Скачать книгу (размер 3 288 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 646) Аннотация: In Adam Bede (1859) George Eliot took the well-worn tale of a lovely dairy-maid seduced by a careless squire, and out of it created a wonderfully innovative and sympathetic portrait of the lives of ordinary Midlands working people — their labours and loves, their beliefs, their talk. Hugely popular in its own time, Adam Bede is one of the greatest examples of humane and liberal Victorian social…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: Walter Pater is increasingly being referred to by modern critics as an important precursor of modernist aesthetic theory. His study, The Renaissance, was also very influential in its own day, particularly on the work of Oscar Wilde who described it as my golden book... the very flower of decadence.
Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 112) Аннотация: A topic-based, three-level course which takes a fresh look at the needs and learning styles of young teenagers. Student's Book: — eight topic-based units providing balanced coverage of all four skills — a 'Grammar Help' section, providing consolidation and support — student learning objectives and self-evaluation — a 'Communication Bank' with mixed-ability pair and groupwork tasks
Скачать книгу (размер 2 768 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 544) Аннотация: An army of principles will penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot... it will march on the horizon of the world and it will conquer. Thomas Paine was the first international revolutionary. His Common Sense (1776) was the most widely read pamphlet of the American Revolution; his Rights of Man (1791-2) was the most famous defence of the French Revolution and sent out a clarion call for…
Скачать книгу (размер 401 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 80) Аннотация: A topic-based, three-level course which takes a fresh look at the needs and learning styles of young teenagers. Workbook: — eight units linked thematically to the Student's Book units — vocabulary extension activities — graded grammar exercises for each grammar point in the Student's Book — reading and writing skills development, with a guided writing syllabus introduced from level 2 — 'Reading…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 421 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 280) Аннотация: In this, his first collection of short stories, Hardy sought to record the legends, superstitions, local customs, and lore of a Wessex that was rapidly passing out of memory. But these tales also portray the social and economic stresses of 1880s Dorset, and reveal Hardy's growing scepticism about the possibility of achieving personal and sexual satisfaction in the modern world. By turns humorous,…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: When Marshal of the Nobility Pozdnyshev suspects his wife of having an affair with her music partner, his jealousy consumes him and drives him to murder. Controversial upon publication in 1890, The Kreutzer Sonata illuminates Tolstoy’s then-feverish Christian ideals, his conflicts with lust and the hypocrisies of nineteenth-century marriage, and his thinking on the role of art and music in…
Скачать книгу (размер 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 176) Аннотация: Chorus directors are always on the look-out for approachable show-stopping concert pieces guaranteed to evoke cries of 'Encore '. In this anthology for mixed voices are 24 such numbers ranging in character from classic, sentimental leave-taking items, through humorous or quirky pieces, to exciting fast-moving numbers that are sure to delight singers and audiences alike. There's an excellent mix…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 972 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 388) Аннотация: The Virginian (1902) is Owen Wister's classic popular romance, and the most significant shaping influence on cowboy fiction. Its narrator, fresh from the East, encounters in Wyoming cattle country a strange, seductive and often violent land where the handsome figure of the Virginian battles for supremacy with Trampas and other ne'er-do-wells. His courtship of the genteel Vermont schoolteacher,…
Скачать книгу (размер 5 129 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 1007) Аннотация: Provides coverage of 120,000 words and phrases, and over 190,000 translations. This work includes a treatment of contemporary Russian and English languages, including amniocentesis, global warming, information superhighway, multimedia, streetwise, and time-share. It also contains extra in-text grammatical information and extended constructions.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: Plautus was the single greatest influence on Western comedy. Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors and Moliere's The Miser are two subsequent classics directly based on Plautine originals. Plautus himself borrowed from the Greeks, but his jokes, rapid dialogue, bawdy humour, and irreverent characterizations are the original work of an undisputed genius. The comedies printed here show him at his best,…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: This excellent and accessible work includes many major texts in translation: Aristotle's Poetics, Longinus' On Sublimity, Horace's Art of Poetry, Tacitus' Dialogues, and extracts from Plato and Plutarch. Based on the highly praised Ancient Literary Criticism (OUP, 1972), it contains a new introduction and explanatory notes, and will be of enormous value to students both of Latin and Greek and of…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: This book has two major themes: firstly, it discusses psycholinguistic and cognitive aspects of language learning, and secondly, it looks at the contrast between universalist accounts of language learning and accounts which focus on individual differences between learners. Interwoven throughout is a focus on practical applications of these themes in task-based learning and language testing.…
Скачать книгу (размер 769 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 152) Аннотация: Psycholinguists have shown that the comprehension and production of even the simplest language is a highly complex, almost miraculous, process. This brief introduction shows how psycholinguistic research can act as a window to the workings of the human mind.
Скачать книгу (размер 779 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 154) Аннотация: A resource book of activities to prepare students for public examinations. Includes over 70 classroom activities ranging from raising awareness of individual sounds to full-scale listening projects. Emphasizes listening as a social and interactive skill. Helps learners to develop strategies to make sense of what they hear in English.
Скачать книгу (размер 718 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 142) Аннотация: Sociolinguistics is the study of the different ways in which different groups of people use language. This book provides a brief but comprehensive introduction to the field, making links with related disciplines such as history, politics, and gender studies.
Скачать книгу (размер 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 120) Аннотация: A four-level teenage course combining exciting new material with all the features that made the original Hotline so popular. — The unique loopback structure ensures constant revision and a realistic pace to the syllabus. A new photocopiable end-of-unit test for each unit consolidates the revision process. The grammar-based syllabus presents new structures using a problem-solving approach. This…
Скачать книгу (размер 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 120) Аннотация: A four-level teenage course combining exciting new material with all the features that made the original Hotline so popular. — The unique loopback structure ensures constant revision and a realistic pace to the syllabus. A new photocopiable end-of-unit test for each unit consolidates the revision process. — The grammar-based syllabus presents new structures using a problem-solving approach. This…
Скачать книгу (размер 340 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 68) Аннотация: A three-level course for pre-teenage students which bridges the gap between primary and secondary learning styles.
Скачать книгу (размер 3 257 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 640) Аннотация: The Later Tudors is an authoritative and comprehensive study of England between the accession of Edward VI and the death of Elizabeth I-a turbulent period of conflict amongst European nations, and between warring Catholics and Protestants. These internal and external struggles created anxiety in England, but by the end of Elizabeth's reign the nation had achieved a remarkable sense of political…