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Arnold Bennett Tales of the Five Towns
At turns humorous, poignant, gripping, and occasionally tragic, this collection of short stories is peopled by a rich cast of characters. No one is all good or all bad in this volume, which includes “A Letter Home”, Bennett’s first short story. “Tales of the Five Towns” delves further into the lives of the residents of the fictional "Five Towns”, based on Bennett’s native Stoke-on-Trent, that Bennett also explores in novels like “Anna of the Five Towns” (1902) and "The Clayhanger Family” (1925)....
Engels | 5 uur 38 minuten (260 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2016
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Jonathan Swift Gulliver's Travels
When Lemuel Gulliver wakes up on an island after a shipwreck, tied on his hands and feet and with arrows pointed at him, you would think all hope is lost. But his captors are the size of a finger, their rope is as thin as thread, and their tiny arrows barely break the surface of his skin. This is not even as absurd as it gets on Gulliver’s travels at sea, but, hilariously, he has no emotional response to any of it. Jonathan Swift’s ‘Gulliver’s Travels’ (1726) is political satire at its best. Published...
Engels | 11 uur 13 minuten (513 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2016
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