Showing posts with label Novel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Novel. Show all posts
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This amazing story is considered to be the first American fairy tale. Almost every native English speaker has watched the Wizard of Oz movie, which was made in 1939 but is still very popular today. The book was written in 1900, and this anniversary edition is a copy of the original publication.
The English in this book is medium level. It is the same as an English native speaker aged 10 +.
This is one of my favourite stories and I think most native English speakers have a warm and sentimental feeling about The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. It is a classic!
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The Wind In The Willows By Kenneth Grahame - English Story Book The Wind In The Willows By Kenneth Grahame Free Download
This book chronicles the escapades of four animal friends who live along a river in the English countryside--Toad, Mole, Rat, and Badger. Originally written as stories to amuse the author's only son, Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows became a children's classic.
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John Buchan wrote "The Thirty-Nine Steps" while he was seriously ill at the beginning of World War I. In it, he introduces his most famous hero, Richard Hannay, who, despite claiming to be an "ordinary fellow", is caught up in the dramatic race against a plot to devastate the British war effort. Hannay is hunted across the Scottish moors by police and a pitiless enemy in the corridors of Whitehall and, finally, at the site of th mysterious 39 steps. The best-known of Buchan's thrillers, this novel has been continuously in print since first publication and has been filmed three times. In this critical edition, Christopher Harvie's introduction interweaves the writing of the tale with the story of how John Buchan, publisher and lawyer, came in from the cold and, via "The Thirty-Nine Steps", ended the war as spymaster and propaganda chief. Other Buchan "World Classics" include "Witchwood" and "Greenmantle". --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Title: Great Expectations
Author: Charles Dickens
Finished: August 21
Pages: 544
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Publish Year: 2002
ISBN: 0141439564
A timeless classic, adapted to film, about an orphaned boy, Pip, reared by my sister and her husband, only to come into a large fortune by an unknown donor. Pip leaves his family behind on a quest to become a true gentleman and learn everything one of money needs to know. He falls in love with Estella only to have his heart broken over and over by the cold hearted woman.
Dickens writes dark and lonely well, and nothing is left out in this tale of fortune, forgiveness, and finding out the truth.
Though the story focuses on Pip and his life before and after money, it takes a turn into telling the story of all characters and how Pip was throw into this life without even realizing the knowledge he held, key secrets to his love’s real life and those around him.
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