Talking about... Things fall apart de Chinua Achebe

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Chinua Achebe
(November 16, 1930, Ogidi, Nigeria).

Prominent Igbo (Ibo) novelist acclaimed for his unsentimental depictions of the social and psychological disorientation accompanying the imposition of Western customs and values upon traditional African society. His novels range in subject matter from the first contact of an African village with the white man to the educated African’s attempt to create a firm moral order out of the changing values in a large city. Things Fall Apart (1958) was Achebe’s first novel, followed by No Longer at Ease (1960), Arrow of God (1964), A Man of the People (1966) and Anthills of the Savannah (1987). Beware, Soul-Brother (1971) and Christmas in Biafra (1973) are collections of poetry. Achebe’s books of essays include Morning Yet on Creation Day (1975), Hopes and Impediments (1988), Home and Exile (2000), The Education of a British-Protected Child (2009), and There Was a Country: A Personal History of Biafra (2012). In 2007 he won the Man Booker International Prize.

Things fall apart

Things fall apart tells two stories, both of which center around Okonkwo, a "strong man" of an Ibo village in Nigeria. The first of these stories traces Okonkwo's fall from grace with the tribal world in which he lives, and it provides us with a powerful fable about the immemorial conflict between the individual and society. The second story, which elevates the book to a tragic plane, concerns the clash of cultures and the destruction of Okonkwo's world through the arrival of aggressive, proselytizing European missionaries.

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Talking about... Wuthering heights d'Emily Brontë

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Emily Brontë
(July 30, 1818, Thornton, Yorkshire, England— December 19, 1848, Haworth, Yorkshire).

English novelist and poet who produced but one novel, Wuthering Heights (1847), a highly imaginative novel of passion and hate set on the Yorkshire moors. Like her sisters and her brother Branwell, Emily was a writer from the time she learned to read. She collaborated with Anne in writing poetry and stories for their imaginary world of Gondal. Only some poems from the Gondal sagas survive, but we know that the collaboration with Anne continued until the early 1840s, and it is possible that Emily never abandoned her imaginary world. Emily was the least willing to agree to Charlotte's publication of Poems by Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell (1846), and even after the publication of Wuthering Heights (1847), she refused to accompany her sisters to London, and reveal the true identity behind her nom de plume, Ellis Bell. Emily was perhaps the greatest of the three Brontë sisters, but the record of her life is extremely meagre, for she was silent and reserved and left no correspondence of interest, and her single novel darkens rather than solves the mystery of her spiritual existence.

Wuthering heights

The wind is strong on the Yorkshire moors. There are few trees, and fewer houses, to block its path. There is one house, however, that does not hide from the wind. It stands out from the hill and challenges the wind to do its worst. The house is called Wuthering Heights. When Mr Earnshaw brings a strange, small, dark child back home to Wuthering Heights, it seems he has opened his doors to trouble. He has invited in something that, like the wind, is safer kept out of the house.

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Talking about... The Accidental tourist d'Anne Tyler

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Anne Tyler

(October 25, 1941, Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S.)
American novelist and short-story writer whose comedies of manners are marked by compassionate wit and precise details of domestic life. Tyler’s first novel, If Morning Ever Comes, was published in 1964. Though it received little critical attention, it revealed the polished prose and understated examination of personal isolation and the difficulty of interpersonal communication that would also characterize her later work. Publication of The Tin Can Tree (1965) and The Clock Winder (1972) followed, but it was not until the appearance of Celestial Navigation (1974) and Searching for Caleb (1975) that Tyler came to nationwide attention. Her highly successful novel The Accidental Tourist (1985) examines the life of a recently divorced man who writes travel guides for businessmen. It was made into a film in 1988. Tyler’s later works include Breathing Lessons (1988), for which she won a Pulitzer Prize in 1989; Saint Maybe (1991); Ladder of Years (1995); A Patchwork Planet (1998); Digging to America (2006); and The Beginner’s Goodbye (2012). Several of her novels were adapted for television. Tyler also wrote and published many short stories.

The Accidental tourist

Everyday life in Baltimore, USA, is full of problems - getting the washing done, buying groceries and dog food, avoiding the neighbors . . . After the death of his son and the departure of his wife, Macon's attempts to run his own life become increasingly desperate. Meanwhile, he has to get on with his work, writing tourist guides for business people. Then his dog Edward starts to bite people, and he has to send for Muriel, the dog trainer. And day by day, Macon's life gets more and more complicated.

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Talking about... The good earth de Pearl S. Buck

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Pearl S. Buck
(born June 26, 1892, Hillsboro, U.S.—died March 6, 1973, Danby, U.S.)

American author noted for her novels of life in China. She received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1938. Pearl Sydenstricker was raised in Chenchiang in eastern China by her Presbyterian missionary parents. In May 1917 she married missionary John L. Buck; although later divorced and remarried, she retained the name Buck professionally. Buck’s first published novel, East Wind, West Wind (1930), was written aboard a ship headed for America. The Good Earth (1931), a poignant tale of a Chinese peasant and his slave-wife and their struggle upward, was a best seller. The book, which won a Pulitzer Prize (1932), established Buck as an interpreter of the East to the West and was adapted for stage and screen. The Good Earth, widely translated, was followed by Sons (1932) and A House Divided (1935); the trilogy was published as The House of Earth (1935). Buck was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1938. From 1935 Buck lived in the United States. After World War II, in a move to aid illegitimate children of U.S. servicemen in Asian countries, she instituted the Pearl S. Buck Foundation.

The good earth

When Wang Lung goes to collect his new wife, a slave from the great House of Hwang, the gatekeeper laughs at him. However, it will not be long before even the gatekeeper treats Wang Lung with respect. One day, Wang Lung himself will be the master of the House of Hwang. This is the story of a poor farmer from the north of China, who lives through famine and flood, war and revolution, to become the head of the greatest family in town.

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Talking about... The Tenant of Wildfell Hall d'Anne Brontë

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Anne Brontë
(Born Jan. 17, 1820, Thornton, Yorkshire, Eng.—died May 28, 1849, Scarborough, Yorkshire, Eng.).

English poet and novelist, sister of Charlotte and Emily Brontë and author of Agnes Grey (1847) and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848).
The youngest of six children of Patrick and Marie Brontë, Anne was taught in the family’s Haworth home and at Roe Head School. With her sister Emily, she invented the imaginary kingdom of Gondal, about which they wrote verse and prose (the latter now lost) from the early 1830s until 1845. In 1846 Anne contributed 21 poems to Poems by Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell, a joint work with her sisters Charlotte and Emily. Her first novel, Agnes Grey, was published together with Emily’s Wuthering Heights in three volumes (of which Agnes Grey was the third) in December 1847. The reception to these volumes, associated in the public mind with the immense popularity of Charlotte’s Jane Eyre (October 1847), led to quick publication of Anne’s second novel (again as Acton Bell), The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, published in three volumes in June 1848. She fell ill with tuberculosis toward the end of the year and died the following May.

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

Originally published in 1848, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is the second of only two novels written by Anne Brontë. Considered one of the first feminist novels because it challenged the social norms of the Victorian era, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is essentially a romantic novel which is chiefly concerned with the relationship between Gilbert Markham, a prosperous farmer, and the mysterious widow Mrs. Helen Graham, who takes up residence in the nearby tumbledown mansion of Wildfell Hall. A classic of the Victorian era, this novel is a must read for fans of the Bronte sisters.

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Talking about... Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde de R.L. Stevenson

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R.L. Stevenson
(Born Nov. 13, 1850, Edinburgh, Scot. – died Dec. 3, 1894, Samoa).

Scottish essayist, poet and author of fiction and travel books, best known for his novels Treasure Island (1881), Kidnapped (1886), Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886) and The Master of Ballantrae (1889). Robert Louis Stevenson grew up in Edinburgh and began to study engineering at Edinburgh University, but at twenty-one he decided to become a writer. His first book, An Inward Voyage (1878), describes a canoe trip to Belgium and France. In 1882, Stevenson began to publish longer fiction and Treasure Island was serialised at this time, but it was The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886) wich was to bring him fame on both sides of the Atlantic. Stevenson has been acknowledged as one of the most important writers of English fiction. His writing highlighted the social, philosophical and cultural divisions of nineteenth-century Scotland and has been the inspiration for numerous later writers. He died in Samoa in 1894 at the height of his literary power.

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

You are walking through the streets of London. It is getting dark and you want to get home quickly. You enter a narrow side-street. Everything is quiet, but as you pass the door of a large, windowless building, you hear a key turning in the lock. A man comes out and looks at you. You have never seen him before, but you realize immediately that he hates you. You are shocked to discover, also, that you hate him. Who is this man that everybody hates? And why is he coming out of the laboratory of the very respectable Dr Jekyll?

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Talking about... White Fang de Jack London

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Jack London
(Jan. 12, 1876, San Francisco, U.S.— Nov. 22, 1916, Glen Ellen, Calif.)

American novelist and short-story writer whose works deal romantically with elemental struggles for survival. He is one of the most extensively translated of American authors. London was raised in Oakland, Calif., by his spiritualist mother and his stepfather, whose surname, London, he took. London educated himself at public libraries with the writings of Charles Darwin, Karl Marx, and Friedrich Nietzsche. His first book, The Son of the Wolf (1900), gained a wide audience. During the remainder of his life he produced steadily, completing 50 books of fiction and nonfiction in 17 years. His Alaskan stories Call of the Wild (1903), White Fang (1906), and Burning Daylight (1910), in which he dramatized in turn atavism, adaptability, and the appeal of the wilderness, are outstanding. But his autobiographical novel Martin Eden (1909) is perhaps his most enduring work. London’s reputation declined in the United States in the 1920s, but his popularity has remained high throughout the world.

White Fang

White Fang is a heart-warming story of how a wild animal, part wolf and part dog, comes to love and live happily with a human family. The story is set in Canada in the 1890s – around the time of the Gold Rush in the Klondike.

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Talking about... The Street Lawyer de John Grisham

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John Grisham
(February 8, 1955, Jonesboro, Arkansas, U.S.)

American writer whose legal thrillers often topped best-seller lists and were adapted to film. Grisham grew up in Southaven, Mississippi. Inspired by a trial he observed in 1984, Grisham took three years to write his first novel, A Time to Kill (1989). His next novel was The Firm (1991), about a law-school graduate who is seduced into joining a Memphis law firm that turns out to be a front for the Mafia. Grisham wrote his third novel—The Pelican Brief (1993) —in only three months. Another novel, The Client (1993), sacrificed roller-coaster suspense for humor and slapstick energy. He continued his success with such titles as The Chamber (1994), The Rainmaker (1995), The Runaway Jury (1996) and The Testament (1999). In 2001 Grisham detoured from his formulaic legal thrillers with A Painted House. However, he also maintained his steady output of legal fiction, with The Summons (2002), The Last Juror (2004), The Appeal (2008), and The Litigators (2011) among his later works in the genre.

The Street Lawyer

Michael Brock is a wealthy and successful lawyer in Washington DC, but one day a homeless old man walks into the office armed. The old man is shot by the police, and Michael soon realizes that his law firm, Drake & Sweeney, had made the old man homeless. Michael decides that he can no longer work for the law firm. He meets Mordecai Green, who runs a law firm which helps the homeless, and decides to join him.

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Talking about... Hard Times de Charles Dickens

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Charles Dickens
(Feb. 7, 1812, Portsmouth, Hampshire, Eng.— June 9, 1870, Gad’s Hill, Kent)

English novelist, generally considered the greatest of the Victorian era. His many volumes include such works as A Christmas Carol, David Copperfield, Bleak House, A Tale of Two Cities and Great Expectations. Dickens enjoyed a wider popularity than had any previous author during his lifetime. His long career saw fluctuations in the reception and sales of individual novels, but none of them was negligible or uncharacteristic or disregarded, and, though he is now admired for aspects and phases of his work that were given less weight by his contemporaries, his popularity has never ceased and his present critical standing is higher than ever before. The most abundantly comic of English authors, he was much more than a great entertainer. The range, compassion, and intelligence of his apprehension of his society and its shortcomings enriched his novels and made him both one of the great forces in 19th-century literature and an influential spokesman of the conscience of his age.

Hard Times

Thomas Gradgrind believes that facts and money are more important than feelings and imagination. After Cissy Jupe - a circus child - is left alone in the world, Gradgrind takes her into his house, looking after her and teaching her facts with his own children Tom and Louisa. Some years later the Gradgrind family meets hard times. Louisa becomes a prisoner in a loveless marriage, and Tom has problems at work.

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Talking about... The Picture of Dorian Gray de Oscar Wilde

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Oscar Wilde
(Oct. 16, 1854, Dublin, Ire.— Nov. 30, 1900, Paris, France)

Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish writer and poet. He became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890's. Today he is remembered for his epigrams, plays and the circumstances of his imprisonment, followed by his early death. As a spokesman for aestheticism, he tried his hand at various literary activities: he published a book of poems, lectured in the USA and Canada on the new "English Renaissance in Art", and then returned to London where he worked prolifically as a journalist. Known for his biting wit, flamboyant dress, and glittering conversation, Wilde had become one of the most well-known personalities of his day. At the turn of the 1890's, he refined his ideas about the supremacy of art in a series of dialogues and essays, and incorporated themes of decadence, duplicity, and beauty into his only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890).

The Picture of Dorian Gray

The novel tells of a young man named Dorian Gray, the subject of a painting by artist Basil Hallward. Dorian meets Lord Henry Wotton, a friend of Basil's, and becomes enthralled by Lord Henry's world view. Espousing a new hedonism, Lord Henry suggests the only things worth pursuing in life are beauty and fulfillment of the senses. Realizing that one day his beauty will fade, Dorian expresses a desire to sell his soul to ensure the portrait Basil has painted would age rather than himself. Dorian's wish is fulfilled, plunging him into debauched acts.

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Talking about... The Black cat and other stories de Edgar Allan Poe

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Edgar Allan Poe
(January 19, 1809, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.— October 7, 1849, Baltimore, Maryland)

Edgar Allan Poe was an American author, poet, editor and literary critic, considered part of the American Romantic Movement. Best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre, Poe was one of the earliest American practitioners of the short story and is considered the inventor of the detective fiction genre. He is further credited with contributing to the emerging genre of science fiction. He was the first well-known American writer to try to earn a living through writing alone, resulting in a financially difficult life and career. His publishing career began humbly, with an anonymous collection of poems, Tamerlane and Other Poems (1827). In January 1845 Poe published his poem, "The Raven", to instant success. His works influenced literature around the world, as well as in specialized fields, such as cosmology and cryptography. Poe and his work appear throughout popular culture in literature, music, films, and television.

The Black cat and other stories

The book includes:

The Black Cat
The Oval Portrait
Berenice
The Mask of the Red Death

In their strange atmosphere and the fantastic events they describe, the four stories in this collection are typical of Edgar Allan Poe’s tales: part horror story, part romantic poetry.

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Talking about... The Mill on the Floss de George Eliot

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George Eliot
(Nov. 22, 1819, Chilvers Coton, Warwickshire, Eng.— Dec. 22, 1880, London)

Mary Anne Evans, better known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, journalist and translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. She is the author of seven novels, including Adam Bede (1859), The Mill on the Floss (1860), Silas Marner (1861), Middlemarch (1871–72), and Daniel Deronda (1876), most of them set in provincial England and well known for their realism and psychological insight. She used a male pen name, she said, to ensure her works be taken seriously. Female authors were published under their own names during Eliot's life, but she wanted to escape the stereotype of women only writing lighthearted romances.

The Mill on the Floss

The novel details the lives of Tom and Maggie Tulliver, a brother and sister growing up on the River Floss near the village of St. Ogg's in England, probably in the 1820s after the Napoleonic Wars but before the Reform Act of 1832. Both the river and the village are fictional. The novel spans a period of 10 to 15 years, from Tom’s and Maggie’s childhood up until their deaths in a flood on the Floss. The book is fictional autobiography in part, reflecting the disgrace that George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans) herself had while in a lengthy relationship with a married man, George Henry Lewes.

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Talking about... The Scarlet Letter de Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Nathaniel Hawthorne
(July 4, 1804, Salem, Mass., U.S.— May 19, 1864, Plymouth, N.H.)

U.S. novelist and short-story writer. Descended from Puritans, Hawthorne was imbued with a deep moral earnestness. His story collections include Twice-Told Tales (1837), Mosses from an Old Manse (1846), and The Snow-Image (1851). He is best known for the novels The Scarlet Letter (1850), a story of adultery set in colonial New England considered to be one of the best American novels, and The House of the Seven Gables (1851), the story of a family that lives under a curse for generations. His later works include The Blithedale Romance (1852) and The Marble Faun (1860). A skilled literary craftsman and a master of allegory and symbolism, he ranks among the greatest American fiction writers.

The Scarlett Letter

The Scarlet Letter was published in 1850. It is considered a masterpiece of American literature and a classic moral study.
The novel is set in a village in Puritan New England. Hester Prynne is a young woman who has borne a child out of wedlock. Hester believes herself a widow, but her husband, Roger Chillingworth, returns to New England very much alive and conceals his identity. He finds his wife forced to wear the scarlet letter A on her dress as punishment for her adultery. Chillingworth becomes obsessed with finding the identity of his wife’s former lover. When he learns that the father of Hester’s child is Arthur Dimmesdale, a saintly young minister who is the leader of those exhorting her to name the child’s father, Chillingworth proceeds to torment the guilt-stricken young man.

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Talking about... Northanger Abbey de Jane Austen

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Jane Austen
(Steventon, December 16, 1775 — July 18, 1817).

Jane Austen was an English novelist whose books, set among the English middle and upper classes, are notable for their wit, social observation and insights into the lives of early 19th century women.
She was one of eight children of a clergyman and grew up in a close-knit family. She began to write as a teenager. In 1801 the family moved to Bath. Jane's brother Henry helped her negotiate with a publisher and her first novel, Sense and Sensibility, appeared in 1811. Her next novel Pride and Prejudice, which she described as her "own darling child" received highly favourable reviews. Mansfield Park was published in 1814, then Emma in 1816. All of Jane Austen's novels were published anonymously.
In 1816, Jane began to suffer from ill-health, probably due to Addison's disease. She travelled to Winchester to receive treatment, and died there on 18 July 1817. Two more novels, Persuasion and Northanger Abbey were published posthumously and a final novel was left incomplete.

Northanger Abbey

Northanger Abbey was Jane Austen's first novel and was written between 1798 and 1803. The novel is a coming of age tale, focusing on the comedic adventures of a sheltered seventeen-year-old girl who learns to navigate the polite society of Bath (a popular English resort town) and Northanger Abbey (the fancy home of one of the book's wealthiest families). Her travels are full of mishaps with new friends and love interests.
Though this was Austen's first novel, it actually wasn't published until 1818, after her death.

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Talking about... The Turn of the Screw de Henry James

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Henry James
(April 15, 1843 – February 28, 1916).

Henry James was an American-born writer, regarded as one of the key figures of 19th-century literary realism. He is primarily known for the series of novels in which he portrays the encounter of Americans with Europe and Europeans. His method of writing from the point of view of a character within a tale allows him to explore issues related to consciousness and perception, and his style in later works has been compared to impressionist painting.
James contributed significantly to literary criticism, particularly in his insistence that writers be allowed the greatest possible freedom in presenting their view of the world. James claimed that a text must first and foremost be realistic and contain a representation of life that is recognizable to its readers. Good novels, to James, show life in action and are, most importantly, interesting.
An extraordinarily productive writer, in addition to his voluminous works of fiction he published articles and books of travel, biography, autobiography, and criticism, and wrote plays, some of which were performed during his lifetime with moderate success. His theatrical work is thought to have profoundly influenced his later novels and tales.

The Turn of the Screw

A young woman arrives at a large country house. Her job is to look after the two children who live there, but she soon discovers that there is something very strange about both the house and the children. The longer she stays, the more she feels that the two children are in danger – or is it that the children are the danger, and the person in danger is herself?

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Talking about... Sherlock Holmes Short Stories de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
(Edinburgh, May 22, 1859 — July 7, 1930).

Conan Doyle is most famous as the inventor of Sherlock Holmes, but he had a varied career as a writer, journalist and public figure.
Arthur Conan Doyle was born on 22 May 1859 in Edinburgh into a prosperous Irish family. He trained as a doctor, gaining his degree from Edinburgh University in 1881. Sherlock Holmes made his first appearance in A Study of Scarlet, published in Beeton's Christmas Annual in 1887. Its success encouraged Conan Doyle to write more stories involving Holmes but, in 1893, Conan Doyle killed off Holmes, hoping to concentrate on more serious writing. A public outcry later made him resurrect Holmes. In addition, Conan Doyle wrote a number of other novels, including The Lost World and various non-fictional works. These included a pamphlet justifying Britain's involvement in the Boer War, for which he was knighted and histories of the Boer War and World War One, in which his son, brother and two of his nephews were killed. In later life he became very interested in spiritualism.

Sherlock Holmes Short Stories

Sherlock Holmes is the greatest detective of them all. He sits in his room, and smokes his pipe. He listens, and watches, and thinks. He listens to the steps coming up the stairs; he watches the door opening - and he knows what question the stranger will ask.
In these three of his best stories, Holmes has three visitors to the famous flat in Baker Street - visitors who bring their troubles to the only man in the world who can help them.

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Talking about... The Big Sleep de Raymond Chandler

El proper dijous dia 7 d'abril de 2011 a les 19h comencem el nostre 1r Cicle de tertúlies en anglès Talking about... Ens trobarem per practicar l'anglès i parlar sobre aquest llibre i el seu autor.

Raymond Chandler
(Chicago, July 23, 1888,— La Jolla, March 26, 1959).

American author of detective fiction, the creator of the private detective Philip Marlowe, whom he characterized as a poor but honest upholder of ideals in an opportunistic and sometimes brutal society in Los Angeles. From 1896 to 1912 Chandler lived in England with his mother, a British subject of Irish birth. Having returned to California in 1919, he prospered as a petroleum company executive until the Great Depression of the 1930s, when he turned to writing for a living. From 1943 he was a Hollywood screenwriter. Chandler completed seven novels, all with Philip Marlowe as hero: The Big Sleep (1939), Farewell, My Lovely (1940), The High Window (1942), The Lady in the Lake (1943), The Little Sister (1949), The Long Goodbye (1953), and Playback (1958). The most popular film version of Chandler’s work was The Big Sleep (1946), starring Humphrey Bogart, a film noir classic.

The Big Sleep

Of Raymond Chandler's seven detective novels, his first, The Big Sleep (1939), is arguably his best. The story is structurally and thematically unified, the characters fully developed, and the style distinctive and sharp. Although it would be years before the novel received the critical recognition it deserved, the publication of The Big Sleep was a landmark in the history of the American hard-boiled detective novel.

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Nova tertúlia en anglès! Talking about...

Tens coneixements d'anglès? T'agradaria practicar-lo amb altres persones?

Doncs no t'ho pensis més i vine a la nova tertúlia en anglès de la Pompeu Talking about...

Talking about... és una trobada mensual on es pot practicar l’anglès a partir de l’intercanvi de sensacions i punts de vista sobre una lectura en aquest idioma. La tertúlia és oberta a tothom i està conduïda per Laura Patricio, Màster en Filologia anglesa.

A qui va dirigida?

Talking about... està orientada a persones que tinguin coneixements d’anglès i vulguin adquirir més fluïdesa a l’hora de conversar en aquest idioma.

Calendari

• Trobada mensual el primer dijous de mes.
• A les 7 de la tarda a la sala de reunions de la biblioteca.
• Durada d’1 hora.