Welcome to our book review site go-pdf.online!
You may have to Search all our reviewed books and magazines, click the sign up button below to create a free account.
Concise Dictionary of Foreign Quotations
Here is the answer for anyone who comes across a foreign-language quotation in a newspaper article or a book and isn't quite sure what it means. Here are famous sayings, in five European languages--Latin, French, German, Italian, and Spanish--accompanied by their translations into English and cross-indexed for easy reference. Just what did Mussolini say about making the trains run on time? Did Marie-Antoinette really tell the poor to eat cake? Concise Dictionary of Foreign Quotations includes more than 3,000 entries, chosen by five editors, each one widely read in the language concerned. The majority of entries were included because they are familiar, those an English reader would be most likely to encounter. Literary quotations, political quotations, poetic thoughts, pungent comments, polished epigrams, shrewd perceptions--by everyone from Cicero to Sartre, from Michelangelo to Picasso.
The Napoleon of Notting Hill
The Napoleon of Notting Hill is a futuristic novel set in London in 1984. Chesterton envisions neither great technological leaps nor totalitarian suppression. Instead, England is ruled by a series of randomly selected Kings, because people have become entirely indifferent. The joker Auberon Quin is crowned and he instates elaborate costumes for every sector of London. All the city's provosts are bored with the idea except for the earnest young Adam Wayne - the Napoleon of Notting Hill.
Quote Unquote - Italian
First published in 1998 as the much acclaimed Concise Dictionary of Foreign Quotations, and now repackaged in fresh, convenient pocket-sized editions, here are famous sayings in five languages - Latin, French, Italian, German and Spanish - each available as individual paperbacks for the first time.
The Tenth Muse
The Tenth Muse explores writings on the cinema in the first decades of the twentieth century. Laura Marcus examines the impact of cinema on early twentieth-century literary and, more broadly, aesthetic and cultural consciousness, by bringing together the study of the terms and strategies of early writings about film with literary engagement with cinema in the same period. She gives a new understanding of the ways in which early writers about film - reviewers, critics, theorists - developed aesthetic categories to define and accommodate what was called 'the seventh art' or 'the tenth muse' and found discursive strategies adequate to the representation of the new art and technology of cinema, ...
The Dictionary of Foreign Quotations
We are constantly coming across unattributed quotations in foreign languages and it is often impossible to discover what they mean or where they come from. This book is the answer. Here are famous sayings in five languages: Latin, French, Italian, German and Spanish, selected by five specialist editors under the expert eye of the compiler, award-winning broadcaster, journalist and author Anthony Lejeune. The dictionary is vastly entertaining as well as endlessly useful. It will draw the reader from treasure to treasure, provoking new thoughts on every page.
Key Without a Door
None
The C.A. Lejeune Film Reader
Collected criticism of one of the first and best loved film critics spanning silent movies to sixties monsters. Including Hitchock, Korda and indispensable for students of British Cinema.
Messer Marco Polo
Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
