Unit 4 Pygmalion language points课时作业

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　　　　Little Women

　　By Louisa May Alcott [America]

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　　Paperback: 544 pages

　　Average Customer Review：4.4 out of 5 stars

　　Little Women is one of the best loved books of all time.

　　Lovely Meg, talented Jo, kind­hearted Beth, spoiled Amy: they've learned hard lessons of poverty and of growing up in New England during the American Civil War. Through their dreams, plays, letters, and illnesses, women of all ages have become part of this remarkable family.

　　Great Expectations

　　By Charles Dickens [Britain]

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　　Hardcover: 400 pages

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　　In what may be Dickens's best novel, Pip is working in a dirty forge (铁匠铺) but dares to dream of becoming a gentleman - and one day, under sudden circumstances, he finds himself in possession of "great expectations"．

　　The Grapes of Wrath

　　By John Steinbeck [America]

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　　Paperback: 464 pages

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First published in 1939, Steinbeck's Pulitzer Prize­winning novel of the Great Depression describes the Dust Bowl migration of the 1930s in America through the story of one Oklahoma farm family - the Joads - driven from their home and forced to travel west to the promised land of California. The novel describes the horrors of the Great Depression and reflects the very nature of