English For Beginners: The Last Poem: Practice Book with Easy Short Stories to Read & Learn Everyday English Fast, #2

By Scott Aniston

Tired of looking for a good short story to read and practice your English?

Now students of English will have the opportunity to practice and improve their English with this short novel adapted for level 1 beginners. We removed all the fancy words and replaced with everyday spoken English. So you get to practice real English while having fun.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Frank Sagan Media
• Release date: May 22, 2019
• ISBN: 9781386500650

Book preview

PART ONE

Iread that Aldous Huxley said that the true traveler finds boredom more pleasant than annoying. It is the symbol of his freedom - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not as a mere philosophical principle but almost with pleasure. I, therefore, assumed that the freedom that travel gives us was something that could get me out of my constant boredom, and at the age of 21 that liberation was a necessity that I had to satisfy as soon as possible.

As a student of literature and Spanish, I spent little time on things that attracted other girls, like a major book fair in Mexico City.

I arrived in Mexico's capital city with emotion, and without so much boredom. I visited the Palacio de Bellas Artes Museum on my first day in the city, and I walked through the beautiful Zocalo in Mexico City Downtown, overwhelmed by old books and the striking Beauty of The Museo Nacional de Arte in Mexico but which I thought that was too fancy. For me, the real life was inside the books and the passion, in the desperate excitement that poetry provoked in me. Or at least that's what I believed before I traveled here.

With my little money and a strong desire to pounce on new books to get to know, I spent much of my second day in the city to tour the impressive Book Fair at the Palacio de Minería, and to buy a couple of copies.

It was looking at children's books, illustrated albums to be precise, that in a totally unexpected way, a