In the early third century AD the Roman Empire was a force to be
reckoned with, controlling vast territories and wielding enormous
political power from Scotland to the Sahara.
400 years later this mighty Empire was falling apart in the face of successive problems that the rulers failed to deal with.
ESCOTT, John : The missing coins (300 words) Penguin Readers Level 0
AUDIO ONLY (of 13-page book ) 300 headwords
Pete and Carla are both students at the University of Bath. One day in summer they are walking round the city and decide to look at some very old coins and stamps in a shop. Pete wants to buy some, but they are too expensive. Later that afternoon the coins are missing from the shop and the shopkeeper wants to find Pete.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra (unabridged)
A 19th-century literary masterpiece, tremendously influential in the arts and in philosophy, uses the Persian religious leader Zarathustra to voice the author's views, including the introduction of the controversial doctrine of the Übermensch, or "superman," a term later perverted by Nazi propagandists. A passionate, quasi-biblical style is employed to inspire readers.
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The Liar's Club Mary Karr’s The Liars’ Club, published in 1995 in New York, is a memoir of Karr’s turbulent childhood in the fictional eastern Texas town of Leechfield, and later in Colorado.
The memoir describes the sort of childhood that many people would wish to avoid. Mary’s parents fight constantly and eventually divorce only to remarry later.
Although the pages of The Liars’ Club are chock full of arguments, fights, and unsavory incidents of all kinds, the memoir was hugely successful. Readers probably also sense that underneath the surface turbulence, this dysfunctional family still loves each other.
8 mp3 + the book "Analysis, Context, and Criticism of The Liars' Club by Mary Karr.pdf"
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Mary Karr’s The Liars’ Club, published in 1995 in New York, is a memoir of Karr’s turbulent childhood in the fictional eastern Texas town of Leechfield, and later in Colorado.
