This book is one of the third level of the Longman English-Chinese Parallel Step-by-Step Reading Series, co-published with Longman (Hong Kong). It is a collection of seven mythological stories. Each story touches on magic or something similar to magic. For example, in The Young King, there is the mysterious magic of sunlight in the church; in The Fisherman and His Soul, there is more magic, featuring mermaids, witches, and an underwater palace; in The Star Child and The Selfish Giant, the entire story is filled with magic, and so on. The rewritten text is concise and fluent, and readers only need to master 1,300 English words to understand it. It is suitable for high school students in China as extracurricular reading material.