Added by: Kahena | Karma: 11526.37 | Fiction literature | 28 February 2012
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Boleslaw Prus is often compared to Chekhov, and Prus’s masterpiece might be described as an intimate epic, a beautifully detailed, utterly absorbing exploration of life in late-nineteenth-century Warsaw, which is also a prophetic reckoning with some of the social forces—imperialism, nationalism, anti-Semitism among them—that would soon convulse Europe as never before. But The Doll is above all a brilliant novel of character, dramatizing conflicting ideas through the various convictions, ambitions, confusions, and frustrations of an extensive and varied cast.
Although his film career extended from the early days of sound to the British New Wave and beyond, Sir John Mills is nonetheless remembered as the archetypal hero of the Second World War. Regarded as an English 'everyman', his performances crossed the class divide and, in his easy transition from below decks to above, he came to represent a newly democratic masculine ideal.
New Pass Trinity 5-6 & ISE I is a comprehensive B1-level course book and includes a wealth of preparation material for the popular ISE I exam. It is suitable for 14 year-olds and above.
New Pass Trinity 5-6 & ISE I is a comprehensive B1-level course book and includes a wealth of preparation material for the popular ISE I exam. It is suitable for 14 year-olds and above.
Teacher’s Book with guidance on how to approach different task types with students.
Instead of Jane Tenison immortalised by Helen Mirren in PRIME SUSPECT, think Anna Travis in ABOVE SUSPICION, Lynda's wonderful new creation of a female detective for today. A rookie detective, Anna is about to embark on her first murder case - and it couldn't be a more serious, more gruesome series of murders. The killings began eight years before; now the body count is up to six.
