好書推薦-Helbling Readers Red Series Level 3: A Christmas Carol with CD
守財奴埃比尼澤是一個寂寞的老人，某個平安夜裡，三隻鬼跑來嚇他，讓他改變他了想法。守財奴終於想通這世上有比工作和錢財更重要的東西。
Ebenezer Scrooge is a mean and lonely old man. But one Christmas Eve three ghosts come to visit him and scare him into changing his ways.
Scrooge discovers that there is more to life than work and money and that kindness has its own rewards.
作者簡介：
About the Author
Charles John Huffam Dickens was born in Portsmouth, England on the 7th February, 1812. His family was poor and he had eight brothers and sisters. Charles was often ill as a child, and because his family moved from town to town, he didn’t fave a proper school education. Instead, Charles read books on his own. He especially enjoyed fairy tales and adventure stories.
Like the characters in many of this stories, Charles Dickens had to go to work when he was a boy. When he was twelve years old, he worked in a shoe polish factory. Throughout his life he worked to stop the suffering of the poor, especially chidren. He was a Great supporter of education and schools for the poor.
Charles Dickens first became a journalist. Then he started to write novels. He became famous at the age of 24 with his first novel, The Pickwick Papers. Perhaps his most famous and best-loved novel is A Christmas Carol.
Dickens died on the 9th of June, 1870. It says on Dickens’ grave in Poet’s Corner, Westminster Abbey in London：
‘He was a sympathizer to the poor, the suffering, and the oppressed ; and by his death, one of England’s greatest writers is lost to the world.’
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