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    Frankenstein (ESL/EFL Version with Audio)
    Frankenstein (ESL/EFL Version with Audio)
    Frankenstein (ESL/EFL Version with Audio)
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    Frankenstein (ESL/EFL Version with Audio)

    By Qiliang Feng and Mary Shelley

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    About this ebook

    This is Book 8, Collection III, of the Million-Word Reading Project (MWRP) readers. It is suitable for learners with a basic vocabulary of 1,500 words.
    Million-Word Reading Project (MWRP) is a reading project for ESL/EFL learners at the elementary level (with a basic vocabulary of 1,500 words). In two years, for about fifteen minutes each day, an ESL/EFL learner can read one million words, and reach the upper-intermediate level, gaining a vocabulary of about 3,500 words and a large number of expressions.

    [Text Information]
    Readability | 78.69
    Total word count | 22604
    Words beyond 1500 | 1165
    Unknown word percentage (%) | 5.15
    Unknown headword occurrence | 3.09
    Unknown words that occur 5 times or more | 64
    Unknown words that occur 2 times or more | 186

    [Synopsis]
    Young Swiss scientist Victor Frankenstein decides to make a human being. After months of hard study, he makes a huge creature out of different human organs. He then discovers a method of bringing it to life. However, when the creature opens its eyes, Victor is terrified because his creature looks like a terrible monster. He runs from his laboratory and becomes very ill for almost two years.
    After he recovers from his illness, he meets with the creature. The creature tells Victor how he has suffered for the past two years. He tries to be friendly to people, but no one likes him, and they attack him because he is so ugly. He has been so angry with Victor and has killed his younger brother.
    After telling his story, the creature demands that Victor make another creature, a female one to be his companion. If Victor does as he asks, he will go away with the new creature and never bother Victor again.
    Will Victor agree?
    This book is rewritten from “Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus” by the English author Mary Shelley (1797- 1851), which has been translated into over 100 languages and made into plays and movies many times.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherQiliang Feng
    Release dateDec 23, 2015
    ISBN9781310623493
    Frankenstein (ESL/EFL Version with Audio)
    Author

    Qiliang Feng

    Qiliang Feng has been a teacher of English in senior high schools since 1983. He is a keen supporter of reading in TEFL (Teaching English as a Foreign Language) and is expert at rewriting graded/simplified ESL(English as a Second Language) and EFL (English as a Foreign Language) readers. He has published several series of English reading course books and is promoting a reading project called Million-Word Reading Project (MWRP), in which ESL/EFL learners at the elementary level (with a basic vocabulary of 1,500 words) are expected to read one million words within two or three years, and reach the upper-intermediate level easily.

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      Frankenstein (ESL/EFL Version with Audio) - Qiliang Feng

      Frankenstein

      (ESL/EFL Version with Audio)

      Original by: Mary Shelley

      Rewritten by: Qiliang Feng

      Million-Word Reading Project Workshop

      Copyright 2022 Qiliang Feng

      License Notes

      This e-book is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This e-book may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your enjoyment only, then please return to Smashwords.com or your favorite retailer and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      About This Book

      This is Book 8, Collection III, of the Million-Word Reading Project (MWRP) readers. It is suitable for learners with a basic vocabulary of 1,500 words.

      Million-Word Reading Project (MWRP) is a reading project for ESL/EFL learners at the elementary level (with a basic vocabulary of 1,500 words). In two years, for about fifteen minutes each day, an ESL/EFL learner can read one million words, and reach the upper-intermediate level, gaining a vocabulary of about 3,500 words and a large number of expressions.

      Text Information

      Readability | 78.7

      Total word count | 22604

      Words beyond 1500 | 1165

      Unknown word percentage (%) | 5.15

      Unknown headword occurrence | 3.09

      Unknown words that occur 5 times or more | 64

      Unknown words that occur 2 times or more | 186

      Notes:

      1. About readability: This is Flesch Reading Ease Readability calculated with MS WORD. The higher the score, the easier the text is to read.

      Score | Level

      0-29 | Very difficult

      30-49 | Difficult

      50-59 | Fairly difficult

      60-69 | Standard

      70-79 | Fairly easy

      80-89 | Easy

      90-100 | Very easy

      2. This e-version does not give the meanings of unknown words. You can look them up with the dictionary on your e-reader. For words with different meanings and some expressions, we give their meanings at the end of the passages. We also provide some necessary background information.

      3. To get the audio or video of this book, GO>>>

      Synopsis

      Young Swiss scientist Victor Frankenstein decides to make a human being. After months of hard study, he makes a huge creature out of different human organs. He then discovers a method of bringing it to life. However, when the creature opens its eyes, Victor is terrified because his creature looks like a terrible monster. He runs from his laboratory and becomes very ill for almost two years.

      After he recovers from his illness, he meets with the creature. The creature tells Victor how he has suffered for the past two years. He tries to be friendly to people, but no one likes him, and they attack him because he is so ugly. He has been so angry with Victor and has killed his younger brother.

      After telling his story, the creature demands that Victor make another creature, a female one to be his companion. If Victor does as he asks, he will go away with the new creature and never bother Victor again.

      Will Victor agree?

      This book is rewritten from "Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus" by the English author Mary Shelley (1797- 1851), which has been translated into over 100 languages and made into plays and movies many times.

      A ship from England was on a voyage of scientific discovery towards the Northern Pole.

      One day, a strong wind began to blow and ice closed in the ship on all sides. Soon, there were plains of ice in every direction and it was impossible for the ship to move on.

      The captain, Robert Walton, became anxious as he watched. Suddenly, a strange sight attracted his attention. A sledge drawn by dogs passed on towards the north, half a mile away. In the sledge was a being which had the shape of a man, but obviously much bigger. He watched the rapid progress of the traveller with his telescopes until he was out of sight in the distance.

      During the night the ice broke and freed the ship. In the morning, as soon as it was light, the captain went upon deck and found all the sailors busy on one side of the ship, talking to someone in the sea. It was another sledge, which had drifted towards them in the night on a large piece of ice. Only one dog remained alive, but there was a human being within it. The sailors helped him to enter the ship.

      He was a European. His arms and legs were nearly frozen, and his body was tired. When he was a little recovered, the captain asked why he had come so far on the ice in a sledge.

      He at once became sad, and replied, To seek one who fled from me.

      And did the man travel in the same way?

      Yes.

      Then I suppose we have seen him, for yesterday, we saw some dogs drawing a sledge, with a man in it, across the ice.

      The stranger became interested, and he asked where the devil, as he called him, had gone.

      When they were alone, the stranger said to the captain, You may easily see, Captain, that I have suffered great misfortunes. I had made up my mind at one time that the memory of these evils should die with me, but you have made me change my mind. You seek for knowledge and wisdom, as I once did. I hope that when your wishes have come true, they may not bring you the same trouble as I am in.

      Then he told the captain the following strange story.

      Chapter 1

      My name is Victor Frankenstein. I am by birth a Genevese, and my family is one of the most important of the country. My father had been in the government for many years. He was respected by all who knew him.

      One of his close friends was a merchant who became poor after his business failed. His name was Beaufort. Having paid his debts, he moved away to the town of Lucerne with his daughter, where nobody knew them. My father loved Beaufort so much that he decided to find him. He hoped to help Beaufort start all over again. It was ten months before my father discovered his place. So he hurried to the house. But when he entered, he found Beaufort lying sick in bed.

      His daughter looked after him with great care, but their money was soon spent. Caroline Beaufort found work and earned hardly enough to support life.

      Several months passed in this way. Her father grew worse, and in the tenth month her father died in her arms, leaving her an orphan. This was too much for her, and she was weeping bitterly when my father entered the room. After the funeral of his friend, he took her to Geneva and asked a relation to take care of her. Two years later, Caroline became his wife.

      There was a great difference between the ages of my parents, but they loved each other dearly. My father did everything he could to make her happy. Since Caroline was very weak after what she had gone through, my father took her to Italy. He hoped the pleasant climate of

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