5000-word Bedside English Learning Reader 6: The Red and the Black (English-Chinese Contrastive Translation)

Author: Wang Ruoping
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Publish Date: 2007-01-01
Features: The Red and the Black (English-Chinese Contrastive Edition) - 5000 Words to Freedom in English Communication! Good English is "read" out! This book allows you to read the classic entirely in English! The series contains works worth reading in your lifetime. Reading these not only improves your English proficiency but also enhances your personal cultivation. Natural Language: All the readers in this series are written by American authors in fluent modern English. They possess profound writing skills, which non-native English speakers find difficult to achieve. Moderate Difficulty: The readers are written using 5,500 common English words, making them easy to understand. Words with a vocabulary level above 3,300 are annotated, so you can read smoothly without flipping through a dictionary while lying in bed. Julien Sorel comes from a peasant family. He is physically frail but talented and ambitious. Julien realizes that only through the church can he rise to the upper class. Due to his expertise in Latin and the Bible, he is hired as a tutor for the children of the mayor of Villeroy, De Rênal. During this time, he becomes the lover of Madame De Rênal. After the affair is exposed, he is forced to leave Villeroy to study theology at the seminary in Besan?on. Later, recommended by Father Pirard, he goes to the Marquis's house as the secretary of Marquis De La Mole and becomes the lover of the Marquis's daughter, Mathilde. Just as he is about to marry the Marquis's daughter and dream of political success, a letter from the mayor's wife shatters everything. In despair, he is sent to the guillotine, ending his short life. This book is the masterpiece of the outstanding 19th-century French realist critic Stendhal. It narrates the life of Julien Sorel, the son of a carpenter, reflecting the upper-class life and class contradictions in France during the 1920s. It condemns the reactionary and tyrannical behavior of the nobility and clergy, as well as the vulgarity and debasement of the bourgeoisie in French society at the time.