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by William H. Gass
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2018
Throughout his career, William Gass relentlessly pushed at the boundaries of language, celebrating the music of the sentence and the aesthetics of the written word. Now, the best and most important of his work is collected in one volume. There are essays on Plato, Hobbes, James, Joyce, Beckett, Stein,...
Modern American Memoirs
1917-1992
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
In Modern American Memoirs, two very discerning writers and readers have selected samples from 35 of the finest memoirs written in this century, including contributions by such diverse writers as Margaret Mead, Malcolm X, Maxine Hong Kingston, Loren Eisely, and Zora Neale Hurston. Chosen for their...
by Andrey Taranov
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
T&P BOOKS THEME-BASED DICTIONARIES are intended to help you learn, memorize, and review foreign words. The dictionary contains over 9000 commonly used words. Recommended as additional support material to any language course. Meets the needs of beginners and advanced learners of foreign languages. Convenient...
Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Curly Haired Company
Mandarin Companion Graded Readers: Level 1, Simplified Chinese Edition
Language: Chinese
Release Date: December 17, 2013
Mandarin Companion: New graded readers for a new generation of Chinese learners. Now you can read book in Chinese that are fun and accelerate your language learning. Every book in the Mandarin Companion series is carefully written to use characters, words, and grammar that a learner is likely to know.
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by TEV (Team Exercise Vocabulary), Dani Sohn (Team Leader), Jane Austen
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
For English Vocabulary Exercise with High Efficiency. Containing 658 questions with 4 answer candidates each.
Spellbound
The Surprising Origins and Astonishing Secrets of English Spelling
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2007
Welcome to the illogical, idiosyncratic, outrageous linguistic phenomenon known as the English language. The story of how this ragtag collection of words evolved is a winding tale replete with intriguing accidents and bizarre twists of fate. In this eye-opening, fabulously entertaining book, James...
The Misadventures of Zhou Haisheng
Mandarin Companion Graded Readers Breakthrough Level
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2019
Zhou Haisheng is a fun-loving and determined young boy whose life revolves around school and his family’s Chinese restaurant. Always well-intentioned, he finds ways to help out his hard-working parents with the family business. Whether it's inventing his own noodle recipe, delivering the wrong order...
by Philip D. Morehead
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2002
The ultimate alphabetically arranged thesaurus that will help you find the right word every time—now bigger and better than ever before!
This all-new edition of the classic reference work is the one thesaurus no home or office should be without. As easy to use as a dictionary—and just as...
The Story of Ain't
America, Its Language, and the Most Controversial Dictionary Ever Published
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2014
Created by the most respected American publisher of dictionaries and supervised by the editor Philip Gove, Webster's Third broke with tradition, adding thousands of new words and eliminating "artificial notions of correctness," basing proper usage on how language was actually spoken. The...
Conversational Japanese
The Right Word at the Right Time: This Japanese Phrasebook and Language Guide Lets You Learn Japanese Quickly!
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2013
This book is a user–friendly language guide for basic spoken Japanese.
To effectively learn Japanese and communicate in another culture you need more than the bare bones of the language. You need to understand the given norms of that society, how people interact, how things work, what the...
by Anatole France
Language: French
Release Date: May 6, 2016
Language: French
Release Date: May 6, 2016
AVANT-PROPOS. VIE DE RABELAIS. LIVRE PREMIER. DEUXIÈME LIVRE. SUITE DE LA VIE DE RABELAIS. INTRODUCTION AU TROISIÈME LIVRE TROISIÈME LIVRE. ...
by Anatole France
Language: French
Release Date: May 6, 2016
Language: French
Release Date: May 6, 2016
1 Contenant en peu de lignes l’histoire d’une famille française depuis 1789 jusqu’à nos jours 2 Où l’on trouvera des renseignements utiles sur une bibliothèque dans laquelle s’accompliront bientôt des événements étranges ...
by Anatole France
Language: French
Release Date: May 6, 2016
Language: French
Release Date: May 6, 2016
SUR LES COUVENTS DE FEMMES DE L’ENTRETIEN QUE J’EUS CETTE NUIT AVEC UN FANTÔME SUR LES ORIGINES DE L’ALPHABET SUR LE MIRACLE CHÂTEAUX DE CARTES AUX CHAMPS-ÉLYSÉES LE PRIEURÉ
by BookRags
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2013
The Complete Poems, 1927-1979 Study Guide contains a comprehensive summary and analysis of The Complete Poems, 1927-1979 by Elizabeth Bishop. It includes a detailed Plot Summary, Chapter Summaries & Analysis, Character Descriptions, Objects/Places, Themes, Styles, Quotes, and Topics for Discussion.