Download or read book The House of Others written by Silvio D'Arzo and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The illegitimate son of a fortune teller, Ezio Comparoni (1920-52) never knew his father, rarely left his home town, and admitted no one to his home. His deliberate obscurity was compounded by his use of many pseudonyms, including Silvio d'Arzo, under which he wrote the remarkable novella and three stories collected in The House of Others. The novella The House of Others is among the rare perfect works of twentieth century fiction. In a desolate mountain village an old woman visits the parish priest, ostensibly to ask about dissolving a marriage. Gradually, as she probes for information on "special cases"--cases in which what is obviously wrong can also be irrefutably right--it becomes clear her true question is whether or not she might take her own life. The question is metaphysical, involving not only the woman's life but the priest's; and to it he has no answer.
Download or read book Translating Children s Literature written by Gillian Lathey and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-07-24 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Translating Children’s Literature is an exploration of the many developmental and linguistic issues related to writing and translating for children, an audience that spans a period of enormous intellectual progress and affective change from birth to adolescence. Lathey looks at a broad range of children’s literature, from prose fiction to poetry and picture books. Each of the seven chapters addresses a different aspect of translation for children, covering: · Narrative style and the challenges of translating the child’s voice; · The translation of cultural markers for young readers; · Translation of the modern picture book; · Dialogue, dialect and street language in modern children’s literature; · Read-aloud qualities, wordplay, onomatopoeia and the translation of children’s poetry; · Retranslation, retelling and reworking; · The role of translation for children within the global publishing and translation industries. This is the first practical guide to address all aspects of translating children’s literature, featuring extracts from commentaries and interviews with published translators of children’s literature, as well as examples and case studies across a range of languages and texts. Each chapter includes a set of questions and exercises for students. Translating Children’s Literature is essential reading for professional translators, researchers and students on courses in translation studies or children’s literature.
Download or read book Using Italian Vocabulary written by Marcel Danesi and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-08-07 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using Italian Vocabulary provides the student of Italian with an in-depth, structured approach to the learning of vocabulary. It can be used for intermediate and advanced undergraduate courses, or as a supplementary manual at all levels - including elementary level - to supplement the study of vocabulary. The book is made up of twenty units covering topics that range from clothing and jewellery, to politics and environmental issues, with each unit consisting of words and phrases that have been organized thematically and according to levels so as to facilitate their acquisition. The book will enable students to acquire a comprehensive control of both concrete and abstract vocabulary allowing them to carry out essential communicative and interactional tasks. • A practical topic-based textbook that can be inserted into all types of course syllabi • Provides exercises and activities for classroom and self-study • Answers are provided for a number of exercises
Download or read book Rough Animals written by Rae DelBianco and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-06-05 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 25 Best Thriller Books of the Summer—New York Post Best New Books Coming Out Summer 2018 —Southern Living 46 Great Books to Read This Summer—Nylon Dazzling Debuts"—WYPR, "The Weekly Reader" Summer Thrillers That Will Have You at the Edge of Your Chaise Lounge—Refinery29 8 New Books You Should Read This June—vulture.com What We Read, Watched, and Listened to in May—Outside “Furious and electric . . . a fever dream."—Publishers Weekly, *Starred Review!* Breaking Bad meets No Country for Old Men... Ever since their father's untimely death five years before, Wyatt Smith and his inseparably close twin sister, Lucy, have scraped by alone on their family's isolated ranch in Box Elder County, Utah. That is until one morning when, just after spotting one of their steers lying dead in the field, Wyatt is hit in the arm by a hail of gunfire that takes four more cattle with it. The shooter: a fever-eyed, fearsome girl-child with a TEC-9 in her left hand and a worn shotgun in her right. They hold the girl captive, but she breaks loose overnight and heads south into the desert. With the dawning realization that the loss of cattle will mean the certain loss of the ranch, Wyatt feels he has no choice but to go after her and somehow find restitution for what's been lost. Wyatt's decision sets him on an epic twelve-day odyssey through a nightmarish underworld he only half understands; a world that pitches him not only against the primordial ways of men and the beautiful yet brutally unforgiving landscape, but also against himself. As he winds his way down from the mountains of Box Elder to the mesas of Monument Valley and back, Wyatt is forced to look for the first time at who he is and what he’s capable of, and how those hard truths set him irrevocably apart from the one person he’s ever really known and loved. Steeped in a mythic, wildly alive language of its own, and gripping from the first gunshot to the last, Rough Animals is a tour de force from a powerful new voice.
Download or read book My Daddy is a Pretzel written by Baron Baptiste and published by Barefoot Books. This book was released on 2004 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sita says her mommy s a marine biologist. Sometimes, my daddy s a fish.
Download or read book The Journey Home from Grandpa s written by Jemima Lumley and published by Barefoot Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purple train speeds along the shiny railway track, the shiny railway track, the shiny railway track. The purple train speeds along the shiny railway track, on the journey home from Grandpa s.
Download or read book A Slow Air written by David Harrower and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2011-08-18 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Morna works as a cleaner in Edinburgh. She spends her time drinking, attempting affairs and trying to work out the mind of the twenty-year-old son with whom she shares her flat. Her elder brother, Athol, lives near Glasgow airport with his wife. The owner of a floor-tiling company, with two grown-up children, he's proud of his hard-won achievements since moving west. Between them, they have differing memories of their upbringing and their parents and definite opinions about each other. But these are left unsaid because Morna and Athol haven't spoken a word to each other in fourteen years . . . When Morna's son Joshua travels to see his uncle, he sets off a remarkable and life-changing series of events. A Slow Air by David Harrower premiered at the Tron Theatre, Glasgow, in April 2011, and transferred to the Traverse Theatre as part of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
Download or read book I Cinna The Poet written by Tim Crouch and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-06-11 with total page 53 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I, Cinna (The Poet) has one short scene in Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar where he is mistaken for someone else and killed by the mob. Now, in a new play by Tim Crouch, this unlucky man is given a chance to tell his story. Written for ages 11+, I, Cinna (The Poet) is a fusion of theatre, multimedia and creative writing tasks. Cinna asks his young audience to consider the relationship between words and actions, art and politics, self and society. During the performance he asks us to write alongside him: a small poem on a big theme. Originally commissioned for the World Shakespeare Festival which is produced by the Royal Shakespeare Company for London 2012 Festival. Shortlisted for the Writers' Guild Award for Theatre Play for Young People 2013.
Download or read book Taking Care of Baby written by Dennis Kelly and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-06-18 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'None of this is the truth. It's just people saying things. It's all subjective. There's the truth, and there's what people think is the truth, and it all depends on how you slant it...' Taking Care of Baby tackles the complex case of Donna McAuliffe, a young mother convicted of the murder of her two infant children. In a series of probing interviews the people in this extraordinary story, including Donna herself and her bewildered mother Lynn, reveal how they may have harmed those they sought to protect. Dennis Kelly's ambitious play uses the popular techniques of drama-documentary and verbatim theatre to explore how truth is compromised by today's information culture.
Download or read book Italian Vocabulary written by Marcel Danesi and published by Barron's Educational Series. This book was released on 1990 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than 5000 words and phrases are presented with their Italian translations. Words and phrases are categorized according to practical subject themes, which include numbers, measurements, words describing people, telephoning, shopping, the arts, travel, and many other categories. An English-to-Italian index provides quick reference to a word or phrase.
Download or read book The Story Tree written by and published by Barefoot Books. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What a monkey sees, a monkey does. They all buried their faces in their hands and sobbed back at him.
Download or read book The Love Me Bird written by Joyce Dunbar and published by Orchard (NY). This book was released on 2003 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Singing, "Love me! Love me!", the Love-Me Bird searches high and low for a true love. This sweet narrative by Joyce Dunbar is perfectly complemented by Sophie Fatus' elegant yet gentle illustrations. THE LOVE-ME BIRD is the sweet story of a small bird who will go to any lengths to find a love. At her friend, Shut-Eye, the owl's coaxing, she primps and preens and plays hard to get, to no avail. Her song is not answered. But after Shut-Eye advises her to change her tune, the Love-Me bird finally finds her true love.
Download or read book Just Like Sisters written by Angela McAllister and published by Pocket Books. This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Nancy and her accident-prone pen pal Ally meet for the first time, the unlikely duo discover that they are more like sisters than just good friends.
Download or read book Riddle Me This written by Hugh Lupton and published by . This book was released on 2007-03-01 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wacky riddles, witty puzzles and zany brainteasers from around the globe are the subject of Hugh Lupton's book, illustrated in colour by Sophie Fatus. Children and adults alike can enjoy testing their wits with these riddles and traditional riddling stories.
Download or read book The Barefoot Book of Monsters written by and published by Barefoot Books. This book was released on 2003 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Don't be scared of this collection! Experience spine- tingling encounters with some of the most outlandish creatures in the world. Essential reading for young monster lovers. Ages 3-7
Download or read book A Hen a Chick and a String Guitar written by Margaret Read MacDonald and published by . This book was released on 2005-10 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quack, moo and neigh along to this riotous cumulative song, which features animals of all shapes and sizes. The text comes with an audio CD that includes two versions of the song, both with and without vocals, so children can listen first and then sing along.
Download or read book Babushka written by Sandra Ann Horn and published by . This book was released on 2014-02-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet Babushka, a woman who is so busy focusing on the little things, that she hardly notices the miraculous events going on around her. This touching Christmas story shows that the more you give away in love, the more you will receive.
