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Test: British Literature

Marek Vít | 16. 5. 2006 | komentáře: 7

Vyzkoušejte si své znalosti britské literatury. Pokračování článku »

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Anthony Burgess: A Clockwork Orange

Petra Luňáková | 4. 2. 2008 | komentáře: 7

The Novel was published in 1962 and in 1971 it was made into a film of 131 minutes (directed by Stanley Kubrick). It has 3 parts of 7 chapters. Pokračování článku »

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George Orwell: Nineteen Eighty-Four

Petra Luňáková | 12. 2. 2008 | komentáře: 1

„Big Brother Is Watching You.“ Pokračování článku »

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The greatest of 'THE DAMNED POETS'

Petra Luňáková | 20. 4. 2008 | komentáře: 11

„The only unbearable thing is that nothing is unbearable.“ Pokračování článku »

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The Road by Cormac McCarthy: A book that carries the fire

Lamanai2 | 26. 9. 2008

This review includes NO SPOILERS! It addresses a shocking but wonderful book, awarded the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 2007. Pokračování článku »

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Days of the week: The gods we meet every day

Láďa Lamanai Sedlák | 27. 2. 2008 | komentáře: 4

What questions would you ask gods if you met them in today's world? In Britain, you can have an afternoon tea party with Frigg, the Norse goddess of beauty and Odin's wife. Or in the USA, you can kick up the engine of your roadster and take a ride on the Route 66 with Thor, the old Germanic and Norse god of thunder, with your hair running wild by the wind. Pokračování článku »

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The fascinating story of question mark

Láďa Lamanai Sedlák | 27. 2. 2008 | komentáře: 3

There are various ways of how to mark interrogative clauses. In English, as well as in many other indo-european languages, we use a question mark. But have you ever wondered about its origin? Look! There just was one of them at the end of the sentence! It's beautiful. Like a swan neck, maybe… Pokračování článku »

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