内容简介

《初级背诵经典——书信篇》20篇名人英文书信，内容涵盖历史、政治、自然科学等内容。选取的文章的难度渐渐加深，以图达到循序渐进，逐渐提高中学生英语水平及鉴赏能力的目的，并帮助中学生了解名人名家的思想、情感、历史事件的背景和内情等等。通过感受名人的喜怒哀乐，让我们尽情享受这一场文化盛宴吧。

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LETTERS THAT MAKE YOU THINK Abraham Lincoln Refuses to Lend His Stepbrother Eighty Dollars Emily Dickinson Finds Ecstasy in the Mere Sense of Living Mark Twain Refuses to Sanction a Dramatization of Tom Sawyer Lord Chesterfield Lays down Some Precepts for His Natural Son Henri Poincare and Marie Curie Recommend Albert Einstein for a Professorship at Zurich Institute LETTERS about LOVE AND CARE William James Discovers that He has Omitted the Deepest Principle of Human Nature from His Textbook on Psychology Pierre Curie Asks Marie Sklodovska, a Former Governess and a Student of Physics, to Be His Wife Sarah Bernhardt Tells Victorien Sardou Why Paris Is a Vast Desert of Desolation without Him Napoleon Learns from Josephine that She has Recovered Her Heart Benjamin Disraeli Offers to Free Thomas Carlyle from Common Cares in the Sunset of His Life LETTERS about SADNESS Benjamin Franklin Consoles a Relative on the Death of His Brother Ludwig van Beethoven Prepares to Meet His Fate Dostoevsky Describes His Sensations when He Had but One Minute to Live Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Receives an Involuntary Confession from His Benefactress Charles Dickens Tells His Wife that Their Infant Daughter has Died LETTERS THAT MAKE YOU UNDERSTAND THE WORLD BETTER Benjamin Franklin Hurls His Defiance at an Old Comrade Blaise Pascal Asks a Colleague to Confirm a Scientific Prediction Lenin Wams the Communist Party that Stalin Is Concentrating Too Much Power in His Own Hands Du Barry Makes a Business Proposition to an Admirer Christopher Columbus Reports His First Impressions of America