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met him somewhere. Anyway I was not meant for her.” “Then why did you marry her in the first place?’ “No choice. I joined the software industry and my parents were looking for a bride. They knew her parents well, though not her.” “And after marriage?” “You know Selvi, I don’t belong to Chennai. I come from a village. And our values differed.” “Quarrels?” “Not so many. She did have a lot of hatred towards me. It was like a volcano waiting to erupt. What have you prepared for breakfast? I told

main characters, Charles Smithson, Ernestine, his fiancee and Sarah Woodruff. Note satirical tone, Fowles as observer, almost a voyeur, patronising in tone. Chapter 2 Light, brittle tone between lovers, flirtatious and typically Victorian (what is typically Victorian?). Ernestine's revulsion at Sarah because of her reputation as a "fallen woman" is not untypical, nor insincere. Tragedy is apparent in SW ; note her appearance contrasted to Ernestine's. Her effect on Charles is "like a lance"

love, these are what we stay alive for." - Dead Poet's Society ********** O Captain! My Captain! 1 O CAPTAIN! my Captain! our fearful trip is done; The ship has weather'd every rack, the prize we sought is won; The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting, While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring: But O heart! heart! heart! O the bleeding drops of red, Where on the deck my Captain lies, Fallen cold and dead. 2 O Captain! my Captain! rise up and

AN OVERVIEW OF ENGLISH LITERATURE I – FROM THE MIDDLE AGES TO THE ELIZABETHAN ERA I-1 – THE MIDDLE AGES Beowulf is supposedly the oldest literary work in the English-speaking world. It is an anonymous work of which only a manuscript remains. It is an epic, a long narrative poem celebrating the great deeds of the hero in a ceremonious style. It was written between the 8th and 11th centuries in Old English. The story is set in Scandinavia, in the Anglo-Saxon world. The eponymous hero travels

sometimes lurid. It includes a family history going back to the eighteenth century and such lurid topics as murder, suicide, abortion, incest, and madness. These events are set against a background of some of the great events in history, such as World War I and World War II. The novel also includes digressions on such off-beat topics as the sex life of the eel, the history of land reclamation, the history of the River Ouse, and the nature of phlegm. At once a philosophical meditation on the meaning of history

"the best American humorous short stories"; there are many other stories equally as good, I suppose, in much the same vein, scattered through the range of American literature. I have tried to keep a certain unity of aim and impression in selecting these stories. In the first place I determined that the pieces of brief fiction which I included must first of all be not merely good stories, but good short stories. I put myself in the position of one who was about to select the best short stories in the

— (Literature as windows to world cultures) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0–313–32011–X (alk. paper) 1. Indic literature (English)—History and criticism. 2. Indic literature (English)—South Asian Authors—History and criticism. I. Title II. Series. PR9484.6.B75 2003 820.9'954—dc21 2003052842 British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data is available. Copyright © 2003 by Paul Brians All rights reserved. No portion of this book may be reproduced, by any process or technique,

Dracula. While the character of Count Dracula was important for establishing the conventions of what would become an entire genre of horror tales, the book's plot was also very timely. In their exposure to Dracula and their attempts to catch him and destroy him, the various vampire hunters underscore the Victorian attitudes that were present at this time. The Victorian Age took place in England during the reign of Queen Victoria Introduction 1 (1837-1901). Victorian moral and religious beliefs

Garenne-Colombes Formateur IUFM Versailles Dominique SANTONI Collège-Lycée Buffon, Paris Isabelle ZIMMER Lycée Léonard de Vinci, Saint-Michel-sur-Orge Paul LARREYA Professeur de linguistique anglaise Avec la participation de Ruth PHAN, Lycée Charles de Gaulle, Poissy Conception maquette : Marc et Yvette Mise en page : Isabelle Vacher, Graphisme Illustrations : Pénélope Paicheler - Anthony Cocain (2010) Cartographie : Corédoc Édition : Catherine de Bernis © Hatier – Paris, 2010 ISBN :

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