Linda Grant Pořadí knih

From the award-winning novelist, a vibrant imagining of the tumultuous world of early twentieth-century Europe through the eyes of Mina, a young girl whose adventures begin in a deep dark forest.

A dedicated study of how classical Latin erotic elegy was read in the Renaissance and helped shape the emergence of English love poetry. This book will be of interest to scholars of early modern literature and classical literature, in particular love, gender, sex and the body.

A brilliant novel about the London of today - a shifting, exciting, dangerous place where people search for the meaning of home. Peopled with wonderful characters and, as is usual for this author, a provocative story about our times.

Focusing on essential pronunciation skills, this series targets students from beginner to advanced levels, emphasizing stress, rhythm, and intonation. It includes a structured course plan and over fifty pages of supplemental activities dedicated to consonant and vowel sounds. The intermediate to advanced level introduces crucial pronunciation features, while a free website offers access to the complete audio program for both teachers and students, enhancing the learning experience.

This volume was conceived as a "best practices" resource for pronunciation and speaking teachers in the way that Vocabulary Myths by Keith S. Folse is one for reading and vocabulary teachers. Like others in the Myths series, this book combines research with good pedagogical practices.The book opens with a Prologue by Linda Grant (author of the Well Said textbook series), which reviews the last four decades of pronunciation teaching, the differences between accent and intelligibility, the rudiments of the English sound system, and other factors related to the ways that pronunciation is learned and taught.The myths challenged in this book are:§  Once you’ve been speaking a second language for years, it’s too late to change your pronunciation. (Derwing and Munro)§  Pronunciation instruction is not appropriate for beginning-level learners. (Zielinski and Yates)§  Pronunciation teaching has to establish in the minds of language learners a set of distinct consonant and vowel sounds.  (Field)§  Intonation is hard to teach. (Gilbert)§  Students would make better progress if they just practiced more. (Grant)§  Accent reduction and pronunciation instruction are the same thing. (Thomson)§  Teacher training programs provide adequate preparation in how to teach pronunciation (Murphy).The book concludes with an Epilogue by Donna M. Brinton, who synthesizes some of the best practices explored in the volume.

If you go back and look at your life there are certain scenes, acts, or maybe just incidents on which everything that follows seems to depend. If only you could narrate them, then you might be understood. I mean the part of yourself that you don't know how to explain.In the early Seventies a glamorous and androgynous couple known collectively as Evie/Stevie appear out of nowhere on the isolated concrete campus of a new university. To a group of teenagers experimenting with radical ideas they seem blown back from the future, unsettling everything and uncovering covert desires. But the varnished patina of youth and flamboyant self-expression hides deep anxieties and hidden histories. For Adele, with the most to conceal, Evie/Stevie become a lifelong obsession, as she examines what happened on the night of her own twentieth birthday and her friends' complicity in their fate. A set of school exercise books might reveal everything, but they have been missing for nearly forty years. From summers in Cornwall to London in the twenty-first century, long after they have disappeared, Evie/Stevie go on challenging everyone's ideas of what their lives should turn out to be.

This wonderfully gossipy novel whisks readers through the glamorous worlds of turn-of-the-century Vienna, Paris and London.

Irreverent archaeologist Dr Henry 'Indiana' Jones scours the furthest corners of the planet for priceless artifacts, hungry for knowledge about ancient civilizations. Though his quick wit, resourcefulness, and dashing good looks have gotten him this far, what happens when his Nazi foes attempt to wake the dead through sorcery?

Rodiče ze mě vychovávali myš. Z vděčnosti k Anglii, která jim poskytla útočiště, se rozhodli být myšmi. Tento stav myšovství, ochotu mlčet (ať už ve vztahu k ostatním vyvrhelům nebo mezi sebou), vést poklidný a skromný život, být pracovitý a poslušný, to očekávali i ode mě. Ať už byl strýček Sándor čímkoli, rozhodně ne myší. Když už něčím byl, tak nosorožcem pokrytým bahnem z řeky, roh vždy připravený k útoku. Ve čtvrti velkých obytných domů z červené cihly poblíž Marylebone Road, vyrůstá Vivien, citlivá dívka, která ráda čte, izolovaná svými plachými rodiči-uprchlíky jak od minulosti, tak od přítomnosti. Pak se objeví okouzlující strýc, v mohérovém obleku, s diamantovými hodinkami na zápěstí a s dívkou v kloboučku s potiskem leopardí kožešinky. Proč je strýc Sándor v domě jejích rodičů tak moc nevítaným hostem? Vivien to chce zjistit. Toto je příběh o přežití – o tom každodenním i hrdinském – a mladé dívce, kterou potkají překážky, dokonce zrady, které nevyhnutelně doprovází divoká touha po životě. Příběh se odehrává na pozadí Londýna v 70. letech 20. století. Nic než šaty je moudrý a citlivý román o šatech, které si vybíráme, osobnostech, do kterých se oblékáme a o tom, jak nás všechny utváří.

"Two middle-aged people meet in Liverpool, once the embarkation point for nine million future Americans, now a dying port. Alix has returned to her birthplace for her mother's death and to receive her dying wish. Joseph, an American architect, is there to build a hotel on the waterfront. Both are hiding a great deal - from others and from themselves.