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Moderator Super Member Posts: 2791 02/07/09 8:26 AM Moderator	Tags : None We have a novel about industrialisation too. I am afraid Reymont is not as optimistic as Gaskell. To say it explicitly, he is rather gloomy. Borowiecki eventually breaks his engagement with Anka, a subtle and devoted fiancée and marries for money: http://books.google.pl/bo...i=9l5MSqnmKoy2yQSnnbTNDw Here you have some information: http://info-poland.buffal...ssroom/reymont/style.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/w...5%82adys%C5%82aw_Reymont The film by Wajda is excellent though: http://www.polishfilm.ca/...z/ziemia_o/ziemia_o.html http://books.google.pl/bo...i=aV5MSvTVLKe0zQTZyen0Dw KING. All hail, sweet madam, and fair time of day! PRINCESS OF FRANCE. 'Fair' in 'all hail' is foul, as I conceive. ;)
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Lynne Hand		#1	[url]	[-]
Super Member Posts: 27620 03/07/09 1:17 PM Your Teacher	Industrialisation did for the landed gentry in England too. They also ended up selling their offspring to the nouveau riche. Your Teacher http://www.learn-english-network.org
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Moderator Super Member Posts: 2791 03/07/09 4:29 PM Moderator	Oh, yes I remember The Buccaneers by Wharton Sometimes it turned out that they were only supposedly rich KING. All hail, sweet madam, and fair time of day! PRINCESS OF FRANCE. 'Fair' in 'all hail' is foul, as I conceive. ;)
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Super Member Posts: 27620 03/07/09 4:50 PM Your Teacher	But for those seeking respectability, a title and a long lineage was worth a lot of coin. Your Teacher http://www.learn-english-network.org
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Moderator Super Member Posts: 2791 03/07/09 6:02 PM Moderator	OH, yes, Mr Rochester was bought by Masons It cost 30 000 pounds if my memory doesn't play tricks KING. All hail, sweet madam, and fair time of day! PRINCESS OF FRANCE. 'Fair' in 'all hail' is foul, as I conceive. ;)
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Lynne Hand		#5	[url]	[-]
Super Member Posts: 27620 03/07/09 6:32 PM Your Teacher	It would be better to say, "If my memory serves me right." Your Teacher http://www.learn-english-network.org
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Moderator Super Member Posts: 2791 03/07/09 7:21 PM Moderator	Thanks for correction I was right though: "I must be provided for by a wealthy marriage. He sought me a partner betimes. Mr. Mason, a West India planter and merchant, was his old acquaintance. He was certain his possessions were real and vast: he made inquiries. Mr. Mason, he found, had a son and daughter; and he learned from him that he could and would give the latter a fortune of thirty thousand pounds: that sufficed. When I left college, I was sent out to Jamaica, to espouse a bride already courted for me. My father said nothing about her money; but he told me Miss Mason was the boast of Spanish Town for her beauty: and this was no lie. I found her a fine woman, in the style of Blanche Ingram: tall, dark, and majestic. Her family wished to secure me because I was of a good race; and so did she." He was of good race, poor fellow KING. All hail, sweet madam, and fair time of day! PRINCESS OF FRANCE. 'Fair' in 'all hail' is foul, as I conceive. ;)
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Super Member Posts: 27620 04/07/09 3:56 PM Your Teacher	I wonder if they counted his teeth? Your Teacher http://www.learn-english-network.org
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Moderator Super Member Posts: 2791 04/07/09 5:16 PM Moderator	Teeth in good condition were valued as far as I know. And if he could grind them, they must have been quite robust "He ground his teeth and was silent: he arrested his step and struck his boot against the hard ground. Some hated thought seemed to have him in its grip, and to hold him so tightly that he could not advance." KING. All hail, sweet madam, and fair time of day! PRINCESS OF FRANCE. 'Fair' in 'all hail' is foul, as I conceive. ;)
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Moderator Super Member Posts: 2791 05/07/09 11:43 AM Moderator	By the way I think British girls' hearts are very unfaithful. I read a comment on the "North and South" to the effect that Mr Thornton had replaced Mr Darcy Poor Mr Darcy KING. All hail, sweet madam, and fair time of day! PRINCESS OF FRANCE. 'Fair' in 'all hail' is foul, as I conceive. ;)
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Super Member Posts: 27620 05/07/09 9:37 PM Your Teacher	Hubby says I grind my teeth in my sleep. You might like this:- http://www.foolishpassion.com/humor/darcy-thornton-conversation.html Your Teacher http://www.learn-english-network.org
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Moderator Super Member Posts: 2791 05/07/09 9:48 PM Moderator	Right "JT: "I polluted the local climate with my factory and it aggravated her consumption. Cost me a fortune in fruit baskets before she finally shuffled off though. Never bought so many flippin' grapes." JT: "Oh well, better get going - don't want to be late. Just one thing though …. do you think there's any truth in the saying that if you want to know what your wife will be like in 20 years, just look at her mother?" [Long, long pause.] FD: "Let's hope, for your sake and mine, that there isn't." KING. All hail, sweet madam, and fair time of day! PRINCESS OF FRANCE. 'Fair' in 'all hail' is foul, as I conceive. ;)
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Lynne Hand		#12	[url]	[-]
Super Member Posts: 27620 06/07/09 8:09 PM Your Teacher	Your Teacher http://www.learn-english-network.org
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Moderator Super Member Posts: 2791 08/07/09 7:36 PM Moderator	By the way I like the Victorian indirectness Mr Lennox must have been very penetrating Poor Mr Lennox 'He is Miss Hale's tenant,' said Mr. Lennox, turning away. 'And he wishes to give up his lease.' 'Oh! very well. I can't understand details, so don't give them me.' 'The only detail I want you to understand is, to let us have the back drawing-room undisturbed, as it was to-day. In general, the children and servants are so in and out, that I can never get any business satisfactorily explained; and the arrangements we have to make to-morrow are of importance.' No one ever knew why Mr. Lennox did not keep to his appointment on the following day. Mr. Thornton came true to his time; and, after keeping him waiting for nearly an hour, Margaret came in looking very white and anxious. She began hurriedly: 'I am so sorry Mr. Lennox is not here,--he could have done it so much better than I can. He is my adviser in this'---- We have also a book about a tradesman in love - Wokulski distracted between two conflicting traditions - positivism and romantism: http://books.google.pl/bo...;ei=TqJVSvPPJILUNLicqK0H Unfortunately, his love's object wasn't worthy. However, there is a very good film based on this novel. There is an English version but I can't guarantee the quality of subtitles Hopefully, they do the film justice. KING. All hail, sweet madam, and fair time of day! PRINCESS OF FRANCE. 'Fair' in 'all hail' is foul, as I conceive. ;) Last Edited By: poetria1 09/07/09 9:05 AM. Edited 3 times.
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poetria1	The Doll	#14	[url]	[-]
Moderator Super Member Posts: 2791 09/07/09 8:49 PM Moderator	I have forgotten to mention that in "The Doll", there is an episode connected with English. Wokulski learnt English to understand Isabella (she talked in English with her cousin). As a result, he understood the conversation which was supposed to remain incomprehensible for him. This is a turning point in his love http://books.google.pl/bo...ntcover&dq=doll+prus "Farewell, Iza, farewell" Wokulski cried in English "Prus's major novel, originally published in 1890 and now available in a revised English translation, offers a richly detailed panoramic portrait of Warsaw under Russian domination in the 1870s, as well as a Balzacian plot that centers in the wealthy businessman Wokulski's unrequited passion for the aristocratic, emotionless Izabela Lecka (the ""doll""--though not the only one--of Prus's cunning ... Więcejtitle). Wokulski's downward progression is counterpointed memorably against the expressions of optimism and idealism trumpeted by a brilliantly realized host of secondary characters--one of whom, the elderly clerk Rzecki, comes to life on the page with a positively Dickensian vitality. One of the greatest novels of the 19th century. " KING. All hail, sweet madam, and fair time of day! PRINCESS OF FRANCE. 'Fair' in 'all hail' is foul, as I conceive. ;) Last Edited By: poetria1 09/07/09 8:55 PM. Edited 1 time.
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Super Member Posts: 27620 09/07/09 10:28 PM Your Teacher	Aww bless. Your Teacher http://www.learn-english-network.org
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Moderator Super Member Posts: 2791 10/07/09 8:45 AM Moderator	Yes, I feel sympathy with him. I also have had a complex about English - for other reasons though KING. All hail, sweet madam, and fair time of day! PRINCESS OF FRANCE. 'Fair' in 'all hail' is foul, as I conceive. ;)
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