English

I have learned English completely by my own without attending a single class. I began to learn English in 1982 just a year before graduation. It was the fourth foreign language after Russian, German and French. Only half year later I was able to take English entry exam for postgraduate studies, and was able to read and understand English without much difficulty. I have learned it by many ways – reading a lot, listening a lot (at that time mainly the VOA and BBC radios now rarely able to be received via radios), and practiced a lot.

After school English was very much my second language at works, as my first job was dealing with import of US power generation equipment technologies at the Ministry of Machinery Industry in Beijing. And later I was able to show my excellent English levels to many people in the multinational companies where I used to work.
I have passed an IELS test with a score of 7.0 and my oral score was 9.0, a near native level. Thus around the 1990’s my oral English was fairly good.

English is now almost my working language, as I mostly read English everyday, much more than my native language of Chinese. I have about 30,000 words in mind and can write English with prior preparation of Chinese. That is to say, I think in English too. Many dreams are made in English as well – I often talk in English with people in my dreams. Many times it’s more comfortable to communicate and write English than my native language.

 

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Literature

Google literature page 5

Contemporary English literature   

Aesop Aesop’s Fables p89 

Alcott Little Women p684

 

Andersen Andersen’s Fairy Tales p200 

 

Austen Emma p594

Austen Northanger Abbey p288

Austen Persuasion p304

Austen Pride and Prejudice p479

Austen Sense and Sensibility p459

 

 

Bronte Agnes Grey p253

Bronte Jane Eyre p691

Bronte Wuthering Heights p428

 

Buchan The Thirty-Nine Steps p146

 

Burroughs Tarzan of the Apes p342

 

Butler Erewhon p308

 

Caroll Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland p111

 

 

Cervantes Don_Quixote_1 p755.pdf

 

 

 

Clarke For the Term of His Natural Life p723

 

Conrad Heart-of-Darkness p131.pdf                    6

Conrad Heart of Darkness p131

Conrad Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard p627

 

 

Cooper The Last of the Mohicans p559

 

Defoe Robinson Crusoe p393

 

 

Dickens

Dickens A Christmas Carol p106

Dickens A Tale of Two Cities p537

Dickens Bleak House p1307

Dickens David Copperfield p1307

Dickens Great Expectations p685

Dickens Oliver Twist p641

 

 

Dostoevsky Crime and Punishment p767

Dostoevsky Notes from the Underground p167

Dostoevsky The Brothers Karamazov p1313

Dostoyevsky The Idiot p913

Dostoevsky The Possessed

 

Doyle The Hound of the Baskervilles p223

 

Dumas The Three Musketeers p945

 

Eliot Middlemarch p1193

 

Fitzgerald Tender is the Night p459

Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby p193

Fitzgerald The-Great-Gatsby p193.pdf             31

 

 

Flaubert Madame Bovary p457

 

Goethe Faust

 

Gogol Dead Souls

 

Grimm Grimms’ Fairy Tales p373

 

Hardy Tess of the d’Urbervilles p584

 

Homer The Iliad p509

Homer The Odyssey p443

 

 

Hugo Les Miserables p2453.pdf

119

 

 

Irving The Legend of Sleepy Hollow p43

 

James The Portrait of a Lady p837.pdf

 

Joyce Dubliners p257

Joyce Ulysses p1047

 

 

Joycew A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man p317

 

 

Kafka The Castle

Kafka The Metamorphosis p77

Kafka The Trial p271

 

 

Kipling The Jungle Book p189

 

 

Lawrence Lady Chatterly’s Lover p447

Lawrence Sons and Lovers p641

Lawrence Women in Love p717

 

Machiavelli The Prince p194

 

Maugham Of Human Bondage p1009

 

Melville Moby Dick p861

 

Milton Paradise Lost p375

 

 

Mitchell Gone With the Wind

 

 

Montgomery Anne of Green Gables p391

 

More Utopia p148

 

Nietzsche Beyond Good and Evil p250

 

Orczy The Scarlet Pimpernel p343

 

 

Orwell 1984 p393

Orwell Down and Out in Paris and London p254

 

 

Perrault The Tales of Mother Goose p67

 

Porter Pollyanna p243

 

Proust Swann’s Way p658

Proust Within A Budding Grove p783

 

Pyle The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood p395

 

 

Shakespere

 

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http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/authors/search/?query=Shakespeare,+William

https://librivox.org/

https://librivox.org/

http://doyle.lib.miamioh.edu/shakespeare/

http://shakespeare.mit.edu/

http://www.opensourceshakespeare.org/

http://www.shakespeare-literature.com/

http://www.shakespeare-literature.com/King_Lear/index.html

http://www.shakespeare-literature.com/King_Lear/1.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Shakespeare

 

Shakespeare Cymbeline.pdf

Shakespeare Hamlet.pdf

Shakespeare Sonnets.pdf

juliuscaesar_1002_librivox.zip

king_lear_librivox.zip

shakespeare.tar.gz

 

juliuscaesar_1002_librivox/

 

king_lear_librivox/

 

 

shakespeare/

 

 

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        allswellthatendswell

        asyoulikeit

        comedyoferrors

        cymbeline

        loveslabourslost

        measureforemeasure

        merchantofvenice

        merrywivesofwindsor

        midsummersnightsdream

        muchadoaboutnothing

        periclesprinceoftyre

        tamingoftheshrew

        tempest

        troilusandcressida

        twelfthnight

        twogentlemenofverona

        winterstale

 

 

    histories/

 

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        kingjohn

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    poetry/

 

        loverscomplaint

        rapeoflucrece

        sonnets

        various

        venusandadonis

 

 

    tragedies/

 

        antonyandcleopatra

        coriolanus

        hamlet

        juliuscaesar

        kinglear

        macbeth

        othello

        romeoandjuliet

        timonofathens

        titusandronicus

 

 

Shelley Frankenstein p277

 

 

Stevenson Kidnapped p299

Stevenson The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde p96

Stevenson Treasure Island p266

 

 

Stoker Dracula p542

 

Swift Gulliver’s Travels p383

 

Thackeray Vanity Fair p1100

 

 

Tolstoy Anna Karenina p1423

Tolstoy War and Peace p2299

 

 

Twain The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn p397

Twain The Adventures of Tom Sawyer p285

 

 

Verne Around the World in 80 Days p279

 

 

 

Voltaire Candide

 

Wells The Island of Doctor Moreau p171

Wells The Time Machine p120

 

Wilde The Picture of Dorian Gray p198

 

The best English novels

 

http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20150119-the-21st-centurys-12-best-novels

 

http://www.englishnovels.net/

 

http://flavorwire.com/442262/the-50-greatest-british-novels-of-the-19th-century

 

http://www.infoplease.com/ipea/A0776722.html

 

http://www.modernlibrary.com/top-100/100-best-novels/

 

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

http://www.planetebook.com/free-ebooks.asp

 

http://www.scaruffi.com/fiction/bestuk.html

 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/what-to-read/100-novels-everyone-should-read/

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/what-to-read/20-best-British-novels-of-all-time/

 

http://thegreatestbooks.org/

 

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/aug/17/the-100-best-novels-written-in-english-the-full-list

http://entertainment.time.com/2005/10/16/all-time-100-novels/slide/all/

http://entertainment.time.com/2005/10/16/all-time-100-novels/  

 



Literature Sites

 

Google literature page 5 

 

http://www2.hn.psu.edu/faculty/jmanis/jimspdf.htm         

 

http://www.4literature.net/

 

http://www.africanlit.org/

 

http://www.americanliterature.com/

 

http://www.anglistikguide.de/

 

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http://www.childrensliteratureassembly.org/ 

 

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http://www.literature.at/

 

Literature.org - The Online Literature Library

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http://www.literature2000.org/

 

http://www.literaturecircles.com/

 

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http://www.literaturepost.com/

 

http://www.literatureproject.com/

 

http://www.literaturnetz.com/

 

http://www.literaturetraining.com/

 

http://www.multiculturalchildrenslit.com/

 

Winners of the Nobel Prize in Literature

www.nobelprizes.com/nobel/literature/literature.html

 

http://www.oxford-americanliterature.com

 

http://www.postcolonialweb.org/

 

Today in Literature

www.todayinliterature.com

 

American Literature Sites

http://www.wsu.edu/~campbelld/amlit/sites.htm 

 

 

Scientists

 

Aristotle METAPHYSICS p135

 

BACON THE NEW ATLANTIS p41.pdf                10

Dalton New system of chemical philosophy p600.pdf             24

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darwin-on-the-origin-of-species p298.pdf                12

DarwinYYY originspecies p448.pdf

dewey democracy and education p368.pdf            28

 

Einstein Brownian Movement

Einstein Sidelights on Relativity.zip

Einstein The Meaning of Relativity p134

Einstein The Meaning of Relativity1 p134

Einstein Relativity The Special and General Theory.zip

Einstein Relativity: The Special and General Theory p56

Einstein Relativity: The Special and the General Theory A Popular Exposition, 3rd ed. P154 

 

grotius De jure belli ac pacis libri tres p224.pdf          4  54

Hayek The road to serfdom p266.pdf  .................ok

IshaUpanishad p607.pdf ...................... 8

Malthus An Essay on the Principle of population p134.pdf               17

MAXWELL a treatise on electricity p533.pdf  ..................  33

MAXWELL A treatise on electricity p518.pdf

mcluhan Understanding Media p396.pdf                      18

Mill The Collected Works Vol1 p489.pdf  .............................  84

Needham Science and civilization in China p280.pdf          28

 

牛顿《自然哲学之数学原理》

Principia.pdf                    139   / 594

Newton Principia.pdf .......................  17

Newton Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy

 

>>>Newton Mathematical-principles-of-natural-philosophy

Definitions.

Axioms, or Laws of Motion.

Corollary iii.

 

http://www.archive.org/stream/newtonspmathema00newtrich#page/n9/mode/2up

https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au 

 

Plato Republic p484.pdf

Plato Republic p509.pdf

 

poincare Analysis Situs and Its Five Supplements p281.pdf               19

Poincare Papers on Topology p281.pdf

Popper The Logic of Scientific Discovery p545.pdf ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, 6

prigogine_from_being_to_becoming p293.pdf              46

RawlsYYY A Theory of Justice Revised Edition p561.pdf

Rawls A theory of justice p562.pdf                  547 / 33 of 562

Smith The wealth of nations p508.pdf                      14

SmithYYY wealth-nations p786.pdf

Smith Wealth of nations p754.pdf 


 

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