Bronte 4 Harry Potter series – JK Rowling 5 To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee 6 The Bible 7 Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte 8 Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell 9 His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman 10 Great Expectations – Charles Dickens 11 Little Women – Louisa M Alcott 12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy 13 Catch 22 – Joseph Heller 14 Complete Works of Shakespeare 15 Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier 16 The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien 17 Birdsong – Sebastian
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BBC Learning English Talk about English Academic Listening Part 8 - Using the library This programme was first broadcast in 2001. This is not an accurate word-for-word transcript of the programme. ANNOUNCER: It’s time for Academic Listening - a series for students at English-speaking universities. Join Susan Fearn and members of the World Service class of 2001 for this programme that focuses on using the library. CLIP: Clare Woodhouse My name is Clare, welcome to University College London Library
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the validity of "fancy" or imagination; only practical things matter, and| |he puts his faith in abstract theories rather than direct observation of how real people behave, and | |what their real needs are. In his satirical portrait of Gradgrind, Dickens is taking aim at what he | |saw as the underlying principles operating in the industrial England of his time. It was a lop-sided | |approach to human life that denied some of the basic needs of human beings. | |The qualities
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the Noun…………………………………..10 2. Subcategorization of the Noun…………………………………….....10 3. Grammatical categories of the Noun…………………………….…..13 4. Irregular Plural Nouns………………………………………………..19 2 The usage of derived abstract nouns in “Oliver Twist” by Charles Dickens…….22 Conclusion………………………………………………………………………....29 Bibliography………………………………………………………………………30 INTRODUCTION
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Century. Useful for U.S. History, World History, Government, Economics. Dickens, Charles. A Tale of Two Cities. 1859. Available at The Literature Network (http://www.online-literature.com/dickens/twocities/). A comparison of London and Paris during the era of the French Revolution. Useful for World History. Dickens, Charles. Oliver Twist. 1838. Available on The Literature Network (http://www.online-literature.com/dickens/olivertwist/). A view of life in London during the Industrial Revolution
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Sketches by Boz “The Streets - Morning” The Victorian London streets is a familiar setting of Dicken's works with “Oliver Twist” and “A Christmas Carol” being some his most memorable works. In this passage Dickens offers the reader an alternative London, one without the energetic crowds but instead a much more disquieting place where the streets are dull and lifeless. We are met with a silent neighbourhood before the sun has risen and through the use of characters, setting and comparisons the
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Presentation Our Mutual Friend, written in the years 1864–65, is the last novel finished by Charles Dickens and is one of his most advanced works, consolidating savage parody with social examination. It fixates on, in the expressions of pundit J. Hillis Miller (citing from the character Bella Wilfer in the book), "cash, cash, cash, and what cash can make of life." In the opening sections a body is found in the Thames and recognized as that of John Harmon, a young fellow as of late came back to
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FAMOUS WRITERS & THEIR WORK Old English (Anglo-Saxon Period): writers: Caedmon and Cynewulf. work: Beowulf (by anonymous). 1200-1500: Middle English Period : Geoffrey Chaucer's(1343-1400) : The Canterbury Tales, Troilus and Criseyde and Book of the Duchess. Other Major Poems The House of Fame, The Parliament of Fowles, The Legend of Good Women. Prose Treatises Treatise on the astrolabe. Short Poems The Complaint of Chaucer to His Purse ,Truth, Gentilesse, Merciles Beaute, Lak of
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It is important begin our exploration of this interesting subject by identifying the fundamental ideology behind the notion that “readers are leaders”. This would give headway in our attempt to answer the bugging question as regards what writers are. So then, why are readers said to be leaders? Who is a leader? According to John Maxwell, a renowned author on the subject of leadership, “a leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way”.1 Note that the first key definer of a leader
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The English novel is an important part of English literature. This article focuses on novels, written in English, by novelists who were born or have spent a significant part of their lives in England, or Scotland, or Wales, or Northern Ireland (or Ireland before 1922)]. However, given the nature of the subject, this guideline has been applied with common sense, and reference is made to novels in other languages or novelists who are not primarily British where appropriate. Portrait of Samuel
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