The Phantom of the Opera (Bookworms. Oxford English-Chinese Parallel Reader) (Bookworms. Oxford English-Chinese Parallel Reader)

Author: Jennifer Bassett
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Publish Date: 2003-10-01
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 gentle 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've transformed like a caterpillar into a butterfly, ready to take flight! Do you believe in ghosts? Of course, not. We love talking about ghosts, telling stories about them, but do we really believe in them? Right? In 1880, an incredible event occurred at the Paris Opera: a ballet dancer encountered a ghost in a dark corridor. It passed through the walls to stand before her, its face without eyes. A stagehand saw a man in a black evening gown, but he had a head like a corpse, a yellow face, and no nose. People heard a sound in another room, yet that room was empty. This was the ghost of the opera. A Frenchman named Gaston Leroux was the first to write the story of the ghost of the opera. His book was very popular and was adapted into a silent American film in 1925, starring the famous actor Lon Chaney as the ghost. Since then, many other films and plays have been created, as well as the recent famous British musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber.