Literary Masterpiece Series 7, One of

Author: Austen
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Publish Date: 2004-07-01
Features: This is a graded reading series of world literary classics published for English as a foreign language learners. The series is closely aligned with the requirements of the new "English Curriculum Standards," divided into 8 levels based on difficulty, catering to the reading needs of students at all stages and helping them achieve the cultivation goals of the new curriculum in terms of language skills, language knowledge, learning strategies, and cultural awareness. The series has the following features:
- It includes classic Western literary works, helping students improve their language proficiency while allowing them to glimpse the full picture of literary masterpieces through simplified versions suitable for their foreign language level.
- According to the new curriculum standards, the vocabulary ranges from 150 to 3,500 words, meeting the reading needs of primary and secondary school students.
- The language difficulty progresses gradually, aiding teachers in expanding students' language knowledge and cultural background, and enhancing their English reading skills.
- Levels 1 to 5 feature one exercise per page, with a large volume of practice and a rich variety of test question types, which is beneficial for students and teachers to quantitatively assess and evaluate reading abilities and levels, serving as an excellent supplement to classroom teaching.
- The language is simple, vivid, and authentic, published with English annotations, preserving the original essence of English while bilingual annotations remove language barriers for readers, fully engaging their interest in reading and making English reading easier.
David Herbert Lawrence was born in Eastwood, Nottinghamshire, England in 1888. His father was a coal miner, and his mother was a middle-class woman. He was the fourth of five children. Lawrence had a close relationship with his mother and passed away in 1911. A few weeks after his mother's death, he published his first, The White Peacock. Lawrence had once been a teacher, but his career ended in 1911 after being diagnosed with tuberculosis. In 1912, Lawrence fell in love with Frieda, the wife of a former professor who had taught him modern languages, and they eloped to Germany. They returned to London and married in 1914. At that time, he earned a living by writing. Between 1915 and 1916, he completed his greatest works, Sons and Lovers and Women in Love. Sons and Lovers was banned, and no publisher was willing to publish Women in Love.
After World War I, Lawrence began seeking a more satisfying way of life that Western industrial civilization could not provide. He embarked on an exile, traveling to places like Sicily, Ceylon, Australia, and New Mexico. Lawrence and his wife returned to Europe in 1925. In 1928, his last novel, Lady Chatterley's Lover, was banned. In 1932, Lawrence died in Vence, France, near Nice, at the age of 44. Women in Love is considered by Lawrence to be his best work, telling the story of two sisters, Ursula and Gudrun. These protagonists also appeared in Sons and Lovers. The sisters live in a coal mining town in central England, but for some reason, they do not fit in with the life there. Ursula falls in love with the inspector Birkin, while Gudrun struggles with the son of the local mine owner, Paul. The novel also examines some social issues, such as class differences and the negative impacts of the industrial era, which were concerns of Lawrence during his lifetime.