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0 (hodnocen0 x )

BK

London : Penguin, 1996

v, 153 s.

ISBN 0-14-081562-7

000035692

Editorial Foreword 7 // Acknowledgements 9 // Charles Dickens (1812-?0) // THE SIGNALMAN II // Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) // THE WITHERED ARM 25 // Joseph Conrad (184?-1924) // AN OUTPOST OF PROGRESS 56 // Rudyard Kipling (1861-1936) // AT THE END OF THE PASSAGE 82 // H. G. Wells (1866-1946) // THE COUNTRY OF THE BLIND 103 // . W. Somerset Maugham (18?4-196?) // THE FORCE OF CIRCUMSTANCE 129 // James Joyce (1882-1941) // THE DEAD 157 // Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) // KEW GARDENS 201 // D. H. Hawrence (188?-19?0) // FANNY AND ANNIE 208 // Katherine Mansfield (1888-192)) // THE VOYAGE 224 // Joyce Cary (1888-1937) // THE BREAKOUT 233 // Aldous Huxley (1894-196?) // THE GIOCONDA SMILE 251 // V. S. Pritchett (1900- ) / // THE FLY IN THE OINTMENT 283 // 6 Numbers // 31 Figure it out // 32 Not more or less // 33 The terrible twos // 34 Next, please // 35 Telling whoppers // 36 Financial statement // 7 Shopping // 37 Shopping list // 38 How do you buy it? // 39 Bargain hunting // 40 High Street // 41 Below the belt // 42 Sales pitch // 8 Nationalities // 43 Kilt or kaftan // 44 Teach the world // 45 Pardon my French // 46 Home sweet home // 47 Say what you mean // 48 United Nations // 9 Transport // 49 Ticket to ride // 50 Air traffic controller // 51 Mornington Crescent // 52 Trains and boats and planes // 53 We’re getting there // 54 Slow boat to China // 10 The media // 55 Radio times // 56 Bandstand // 57 Picture parade // 58 Pick a pair // 59 All singing, all dancing // 60 On the same wavelength // 11 Jobs // 61 I love my love // 62 Jobsworth // 63 A square peg in a round hole // 64 Tools of the trade // 65 Situations vacant // 66 What’s my line? // 12 Health and fitness // 67 On your toes // 68 Wrong patient, wrong bed // 69 Physician heal thyself // 70 In sickness and in health // 71 This is catching // 72 A spoonful of sugar // 13 Colour and shape //

73 Roses are red, violets are blue // 74 Any colour as long as it’s black // 75 Getting into shape // 76 On yer bike // 77 It’s a question of colour // 78 Flying the flag // 14 Sci-fi and mysteries // 79 Plot the planet // 80 Watch this space // 81 Whatever happened to or at? // 82 Stars in your eyes // 83 Print devils // 84 Things that go bump in the night // 15 Fun with the English language // 85 Fill in and find out // 86 Sounds alike // 87 Spelling bee // 88 The animals came in two by two // 89 The shorter, the better // 90 This won’t hurt