Robinson Crusoe Written Anew for Children by James Baldwin Знаменитое произведение Дефо в пересказе для детей Джеймсом Болдуином оказалось неплохим пособием для чтения и для изучающих английский язык иностранцев, так как книга написана простым, хорошим литературным языком. Чтение этой книги для владеющих английским на среднем уровне вообще не составит труда, да и начинающие, хоть и со словарем, но без особых проблем одолеют. Сужу по себе: английский учу только 2 года.
Set in Greenwich Village, Harlem, and France, among other locales, Another Country is a novel of passions--sexual, racial, political, artistic--that is stunning for its emotional intensity and haunting sensuality, depicting men and women, blacks and whites, stripped of their masks of gender and race by love and hatred at the most elemental and sublime. In a small set of friends, Baldwin imbues the best and worst intentions of liberal America in the early 1970s.
Philadelphia-based Baldwin began designing and building steam locomotives in the 1830s and gave the U.S. many of its most significant and famous types of steam, and diesel-electric motive power. This history of Baldwin is illustrated with a large selection of rare, superb builder's photos and other publicity images from the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania, with the book's large page size showcasing the detail and crisp quality of the images in this outstanding collection. Author Brian Solomon provides technical histories of each locomotive along with builder's specifications and explanations of how the locomotives
Added by: willkei | Karma: 79.89 | Fiction literature | 9 September 2010
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James Baldwin Go Tell It on the Mountain
Semiautobiographical novel by James Baldwin, published in 1953. Based on the author's experiences as a teenaged preacher in a small revivalist church, the novel describes two days and a long night in the life of the Grimes family, particularly the 14-year-old John and his stepfather Gabriel. It is a classic of contemporary African-American literature. Baldwin's description of John's descent into the depths of his young soul was hailed as brilliant, as was his exploration of Gabriel's complex sorrows. The novel teems with biblical references.
No book is better for introducing children ages 6 to 9 to legendary historical figures than this collection of stories admirably retold by James Baldwin at the beginning of the last century.
It's a good book (for children and teachers) that can't be missed.
