Bedside Lamp English Learning Reader -- Emma

Author: Wang Ruoping, et al. (Editor-in-Chief)
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Publish Date: 2005-03-01
Features: This series of readers is written by American authors and composed of 3,300 of the most commonly used words. The language is modern, authentic, and standard. It is pure and easy to understand. You can enjoy learning English without looking up a dictionary while lying in bed. The novels feature people, their eating, drinking, excretion, sleep, emotions, desires, and the complex relationships between individuals, as well as the conflicts and harmonies between people and nature or society. From the perspective of language acquisition, this series achieves the goal of using 3,300 basic words to meticulously describe and explain the details of life and the rich inner world of people. By immersing yourself in an English novel, you are essentially living in an "English world," which is the best way for Chinese learners to overcome the lack of an English-speaking environment. Simply reading a few textbooks to learn English is unrealistic. This series selects 50 outstanding literary works from abroad that are worth reading in a lifetime. Reading these works not only helps you master English but also accumulates Western culture and enhances your personal taste and refinement. This series truly helps you achieve a life-oriented approach to English learning! You can read 20 books in a year, 40 books in two years. After reading 40 books, it is equivalent to living in an English environment for two years, which will definitely enable you to acquire strong English proficiency. Remember, without millions of words of English input, it is impossible to learn English well. Ernest Hemingway was one of the self-taught literary masters of 20th-century America. His paternal uncle, Wilbur, came to Shanxi Province in China a century ago to preach and practice medicine, and he founded Xuefu Mingxian College, which produced many talents for China. The plot of this 250,000-word novel is not complicated. The American youth Henry voluntarily served as an ambulance driver at the front lines of the Italo-Austrian battlefield during the war against Germany and Austria. There, he met and fell in love with a beautiful British nurse, Miss Catherine Barkley. While Henry was recovering from his injuries in the hospital, he received Catherine's pure and dedicated care; she gave everything, bringing happiness to Henry on his sickbed. After recovering, Henry returned to the front lines at a time when the Italian army was in complete disarray, and both the front and rear were in chaos. The Italian military police, acting like fools and demons, mistook friends for enemies, trampled on human lives, and were ready to execute Henry as a spy on the spot! At the moment of life and death, Henry escaped by jumping into a river. In the turbulent waters, he survived by a hair's breadth. In the end, he returned to Catherine's side. To avoid being chased by the police, Henry and Catherine fled through the water at night, braving wind and rain, to Switzerland, where they lived a happy life for a few months. Their happiness was as fleeting as a meteor in the sky or a flower on the ground—it was too short-lived; Catherine and her child both died of childbirth complications. Henry was heartbroken and felt utterly desolate. The theme of this book is: unjust war destroys all the good people and things in the world. This book is one of the excellent teaching materials for Chinese students to understand history, learn English, get close to literary masters, and climb the peak of literature.