An enthusiast's look at American comedies and the physical comedians who made them great. Legendary screen comedian Jerry Lewis once said, "The premise of all comedy is a man in trouble." The films that endeared Lewis and others to us hinged on the physical assault of their hero, the pie in the face or slip on the banana peel that reduced the movie star to the level of the audience.
Lewis Carroll - Alice's Adventures under Ground - An original handwritten and illustrated manuscript from the British Library
Added by: huelgas | Karma: 1208.98 | Fiction literature | 24 December 2008
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This manuscript is the original version of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll, the pen-name of Charles Dodgson, an Oxford mathematician.
Dodgson was fond of children and became friends with Lorina, Alice and Edith Liddell, the young daughters of the Dean of his college, Christ Church. One summer's day in 1862 he entertained them on a boat trip with a story of Alice's adventures in a magical world entered through a rabbit-hole. The ten-year-old Alice was so entranced that...
Added by: Maria | Karma: 3098.81 | Non-Fiction, Audio | 13 June 2008
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Kevin Brownlow recorded interviews with many famous people from the silent film era.
Here he explores his sound archive with Michael Pointon.
Includes
snippets from Henry King, Alfred Hitchcock, Lewis Milestone, Clarence
Brown, Mary Pickford, Louise Brooks, Gloria Swanson, Buster Keaton and
Boris Karloff.
Word Power Made Easy (Norman Lewis)
* Do You Always Use the Right Word?
* Can You Pronounce It -- and Spell It -- Correctly?
* Do You Know How to Avoid Illiterate Expressions?
* Do You Speak Grammatically, Without Embarrassing Mistakes?
If
the answer to any of these questions is NO, you ought to read Word
Power Made Easy. Now thoroughly revised to eliminate outmoded
references and to to reflect current idioms, it remains the best and
quickest means to a better vocabulary in the English language.
Each
chapter ends with review. Each section ends with a progressive check.
Numerous tests will help you increase and retain the knowledge you
acquired. Word Power Made Easy does more than just ass words to you
vocabulary. It teaches ideas and a method of broadening knowledge as an
integral part of the vocabulary building process.
The Arabs in History - Bernard Lewis 'Whoever lives in our country, speaks our language, is brought up in
our culture and takes pride in our glory is one of us.'
Thus ran a
declaration of modern leaders of Arab states. But what exactly is an
Arab, and what has been their place in the course of human history? In
this well-established classic, Professor Lewis examines the key issues
of Arab development - their identity, the national revival which
cemented the creation of the Islamic state, and the social and economic
pressures that destroyed the Arab kingdom and created the Islamic
empire. He analyses the forces which contributed to that empire's
eventual decline, and the effects of growing Western influence. Today,
with the Arab world facing profound social and political challenges, it
constitutes an essential introduction to the Arabs and their history.
