Reading Classics is series of 19th and 20th-century classics from the world of British and American literature edited by Paolo Bertinetti, Dean of the Faculty of Modern Languages at the University of Turin. Reading Classics are aimed specifically at non-native speakers of English who wish to improve their language skills by analysing major novels, short stories and plays. Each volume guides the reader towards comprehension and appreciation of the literary work. Features: • extensive introduction putting the author and his/her work into context • in-depth bibliography providing a springboard for further study • detailed chronology giving a complete view of the author`s life and works • wide variety of activities encouraging...

ISBN: 9788877540737
Издательство: CIDEB
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012

Reading Classics is series of 19th and 20th-century classics from the world of British and American literature edited by Paolo Bertinetti, Dean of the Faculty of Modern Languages at the University of Turin. Reading Classics are aimed specifically at non-native speakers of English who wish to improve their language skills by analysing major novels, short stories and plays. Each volume guides the reader towards comprehension and appreciation of the literary work. Features: • extensive introduction putting the author and his/her work into context • in-depth bibliography providing a springboard for further study • detailed chronology giving a complete view of the author`s life and works • wide variety of activities encouraging...

ISBN: 9788877542205
Издательство: CIDEB
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012

Reading Classics is series of 19th and 20th-century classics from the world of British and American literature edited by Paolo Bertinetti, Dean of the Faculty of Modern Languages at the University of Turin. Reading Classics are aimed specifically at non-native speakers of English who wish to improve their language skills by analysing major novels, short stories and plays. Each volume guides the reader towards comprehension and appreciation of the literary work. Features: • extensive introduction putting the author and his/her work into context • in-depth bibliography providing a springboard for further study • detailed chronology giving a complete view of the author`s life and works • wide variety of activities encouraging...

ISBN: 978887754-153-6
Издательство: CIDEB
Дата выхода: июль 2011

INTERACT WITH LITERATURE offers a wide range of original literary texts from intermediate level upwards (unabridged short stories or extracts from novels, as well as complete unabridged plays) from English-speaking countries, designed to introduce students to the world of literature. The aim of these volumes is to familiarise readers with the language of literature and encourage them to formulate their own response to what they read. Each volume concentrates on a particular theme, genre or literary current. Key features: • biographical details about each author • carefully selected texts relevant to the theme of the volume • linguistic accessibility with numerous footnotes to guide understanding • stimulating, graded activities...

ISBN: 978887754-375-2
Издательство: CIDEB
Дата выхода: июль 2011

INTERACT WITH LITERATURE offers a wide range of original literary texts from intermediate level upwards (unabridged short stories or extracts from novels, as well as complete unabridged plays) from English-speaking countries, designed to introduce students to the world of literature. The aim of these volumes is to familiarise readers with the language of literature and encourage them to formulate their own response to what they read. Each volume concentrates on a particular theme, genre or literary current. Key features: • biographical details about each author • carefully selected texts relevant to the theme of the volume • linguistic accessibility with numerous footnotes to guide understanding • stimulating, graded activities...

ISBN: 978887754-547-3
Издательство: CIDEB
Дата выхода: июль 2011

INTERACT WITH LITERATURE offers a wide range of original literary texts from intermediate level upwards (unabridged short stories or extracts from novels, as well as complete unabridged plays) from English-speaking countries, designed to introduce students to the world of literature. The aim of these volumes is to familiarise readers with the language of literature and encourage them to formulate their own response to what they read. Each volume concentrates on a particular theme, genre or literary current. Key features: • biographical details about each author • carefully selected texts relevant to the theme of the volume • linguistic accessibility with numerous footnotes to guide understanding • stimulating, graded activities...

ISBN: 978887754-749-1
Издательство: CIDEB
Дата выхода: июль 2011

If you`re a Southern parent who`s fed up with the Yankee myths, distortions, lies, and anti-South propaganda your child is being taught at school about the Civil War, then "Honest Jeff and Dishonest Abe" is for you. Award-winning author and Southern historian Lochlainn Seabrook, one of the world`s leading pro-South writers, has created an incomparable guide specifically for Southern children, one that teaches them the Truth about Lincoln`s War - from the South`s perspective! Written for ages 8-12 (grades 2-6), the book is conveniently divided into six sections and thirty-seven chapters, and covers all of the salient facts and events of the War. Included are chapters on the causes that led up to the conflict, the real origins of American...

ISBN: 9780983818595
Дата выхода: январь 2012

In fall 1891, Mark Twain headed for Berlin, the "newest city I have ever seen," as America`s foremost humorist wrote; accompanied by his wife, Olivia, and their three daughters. Twain, a "Yankee from head to toe," according to the Berlin press, conspired with diplomats, frequented the famed salons, had breakfast with duchesses, and dined with the emperor. He also suffered an "organized dog-choir club," at his first address, which he deemed a "rag-picker`s paradise," picked a fight with the police, who made him look under his maid`s petticoats, was abused by a porter, got lost on streetcars, was nearly struck down by pneumonia, and witnessed a proletarian uprising right in front of his hotel on Unter den Linden. Twain penned articles...

ISBN: 9781935902904
Дата выхода: январь 2013

Blueprint Intermediate is a fully-integrated course for students who have completed two to three years` study of English. Blueprint answers the specific needs and problems of the intermediate learner in a way that is constantly challenging and highly motivating. It offers material which builds confidence and learner independence, and improves fluency and accuracy in the four skills. Brian Abbs and Ingrid Freebairn have brought their skills and experience together to give Blueprint several distinctive features. Blueprint: integrates new grammar items and study notes with thorough revision of familiar structures; introduces regular Fluency and Self-check sections; enriches vocabulary by developing word-building techniques; emphasises...

ISBN: 978-0-582-02131-0
Издательство: Longman
Дата выхода: июль 2011

"Past into Present" contains a range of British and American literary texts arranged in chronological order from the Anglo-Saxon period to the 20th century. The texts have been chosen to show the rich diversity of English literature from early verse such as the "Battle of Maldon" to the Romantic poets, from the diaries of Pepys to the novel. Background and biographical information is integrated into the book to enable the reader to see each text in its historical context and there are glossaries to help students with the more complicated and archaic language. A supplementary section is included with additional texts and material which can be used according to the needs and interests of students and teachers. The accompanying exercises...

ISBN: 978-0-582-00992-9
Дата выхода: июль 2011

Nathan Bedford Forrest is best known for his role as a Confederate officer in the American War for Southern Independence. While most Forrest biographies discuss his military career in great detail, what they do not provide is the General`s own perspective of the conflict. In his one-of-a-kind book, "Give `Em Hell Boys!", Forrest scholar, Forrest relation, and award-winning author Lochlainn Seabrook handily remedies this situation. Neatly divided into five sections for each year of Lincoln`s War, as the subtitle indicates, the book encompasses all of the General`s military correspondence, from 1861 to 1865. In the 300 fascinating footnoted entries included, we find Forrest`s reports, dispatches, orders, returns, letters, notes,...

ISBN: 9780983818564
Дата выхода: январь 2012

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Walter Boughton Pitkin (June 29, 1913 – June 27, 2007) was an American publisher, author, and literary agent.Pitkin was born and raised in Dover, New Jersey in what was then a rural area. He was the youngest son of Walter B. Pitkin and Mary Gray Pitkin. He was the youngest of 5 brothers. Because he suffered from asthma since early childhood, Pitkin was not able to attend school. He did not learn to read until age 10. At about age 20, he rented a room in Manhattan, near Columbia University, where his father was a professor in the School of Journalism. During this period he studied on his own in order to meet the entrance requirements for Columbia College. He read English literature, American...

ISBN: 978-3-6399-4625-3
Издательство: Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Miller Williams (born April 8, 1930 - October 13, 2006) is an American contemporary poet, as well as a translator and editor. He has authored over twenty- five books and won several awards for his poetry. His accomplishments have been chronicled in Arkansas Biography. However, he is perhaps best known for reading a poem at President Clinton's 1997 inauguration. Williams was born in Hoxie, Arkansas. He was educated in Arkansas, earning his bachelor's degree in biology from Arkansas State University, before completing a M.S. at the University of Arkansas in 1952. He taught in several universities in various capacities, first as a professor of biology and then of English literature. He is...

ISBN: 978-6-1341-0802-7
Издательство: Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Harry Potter series of fantasy novels by J. K. Rowling have become some of the most widely-read works of children`s literature in history, with readers of all ages and in many countries. In April 2011 worldwide sales of Harry Potter books were estimated to be about 450 million copies, and the books have been translated from the original English into at least 67 other languages. However, there are two separate Portuguese translations (one into European Portuguese and one into Brazilian Portuguese) as well as two separate Chinese translations (one using Traditional Chinese characters and the other Simplified Chinese characters). Therefore, editions of the books have been published in at least...

ISBN: 978-5-5133-3267-1

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Charles Alexander Jencks (born 21 June 1939) is an American architectural theorist, landscape architect and designer. His books on the history and criticism of Modernism and Postmodernism were widely read in architectural circles and beyond. Born in Baltimore to a Scottish mother from Fife, he first studied English Literature at Harvard University, later gaining an MA in architecture from the Graduate School of Design in 1965. He also has a PhD in Architectural History from the Bartlett School of Architecture at University College, London. In the mid-sixties Jencks moved to Scotland where he has lived ever since.

ISBN: 978-5-5139-5420-0

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Khalil al-Sakakini ( January 23, 1878 - August 13, 1953) was a Palestinian Christian, Arab Orthodox, educator, scholar, poet, and Arab nationalist. Khalil Sakakini was born into a Arab Christian family in Jerusalem on January 23, 1878. He received his schooling in Jerusalem at the Greek Orthodox school, at the Anglican Christian Mission Society (CMS) College founded by Bishop Blyth, and at the Zion English College where he read Literature. Later, Sakakini travelled to the United Kingdom and from there to the United States to join his brother Yusif, a travelling salesman in Philadelphia. During his nine-month stay in America, he translated and wrote...

ISBN: 978-3-6399-2346-9
Издательство: Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Hans Tambs Lyche (21 November 1859 – 16 April 1898) was a Norwegian engineer, unitarian minister, journalist and magazine editor. He served as a Unitarian minister in Wisconsin and Massachusetts. He held church services in English and lectured on Norwegian literature. While he lived in the United States, he also published articles in the Norwegian publication, Dagbladet, Nyt Tidsskrift and other Norwegian journals, as well as in certain American magazines. He argued for women's rights, universal suffrage, library services and electric railways. He believed more leisure time, greater social and technical...

ISBN: 978-6-1329-1403-3
Издательство: Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011