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• The Great Baseball Scandal - how the Mob won the 1919 World Series, by Nelson Algren

  29 April by Nelson Algren

  Born and bred in Chicago, a life-long fan of baseball in general and of his home team, the Chicago White Sox in particular, Nelson Algren (1909-1981), one of the finest American authors of his time, was particularly qualified to analyse the inner workings of the most sensational scandal in the (...)

• A comparative study of the vocabulary of the greatest Western authors - and the winner is . . .

  13 March 2019 by Ray

  With the help of modern technology and a clever engineering student, we have analysed in depth the vocabulary in 25 of the most famous one-volume works in the history of Western literature - celebrated texts by Dante, Cervantes, Shakespeare, Balzac, Flaubert, Victor Hugo, Charles Dickens, (...)

• How to improve your English diction (with useful sayings and proverbs)

  29 August 2010 by Ray

  Here you will find some tried and proven guidelines, exercises, tips and tidbits designed to help learners of all ages and stages to improve their verbal-communication skills in the language of Shakespeare and Laurence Sterne.
  Audio versions have been included at the end of each section. TABLE (...)

• Interesting things read recently that I would like to share with you

  25 May 2006 by Ray

  INDEX
  Citations
  Moby Dick, by Herman Melville (1851)
  Barchester Towers, by Anthony Trollope (1857)
  Little Dorrit, by Charles Dickens (1857)
  A Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens (1859)
  Adam Bede, by George Eliot (1859)
  The Mill on The Floss, by George Eliot (1860)
  Silas Marner, by (...)

• Choses lues

  17 May 2006 by Ray

  Un échantillon de beaux textes rencontrés assez récemment qui ne manqueront pas, je pense, de vous intéresser, de vous amuser, de vous émouvoir et de vous émerveiller. TABLE
  1. Citations 2. Les affinités électives, par Goethe 3. Manuscrit trouvé à Saragosse, par Jean Potocki 4. Le chat Murr, par E.T.A. (...)