Every town should have a 'card' - someone who gets talked about, someone who does mad and wonderful things, someone who makes you laugh. Bursley in the Five Towns has a 'card': Edward Henry Machin (Denry for short). Denry begins life in a poor little house where the rent is twenty-three pence a week. But before he's thirty, he's made a lot of money, and had more adventures than you and I have had hot dinners. The town of Bursley never stops talking about him. Whatever will young Denry do next?
This is an original story about a young German girl who comes to work in London. She lives with an English family and we follow her day-to day activities. The book was written by a professional journalist and a teacher of English, Alan R. Beesley. The book was widely published in Europe and used in teaching English. However, it is now forgotten. It was also published in the USSR in 1979, I found it in my archives and decided it still preserves some of its merits and may be of interest to Englishtips users.
A textbook for schools with in-depth study of English, lyceums and gymnasiums of the humanities. With additions and changes in accordance with the program of the course "Literature of Great Britain" for secondary schools.
Hornblower fired. There was a small cloud of smoke, but no bang. This is death, he thought. My pistol was the unloaded one.' But Horatio Hornblower does not die. He survives the duel with Simpson, learns to overcome his seasickness, and goes on to risk his life many times over. It is 1793, Britain is at war with France, and life on a sailing ship of war is hard and dangerous. But the hardest battles are fought by Hornblower within himself.
