C1/B2 ..Christmas book hunting mayhem

{updated Dec 17, 2012}

Fellow literary book hunters,

there are still some days left until the magical Christmas Eve, so I have gathered a list of all the places where you can get your Christmas readings:

kníhkupectvá s anglickými knihami v Bratislave:

• http://www.eurobooks.sk/sk/1/skvelý e-shop, skvelé ceny, napr.  odporúčam vreckového Hobbita http://www.eurobooks.sk/sk/produkt/83592/The-Hobbit--vydanie-k-75-vyrociu/Pokiaľ sa náhodou kniha, ktorú hľadáte, nenachádza v našej ponuke, vyhľadáme ju pre Vás. Stačí ak vyplníte nezáväzný formulár hľadám knihu.
• http://www.martinus.sk/knihy/beletria-anglicky/ prvý slovenský literárny e-shop má už niekoľko kamenných obchodov na Obchodnej, aj s príjemnými zľavami, dvojjazyčnými verziami a kávou od Shtoora
• http://www.pantarhei.sk/knihy/cudzojazycna-literatura/beletria-anglicky
• http://www.pantarhei.sk/knihy/bilingvalna-literatura všadeprítomná Panta Rhei a ich cudzojazyčná a bilingválna beletria
• a samozrejme, všetci už poznáte OXICO na Palisádach, tu je ich anglická ponuka:
• http://www.oxico.sk/jazyky/aj/aj_cenniky.html
• vo vedľajšej ulici Panenskej je zas skvelá anglická kaviareň a antikvariát, kde nič nestojí viac ako 10 eur  http://www.nextapache.sk/books.html -- Next Apache môžete nájsť aj na stredajšej akcii Večer pre Zuzany https://www.facebook.com/events/284186881684802/
• stále v starom meste na Laurinskej:  http://www.megabooks.sk/knihkupectvo/ Oxford Bookshop, široký sortiment, zľavy, výpredaje, 10% zľava pre registrovaných užívateľov, 10% na študentské preukazy

e-shopy so sídlom v Bratislave (to už skôr na povianočné výpredaje):

• http://www.alexis-knihy.sk/shop/index.php --- POZOR, IBA E-SHOP / s donáškou v Bratislave - Kamenný obchod momentálne nefunguje
  Store is currently closed
• http://www.11th.sk/how-to-shop  V súčasnosti fungujeme z nášho bytu na 11. poschodí typického bratislavského paneláku - preto názov  11th Floor Books. Naša ponuka kníh je obmedzená (rozmermi nášho bytu), starostlivo vyberaná, ale tiež náhodná, usporiadaná a zároveň chaotická. Knihy, ktoré tu môžete nájsť predstavujú len zlomok literárneho sveta. Dúfame však, že tento eklektický výber bude pre Vás inšpiráciou, a že sa Vám podarí nájsť to čo hľadáte, ako aj objaviť niečo nové...
• opakom 11th je zas Gorila Megastore, kde sa naopak tvária, že majú všetko..  http://www.gorila.sk/t/browse.php?cat_id=1176&gclid=CPbT1_7qjq0CFQOIDgodJyodRg
• http://www.preskoly.sk/ Osobný odber je možný na Mánesovom námestí 6 v Bratislave (Petržalka). Knihy, o ktoré máte záujem je potrebné si najskôr objednať cez internet. 

kniznice

http://www.mestskakniznica.sk/opac?fn=krasna_sk&fs=AAF819D82C1E42A6BF49704719B011CB

ÚSEK KRÁSNEJ A CUDZOJAZYČNEJ LITERATÚRY

 

SÍDLO:

Laurinská 5, Bratislava 
Tel.             02/ 544 31 316 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting            02/ 544 31 316      end_of_the_skype_highlighting      
e-mail: studovna.krasna@mestskakniznica.sk
e-mail: vypozicky.krasna@mestskakniznica.sk

https://www.kis3g.sk/cgi-bin/gw_48_1_3/chameleon?skin=ukb

Vyhľadávanie v Univerzitnej Knižnici - odporúčam Britské Centrum

http://www.ulib.sk/sk/zahranicne-zbierky/britske-centrum/

Take your time to go through these links and pick something out ;)

Yr Father Christmas

C1 Literary Mayhem No. 9 A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

Christmas?! Bah, humbug, I say..

do not forget about your RIDDLES AND PRESENTATIONS, I say! 

(homework for this week is a short riddle - see your Hobbit - and a PRESENTATION for those left from the last week! )

My name is Scrooge, and I am going to tell you a Christmas Carol in prose:

(text for week before Christmas) https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B4iDA8dEogrHM2Y3ZGRhNmEtOWE0YS00MzcxLTkzMjItNmQxNzE0YmU2N2Iy

My Author was famous British Author, Charles Dickens. Who was he?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/drama/bleakhouse/animation.shtml

COULD YOU SURVIVE VICTORIAN LONDON?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/multimedia/dickens/index_popup.shtml

MAKE YOUR OWN VICTORIAN CHRISTMAS

http://www.bbc.co.uk/victorianchristmas/activities.shtml

MICKEY MOUSE'S CHRISTMAS CAROL (with your favourite, SCROOGE McDuck)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=NpOsTY90fS0

The Hobbit Riddle Game

Can You Guess?
Gollum and Bilbo have a riddle CONTEST deep in the underground tunnels of Misty Mountains. Their riddles use clues and hints to describe a specific thing--a mountain, teeth, daisies, dark, eggs, fish, and time.
Choose a common subject and brainstorm as many qualities as you can about it. Then, devise a four-lined to eight-lined riddle using the traits of the item. Try to make your riddle rhyme.

Write your finished riddle bellow:

C1 Literary Mayhem no.8 THE HOBBIT..or there and back again!

Dear literary, ehm, Hobbits..

first of all DO NOT FORGET about your current translation HW, deadline is Wednesday 23.59!

and now a little story:

In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and 

an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a 

hobbit-hole, and that means comfort.

 This hobbit was a very well-to-do hobbit, and his name was Baggins. The Bagginses had lived in the 

neighbourhood of The Hill for time out of mind, and people considered them very respectable, not only 

because most of them were rich, but also because they never had any adventures or did anything 

unexpected: you could tell what a Baggins would say on any question without the bother of asking him. 

This is a story of how a Baggins had an adventure, found himself doing and saying things altogether 

unexpected. He may have lost the neighbours' respect, but he gained-well, you will see whether he 

gained anything in the end:

READ MORE HERE 4 OUR NEXT LECTURE (about Bilbo, the Ring and a creature called Gollum)

https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B4iDA8dEogrHOGUyNmU1YTktZDI0NS00NTZlLWJmNDUtY2U2ZDk5MWJmZGYz

The extract is from the 5th chapter of prof. JRR Tolkien's first book by the name of The Hobbit (1937)

OBSERVE:

http://pblancho.free.fr/index.html

WANT TO KNOW MORE ABOUT GOLLUM AND THE RING?

see this movie 

http://www.youtube.com/movie?v=9H09xnhlCQU&feature=mv_sr

Award winning unofficial prequel to The Lord Of The Rings dramatising Aragorn & Gandalf's long search for Gollum directed by British filmmaker Chris Bouchard. Based faithfully on the appendices of the books this is a non-profit, serious homage to the writing of J.R.R Tolkien and the films of Peter Jackson. It was shot on locations in England and Snowdonia with a team of over a hundred people working over the Internet. It took two years to make and was released as a non-profit Internet-only video by agreement with Tolkien Enterprizes. 

C1 Literary Mayhem No.7, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Tom Sawyer's Comrade

Dear Tom Sawyer's literary gang,

the topic of next week is Mark Twain's latest book (we're in 1885), The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

the three and a half chapters of which you are going to read here: 

https://docs.google.com/document/d/15WAGQ1gBxj3IVd84rxgpaoifDuaDCQMrVLhdEO-yEKM/edit

and an advertisement for which you will translate together:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dklEaeN0KI4HdUArGERtpBIsYOnpcvPIUXnBy2-uWvw/edit

and finally

read and listen to the novel online right here:

http://content.loudlit.org/audio/hfinn/pages/01_01_hfinn.htm

or read the NO FEAR version here (I wil ltell about it in the class):

http://www.sparknotes.com/nofear/lit/huckleberry-finn/chapter-1/

C1 Literary Mayhem No.6 The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

Fellow literature lovers,

enjoy your reading for the next week, try to answer the questions for your self:

1891 O.Wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray CH1,2,9

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1txDESgI-brHY5pnGkTCXlPd8O67GM4e-JBDAKI4Okm8/edit

here you can find the entire short novel: http://etext.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/WilDori.html

and here it is in many formats, including audio book: http://www.manybooks.net/titles/wildeoscetext94dgray10.html

also delightful is the translation we will start with. Please take a look:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/15he30rAcf6JhBbdyNkTWKLE6SitztnRPQurcQX6zgoM/edit

About Dorian Gray:

Wilde published his only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, before he reached the height of his fame. The first edition appeared in the summer of 1890in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine.It was criticized as scandalous and immoral. Disappointed with its reception, Wilde revised the novel in 1891, adding a preface and six new chapters. The Preface (as Wilde calls it) anticipates some of the criticism that might be leveled at the novel and answers critics who charge The Picture of Dorian Gray with being an immoral tale. It also succinctly sets forth the tenets of Wilde's philosophy of art. 

This attitude was revolutionary in Victorian England, where popular belief held that art was not only a function of morality but also a means of enforcing it. In the Preface, Wilde also cautioned readers against finding meanings "beneath the surface" of art. Part gothic novel, part comedy of manners, part treatise on the relationship between art and morality, The Picture of Dorian Gray continues to present its readers with a puzzle to sort out. There is as likely to be as much disagreement over its meaning now as there was among its Victorian audience, but, as Wilde notes near the end of the Preface, "Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex, and vital."

http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/doriangray/context.html

Dorian Gray to play with:

http://www.yayoye.com/the-picture-of-dorian-gray-online-game/8534/

Adaptations, resources:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptations_of_The_Picture_of_Dorian_Gray

for example

1945 version

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNIR-dqoJk8

2009 version with Collin Firth

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1AAtY8pZ50

P.S.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorian_Gray_syndrome

C1 Literary Mayhem No.5 Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

Fellow Londoners,

have you already heard about the The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde?? Read about it here (chapters 1,10) and answer the questions for yourself:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WAYZTziyfP3dL0BtkPahu2sX6MdUlh6aWkdbnXCs8MI/edit

Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is the original title of a novel written by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson that was first published in 1886. The original pronunciation of Jekyll was "Jeekul" which was the pronunciation used in Stevenson's native Scotland. The work is commonly known today as The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde or simply Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.^[1] It is about a London lawyer named Gabriel John Utterson who investigates strange occurrences between his old friend, Dr Henry Jekyll,^[2] and the misanthropic Edward Hyde.

The work is commonly associated with the rare mental condition often spuriously called "split personality", wherein within the same person there are at least two distinct personalities. In this case, the two personalities in Dr Jekyll are apparently good and evil, with completely opposite levels of morality. The novella's impact is such that it has become a part of the language, with the phrase "Jekyll and Hyde" coming to mean a person who is vastly different in moral character from one situation to the next.^[3]

Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde was an immediate success and is one of Stevenson's best-selling works. Stage adaptations began inBoston and London within a year of its publication and it has gone on to inspire scores of major film and stage performances.

Please do not forget to translate these pirate rules for 3.11. session (else you will get a black spot!):

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1AT6cjSIf-jwy9WxAxWNEz-OmOOvKPJycdHjOP-w_x0g/edit

Resources:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strange_Case_of_Dr._Jekyll_and_Mr._Hyde

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptations_of_Strange_Case_of_Dr._Jekyll_and_Mr._Hyde

Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde[1] from Internet Archive. Many antiquarian illustrated editions.

"The Beast Within",  the novella has inspired as many interpretations as it has film adaptations. By James Campbell, The Guardian, December 13, 2008