How does a man become successful although unable to read or write? How does a woman get her final revenge on her husband? What happens when a man invites friends to a party at which he himself doesn\`t appear, but watches from a distance? What happens to a boy who feels fated to be a genius? These are some of the questions dealt with in the ten stories in this collection. The stories, by important modern authors, have been specially selected for advanced students of English. They are not simplified, but vocabulary explanations and notes are provided in order to help comprehension.
ISBN: 978-0-521-22594-6
Издательство:
Cambridge
Дата выхода: январь 2011
This is Bulgakov`s semi-autobiographical story of a writer who fails to sell his novel and fails to commit suicide. When his play is taken up by the theatre, literary success beckons, but he has reckoned without the grotesquely inflated egos of the actors, directors and theatre managers.
Часть своих книг Софи Кинселла, создательница Шопоголика и один из самых успешных авторов в жанре «чиклит», подписывает своим настоящим именем Маделин Уикхем. Это немного другие романы, написанные в иной авторской манере, но столь же интересные и захватывающие. «A Desirable residence» — это история про семейную пару среднего возраста, которая сталкивается с финансовыми трудностями. Liz and Jonathan are...
ISBN: 978-0-552-77670-7
Издательство:
Transworld publishers
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
Rachel Johnson takes on the challenge of saving "The Lady", Britain`s oldest women`s weekly, in her hilarious diary, "A Diary of The Lady: My First Year and a Half as Editor". `The whole place seemed completely bonkers: dusty, tatty, disorganized and impossibly old-fashioned, set in an age of doilies and flag-waving patriotism and jam still for tea, some sunny day.` Appointed editor of "The Lady" - the oldest women`s weekly in the world - Rachel Johnson faced the challenge of a lifetime. For a start, how do you become an editor when you`ve never, well, edited? How do you turn a venerable title, full of ads for walk-in baths, during the worst recession ever? And forget doubling the circulation in a year - what on earth do you wear to work...
Now in paperback, this brand new edition of A Dictionary of Euphemisms: How Not To Say What You Mean is still as lively a guide to the language of evasion, hypocrisy, prudery, and deceit as you could wish for. Packed full of the old favourites, such as `early bath` or `push up the daisies`, as well as euphemisms from modern times, like `human sacrifice`, `coffee-housing`, and `tuft-hunter`. Definitions include examples from literature and the press, along with historical explanations of origins, and now obsolete euphemisms like `leaping house`, `nightingale` are signposted as such. And to prove that the use of euphemisms is not just a British speciality, there is widespread coverage of American euphemisms too: `English` (pertaining to...
ISBN: 0-19-860762-8
Издательство:
Oxford University Press
Дата выхода: апрель 2004
