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Beletrie

Praha : Státní pedagogické nakladatelství, 1974

191 s.

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Preface ...8 // PART I MODERN DIALOGUE // 1. In a Fix /from English Conversation Reader by P.A.D. MacCarthy/ ...13 // 2. Three Men in a Boat - and a Tin of Pineapple /from the novel Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome/ ...14 // 3. The Blind Man Calls on the Captain /from the novel Treasure Island by R.L.Stevenson/ ...16 // 4. The Garden Party, Part I /from the short story The Garden Party by Katherine Mansfield/ ...19 // 5. The Garden Party, Part II ...24 // 6. Raw Material and the Short Story /from the literary memoirs A Writer‘s Notebook by W.S.Maugham/ ...28 // 7. Steelman /complete short story by Henry Lawson/ ...30 // 8. What Does Govern England? /from the play Major Barbara by G.Bernard Shaw/ ...34 // 9. Mr. Worthing Proposes and Lady Bracknell Disposes /from the play The Importance of being Earnest /by Oscar Wilde/ ...38 // 10. A Potential Recruit /from the novel The GoBetween by L.P.Hartley/ ...42 // 11. Professor Higgins Puts Eliza to the Test /from the play Pygmalion by G.Bernard Shaw/ ...43 // 12. Soak the Rich? /from the novel Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis/ ...50 // 13. Mitchell Doesn’t Believe in the Sack /complete short story by Henry Lawson/ ...53 // 14. A Talk about Eddie /from the novel The Death of the Heart by Elizabeth Bowen/ ...55 // 15. An Englishman Discovers the Funeral Practices in California /from the novel The Loved One by Evelyn Waugh/ ...57// PART II NARRATIVE PROSE: FICTION // 1. Mrs. Proudie’s Party /from the novel Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope/ ... 62 // 2. Catherine Earnshaw’s Love for Heathcliff /from the novel Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte/ ...65 // 3. Pip and the Escaped Convict /from the novel Great Expectations by Charles Dickens/ ... 67 // 4. Mr. Podsnap and the Foreign Gentleman /from the novel Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens/ ...70 //

5. A Boxing Match - Eighteenth Century Style /from the Essays by William Hazlitt/ ...73 // 6. Tess and Clare at Milking-time /from the novel Tess of the D Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy/ ... 74 // 7. Theobald Pontifex Asserts his Rights /from the novel The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler/ ...76 // 8. Samuel Povey’s Petition for Justice /from the novel The Old Wives’ Tale by Arnold Bennett/ ... 78 // 9. Cherry Picking /from the novel Sons and Lovers by D.H.Lawrence/ ...80 // 10. How it was at Pencey Prep. School /from the novel The Catcher in the Rye by J.D.Salinger/ ...81 // PART III EXPOSITORY PROSE: SOCIETY, SCIENCE AND LITERARY CRITICISM // 1. Robin Hood /from English Folk-Heroes by Christina Hole/ ... 85 // 2. Speech of a Chartist Leader /from Ernest Jones:. Chartist by J.Savile/ ...86 // 3. How I Became a Socialist /from an article contributed to Justice by William Morris/ ... 88 // 4. The Outlook of the "New" Trades Unionism /Preamble to the Rules of the National Union of Gasworkers and General Labourers/ // 5. Work and Wages /from Past and Present by Thomas Carlyle/ ...92 // 6. The Descent of Man /from The Descent of Man by Charles Darwin/ ... 93 // 7. The Reception of the Origin of Species /from Lay Sermons, Addresses and Reviews by Thomas H.Huxley/ ...94 // 8. Gases, Liquids and Crystal Solids /from The Crystalline State by William H.Bragg/ ...95 // 9. The Fundamentals of Nuclear Energy /United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization/ ... 97 // 10. When Science will Serve the People /from an article in World News/ ...98 // 11. The Technological Revolution /from Future Shock by Alvin Toffler/ ...100 // 12. The Effects of Advances in Technology under Capitalism /from an article by Jack Hendy in Marxism Today/ ...102 // 13. Is Poetry Translatable? /from G.H.Lewes, The Life and Works of Goethe/ ...104 //

14. Translating Homer /from the lectures On Translating Homer by Matthew Arnold/ ...106 // 15. The Novelist and His Time /from The Living Novel by V.S.Pritchett/ ... 108 // 16. Literary Trends in the early Twentieth Century /from An Introduction to the English Novel by Arnold Kettle/ ...109 // PART IV FICTION AND DRAMA FOR LITERARY ANALYSIS // 1. Elizabeth Bennet and the Right to Marry /from the novel Price and Prejudice by Jane Austen/ ...115 // 2. Rebecca Taken by Surprise /from the novel Vanity Fair by W.M.Thackeray/ ...119 // 3. The Disenchanted Wife /from the novel Middlemarch by George Eliot/ ...122 // 4. Love Breaks the Class Barrier /from the novel Tono-Bungay /by H.G.Wells/ ...124 // 5. Towards the Heart of Darkness /from the story Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad/ ...128 // 6. An Englishman in India /from the novel A Passage to India by E.M.Forster/ ... 131 // 5 // 7. Eveline /complete short story from Dubliners by James Joyce/ ...134 // 8. Portrait of an Angry Young Man /from the play Look Back in Anger by John Osborne/ ... 138 // 9. The Unwanted Birthday Party /from the play The Birthday Party by Harold Pinter/ ...141 // PART V POETRY // 1. Matin Song /Thomas Heywood/ ...149 // 2. There is a Lady Sweet and Kind /Anonymous/ ...149 // 3. On his Mistress, the Queen of Bohemia /Sir Henry Wotton/ ...150 // 4. To Celia /Ben Jonson/ ...151 // 5. Song from the Plays /William Shakespeare/ ... 151 // 6. From The Sonnets /Shakespeare/ ...152 // 7. To Daffodils /Robert Herrick/ ...153 // 8. Absalom and Achitophel: extract /John Dryden/ ...153 // 9. Epitaph on Charles II /Rochester/ ...154 // 10. An Essay on Man: extract /Alexander Pope/ ... 154 // 11. Engraved on the Collar of His Highness’Dog /Pope/ ...155 // 12. On the Times /Dryden/ ...155 // 13. Sir Patrick Spens /Scottish ballad/ ...155 // 14. Love not me for Comely Grace /Anonymous madrigal/ ...158 //

15. Holy Thursday /William Blake/ ... 158 // 16. The Little Black Boy /Blake/ ... 159 // 17, Jerusalem /Blake/ ... 160 // 18. Is there for Honest Poverty /Robert Burns/ ...160 // 19. O my Luve’s like a Red, Red Rose /Burns/ ...161 // 20. Lucy /William Wordsworth/ ... 162 // 21. Sonnet: The World is too much with us /Wordsworth/ ...162 // 22. The Solitary Reaper /Wordsworth/ ...163 // 23. The Daffodils /Wordsworth/ ...164 // 24. Music, when Soft Voices Die /P.B.Shelley/ ... 165 // 25. Song to the Men of England /Shelley/ ... 165 // 26. Ode to a Nightingale /John Keats/ ...166 // 27. Sonnet: On first Looking into Chapman’s Homer /Keats/ ...168 // 28. She Walks in Beauty /Lord Byron/ ...169 // 29. On the Castle of Chillon /Byron/ ...169 // 30. The Splendour Falls on Castle Walls /Lord Tennyson/ ...170 // 31. Break, Break, Break /Tennyson/ ...170 // 32. Ulysses: extract /Tennyson/ ...171 // 33. A Death Song /William Morris/ ...172 // 34. The March of the Workers /Morris/ ...173 // 35. The Way through the Woods /Rudyard Kipling/ ...174 // 36. Loveliest of Trees, the Cherry now /A.E.Housman/ ...175 // 37. On Wenlook Edge /Housman/ ...175 // 38. In the Highlands /R.L.Stevenson/ ... 176 // 39. The Little White Rose /Hugh MacDiarmid/ ...177 // 40. An Epitaph /Walter De La Mare/ ...177 // 41. Someone /De La Mare/ ...177 // 42. Silver /De La Mare/ ...178 // 43. In Time of "The Breaking of Nations" /Thomas Hardy/ ...178 // 44. The Rose Tree /William B.Yeats/ ...179 // 45. Post Mortem /Francis Adams/ ...180 // 46. Futility /Wilfred Owen/ ...180 // 47. Anthem for Doomed Youth /Owen/ ...180 // 48. Song: One Hard Look /Robert Graves/ ...181 // 49. The Fisherman /W.B.Yeats/ ...181 // 50. Lourd on My Hert /Hugh MacDiarmid/ ...182 // 51. The Root of Our Evil /D.H.Lawrence/ ...183 //

52. In My Craft or Sullen Art /Dylan Thomas/ ...184 // 53. O What is that Sound /W.H.Auden/ ...184 // 54. Hawk Roosting /Ted Hughes/ ...186 // 55. The Owl and the Pussy-Cat /Edward Lear/ ...186 // 56. Elegy in a Country Churchyard /G.K.Chesterton/ ...187 // 57. The Crocodile /Lewis Carroll/ ...188 // 58. Father William /Lewis Carroll/ ...188 // 59. Nursery Rhymes ...189 // 60. Limericks ...190 // 61. Good King Wenceslas /Christmas Carol/ ...190

(OCoLC)42121367

cnb000466507