Bookworm. Oxford English-Chinese Bilingual Reading Materials -- Garden Party

Author: Mansfield (English) Ker Rewritten by Liu Min
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Publish Date: 2004-01-01
Features: Short stories are like a series of photographs, capturing a fleeting moment in people's lives and preserving that memory forever. They stand there, some smiling, some frowning, some sorrowful, some joyful, some serious, some amazed. Behind these smiles and frowns lie all the experiences of life—fears and joys, hopes and dreams. These sharp and elegant stories show us ordinary life and the trivial yet insignificant little things that make up the lives of ordinary people. Among them are a garden party and a death event, a desperate job search, a lonely train journey across Europe, and an encounter with a woman who harbors dangerous secrets. There are also uncaring children, a young girl's feelings on her first dance, the thoughts of the hostess's personal maid, and the story of a woman on a remote New Zealand farm.
"Bookworm" is a premium offering jointly brought to by Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press and Oxford University Press. In English, "bookworm" is perhaps a rather endearing image—imagine a "bookworm" so immersed in books, utterly lost in the world of pages, hungrily devouring letters. Now, this "bookworm" has crossed the seas and landed gracefully in the hands of Chinese English learners.
"Bookworm" first gives you confidence—even if you currently only know a few hundred words, you can easily read world-class works without much difficulty. The "bookworm" will also remind you persistently with its delicate chirping: to keep reading tirelessly, to read widely and richly. By the time you finish the last book in the series, you might suddenly realize: just like a cocoon transforming into a butterfly, you are ready to take flight!