The very Best of British:The American's guide to speaking British The seven sections in this book contain over 1000 words and expressions that differ in their usage between the US and the UK.This book was collected and printed through the internet, Mr. Doody had just introduced it.
William Faulkner once called the short story "the most demanding form after poetry." In that form, he achieved splendid success. He wrote over a hundred short stories, published nearly all of them during his lifetime, and became one of the most frequently anthologized writers in the genre. Countless readers of Faulkner have first entered his world through one of the forty-two doors in Collected Stories. Reading Faulkner: Collected Stories attempts to make the process of reading America’s major modern writer less daunting. It is a useful guide to Faulkner’s allusions, distinctly southern phrases, difficult words, and historical contexts, as well as to the intricacies of the prose. Arranged according to the Vintage edition’s table of contents, the annotations provide information about the material, political, and literary cultures that found their way into Faulkner’s greatest short fiction, including commentary on such classics as "A Rose for Emily," and "Barn Burning." Such information ranges from descriptions of 1930s farm implements and Great War airplanes to analyses of real estate deals and racial protocols. The authors offer explications of Faulkner’s allusions to other artists and thinkers from Christopher Marlowe to Voltaire to T.S. Eliot. An excellent companion volume to Collected Stories for beginning and experienced readers of Faulkner, Reading Faulkner: Collected Stories allows a fascinating glimpse of Faulkner’s mind at work on the materials of the world around him.
Added by: lucius5 | Karma: 1660.85 | Non-Fiction, Other | 29 March 2009
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From his predictions about life and death in the Middle French court of Catherine de' Medici to his uncannily suggestive preconceptions of World War II, Michel de Nostradamus has aroused continual fascination—and commercialization—in the West. Today, many search his elliptical "centuries"—or collected verses—for new truths about 9/11 and End Times, while supermarket tabloids routinely falsify and exploit his pronouncements.
Product Description: Luís de Camões is world famous as the author of the great Renaissance epic The Lusíads, but his large and equally great body of lyric poetry is still almost completely unknown outside his native Portugal. In The Collected Lyric Poems of Luís de Camões, the award-winning translator of The Lusíads gives English readers the first comprehensive collection of Camões's sonnets, songs, elegies, hymns, odes, eclogues, and other poems--more than 280 lyrics altogether, all rendered in engaging verse.
