wyszukanych pozycji: 3
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Le Morte D'Arthur
ISBN: 9781624663604 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This brisk retelling of "Le Morte D'Arthur" highlights the narrative drive, humor, and poignancy of Sir Thomas Malory s original while updating his fifteenth-century English and selectively pruning over-elaborate passages that can try the patience of modern readers.
The result is an adaptation that readers can enjoy as a fresh approach to Malory's sprawling masterpiece. The book's most famous episodes--the sword in the stone, the cataclysmic final battle--are all here, while lesser-known key episodes stand forth with new brightness and clarity. The text is accompanied by an... This brisk retelling of "Le Morte D'Arthur" highlights the narrative drive, humor, and poignancy of Sir Thomas Malory s original while updating his fi...
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239,45 |
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Understanding Style: Practical Ways to Improve Your Writing
ISBN: 9780199342624 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Understanding Style: Practical Ways to Improve Your Writing, Third Edition, uses the findings of modern linguistics to explore the relationship between written and spoken voices and to uncover little-known ways to control rhythm and emphasis. With a focus on sound and voice, author Joe Glaser explains and illustrates measurable, non-subjective keys to good writing--an approach that yields practical writing techniques and advice rarely found elsewhere. An excellent choice for courses in advanced composition, this book also covers more standard topics such as economy, diction,...
Understanding Style: Practical Ways to Improve Your Writing, Third Edition, uses the findings of modern linguistics to explore the relationsh...
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560,41 |
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The Canterbury Tales in Modern Verse
ISBN: 9780872207554 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Readers of this witty and fluent new translation of "The Canterbury Tales" should find themselves turning page after page: by recasting Chaucer's ten-syllable couplets into eight-syllable lines, Joseph Glaser achieves a lighter, more rapid cadence than other translators, a four-beat rhythm well-established in the English poetic tradition up to Chaucer's time. Glaser's shortened lines make compelling reading and mirror the elegance and variety of Chaucer's verse to a degree rarely met by translations that copy Chaucer beat for beat. Moreover, this translation's full, Chaucerian range of... Readers of this witty and fluent new translation of "The Canterbury Tales" should find themselves turning page after page: by recasting Chaucer's t... |
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200,35 |