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"The Homely Heroine" is a collection of four short stories by author Edna Ferber. The other three stories in the collection are: "A Bush League Hero", "What She Wore" and "The Man Who Came Back". All of them center around ordinary people, showing off both their courage, dignity and their shortcomings when facing challenges in life. A moving and thoughtful listening experience.

An action-packed and knowledgeable sci-fi tale by multi award-winning and prolific author Poul William Anderson. The story is set in the not too distant future. Earth has been conquered and the rather too humanoid new rulers extract heavy taxes, control the industry and even reproduction... Something has to be done! But there are those who are against this.

The Defenders is a 1953 science fiction novel by American master of the genre Philip K. Dick, and the basis for Dick's 1964 novel "The Penultimate Truth". (It is one of several of his stories to be expanded into a novel)... Eight years ago a nuclear war began between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. American survivors evacuated to gigantic bunkers miles under ground. Sophisticated, radioactivity-immune robots called "leadys" continue fighting the war on the devastated surface.

"If you don't like Christmas stories, don't read this one!And if you don't like dogs I don't know just what to advise you to do! For I warn you perfectly frankly that I am distinctly pro-dog and distinctly pro-Christmas, and would like to bring to this little story whatever whiff of fir-balsam I can cajole from the make-believe forest in my typewriter, and every glitter of tinsel, smudge of toy candle, crackle of wrapping paper, that my particular brand of brain and ink can conjure up on a single keyboard!"

"The Importance of Being Earnest" is a play by Oscar Wilde. First performed in 1895 in London, it is a farcical comedy in which the protagonists maintain fictitious personæ to escape burdensome social obligations. Working within the social conventions of late Victorian London, the play's major themes are the triviality with which it treats institutions as serious as marriage, and the resulting satire of Victorian ways. Contemporary reviews all praised the play's humor.

Author Daniel O'Connor took the story from the original world famous and beloved play, with the approval of its author, J. M. Barrie; and shortened it into a book with music and illustrations. This shorter book treatment was published before Barrie wrote the longer novel Peter and Wendy, using the same plot and characters. You just never can get enough of Peter Pan!

"Grimly Eric John Stark slogged toward that ancient Martian city.´With every step he cursed the talisman of Ban Cruach that flamed in his blood-stained belt. Behind him screamed the hordes of Ciaran, hungering for that magic jewel. Ahead lay the dread abode of the Ice Creatures. At his side stalked the whispering spectre of Ban Cruach, urging him on to a battle Stark knew he must lose!"... Welcome to the sci-fi world of Leigh Douglass Brackett and U.S. pulp fiction.

An important early American work on human sexuality and marriage by Henry Stanton. Might seem a bit outdated and puritanical indeed by today's standards, but in its time a sorely needed educational piece that thankfully does not put the male over the female in overall superiority.

"Raiders of the Universes" is a sci-fi novel by Donald Wandrei, published 1932 in the magazine Astounding Stories. In the 34th century, so called Raiders are wreaking havoc on entire planets around Sol; and Earth is no exception! The Raiders find out about intelligent life on Earth and "kindly" decide not to eat it up like so many others... but what in turn might be worse?

"The Judas Valley" is a co-authored sci-fi story by Robert Silverberg and Randall Garrett, published in magazine form in 1956. Our two heroes, Peter and Sherri, have to solve - and do it quickly! - the mystery behind the deaths of seasoned space personnel on a strangely peaceful planet; or else they are next in turn.

"Personality Plus" is an early novel by American author Edna Ferber. Originally published in 1914, it chronicles the travels and events in the life of Emma McChesney. Ferber achieved her first successes with a series of stories centering on this character, a stylish and intelligent divorced mother who rises rapidly in business.

"A Book of Nonsense" is a volume of limericks by author Edward Lear, published in 1846. Containing over a hundred hilarious verses suitable for both children and non-children; the author was a key figure in popularizing the form! Here is a delightful sample: "There was a young fellow named Tate Who dined with his girl, at 8.08 But I'd hate to relate What that fellow named Tate And his tête-à-tête ate at 8.08."

Scarica il pdf per più informazioni a questo link: http://tinyurl.com/pxu86sw . L'inglese non è uguale per tutti! English for Italians risolve le difficoltà specifiche dello studente italiano per mezzo della linguistica contrastiva. Il Corso (900 pagine) è 100% registrato in mp3. Tramite le umoristiche vicissitudini di Tom and Margaret, Robert and Millie, George and Lydia, The Paganini Family... e molti altri personaggi, si impara la grammatica inglese nell'uso pratico....

"The Just So Stories" are a collection written by the world famous British author Rudyard Kipling, published in 1902. Highly fantasized origin stories, especially for differences among animals, they are among Kipling's best known works. "The Just So Stories" began as bedtime stories told to 'Effie' [Josephine, Kipling's child]; when the first three were published in a children's magazine, a year before her death, Kipling explained:... in the evening there were stories meant to put Effie to sleep.

A 1960 sci-fi tale but also a pulp fiction and amusing fantasy story (the tale itself fluctuates between these styles) by master Murray Leinster. A gangster is controlling a town through violence and menace... until a dry cleaning establishment chips in for the good guys, resulting in very peculiar events to say the least!

"Hunter Patrol" is a 1959 sci-fi story co-authored by H. Beam Piper and John J. McGuire. A soldier travels into the future to kill a dictator. After completing the mission and returning home to his present time, he doesn't remember what he has done. With him he has an envelope with the formula for a fizzy drink that would make him able to conquer the whole world... possibly.

"Lady Windermere's Fan" is a four-act comedy by Oscar Wilde. The play was first published in 1893. Like many of Wilde's comedies, it bitingly satirizes the morals of society. The story concerns Lady Windermere, who suspects that her husband is having an affair with another woman. She confronts him with it but although he denies it, he invites the other woman, Mrs. Erlynne, to his wife's birthday ball... The best-known line of the play sums up the central theme.

"The Willows" is one of Blackwood's best-known works and has been influential on a number of later writers. Horror author H. P. Lovecraft considered it to be the finest supernatural tale in English literature. The work is an example of early modern horror and is connected within the literary tradition of weird fiction. Two friends are midway on a canoe trip down the Danube River.

"The Thing in the Attic" is a sci-fi story by James B. Blish, published in 1954. "Honath and his fellow arch-doubters did not believe in the Giants, and for this they were cast into Hell. And when survival depended upon unwavering faith in their beliefs, they saw that there were Giants, after all..." A classic and exotic tale of survival against all odds and amongst - yes - real space giants!

"A Spaceship Named McGuire" is a sci-fi short story by Randall Garrett, published in 1961. This tale is kind of a mix between detective, sci-fi and thriller; as detective Daniel Oak investigates the possibly sabotaged "brain" of a spaceship (!) amongst spaceship big shots, criminals and ladies... Fun and exciting.