The Story of the Brontë Family (Bookworms. Oxford English-Chinese Parallel Texts)

Author: (English) Victor Li Song
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Publishing Date: 2002-08-01
Features: "Grub" is a premium offering from Oxford University Press for English learners worldwide. In English, "grub" is a rather endearing image. Imagine a grub, utterly immersed in books, tirelessly chewing on letters. Now, this "grub" has crossed the ocean and gracefully landed in the hands of Chinese English learners. "Grub" will first give you confidence—even if you currently only know a few hundred words, you can easily read world-class works without much effort. The grub will also remind you with its delicate chirping: to persevere in reading, to read widely and richly. By the time you finish the last book in the series, you might suddenly realize: you have transformed like a caterpillar turning into a butterfly, ready to take flight! What is talent? Where does it come from? Usually, people believe talent is a gift from God, given only to the lucky ones. In fact, we don’t really know if those people are truly lucky. Talent doesn’t seem to bring people happiness; on the contrary, it makes them distant from the crowd, because talent is something that cannot be shared. However, the story of the Bront? family shows that talent is bestowed upon a family. Because of talent, the members of this family are estranged from the world; away from home, they cannot find happiness. But at home, as a family, their talent grows. Who taught them to write? Themselves! And almost no one writes better than them. This book is not written by them, but about them. It is a story of their family, one that their father, who had only a short time with them, should have written: a story of their family, though he only had a brief period of family life. The author of this book, Tim Vicary, has been engaged in English teaching for many years and now lives and works in Yorkshire.