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Nakladatelství:	Folio, spol.s r.o.
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Počet stran	312
Médium	kniha
Vazba	paperback

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Discovering Fiction is a two-level anthology of short stories by contemporary and classic American authors. Advanced. Popis:Discovering Fiction is a two-level anthology of American short stories by classic and contemporary American authors. Discovering Fiction 2 is an anthology of eighteen American short stories by authors such as Kate Chopin, Ernest Hemingway, Langston Hughes, and Shirley Jackson. The stories have universal appeal that will touch students and make them think. The text provides interactive, integrated skills lessons developed around each story.ContentsPART ONE: A LIFE LESSON; Chapter 1: “A Day's Wait” – Ernest Hemingway; Chapter 2: “Thank You, M'am” – Langston Hughes; Chapter 3: “The Corn Planting” – Sherwood Anderson; Chapter 4: “The Quickening” – Lisa Interollo; Summing Up; PART TWO: THE UNEXPECTED TWIST; Chapter 5: “The Last Leaf” – O. Henry; Chapter 6: “The Ambitious Guest” – Nathaniel Hawthorne; Chapter 7: “The Lottery” – Shirley Jackson; Chapter 8: “The One Day War” – Judith Soloway; Summing Up; PART THREE: IRONY; Chapter 9: “The Third Level” – Jack Finney; Chapter 10: “All Summer in a Day” – Ray Bradbury; Chapter 11: “Desiree's Baby” – Kate Chopin; Summing Up; PART FOUR: FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS; Chapter 12: “A Visit to Grandmother” – William Melvin Kelley; Chapter 13: “Too Soon a Woman” – Dorothy M. Johnson; Chapter 14: “My Father Sits in the Dark” – Jerome Weidman; Summing Up; PART FIVE: MEETING CHALLENGES; Chapter 15: “A Rice Sandwich” – Sandra Cisneros; Chapter 16: “The Circus” – William Saroyan; Chapter 17: “The Warriors” – Anna Lee Walters; Chapter 18: “Talking to the Dead” – Sylvia Watanabe; Summing Up