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English Reading - Чтение на английском Arthur Conan DOYLE - The Adventure of the Empty House

Рассылка "English Reading" - http://www.english-reading-time.blogspot.com Посмотреть архив выпусков - http://www.english-2days.narod.ru/archive.html . Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930) Born in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. He studied medicine at Edinburgh, but later gave it up. He wrote A Study in Scarlet (1887, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1891-3, The White Company (1890, The War in South Africa (1902. It was in the spring of the year 1894 that all London was interested, and the fashionable ...

2012-10-01 02:20:19 + Комментировать

English Reading - Чтение на английском Kate CHOPIN - The Awakening (+VideoBook)

Рассылка "English Reading" - http://www.english-reading-time.blogspot.com Посмотреть архив выпусков - http://www.english-2days.narod.ru/archive.html . Kate Chopin (185 0 - 1904) Born in St Louis, Missouri, USA. Educated in St Louis, she wrote At Fault (1890, Bayou Folk (1894, A Night in Acadie (1897, The Awakening (1899. A green and yellow parrot, which hung in a cage outside the door, kept repeating over and over: Allez vous-en! Allez vous-en! Sapristi! That's all right! He could speak a little ...

2012-09-21 11:32:52 + Комментировать

English Reading - Чтение на английском Benjamin FRANKLIN - The Autobiography

Рассылка English Reading - http://www.english-reading-time.blogspot.com Посмотреть архив выпусков - http://www.english-2days.narod.ru/archive.html . Benjamin Franklin (170 6 - 1790) Born in Boston, Massachusetts. In 1723 he moved to Philadelphia where by 1730 he had become sole owner of a successful business. In 1757-1762/1764-1775 he worked as a diplomat in England, helped negotiate a peace treaty with Great Britain to be signed in 1783. He was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. Published P...

2012-09-19 20:58:15 + Комментировать

English Reading - Чтение на английском LiLyan STRATTON - Reno

Рассылка English Reading - http://www.english-reading-time.blogspot.com Lilyan Stratton (1 882 -1 928 ) Born in Crisfield, Maryland, USA. Started as a newspaper agent, later became an actress, an investor. Wrote four novels: Reno , Homing , Feminine Philosophy , The Wife's Lesson. <Dull in Reno? Why no; how can one be bored in this delightful `big little city' when here you will find a concentration of all the most picturesque phases of life-a conglomeration of gaiety and tragedy, humor and drama, frivolit...

2012-09-07 10:06:04 + Комментировать

English Reading - Чтение на английском John STRACHEY - The Adventure of Living

Рассылка English Reading - http://www.english-reading-time.blogspot.com John St Loe Strachey (1901 - 1963) Born in Guildford, Surrey, England. He studied at Oxford, became a Labour Member of Parliament. He participated in World War 2, was a minister of food, secretary of state for war. But though I was so fully convinced that the doors of The Spectator were shut against me, I was, of course, determined that my two reviews should, if possible, make the editors feel what a huge mistake they had made and what...

2012-09-06 00:24:06 2 комментария

English Reading - Чтение на английском Joseph CONRAD - The Secret Agent

Рассылка English Reading - http://www.english-reading-time.blogspot.com Joseph Conrad (Josef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski) (1857 - 1924) Born in Berdichev, the Ukraine. After his service in the British merchant navy he got the British citizenship in 1886. He wrote Almayer's Folly (1895, The Nigger of the Narcissus (1897, Lord Jim (1900, Nostromo (1904, The Secret Agent (1907, Under Western Eyes (1911, Chance (1914) and many short stories. Mr Verloc, going out in the morning, left his shop nominally in charge...

2012-09-05 16:22:06 + Комментировать

George Orwell - Animal Farm (+Cartoon)

Рассылка English Reading - http://www.english-reading-time.blogspot.com George Orwell (Eric Arthur Blair) (1903 - 1950) Born in Motihari, Bengal, India. He studied at Eton, served in Indian Imperial Police, and soon moved to London, later to Paris. He fought for the Republicans in Spain, worked a war correspondent in the World War II period. He wrote Down and Out in Paris and London (1933, Burmese Days (1934, A Clergyman's Daughter (1935, Keep the Aspidistra Flying (1936, The Road to Wigan Pier (1936, Homa...

2012-09-04 08:21:08 + Комментировать

English Reading - Чтение на английском Winston CHURCHILL - Richard Carvel

Рассылка English Reading - http://www.english-reading-time.blogspot.com Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (1874 - 1965) Born in Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire, England. He trained at Sandhurst Military Academy. In 1940-1945/1951-1955 he was appointed prime minister. In 1953 was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. I take no shame in the pride with which I write of my grandfather, albeit he took the part of his Majesty and Parliament against the Colonies. He was no palavering turncoat, like my Uncle Gr...

2012-09-03 07:26:38 + Комментировать

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2012-09-01 08:25:42 + Комментировать

English Reading - Чтение на английском Jerome K. JEROME

Рассылка English Reading - http://www.english-reading-time.blogspot.com Jerome Klapka Jerome (1859 - 1927) Born in Walsall, Staffordshire, England. He worked a clerk, schoolmaster, reporter, actor, journalist, and editor of a weekly. In 1889 he wrote the well-known novel Three Men in a Boat , in 1900 - Three Men on the Bummel and in 1902 - Paul Kelver . A picture would have come home from the frame-maker's, and be standing in the dining-room, waiting to be put up; and Aunt Podger would ask what was to be d...

2012-08-31 11:20:35 + Комментировать