Bedside Lamp English Learning Reader IV: More Flanders (English-Chinese Contrast)

Author: Wang Ruoping
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Publish Date: 2004-12-01
Features: Morley Flanders was born in Newgate Prison, with his mother being a thief and about to be transported to Virginia. This abandoned girl grew up in the home of the compassionate Mayor of Colchester, knowing nothing about her origins. At the age of 15, she was raped, but she later married honorably and turned her fate around. However, after her husband's death, she remarried repeatedly—marrying five times in total, including a few times to married men, and engaged in various affairs for money. Once, she visited Virginia and discovered that her current husband was actually her half-brother, so she left him and returned to England alone. After living through a period of extreme poverty, she became an exceptionally skilled pickpocket but was eventually caught and, like her mother, was sent to Newgate Prison. In prison, she met James, a convicted highwayman, who was one of her many ex-husbands she favored. Both were sentenced to Virginia. They managed to bring all their ill-gotten gains with them. Upon arriving in Virginia, Morley discovered that she had inherited a plantation from her mother. From then on, she and James spent the rest of their lives in the atmosphere of getting rich and reforming their past ways.