In southern Africa, there is a belief called ubuntu—the idea that we are all connected. No matter where we’re from or who we are, a person is a person through their connections to other people. With simple, l
Calum Marsh: The obsession of the very long book is more comprehensive than the compulsive frenzy of the page-turner
Ivan Pavlenko was called “Czar Ivan II“ by the co-pilot, a former history teacher. But not only by him. The Ukrainian people hated this man who had brought so much suffering to their families with his megalomania and wanted to steal their country. Even those people whose thinking was sh...
The girls read a novel called Lake Rescue,whose protagonist (主人公) is an overweight teenager who struggles with low selfesteem,feelings of loneliness and teasing because of her size. A group of 33 girls read a different book called Charlotte in Paris,which did not have an overweight ...
E. The novel was called “The Sun Also Rises”. F. The story shows the young man trying to forget his past. G. With the success of his novel, Hemingway became more popular. 答案 答案: 1.B;2.F;3.A;4.E;5.C. 1.该段后面有“The other is dark”,由此可知空处填入与之相对应的...
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This time around, forewarned that it wasn’t in a village, I could concentrate no how much I enjoyed the humour of this story: about a single woman called Mildred, her travails trying to get to know her boisterously feuding neighbours, her various almost-romances with clergy, and the ...
InUptown Girl, Brinkley shares her remarkable story, from when she was discovered outside a Paris phone booth to her meteoric modeling and acting career, landing her on the covers of hundreds of magazines and cementing her legacy as an All-American icon. ...
I really enjoyed this book. It’s a romantic comedy that mirrors real life in a much more relatable way than your typical novel. It tackles loss and grief and starting over and highlights that the path to getting there is not always so cut and dry. It doesn’t hurt that the author, ...
She lives in a slum (贫民窟) and is often made fun of by the so-called upper class of society. She is abandoned and threatened. In the end Esmerelda sadly makes the decision to end her life. Different lifestyles are displayed in the novel like foolish Phoebus and the ugly hunchback (...