The Old Man And The Sea

"Wish to look about the store? Oh, by all means, sir," said the manager of one of the biggest book stores in New York. He called to his assistant, "Just show this gentleman our ancient classics – the ten-cent series." With this he dismissed me from his mind. In other words he had guessed at a glance that I was a professor. The manager of the biggest book store cannot be deceived in a customer. He knew I would hang around for two hours, get in everybody's way, and finally buy the…

The Man Who Planted Trees Jean Giono http://www.idph.net 20 de outubro de 2002 2 IDPH http://www.idph.net Preface Jean Giono, the only son of a cobbler and a laundress, was one of France’s greatest writers. His prodigious literary output included stories, essays, poetry, plays, filmscripts, translations and over thirty novels, many of which have been translated into English. Giono was a pacifist, and was twice imprisoned in France at the outset and conclusion of World War…

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Vida I used to rule the world Seas would rise when I gave the word Now in the morning and I sleep alone Sweep the streets I used to own I used to roll the dice Feel the fear in my enemy’s eyes Listen as the crowd would sing “Now the old king is dead! Long live the king!” One minute I held the key Next the walls were closed on me And I discovered that my castles stand Upon pillars of salt and pillars of sand […] MARTIN, C. Viva la vida, Coldplay. In: Viva la vida or Death and all his…

0 The Canterbury Tales by GEOFFREY CHAUCER A READER-FRIENDLY EDITION Put into modern spelling by MICHAEL MURPHY GENERAL PROLOGUE 1 GENERAL PROLOGUE The opening is a long, elaborate sentence about the effects of Spring on the vegetable and animal world, and on people. The style of the rest of the Prologue and Tales is much simpler than this opening. A close paraphrase of the opening sentence is offered at the bottom of this page.1 When that April with his…

The little prince Antoine de Saint-Exupery 2 Chapter 1 Once when I was six years old I saw a magnificent picture in a book, called True Stories from Nature, about the primeval forest. It was a picture of a boa constrictor in the act of swallowing an animal. Here is a copy of the drawing. In the book it said: “Boa constrictors swallow their prey whole, without chewing it. After that they are not able to move, and they sleep through the six months that they need for…

city? Is it the buildings, the weather, the people? It is the people who make a city, and to know a city, you must know its people. You must know what makes them laugh and cry, know the small details of their everyday lives. What kind of people lived in New York at the beginning of the twentieth century? Are New Yorkers different now from a hundred years ago? Cities grow bigger with the years, new buildings are put up and old buildings are pulled down, horses are replaced by cars and…

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald Download free eBooks of classic literature, books and novels at Planet eBook. Subscribe to our free eBooks blog and email newsletter. Then wear the gold hat, if that will move her; If you can bounce high, bounce for her too, Till she cry ‘Lover, gold-hatted, high-bouncing lover, I must have you!’ —THOMAS PARKE D’INVILLIERS  The Great Gatsby Chapter 1 I n my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that

Brasileira de Tradutores Nº. 17, Ano 2008 “SHAKESPEARE IN THE BUSH” - HISTÓRIA E TRADUÇÃO RESUMO Lenita Rimoli Esteves Universidade de São Paulo leries@uol.com.br Francis Henrik Aubert Universidade de São Paulo fhaubert@hotmail.com Este trabalho é uma proposta de tradução para um texto amplamente conhecido, escrito por uma antropóloga na década de 1960, que narra sua experiência junto à tribo dos Tiv, na África Ocidental. “Shakespeare in the bush”, de Laura Bohannan, é um “sucesso”…

25 SYLLABLE* There are three syllables in the word "expensive" : "ex - pen - sive", and two syllables in the word "husband" : "bus - band". HOW MANY SYLLABLES ARE THERE IN THE WORD "EXPENSIVE" ? There are three syllables in the word "expensive" HOW MANY SYLLABLES ARE THERE IN THE WORD "HUSBAND" ?/ There are two syllables in the word "husband" We say "cheaper than", but not "expensiver than",/ because the adjective"cheap" has only one syllable, whilst the adjective "expensive" has three…