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zjednodušená anglická četba, vhodná při přípravě na zkoušku FCE jako doplňkový materiál ( úroveň B2 - Upper-Intermediate, slovní zásoba 2 200 slov)věk 16+

Adam Bede – to największe arcydzieło George Elliot, niewątpliwie jej najlepsza i najbardziej charakterystyczna powieść. To jeden z nieśmiertelnych klasyków literatury. Angielska prowincja, życie prostych farmerów, ich codzienne zmagania z przyrodą, ich codzienne smutki i troski oraz czysta miłość, która prowadzi do więzienia. Wspaniale opisane realia początku XIX wieku, bo też właśnie realistyczna była wówczas angielska literatura, ale Adam Bede to jeszcze silniej i dobitniej podkreśla. Przesłanie autorki niesie się na kartach:

Niezwykłe przygody Olivera Twista, sympatycznego i dobrego chłopca, urodzonego w schronisku dla bezdomnych, ciekawią, wzruszają i bawią od ponad stu pięćdziesięciu lat zarówno młodzież, jak i dorosłych. W Londynie, do którego ucieka z sierocińca, Oliver trafia do gangu miejscowych złodziejaszków, którym rządzi Fagin. Wyciągnięty z marginesu przez pana Brownslowa, zostaje porwany ... Wartka akcja, niezapomniane postacie, Dickensowski humor i plastyczny opis XIX-wiecznego, pełnego kontrastów Londynu ? to główne walory jednej z najsłynniejszych postaci na świecie.

Over the course of his long life Wordsworth revised and altered his early works considerably, and readers today are often familiar only with these last revised versions. This edition is particulary important in that it presents the poems in order of composition and in a textual form as near as possible to their earliest completed state. This is invaluable for those interested in tracing the development of Wordsworth's art, and also gives the modern reader the opportunity to share something of the experience of Wordsworth's contemporaries such as Keats, Shelley, Hazlitt, and Lamb who would have read the poems when they were first completed.

Folded toilet paper from Hotels and B & B's, photographed by Stephen Gill. Signed copy.

Stephen Gill has learnt to haunt the places that haunt him. His photo-accumulations demonstrate a tender vision factored out of experience; alert, watchful, not overeager, wary of that mendacious conceit, "closure." There is always flow, momentum, the sense of a man passing through a place that delights him. A sense of stepping down, immediate engagement, politic exchange. Then he remounts the bicycle and away. Loving retrievals, like a letter to a friend, never possession… What I like about Stephen Gill is that he has learnt to give us only as much as we need, the bones of the bones of the bones... --Iain SinclairContinuing to photograph where his award-winning book Hackney Wick left off, Stephen Gill also made Archaeology in Reverse in this personally cherished area of East London. Still making pictures with the camera he bought at Hackney Wick market for 50 pence, for this volume Gill focuses on things that do not yet exist.This magnificently produced book features traces and clues of things to come in a poetic, sometimes eerie and quiet photographic study of a place in a state of limbo prior to the rapid transformation that the area faces during the build-up to the Olympics in 2012.