Вопросы / Questions:
What sorts (kinds) of books do you like? Which books do you read in your spare time? What kind of reader are you? What kind of books are there in your home library?
Высказывания / Quotations:
¨ 'There is no frigate like a book' Emily Dickingson
¨ 'Reading makes a full man' Francis Bacon
¨ 'All books are devisable into two classes: the book of hour, and the book of all time.' John Ruskin
¨ 'Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.' Richard Steele
¨ 'Books, I believe, may be divided into three groups: books to read, books to re-read; books not to read at all. The third class is the most important. To tell people what to read is, as a rule, either useless or harmful. But to tell people what not to read is a very different matter.' After O. Wilde
Mrs. Tull's Stories:
'I can't remember a time when I didn't read'.
I don't think I could read before I went to school, but I picked it up quickly, and have never stopped. As I child, I read with a total lack of discrimination. I read everything I could lay my hands on, including the back of cornflakes packets, and the instructions on bottles of shampoo. Come to think of it, I still do. I was a member of our local library as a child, and my mother approved of me reading, as it was educational, free, and kept me quiet. My parent's marriage was not a happy one, and for me, books were a way of escaping some difficult times.
I know I read lots of children's fiction, but my life was probably changed forever when one of my older sisters gave me a copy of Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte, and said 'Read this.' Bronte, by the way, is spelt with two small dots over the e, similar to a German umlaut. It was the first adult book I think I read, and although I know I didn't understand it fully, I was dazzled enough to be swept along by it. I have re-read it many times since, and I have always found something new in it. I think one of the reasons that I was so fascinated by it was the heroine herself, Jane. In everything I had read until then, heroines were always pretty, and Jane wasn't, and neither was I, so perhaps I identified with her. She described herself as ' little, poor and plain,' so I liked her. Then, she had fighting spirit, and she loved books, so that was good enough for me. This is the opening paragraph of the book:
"There was no possibility of taking a walk that day. We had been wandering, indeed, in the leafless shrubbery an hour in the morning; but since dinner (Mrs. Reed, when there was no company, dined early) the cold winter wind had brought with it clouds so sombre, and a rain so penetrating, that further outdoor exercise was now out of the question." Somehow the words just balance so well, the picture is so perfect, that I am always drawn into Jane's story, which at the start of the book is just as cold and miserable as the weather.
As I grew older, I read all of the Bronte sister's books, then everything I could about their extraordinary lives. Do you know their story? If not would you like me to tell it to you? Now dragged into the world of adult fiction, I headed for more of the same, Dickens, Elizabeth Gaskell (who wrote Charlotte Bronte's biography after her death) George Elliott, and many, many more. My life was changed, as I wrote earlier, as the English language and English literature became my passion, and became the subjects I studied, and the way I earned my living. I suppose I'm one of those lucky people whose hobby provides them with their living.
Ответьте на вопросы:
1) Что читала Миссис Талл в детстве?
а) только сказки б) самые разные книги в) всё, включая надписи и инструкции
2) Книгу какого автора дала ей прочитать её сестра?
а) Чарльза Диккенса б) А.С. Пушкина в) Шарлотты Бронте
3) Миссис Талл считает, что у неё много общего с Джейн, главной героиней романа.
а) Да б) Нет с) В рассказе об этом не говорится
4) Миссис Тал перечитывала этот роман много раз.
а) Да б) Нет с) В рассказе об этом не говорится
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О Шарлотте Бронте
О романе "Джейн Эйр"
Read the book summary:
Jane Eyre is a first-person narrative of the title character, a small, plain-faced, intelligent and honest English orphan. The novel goes through distinct stages in Jane's life: Jane's childhood at Gateshead, where she is abused by her aunt and cousins; her education at Lowood School, where she acquires friends and role models but also suffers privations; her time as the governess of Thornfield Manor, where she falls in love with her Byronic employer, Edward Rochester; her time with the Rivers family at Marsh End. Jane Eyre was neglected and unloved in her childhood years, but in the end she found her happily-ever-after ending with Mr Rochester.
Read the description of Jane's character:
The protagonist and title character, orphaned as a baby. The book revolves around the trials and tribulations to which she is subjected. Jane is headstrong and fights for what she believes in; she stands up for her rights and retaliates when harassed. She can be passionate and determined. Her disposition is, however sometimes melancholy. She is a plain-featured, small and reserved women who is talented, honest, and morally upright. Jane is supposedly a parallel to Charlotte Bronte.
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