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**Une chronologie de l’histoire de la littérature française signée Bescherelle. Un ouvrage complet, fiable et attractif qui s’adresse à tous les curieux de littérature. Le récit chronologique et illustré de l’histoire de la littérature française** • Le récit débute en 881-882...

A Bushwhacker's Guide to Academic Writing is the result of Michael Olendzenski's education (BA and MA, McGill; Ph.D. Florida) and his twenty-five-plus years of experience as an instructor of First-Year Composition courses. The book presents a narrative account of the rhetoric of academic...

Writing, for most of us, is bound up with anxiety. It’s even worse when it feels like your whole future—or at least where you’ll spend the next four years in college—is on the line. It’s easy to understand why so many high school seniors put off working on their applications until the last...

Tommy And Co by Jerome K. Jerome Peter Hope was tall and thin, clean-shaven but for a pair of side whiskers close-cropped and terminating just below the ear, with hair of the kind referred to by sympathetic barbers as “getting a little thin on the top, sir,” but arranged with economy, that...

The New Utopia by Jerome K. Jerome I had spent an extremely interesting evening. I had dined with some very "advanced" friends of mine at the "National Socialist Club". We had had an excellent dinner: the pheasant, stuffed with truffles, was a poem; and when I say that the...

The Observations Of Henry by Jerome K. Jerome A popular turn-of-the-century humorist, Jerome K. Jerome is perhaps better known for his plays than his novels and short stories. The main character of the The Observations of Henry is a waiter who meets a variety of odd people in the coffee shop...

As the only multi-paradigmatic collection of research in the field, this Handbook brings together a comprehensive range of essays to serve as a fully inclusive resource. Deanna L. Fassett and John T. Warren, along with two section editors and twenty-nine additional contributors, provide a balanced...

Idle Ideas In 1905 by Jerome K Jerome This book is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS. It contains classical literature works from over two thousand years. Most of these titles have been out of print and off the bookstore shelves for decades. The book series is intended to preserve the cultural...

"Bien écrire, c’est penser ou sentir quelque chose qui vaille la peine d’être dit, et le dire précisément comme on le pense ou comme on le sent."  Dans cet ouvrage didactique destiné à celles et ceux qui désirent devenir écrivains ou améliorer leur style, Gustave Lanson,...

L’outil indispensable d’apprentissage et de révision adapté au public des classes préparatoires et des universités, cette nouvelle édition comporte en outre tous les éléments pour réussir la nouvelle épreuve de synthèse de documents pour les concours d’admission aux grandes écoles...

Sketches In Lavender Blue And Green by Jerome K. Jerome The advantage of literature over life is that its characters are clearly defined, and act consistently. Nature, always inartistic, takes pleasure in creating the impossible. Reginald Blake was as typical a specimen of the well-bred...

The progression from newborn to sophisticated language user in just a few short years is often described as wonderful and miraculous. What are the biological, cognitive, and social underpinnings of this miracle? What major language development milestones occur in infancy? What methodologies do researchers...

The Routledge Encyclopedia of Language Teaching and Learning is an authoritative reference dealing with all aspects of this increasingly important field of study. Offering a comprehensive range of articles on contemporary language teaching and its history, it has been produced specifically for language...

It is a fundamental feature of language that words refer to things. Much attention has been devoted to the nature of reference, both in philosophy and in linguistics. Puzzles of Reference is the first book to give a comprehensive accessible survey of the fascinating work on this topic from the 1970s...