Complete and unabridged, Don Quixote is the epic tale of the man from La Mancha and his faithful squire, Sancho Panza. Their picaresque adventures in the world of seventeenth-century Spain form the basis of one of the great treasures of Western literature. In a new translation that “comes closest, among the modern translations, to the simple, intimate, direct style that characterizes Cervantes’ narrative,” Don Quixote is a novel that is both immortal satire of an outdated chivalric code and a biting portrayal of an age in which nobility was a form of madness.
Reader’s Book includes 10 texts (both fact and fi ction) that will expand on the Activity Book’s topics and real-life situations so students get further practice. Specifi cally, the texts: • Promote reading through appropriate material for students’ age and interests • Present models to review social practices of the language • Practice critical thinking and problem solving • Develop reading skills • Stimulate creativity and imagination • Provide new vocabulary words • Foster research skills After each text, you will fi nd some activities through which students can develop
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Hamlet: The Comedy
Hamlet, the Comedy contains the events of Shakespeare’s famous play, but as seen through the eyes of Amundi, court jester at the time. Amundi and his companions try figure out the meaning of it all, and if, indeed, it has meaning. This, in a milieu of treachery, revenge, and threats of war.
Added by: aidsami | Karma: 1662.05 | Fiction literature | 6 December 2019
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Make Your Own Mystery Novel
For people who want a quick and easy start to writing a novel or novella (for National Novel Writing Month, for example or impress that special someone), this provides a framework by using an Agatha Christie novel as a basis plot and characters. By keeping the plot premises and altering the rest, a difficult task is made easier
