This book is ideal for people who are looking for new solutions to further their study of foreign languages, and is an excellent addition to grammar, phrase and vocabulary books. It is designed in a form of parallel text, where the reader will find the text in two languages placed next to one another for easy reference. This particular story is part of a book containing the whole collection of seven short stories titled "Ghosts: Learn Polish, Parallel text", which is also available for purchase. Each of the seven stories is dedicated to aid in learning a foreign language in a new and exciting way, and through reading parallel texts. How best to use this book to gain the most benefit? For beginners, I would suggest they read the story in their primary language first, then begin reading single sentences in the foreign language. Advanced level students can begin by reading in the foreign language, and only reference the text in their primary language when they encounter a problem with comprehension. With motivation, practice and perseverance, and a good ‘ghost story’, anyone, absolutely anyone is capable of learning a new language. The series of ghost stories contain the following titles: THE LOST GHOST, THE JUDGE’S HOUSE, KERFOL, THE LONG GALLERY, MEN IN THE MARBLE, THE TOLL-HOUSE, THE WHISTLE.
Author
Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman was born in Randolph, Massachusetts, and attended Mount Holyoke College (then, Mount Holyoke Female Seminary) in South Hadley, Massachusetts, for one year, from 1870–71. Freeman's parents were orthodox Congregationalists, causing her to have a very strict childhood. Religious constraints play a key role in some of her works. She later finished her education at West Brattleboro Seminary. She passed the greater part of her life in Massachusetts and Vermont. Freeman began writing stories and verse for children while still a teenager to help support her family and was quickly successful. Her best known work was written in the 1880s and 1890s while she lived in Randolph. She produced more than two dozen volumes of published short stories and novels. She is best known for two collections of stories, A Humble Romance and Other Stories (1887) and A New England Nun and Other Stories (1891). Her stories deal mostly with New England life and are among the best of their kind. Freeman is also remembered for her novel Pembroke (1894), and she contributed a notable chapter to the collaborative novel The Whole Family (1908). In 1902 she married Doctor Charles M. Freeman of Metuchen, New Jersey. In April 1926, Freeman became the first recipient of the William Dean Howells Medal for Distinction in Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She died in Metuchen and was interred in Hillside Cemetery in Scotch Plains, New Jersey.
