內容簡介
Princess on the Run
KingAlexander wants his daughter, Princess Priscilla, to marry his best friend,Lord Huntingdon. But the princess has other plans. She is in love with Toby, ayoung and handsome servant at the Royal Palace. Priscilla andToby decide to run away together, but life on the run is not what the princessexpected.
亞歷山大國王希望她的女兒嫁給他最好的朋友，可是公主有其他打算。她愛上一個年輕又英俊的僕人，兩人打算私奔，但後來發生的事完全出乎公主的預料……
適合程度：CEF A1, Cambridge KET, Headwords: 400, 全民英檢初級
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作者介紹
I was born in the town of Houlton, in the state of Maine (USA), where Ispent a lot of time fishing, playing basketball and baseball, and generally havinga good time. I moved to Germanywith my German wife many years ago, where I live in Lingen, a lively city inEmsland. When I was an English teacher I started writing plays for my classes.Every year, at the end of the school year, I wrote one. That’s how I began mycareer as a writer. About ten years ago, I wrote my first reader. In 2008 oneof my stories won a prize. The story is called ‘Horror Trip on the Pecos River’.It was named reader of the year by an international jury!
I get my ideas for stories from the wordsof songs, from TV programmes, from reading (I read a lot of detective stories),and from the world around me.
WhenI begin my stories I have no idea how they will end. I follow them where theytake me. My only ‘method’ is to listen to my characters and try to understandwhat they are going to do next. I originally wrote ‘Princess on the Run!’ as aplay for my students. Like all my plays, it had enough parts for everyone inthe class. The students enjoyed performing it, especially the ballroom scenes.Later, I changed it into the story form it now has.
