Added by: decabristka | Karma: 68075.20 | Fiction literature | 16 March 2015
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A recently discovered novel written by Pearl S. Buck at the end of her life in 1973, The Eternal Wonder tells the coming-of-age story of Randolph Colfax (Rann for short), an extraordinarily gifted young man whose search for meaning and purpose leads him to New York, England, Paris, on a mission patrolling the DMZ in Korea that will change his life forever—and, ultimately, to love.
Boris Teaches You English by Using Songs Improved (PDF, audio embedded) Song 20 The Bangles - Eternal Flame
Sometimes it is difficult to make an accurate translation because we do not understand certain expressions that are very informal, or some phrasal verbs, idioms, etc. With this work Boris tries to explain to you, in a more standard English, those expressions and phrasal verbs so that you can all get, much better, the main idea of songs. It is not only a song with its lyrics. It has grammar, phrasal verb, and idiom explanations; and some pronunciation.
TMS - Eternal Chalice: The Grail in Literature and Legend Professor Monica Brzezinski Potkay (College of William and Mary) 14 lectures [30 minutes/lecture]
The goal of this course is to provide an overview of the many different ways writers of fiction and nonfiction have imagined, and reimagined, the object known as the Grail. We’ll look at how the Grail was invented as a powerful literary symbol in the late 12th and early 13th centuries by a group of medieval romancers who celebrated the Grail as a symbol of perfection.
Added by: Kahena | Karma: 11526.37 | Fiction literature | 11 September 2011
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The Queen and Lord M
On the morning of 20th June 1837, an eighteen-year-old girl is called from her bed to be told that she is Queen of England. The Victorian age has begun. The young queen’s first few years are beset with court scandal and malicious gossip: there is the unsavoury Flora Hastings affair, a source of extreme embarrassment to the queen; the eternal conflict between Victoria and her mother, and the young queen’s hatred of Sir John Conroy, her mother’s close friend.
