British ​and American Short Stories (Penguin Readers) 1 csillagozás

British and American Short Stories (Penguin Readers)

Vigyázat! Cselekményleírást tartalmaz.

These stories paint colourful pictures of life in Britain and America in the past. We meet some unusual people. There's the dreamy boy who wakes up one day to find a bird making a nest in his hair! And there's the man who tries to catch a ghost. Some of the stories are very funny and others are quite frightening. Many have a twist at the end!

A művek szerzői: W. Somerset Maugham, William Saroyan, D. H. Lawrence, O. Henry, Saki, Mark Twain, F. Marion Crawford, Stephen Leacock, H. E. Bates

Tartalomjegyzék

A következő kiadói sorozatban jelent meg: Penguin Readers – Level 5 angol

>!
Pearson Education, London, 2008
80 oldal · ISBN: 9781405882392 · Illusztrálta: David Frankland

Kiemelt értékelések

Virág_>!
British and American Short Stories (Penguin Readers)

Elég sokféle történet bújik meg ebben a kis gyűjteményben karakter és cselekmény szempontjából is. Egyesek bizarrnak tűnnek, mások kedvesnek, míg valamelyik egy kis időre megállásra késztetett, de mindegyik egy általános érvényű mondanivalóra, társadalomszemléletre épül, vagy esetleg szimplán csak egy megoldatlan rejtély kerül középpontba, amire a történetben sem lelünk magyarázatra.


Népszerű idézetek

Virág_>!

'That is the way with the world,' he said. 'Always teling you what to do.' […] Ah, they are against letting a man live a quiet life.

13. oldal (The Barber's Uncle)

Virág_>!

A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.

29. oldal (The Rocking-Horse Winner)

Virág_>!

I was glad the world was there, so I could be there too. I was alone, so I was sad about everything, but I was glad too. I was so glad about everything that I was sad.

12. oldal (The Barber's Uncle)

Virág_>!

It came whispering from the springs of the rocking horse – and even the horse, bending its wooden head, heard it. The other toys heard it, and even the foolish little dog looked more foolish because he heard the secret whisper all over the house: 'There must be more money'
Bud nobody ever said it out loud. The whisper was everywhere, and therefore no one spoke it. Just as no one ever says: 'We are breathing' although breath is coming and going all the time.

19. oldal (The Rocking-Horse Winner)

Virág_>!

If you're lucky, you have money. That's why it's better to be born lucky than rich. If you're rich, you may lose your money. But if you're lucky, you will always get more money.

20. oldal (The Rocking-Horse Winner)


Hasonló könyvek címkék alapján

Whodunit?
Crime Story Collection (Penguin Readers)
Jeff VanderMeer – Ann VanderMeer (szerk.): The Big Book of Science Fiction
Margaret Atwood – Douglas Preston (szerk.): Fourteen Days
Diana Secker Tesdell (szerk.): Love Stories
Ann VanderMeer – Jeff VanderMeer (szerk.): The Big Book of Modern Fantasy
Paula Guran (szerk.): Weird Detectives
Servants of the Machine God
Mahvesh Murad – Jared Shurin (szerk.): The Djinn Falls in Love
The Greatest Ghost and Horror Stories Ever Written 4.