Added by: lucius5 | Karma: 1660.85 | Fiction literature | 11 February 2010
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Animal Farm: 50th Anniversary Edition
Since its publication in 1946, George Orwell's fable of a workers' revolution gone wrong has rivaled Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea as the Shortest Serious Novel It's OK to Write a Book Report About. (The latter is three pages longer and less fun to read.) Fueled by Orwell's intense disillusionment with Soviet Communism, Animal Farm is a nearly perfect piece of writing, both an engaging story and an allegory that actually works.
Each unit has a story, depicted on large Story cards and recorded on the CD and cassette. The Story cards are easy to use; they have the story text on the back, allowing the teacher to disclose the story bit by bit. When children act out the stories, these can be attached to the wall so that the teacher has his/her hands free to show the children the actions.
Day One Trader is the exclusive story of John Sussex on his journey from son of a Basildon factory worker, leaving school at 16, to successful City financier and member of the Liffe board. Providing a unique insight to this competitive and often brutal industry, readers will discover the tactics used by dealers to survive the jungle of the pits in a story that chronicles the floor banter and characters that made Liffe a global derivatives powerhouse.
Added by: englishcology | Karma: 4552.53 | Fiction literature | 7 February 2010
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It seems as if Hesse knows how to create an interesting proposition or idea for the story without knowing how to make the transformations in the story of equal interest. So too the characters of these stories do not seem very rich and rounded but rather abstract embodiments of a certain idea or concept.
Based on a true story! The Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence was a marvel of art, architecture, and engineering. But it lacked a finishing ornament, a crown—a dome! The city fathers had a solution: to invite the finest masters to compete for the chance to design a dome. The rumors of this contest reached the ears of Filippo Brunelleschi, better known in Florence as Pippo the Fool.
