Added by: Maria | Karma: 3098.81 | Audiobooks | 20 April 2012
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You've probably heard of Henry VIII... He is horribly famous for: - marrying six unlucky wives - getting very carried away with his chopping block. But have you heard that Henry: - was a handsome hunk and sports star? - bricked up his bedroom door at night? Yes, even though he's dead, Henry's still full of surprises! Now you can get the inside story with Henry's secret diary and hear from Henry's victims before they lose their heads on his chopping block.
"The most wonderful natural feature I have ever seen". With these words the explorer William Gosse expressed the awe he and many others have felt at the natural phenomenon of Uluru. The first white person to reach the central Australian monolith, he gave it the name "Ayers Rock." But who was Henry Ayers, the man whose name is forever associated with Australia's most recognizable natural icon? And why should he still be remembered today?
Added by: Kahena | Karma: 11526.37 | Fiction literature | 14 February 2012
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Henry Pulling, a retired bank manager, meets his old aunt for the first time in over 50 years. She persuades him to travel with her. Through his aunt, a veteran of Europe's hotel bedrooms, Henry joins a shiftless, twilight society coming alive after a dull suburban lifetime.
8 lectures on 8 audio cassettes. Lecture 1: Shakespeare and Stratford; lecture 2: Shakespeare and the Elizabethan Theater; Lecture 3: Shakespeare and English history: Richard II; Lecture 4: kings and Commoners: Henry IV 1 & 2 and Henry V; Lecture 5: Twelfth Night and Shakespearean Comedy; Lecture 6: the Merchant of Venice and the Reinterpretation of Shakespeare; Lecture 7: Hamlet and the Perplexing World; Lecture 8: King Lear
American Theorists of the Novel - Henry James, Lionel Trilling, Wayne C. Booth (Routledge CriticalWhy read James, Trilling, and Booth? The answer may not be immediatelyobvious. Writing from the 1860s and through to the early twentieth century, Henry James (1843–1916) is most widely renowned for works such as The Wings of the Dove (1902b), The Golden Bowl (1904), The Portrait of a Lady (1881), and his ghost story, ‘The Turn of the Screw’ (1898). But he also published ground-breaking prefaces to his own fiction and numerous critical essays. Lionel Trilling (1905–75) became well known as a literary critic in a 1950s academic scene dominated by, as we shall see, the ‘New Criticism’ of earlier decades.