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    Cynthia Voigt‚ “Homecoming”‚ New York‚ 1981. 13. Ellen Schwamm‚ “How he saved her”‚ New York‚ 1983. 14. Jane Austen‚ “Persuasion”‚ Bantam Books‚ New York‚ 1984. 15. W. Somerset Maugham‚ “The Moon and Sixpence”‚ Raduga‚ M.‚ 1984. 16. Daphne du Maurier‚ “Rebecca”‚ Cornwell‚ (England:country)‚ 1990.

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    Susan Hill's Biography

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    Springtime of the Year (1974)‚ Air and Angels (1991)‚ and most recently‚ The Service of Clouds (1998). The Woman in Black (1983)‚ a Victorian ghost story‚ was successfully adapted for stage and television and Mrs de Winter (1993) is a sequel to Daphne du Maurier ’s Rebecca. Susan Hill is also the author of two volumes of memoir‚ The Magic Apple Tree: A Country Year (1982)‚ about her life in rural Oxfordshire during the 1970s‚ and Family (1989)‚ in which she writes about her early life in Scarborough. Her

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    This paper discusses the ending of Jane Eyre‚ discussing whether it is a "good" ending. The paper draws on three criticisms of both the novel and Romantic literature in general to conclude that‚ yes‚ it is indeed a good ending because it both fits the prevailing realism of the main character’s worldview‚ and conforms to the predominant literary trends of the period. The climate in which Charlotte Bronte wrote her magnum opus was one that had almost fully recovered from the rationalist excesses

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    Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of identity. Routledge Caplan‚ P.‚ (1987) The Cultural Construction of Sexuality Choi‚ P and Nicolson‚ P. (1994) Female Sexuality: Psychology‚ Biology and Social Context. Harvester Wheatsheaf Foster‚ M.‚ (1992) Daphne du Maurier‚ London: Chatto and Windus Foucault‚ M. (1979) The history of sexuality‚ vol 1: An introduction. Penguin Foucault‚ M (1985) The uses of pleasure: The history of sexuality‚ vol 2 Freud‚ S.‚ (1955) The Psychogenesis of a case of homosexuality in

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    Alfred Joseph Hitchcock‚ or ‘The Master of Suspense’‚ was born in August 13‚ 1899‚ in Leytonstone‚ London‚ England. He was a British filmmaker and producer who‚ in his 50 year career‚ greatly contributed to filmmaking’s growth as an art. His brilliance was sometimes too bright: He was hated as well as loved‚ oversimplified as well as overanalyzed. Hitchcock was eccentric‚ challenging‚ creative‚ and impassioned. Hitchcock started working as a title card designer for the London branch of what would

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    BOOKS AND READING Topical Vocabulary 1. Categorisation: Children’s and adult’s books; travel books and biography; romantic and historical novels; thrillers; detective stories; science fiction/fantasy; non-fiction; pulp fiction. absorbing; adult; amusing; controversial; dense; depressing; delightful; dirty; disturbing; dull; fascinating; gripping; moralistic; obscene; outrageous; profound; whimsical; unputdownable

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    or doubles‚ madness‚ and/or secrets. Horace Walpole‚ author of The Castle of Otranto‚ created Gothic literature in 1764. Gothic literature‚ as we know it today‚ has been shaped by many authors‚ from E. A. Poe‚ to Emily Brontë to Daphne DuMaurier’s well-known Rebecca. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson‚ speaks of a well-respected man‚ Dr. Jekyll‚ who creates an alter-ego‚ Mr. Hyde‚ which brings out the darker side of the man. A typical attribute and character

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    Plot summary the birds Set in a small Cornish seaside town on December the third‚ there is a sudden change in weather from autumn to winter. A war veteran‚ Nat Hocken‚ living in the town and working part time for a farm owner notices a large number of birds behaving strangely along the peninsula where his family lives. He attributes this to the sudden arrival of winter. That night‚ he hears a tapping on his bedroom window and encounters a bird. This bird has only drawn blood on Nat’s hand‚ but as

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    the aspect of birds attacking people and living near water. There are many differences though‚ ranging from the characters connections to one another and reasoning for the birds attacks. There are some similarities between Hitchcock’s film and Daphne du Maurier’s story. The main similarity between the two is probably quite obvious. No‚ I’m not talking about how birds in both stories entered the house through the chimney.¹ I am speaking of the fact that in both of the movies there were birds‚

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    The Gerund

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    (Mansfield) Танцы еще не начались.] | (b)by an infinitive [It is no good hiding our heads under our wings. (Galsworthy)-Бесполезно прятать голову под крыло.] | (c)by деепричастие[And without waiting for her answer he turned and left us. (Da Maurier)- И‚ не дожидаясь ее ответа‚ он повернулся и вышел.] | (d)by a subordinate clause [Не regretted now having come. (Galsworthy)- Теперь он сожалел‚ что пришел.] | The tense distinctions of the gerund 1. The Indefinite Gerund Active and Passive

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