The book that I was readig in summer is "My family and other animals". The editorial is Burlington Books, and the writer, Gerald Durrell.
Is the story of a boy that he and his family go to live to Corfu and the adventure that he live here.
Gerald Durrell was a naturalist, zookeeper, conservationist, author and television presenter. He founded what is now called the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust and the Jersey Zoo (now Durrell Wildlife Park) on the Channel Island of Jersey in 1958, but is perhaps best remembered for writing a number of books based on his life as an animal collector and enthusiast. He was the youngest brother of the novelist Lawrence Durrell. Durrell was born in Jamshedpur, India on 7 January 1925. Durrell died of septicaemia following aliver transplant on 30 January 1995, shortly after his 70th birthday.
He wrote other books who: Gothic Horror, The Mockery bird or The fantastic dinosaur adventure.
The book cover
The bibliography is:
·Wikipedia (for Corfu)
·Burlington Books
WUTHERING HEIGHTS:
The book tells the story of Heathcliff. All starts when Mr. Earnshaw goes on a trip to Liverpool, and returns with a child, that they decided called Heathcliff.
In this house live: Mr. and Mrs. Earnshaw, with his soons Hindley, the big and Cathy, the small. Suddenly, Heathcliff and Cathy become friends.
In one of his excursions, one dog attack Cathy, and the Lintons cares for her until she is cured. When she returns home, now she isn´t the wild girl always his father complains, but a lady, who all praise except Heatcliff.
After a years, Cathy is married with Edgar Linton, but she still loves Heathcliff, but she thinks that with this way she can help him. He listen the conversation of Cathy and her maid Nelly have about this, and angry, he runs away.
past few years, and after the wedding, Heathcliff returns, to avenge Edgar. when he realizes that Isabella, the sister of Edgar, is in love with him, he decided married her, order to inherit some of the ground.
They decide to move to Wuthering Heights with Hindley and her soon Hareton. After a while, she flees because he abused him, but she is pregnant and send a letter to his brother to see if he can take care of her child, she decided called Linton Heathcliff.
At the same time, Cathy has got a daughter they called Cathy Linton. She dies shortly after birth.
when Heathcliff learns that his son is in Thrushcross grange, he claims.
After twelve years, Cathy and Linton meet and fall in love. Heathcliff forces them to marry. Linton dies of a disease.
One day, Heathcliff withdraws into Cathy's old room. In the next morning, the maid Nelly finds he body on the floor, dead.
Writer:
Emily Jane Brontë was an English novelist and poet, best remembered for her solitary novel,Wuthering Heights, now considered a classic of English literature. Emily was the third eldest of the four surviving Brontë siblings, between the youngest Anne and her brother Branwell. She published under the pen name Ellis Bell.
Emily Brontë was born on 30 July 1818 in Thornton, near Bradford in Yorkshire, to Maria Branwell and Patrick Brontë.
Emily believed that her health, like her sisters', had been weakened by unsanitary conditions at home,[9] the source of water being contaminated by runoff from the church's graveyard.[10] She became sick during her brother's funeral in September 1848. Though her condition worsened steadily, she rejected medical help and all proffered remedies, saying that she would have "no poisoning doctor" near her.[11] She eventually died of tuberculosis, on 19 December 1848 at around two in the afternoon. She was interred in the Church of St. Michael and All Angels family vault, Haworth, West Yorkshire. She was 30 years old.
Personal Opinion:
I like the book, because is a good form to learn english, and is very interesting but the level was very high, and I don´t understand all the words, but is a good form to know news expresions.
THE TEMPEST:
"The Tempest" is a Sheakspere´s book. Thought by many critics to be the last play that Shakespeare wrote alone.
It is set on a remote island, where Prospero, the rightful Duke of Milan, plots to restore his daughter Miranda to her rightful place using illusion and skillful manipulation. He conjures up a storm, the eponymous tempest, to lure his usurping brother Antonio and the complicit King Alonso of Naples to the island. There, his machinations bring about the revelation of Antonio's lowly nature, the redemption of the King, and the marriage of Miranda to Alonso's son, Ferdinand.
I never read one work of Sheakspere, because I thought that he was worried and I hate the tragedies, but this novel is very interesting and I loved so much when you cold see the situation of all the characters. Other thing is that the end of this work is happy, no a tragedie.
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