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Introducing English grammar
Introducing English Grammar provides a basic grounding in English grammar, without going into too much detail or theory, and will lay the foundation for further grammatical studies. David Young presents English grammar in a coherent and lively way. He dispels the popular notion among students that grammar is simply a set of dreary rules and argues for the importance of grammar in describing the…
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History of American Literature
The wide use of the author's History of English Literature, the favor with which it has been received in all parts of the United States, and the number of earnest requests for a History of American Literature on the same plan, have led to the writing of this book. It has not appeared sooner because the author has followed his rule of making a careful first-hand study, not only of all the matter…
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Authority in language
Leading sociolinguists Lesley and James Milroy explore the perennially topical and controversial notion of 'correct' and 'incorrect' language. In this fully revised and updated third edition, they:* engage directly with the most recent arguments in the long-running debate over the teaching of Standard English in Britain* compare the langauge ideologies in Britain and the USA, invovling a…
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Semiotics
Following the successful Basics format, this is the book for anyone coming to semiotics for the first time. Using jargon-free language and lively, up-to-date examples, Semiotics: The Basics demystifies this highly interdisciplinary subject. Along the way, the reader will find out:* what is a sign?* which codes do we take for granted?* what is a text?* how can semiotics be used in textual…
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The Awful Secret
The Awful Secret
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Dead Men's Money
A mysterious one-eyed stranger, a midnight meeting at a lonely spot on the Scottish border, the secret password "Panama", and a corpse This is the situation Hugh Moneylaws, a young law clerk finds himself facing. Who murdered the man he was sent to meet, and why? With the only two men who knew the purpose of the meeting dead, it would seem a puzzle that would never be solved. Yet to save himself…
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The Lady of the Rivers
The Lady of the Rivers
The Lady of the Rivers tells the story of Jacquetta, daughter of the Count of Luxembourg, and kinswoman to half the royalty of Europe, who was married to the great Englishman John, Duke of Bedford, uncle to Henry VI. Widowed at the age of nineteen she took the extraordinary risk of marrying a gentleman of her household for love, and then carved out a life for herself as Queen Margaret of Anjou's…
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George Bernard Shaw
"Most people either say that they agree with Bernard Shaw or that they do not understand him. I am the only person who understands him, and I do not agree with him." -- G. K. C.
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The Author's Craft
The author of The Grand Babylon Hotel, How to Live on 24 Hours a Day, The Old Wives' Tale and much more, English writer Arnold Bennett's fictional and non-fictional works have stood the test of time. Bennett also wrote for stage and screen. The Author's Craft, contains some of Bennett's essays on the art of writing, with his thoughts on applying the craft to both novel and play writing.
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Anguished English
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The doorbell rang
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The languages of the world
An excellent overview of how all the world's main languages interconnect where they do. It also gives samples of the language with translation for a large number of languages.
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Narration
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The prelude
Selected sonnets and poems with bibliography and chronology of the life of Wordsworth.
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L'Ecole Des Femmes
Chrysalde. Vous venez, dites-vous, pour lui donner la main ? Arnolphe. Oui, je veux terminer la chose dans demain. Chrysalde. Nous sommes ici seuls ; et l'on peut, ce me semble, sans craindre d'etre ouis, y discourir ensemble : voulez-vous qu'en ami je vous ouvre mon coeur ? Votre dessein pour vous me fait trembler de peur ; et de quelque facon que vous tourniez l'affaire, prendre femme est a…
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How to Tell a Story and Other Essays (16 works)
How to tell a story.
In defence of Harriet Shelley.
Fenimore Cooper's literary offences.
Traveling with a reformer.
Private history of the "Jumping frog" story.
Mental telegraphy again.
What Paul Bourget thinks of us.
A little note to M. Paul Bourget.
The invalid's story.
The captain's story.
Stirring times in Austria.
Concerning the Jews.
From the "London times" of 1904.
At the…
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Franklin and the Tooth Fairy (Franklin the Turtle)
In this Franklin Classic Storybook, our hero discovers that, unlike most of his friends, he doesn't have teeth, and worries that he's missing out on the Tooth Fairy's magical visits.
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Reading Like a Writer
Long before there were creative-writing workshops and degrees, how did aspiring writers learn to write? By reading the work of their predecessors and contemporaries, says Francine Prose.
In *Reading Like a Writer*, Prose invites you to sit by her side and take a guided tour of the tools and the tricks of the masters. She reads the work of the very best writers—[Dostoyevsky][1], [Flaubert][2],…
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