Format: PDF (117 p.). Size: 422 kb. Language: English. Affairs, obsessions, ardours, fantasy, myth, legend and dream, fear, pity and violence - this magnificant collection of stories illuminates all corners of the human experience. The basement room. The end of the party. I spy. The innocent. A drive in the country. Across the bridge. Jubilee. Brother. Proof positive. A chance...
"Our Man In Havana" (1958) is amusing and entertaining "nonsense" by British author Graham Greene about the British intelligence services ( MI5 MI6 ). The "nonsense" became reality in the 1960s with Fidel Castro and the construction of missile bases in Cuba by the USSR in 1963. It was adapted into a film of the same name in 1959, directed by Carol Reed and starring Alec...
Written in 1931 and published the following year, Aldous Huxley's Brave New World is a dystopian - or anti-utopian - novel. In it, the author questions the values of 1931 London, using satire and irony to portray a futuristic world in which many of the contemporary trends in British and American society have been taken to extremes. Though he was already a best-selling author,...
The Moon and Sixpence is a short novel of 1919 by William Somerset Maugham based on the life of the painter Paul Gauguin. The story is told in episodic form by the first-person narrator as a series of glimpses into the mind and soul of the central character, Charles Strickland, a middle-aged English stockbroker who abandons his wife and children abruptly to pursue his desire to...
In Theatre, W. Somerset Maugham–the author of the classic novels Of Human Bondage and Up at the Villa–introduces us to Julia Lambert, a woman of breathtaking poise and talent whose looks have stood by her forty-six years. She is one of the greatest actresses England–so good, in fact, that perhaps she never stops acting. It seems that noting can ruffle her satin feathers, until...
Cambridge University Press, 2008. — 156 p. Covers all the most useful collocations (common word combinations) at Advanced level to help make your English more fluent and natural-sounding. A good knowledge of collocations (typical word combinations) is essential for fluent and natural-sounding English, and knowledge of collocations is often tested in advanced level examinations...
