First Italian Reader

Author: Stanley Appelbaum
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 048612035X
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 242

Book Description
Beginning students of Italian language and literature will welcome these selections of poetry, fiction, history, and philosophy by 14th- to 20th-century authors, including Dante, Boccaccio, Pirandello, and 52 others.

First German Reader

Author: Harry Steinhauer
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486119564
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 226

Book Description
Specially chosen for their power to evoke German life and culture, these short, simple readings include poems, stories, essays, and anecdotes by Goethe, Hesse, Heine, Schiller, and others.

First French Reader

Author: Stanley Appelbaum
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486119491
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 242

Book Description
This anthology introduces 50 legendary writers — Voltaire, Balzac, Baudelaire, Proust, more — through passages from The Red and the Black, Les Misérables, Madame Bovary, and other classics. Original French text plus English translation on facing pages.

First French Reader for Beginners

Author: Eugene Gotye
Publisher: Audiolego
ISBN:
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 368

Book Description
The book consists of Elementary and Pre-intermediate courses with parallel French-English texts. The author maintains learners' motivation with funny stories about real life situations such as meeting people, studying, job searches, working etc. The ALARM method (Approved Learning Automatic Remembering Method) utilize natural human ability to remember words used in texts repeatedly and systematically. The author managed to compose each sentence using only words explained in previous chapters. The second and the following chapters of the Elementary course have only about 30 new words each. The book is equipped with the audio tracks. The address of the home page of the book on the Internet, where audio files are available for listening and downloading, is listed at the beginning of the book on the copyright page.

A Second Spanish Reader

Author: Stanley Appelbaum
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486121771
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : es
Pages : 258

Book Description
Geared toward advanced beginners, these highlights from poetry, plays, and stories by noted Spanish-language writers include works by Gabriela Mistral, Pedro Calderón de la Barca, and Lope de Vega.

Beginner's French reader

Author: Anne Topping
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : French language
Languages : en
Pages : 61

Book Description

First Spanish Reader

Author: Angel Flores
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 048611998X
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 191

Book Description
Delightful stories, other material based on works of Don Juan Manuel, Luis Taboada, Ricardo Palma, other noted writers. Complete faithful English translations on facing pages. Exercises.

First French Reader for Students

Author: Eugene Gotye
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781533114822
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 100

Book Description
Each chapter of First French Reader for Students is filled with words that are organized by topic, then used in a story in French. Questions and answers rephrase information and text is repeated in English to aid comprehension. The quick and easy-to-use format organizes many of everyday situations from knowing your way around the house, studying at university, or going shopping. First French Reader for Students makes use of the so-called ALARM or Approved Learning Automatic Remembering Method to efficiently teach its reader French words, sentences and dialogues. Through this method, a person will be able to enhance his or her ability to remember the words that has been incorporated into consequent sentences from time to time. Audio tracks are available on www.lppbooks.com/French/EFLS/En/

The Stranger

Author: Albert Camus
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307827666
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 144

Book Description
With the intrigue of a psychological thriller, Camus's masterpiece gives us the story of an ordinary man unwittingly drawn into a senseless murder on an Algerian beach. Behind the intrigue, Camus explores what he termed "the nakedness of man faced with the absurd" and describes the condition of reckless alienation and spiritual exhaustion that characterized so much of twentieth-century life. First published in 1946; now in translation by Matthew Ward.

The Reader

Author: Bernhard Schlink
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0375726977
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 226

Book Description
INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • Hailed for its coiled eroticism and the moral claims it makes upon the reader, this mesmerizing novel is a story of love and secrets, horror and compassion, unfolding against the haunted landscape of postwar Germany. "A formally beautiful, disturbing and finally morally devastating novel." —Los Angeles Times When he falls ill on his way home from school, fifteen-year-old Michael Berg is rescued by Hanna, a woman twice his age. In time she becomes his lover—then she inexplicably disappears. When Michael next sees her, he is a young law student, and she is on trial for a hideous crime. As he watches her refuse to defend her innocence, Michael gradually realizes that Hanna may be guarding a secret she considers more shameful than murder.