This is the first unified history of the large, prestigious dictionaries of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, compiled in academies, which set out to glorify living European languages. The tradition began with the Vocabolario degli Accademici della Crusca (1612) in Florence and the Dictionnaire de l'Académie françoise (1694) in Paris, and spread across Europe - to Germany, Spain, England, Denmark, Sweden, the Netherlands, Portugal, and Russia - in the eighteenth century, engaging students of language as diverse as Leibniz, Samuel Johnson, and Catherine the Great.
Added by: snwwte | Karma: 3100.22 | Fiction literature | 22 October 2014
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The Royal Physician's Visit
Set in Denmark in the 1760s, The Royal Physician's Visit magnificently recasts the dramatic era of Danish history when Johann Friedrich Struensee, a German doctor from Altona, student of Enlightenment philosophers Diderot and Voltaire, and court physician to mad young King Christian, stepped through the aperture history had opened for him and became for two years the holder of absolute power in Denmark.
When the ghost of Hamlet’s father reveals the terrible secret of Elsinore, the result is chaos and tragedy for the young Prince of Denmark. Is he really mad? Who are his true friends? Does he love the beautiful Ophelia?
Accessible cartoon adaptation in modern English at beginner level. Wide range of activities on the four skills. PET-style activities. Trinity-style activities (Grades 4/5). Internet Projects on the Globe Theatre and paintings of Ophelia. Informative background information on the life of William Shakespeare and the world of Elizabethan England, the sources of Hamlet and a filmography. Exit test with answer key.
From the master storyteller, a startling new thriller set amidst the Danish Resistance It is June 1941 and Denmark is under German occupation. On the rocky coast of Denmark, two brothers, Harald and Arne Olufsen are straining against the rigid confines imposed by their elderly parents. Meanwhile, a network of MI6 spies is attempting to decipher an encrypted Luftwaffe radio signal which mentions the new Freya-Gerat - a rudimentary form of German radar equipment.
