English Journey

Author : Beryl Bainbridge
Publisher : Carroll & Graf Pub
ISBN 13 : 9780786704200
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book English Journey, Or, The Road to Milton Keynes written by Beryl Bainbridge and published by Carroll & Graf Pub. This book was released on 1997 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author retains the style of J.B. Priestly while retracing the steps of his 1933 "English Journey" to capture the changes that half a century has brought to their native land

Author : John Boynton Priestley
Publisher : London ; Melbourne : W. Heinemann
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book English Journey written by John Boynton Priestley and published by London ; Melbourne : W. Heinemann. This book was released on 1949 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Boynton Priestley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780140042740
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book English Journey Being a Rambling But Truthful Account of what One Man Saw and Heard and Felt and Thought During a Journey Through England During the Autumn of the Year 1933 written by John Boynton Priestley and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Donna Brook
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Journey of English written by Donna Brook and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Read about the history of the most popular language of the thousands spoken in the world today.

Author : Gena K. Gorrell
Publisher : Tundra Books
ISBN 13 : 1770490795
Total Pages : 151 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Say What? written by Gena K. Gorrell and published by Tundra Books. This book was released on 2012-12-18 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than a million words, weird spellings, words that are spelled the same but pronounced differently or vice versa. Where on Earth did the English language come from? The answer is that English isn’t just the speech of one nation. It’s the memory of thousands of years of history. It tracks the places people came from, the places they went, the adventures they had, the friends and enemies they made, the battles they won and lost. As English changed and grew, it became a jumble of sounds, words, and rules from countless languages and nations. And it’s still changing and growing every day. More than seventy percent of all English words were born someplace other than England. That’s why English can be so confusing and inconsistent. And that’s why English is the richest, most international, and most versatile language in the world. This innovative book takes us on a journey through time to unravel and demystify the story of English. Word games, intriguing facts, and tricky quizzes add an element of fun while enriching readers’ knowledge and understanding.

Author : Wu Cheng'en
Publisher : Asiapac Books Pte Ltd
ISBN 13 : 9812298894
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Journey to the West written by Wu Cheng'en and published by Asiapac Books Pte Ltd. This book was released on 2018-08-14 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bestselling Journey to the West comic book by artist Chang Boon Kiat is now back in a brand new fully coloured edition. Journey to the West is one of the greatest classics in Chinese literature. It tells the epic tale of the monk Xuanzang who journeys to the West in search of the Buddhist sutras with his disciples, Sun Wukong, Sandy and Pigsy. Along the way, Xuanzang's life was threatened by the diabolical White Bone Spirit, the menacing Red Child and his fearsome parents and, a host of evil spirits who sought to devour Xuanzang's flesh to attain immortality. Bear witness to the formidable Sun Wukong's (Monkey God) prowess as he takes them on, using his Fiery Eyes, Golden Cudgel, Somersault Cloud, and quick wits! Be prepared for a galloping read that will leave you breathless!

Author : William M. Hamlin
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191507024
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Montaigne's English Journey written by William M. Hamlin and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2013-11-14 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Montaigne's English Journey examines the genesis, early readership, and multifaceted impact of John Florio's exuberant translation of Michel de Montaigne's Essays. Published in London in 1603, this book was widely read in seventeenth-century England: Shakespeare borrowed from it as he drafted King Lear and The Tempest, and many hundreds of English men and women first encountered Montaigne's tolerant outlook and disarming candour in its densely-printed pages. Literary historians have long been fascinated by the influence of Florio's translation, analysing its contributions to the development of the English essay and tracing its appropriation in the work of Webster, Dryden, and other major writers. William M. Hamlin, by contrast, undertakes an exploration of Florio's Montaigne within the overlapping realms of print and manuscript culture, assessing its importance from the varied perspectives of its earliest English readers. Drawing on letters, diaries, commonplace books, and thousands of marginal annotations inscribed in surviving copies of Florio's volume, Hamlin offers a comprehensive account of the transmission and reception of Montaigne in seventeenth-century England. In particular he focuses on topics that consistently intrigued Montaigne's English readers: sexuality, marriage, conscience, theatricality, scepticism, self-presentation, the nature of wisdom, and the power of custom. All in all, Hamlin's study constitutes a major contribution to investigations of literary readership in pre-Enlightenment Europe.

Author : Julian Baggini
Publisher : Granta Publications
ISBN 13 : 1847089194
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Welcome to Everytown written by Julian Baggini and published by Granta Publications. This book was released on 2013-07-04 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study of an ordinary town in Northern England is “a thoughtful, sympathetic portrait of white working-class life…essential reading” (Guardian). What do the English think? Every country has a dominant set of beliefs and attitudes concerning everything from how to live a good life, how we should organize society, and the roles of the sexes. Yet despite many attempts to define England’s national character, what might be called the nation's philosophy has remained largely unexamined until now. Philosopher Julian Baggini pinpointed postcode S66 on the outskirts of Rotherham as England in microcosm—an area that reflected most accurately the full range of the nation's inhabitants, its most typical mix of urban and rural, old and young, married and single. He then spent six months living there, immersing himself in this typical English Everytown, in order to get to know the mind of a people. It sees the world as full of patterns and order, a view manifest in its enjoyment of gambling. It has a functional, puritanical streak, evident in its notoriously bad cuisine. In the English mind, men should be men and women should be women (but it's not sure what children should be). Sympathetic but critical, serious yet witty, Baggini's account of the English as represented by this particular spot on its map is both a portrait of its people and a personal story about being an alien in your own land. “Baggini turns out to be a sensitive observer who takes people and places on their own terms. He is also good at examining his own prejudices and fears.”—Independent “An insightful and often amusing investigation of what it means to be English.”—London Review of Books

Author : Eunji Park
Publisher : Seven Seas
ISBN 13 : 9781626924604
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mysterious Library: A Coloring Book Journey Into Fables written by Eunji Park and published by Seven Seas. This book was released on 2016-11-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mysterious Library: A Coloring Book Journey Into Fables will transport you on a quest into your favorite fairy tales, with over sixty-two pages of gorgeously-detailed pen and ink artwork to color, by Korean illustrator Eunji Park. This coloring book features a visual narrative about a young lady who discovers a strange library in the forest. As she picks up a book, she is transported into a storybook world, where she herself transforms into its heroine. To return home, she must find a hidden key, while traveling through various works of literature and fables, from Hansel and Gretel to Cinderella, from Alice in Wonderland to Rapunzel, and beyond. The Mysterious Library includes dazzling drawings of fanciful locations and beautiful scenery, fantastic animals, and an appealing heroine. The book is ideal for coloring and will delight colorists of all ages and skill levels.

Author : J. B. Priestley
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0008585687
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book English Journey written by J. B. Priestley and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2023-04-13 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘The finest book ever written about England and the English’ Stuart Maconie ‘J. B. Priestley is one of our literary icons of the 20th Century and it is time that we all became re-acquainted with his genius.’ Dame Judi Dench