Russian-English Dual Language Book Based on the Masterpiece of the British Humorous Classical Novel "Three Men in a Boat" by Jerome K. Jerome

Author: Zoia Sproesser
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781460929858
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 62

Book Description
It is a short, convenient to read dual language compilation of the beginning of the masterpiece humorous novel by a famous British writer Jerome K. Jerome and page-for-page Russian translation of the extract. The Russian translation of "Three men in a Boat" is a brilliant literary presentation of the original text of the novel. Being a bilingual English-Russian educator for many years, and a connoisseur of laughter, humor and funny things, the author decided to share this dual language book with the both cultures, American, or English-reading people, and Russian simultaneously. Instead of reading not funny, serious pieces of dual-language texts, that are sometimes hard to concentrate on, why not to have the dual pleasure: to help the progress of your language study and have a pleasure of laughing! The book is exposing to the utmost extent the richness of the both languages, as well as the refined irony that saturates the narration of the literary master. The author, a native Russian speaker, who lives and works in California hopes that this book will inspire those English or Russian readers who have never read the novel, to discover this treasure of literary art and humor to enjoy for many years. Classical literature calls us read it and reread it. The humor classic makes us relax with laughter, that is the best medicine, an elixir of life for the heart and soul. The book is supplied by author's comments in which you will find the author's translation of a curious historical episode from the book of a Russian classical writer I.A. Bunin who met Jerome K. Jerome in London in 1926. This Bunin's book was a prohibited reading during the Soviet Union because of its anti-revolutionary mood. Now, in the post-Soviet era a Russian reader has discovered the literary works prohibited during Soviet era. The book is an excellent additional tool for language instructors and all those who are interested in studying English or Russian, and who loves to laugh! The author plans to continue this series of dual language original literary works which are generally not widely known to a reader, at least in the way they are presented in the series. The idea of this line of publications is to introduce brilliant language extracts of the two or three world languages together with their meaningful contents, the thoughts of the writers that deserve to be not just known but studied. The rapidly growing worldwide virtual communication demands a modern person who wants to be successful and have a more interesting and exciting life to be proficient in a few languages of the world significance.

Russian - English Dual - Language Book Based on the Masterpiece of the British Humorous Classical Novel Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome

Author: Zoia Eliseyeva
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781511754385
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 162

Book Description
Summary of the 2nd Edition, Extended: Chapter I of the original is added to the end. Chapter VIII's quite long extract is added ending with the certain funny episode connected with accents. The book is exposing to the utmost extent the richness of the both languages, as well as the refined irony that saturates the narration of the literary master. I know it will satisfy the most demanding intelligent taste for literature and humor of Russian-speaking students of English language, or of English-speaking students of Russian language. The language instructors can use the book as an original presentation of the humor classics, discussing the literary values of the both, original and translation; comparing the style, vocabulary, idioms, and grammar points of the both world languages, spoken by more than a billion people. Zoia Eliseyeva has Master's Degree in Education. She teaches languages in California, USA. She has been in writing and publishing for 20 years.

Three Men in a Boat Illustrated

Author: Jerome K Jerome
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 234

Book Description
Three Men in a Boat published in 1889, is a humorous account by English writer Jerome K. Jerome of a two-week boating holiday on the Thames from Kingston upon Thames to Oxford and back to Kingston. The book was initially intended to be a serious travel guide, with accounts of local history along the route, but the humorous elements took over to the point where the serious and somewhat sentimental passages seem a distraction to the comic novel. One of the most praised things about Three Men in a Boat is how undated it appears to modern readers - the jokes have been praised as fresh and witt

A Confederacy of Dunces

Author: John Kennedy Toole
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN: 0802197620
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 414

Book Description
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize “A masterwork . . . the novel astonishes with its inventiveness . . . it is nothing less than a grand comic fugue.”—The New York Times Book Review A Confederacy of Dunces is an American comic masterpiece. John Kennedy Toole's hero, one Ignatius J. Reilly, is "huge, obese, fractious, fastidious, a latter-day Gargantua, a Don Quixote of the French Quarter. His story bursts with wholly original characters, denizens of New Orleans' lower depths, incredibly true-to-life dialogue, and the zaniest series of high and low comic adventures" (Henry Kisor, Chicago Sun-Times).

The Fateful Adventures of the Good Soldier Švejk During the World War, Book Two

Author: Jaroslav Hašek
Publisher: Good Soldier Švejk
ISBN: 1438916701
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 229

Book Description
A picaresque series of tales about an ordinary man's successful quest to survive, and a funny but unrelentingly savage assault on the very idea of bureaucratic officialdom as a human enterprise conferring benefits on those who live under its control, and on the various justifications bureaucracies offer for their own existence.

Three Men on the Bummel

Author: Jerome K. Jerome
Publisher: The Floating Press
ISBN: 1775417360
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 306

Book Description
Three Men on the Bummel is the sequel to Three Men in a Boat, which Jerome K. Jerome originally wrote as a travel guide. As the humorous anecdotes took over the story, it eventually turned into a masterpiece of comedy. This novel reprises the same three characters as they explore the Black Forest in Germany.

Luxury Arts of the Renaissance

Author: Marina Belozerskaya
Publisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 0892367857
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 292

Book Description
Today we associate the Renaissance with painting, sculpture, and architecture—the “major” arts. Yet contemporaries often held the “minor” arts—gem-studded goldwork, richly embellished armor, splendid tapestries and embroideries, music, and ephemeral multi-media spectacles—in much higher esteem. Isabella d’Este, Marchesa of Mantua, was typical of the Italian nobility: she bequeathed to her children precious stone vases mounted in gold, engraved gems, ivories, and antique bronzes and marbles; her favorite ladies-in-waiting, by contrast, received mere paintings. Renaissance patrons and observers extolled finely wrought luxury artifacts for their exquisite craftsmanship and the symbolic capital of their components; paintings and sculptures in modest materials, although discussed by some literati, were of lesser consequence. This book endeavors to return to the mainstream material long marginalized as a result of historical and ideological biases of the intervening centuries. The author analyzes how luxury arts went from being lofty markers of ascendancy and discernment in the Renaissance to being dismissed as “decorative” or “minor” arts—extravagant trinkets of the rich unworthy of the status of Art. Then, by re-examining the objects themselves and their uses in their day, she shows how sumptuous creations constructed the world and taste of Renaissance women and men.

Is That a Fish in Your Ear?

Author: David Bellos
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 0865478724
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 385

Book Description
A New York Times Notable Book for 2011 One of The Economist's 2011 Books of the Year People speak different languages, and always have. The Ancient Greeks took no notice of anything unless it was said in Greek; the Romans made everyone speak Latin; and in India, people learned their neighbors' languages—as did many ordinary Europeans in times past (Christopher Columbus knew Italian, Portuguese, and Castilian Spanish as well as the classical languages). But today, we all use translation to cope with the diversity of languages. Without translation there would be no world news, not much of a reading list in any subject at college, no repair manuals for cars or planes; we wouldn't even be able to put together flat-pack furniture. Is That a Fish in Your Ear? ranges across the whole of human experience, from foreign films to philosophy, to show why translation is at the heart of what we do and who we are. Among many other things, David Bellos asks: What's the difference between translating unprepared natural speech and translating Madame Bovary? How do you translate a joke? What's the difference between a native tongue and a learned one? Can you translate between any pair of languages, or only between some? What really goes on when world leaders speak at the UN? Can machines ever replace human translators, and if not, why? But the biggest question Bellos asks is this: How do we ever really know that we've understood what anybody else says—in our own language or in another? Surprising, witty, and written with great joie de vivre, this book is all about how we comprehend other people and shows us how, ultimately, translation is another name for the human condition.

Tietam Brown

Author: Mick Foley
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307429741
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 258

Book Description
If you’re one of those crying-to-your-shrink-cause-your-childhood-was-SO-hard type of people, you should probably read #1 New York Times Bestselling author Mick Foley’s fiction debut, Tietam Brown, for a reality check. Even if you’re not one of them, stop your whining and pick up the damn thing anyway. Atietam “Andy” Brown is a seventeen year-old with a busted hand, and a missing ear. He’s arrived at his father’s house to start life anew after being raised alternately in foster homes and juvenile detention centers where his life hung by a thread on more than one occasion. With this fresh start in hand he hopes he’s got a shot at completing his childhood like a normal kid. But when he realizes that his father’s favorite activities are naked beer-guzzling weight lifting, and sleeping with his classmate’s mothers, well, let’s just say his prospects for the future are once again dimmed. That is, until he finds out that Terri, the hottest cheerleader in school, likes him. (Nice work, Andy!) Funnier than professional wrestling and smarter than nuclear physics, Tietam Brown is sure to pin you for a three-count to your reading chair.

The 100 Best Novels in English

Author: Robert McCrum
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781903385425
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
LITERARY COMPANIONS, BOOK REVIEWS & GUIDES. Everybody loves a list but this is a list of major ambition: namely, to select the best 100 novels in the English language, published from the late 17th century to the present day. This list has been built up week by week in The Observer since September 2013, and selected by writer and Observer editor Robert McCrum. With a short critique on each book, this is a real delight for literary lovers.