Lingue

The trip to Fiesole
One day Mr Beebe fixed a trip to Fiesole, a town near Florence. While the group (Mr Beebe, Lucy, old Mr Emerson, George, Miss Bartlett, Mr Eager and Miss Lavish) go to Fiesole, the driver kissed his girlfriend. Mr Eager didn’t want him to, and he asked him to stop. The driver said she was her sister, but Mr Eager didn’t believe h

Russell's external career has been chequered. The descendant of one of the great families of the Whig aristocracy, he has always delighted in standing up for his radical convictions with wilful stubbornness. In 1916, he was deprived of his lectureship at Trinity College, Cambridge, after his pacifist activities had brought him into conflict with the gov

A MODEST PROPOSAL: giustifica in modo razionale il mangiare bambini, naturalmente per scherzo; alcuni però lo prendono sul serio e lo denunciano. È in stile scientifico, sembra un trattato di culinaria! Dà dati precisi. Vuole rendere la gente consapevole del problema.
GULLIVER’S TRAVELS: non è esattamente un romanzo, ma un’allegoria. Gull

SETTINGS
All the story is set in a farm, known as the Manor Farm, somewhere in England. The historic setting is not clear, nor is it very important really, as the novel means to be a timeless criticism to communism. However, it may be set around the period in which Orwell has written it (1940s).

PLOT
The Manor Farm is led by Mr Jo

Meanwhile, the Duke of Venice had learned that armed Turkish ships were preparing to attack the island of Cyprus and in this emergency he had summoned Othello to the senate chambers. Brabantio and Othello meet in the streets, but postpone any violence in the national interest. Othello, upon arriving at the senate, was commanded by the duke to lead the V

PLOT
Close your eyes and imagine yourself floating back in time to Athens. Here the Duke, Theseus, is preparing for his wedding to Hippolyta, Queen of the Amazons. Theseus is looking forward to his wedding day...and night!
1) ...four happy days bring in another moon -- but O, methinks, how slow this old moon wanes!
Hippol

• Unusual rhyme scheme: the rhyme is alternated, but in each quatrain there’s a rhyme which appears also in the following quatrain.
• Turning point: line 9.

William Shakespeare

XII: WHEN I DO COUNT THE CLOCK
In this sonnet, Shakespeare describes the passing of time through some images: the ticking clock, the day which is t

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Alice is sitting on the bank by her sister, who’s reading a book without pictures and conversations. Alice is getting really bored, when suddenly a White Rabbit with a watch in its pawn runs close to her saying “Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be too late!”.
Alice decides to follow him, and then all her adventures start:

Returning to Istanbul in 1928. he became the charismatic leader of the Turkish avant-garde, publishing an exhilarating series of poems, polemics and plays.  He was not only a communist committed to revolution, but a romantic who was passionately in love: with his country and his people, with nature and the women to whom he dedicates his finest poetry. 

Tous les deux gagnent Lisbonne,assistent au tremblement de terre et sont condamnés à mort par l’inquisition.
Candide est sauvé par Cunégonde,qui a échappé au massacre de sa famille et qu’il retrouve à Lisbonne.
Il doit tuer un Juif et le Grand Inquisiteur pour leur arracher celle qu’il aime ; et il s’embarque avec elle pour l’Amérique.
Candi