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Nana is a novel by the French naturalist author Emile Zola. Completed in 1880, Nana is the ninth installment in the 20-volume Les Rougon-Macquart series. Nana tells the story of Nana Coupeau's rise from streetwalker to high-class cocotte during the last three years of the French Second Empire. The novel opens with a night at the Theatre des Varietes. Nana is 15 years old. Zola describes in detail the performance of La blonde Venus, a fictional operetta modelled after Offenbach's La belle Helene, in which Nana is cast as the lead. She has never been seen on a stage, but tout...

Robinson Crusoe is an Englishman from the town of York in the seventeenth century, the youngest son of a merchant of German origin. In 1652, against the will of his parents, Robinson begins a life of sea-faring adventure. After sailing around for a while, he makes a bit of money in trade, but then is captured and made into a slave off the coast of Africa. Here he escapes from captivity. Picked up by a Portuguese sailing captain, Crusoe makes it to Brazil where he buys a sugar plantation. He soon becomes involved in a venture to procure slaves from Africa. On the voyage ther...

The Beautiful and Damned, first published by Scribner's in 1922, is F. Scott Fitzgerald's second novel. It portrays the Eastern elite during the Jazz Age, exploring New York cafe society. As in Fitzgerald's other novels, the characters are complex, especially with respect to marriage and intimacy. The book is believed to be largely based on Fitzgerald's relationship with Zelda Fitzgerald. The Beautiful and Damned tells the story of Anthony Patch, a 1910s socialite and presumptive heir to a tycoon's fortune, his relationship with his wife, Gloria, his service in the army, an...

Born in Lyon of France in 1900, Antoine de Saint-Exupery considered himself primarily as a pilot. For 20 years he made numerous cartography and mailing missions for commercial companies. Air transmissions were the key factor concerning his professional and literature profile. He started writing The Little Prince during the WW II, when he was forced to abandon airforce (due to Germany’s invasion in France) and seek refuge in New York. His great desire of going back, hopefully after the war, is depicted as the nostalgia of being a child again, something that is so evident in...

This Side of Paradise is the debut novel of F. Scott Fitzgerald. The novel centers on Amory Blaine, a young Midwesterner who, convinced that he has an exceptionally promising future, attends boarding school and later Princeton University. He leaves behind his eccentric mother Beatrice and befriends a close friend of hers, Monsignor Darcy. While at Princeton he goes back to Minneapolis where he re-encounters Isabelle Borge, a young lady whom he met as a little boy and starts a romantic relationship with her, but after a few days he becomes disillusioned by her and returns to...

Επιδιώκοντας να εξασφαλίσουμε ένα πλήρες βοήθημα στους μαθητές, σπουδαστές, επιστήμονες και γενικά σε όλους τους Έλληνες που χρησιμοποιούν στις σπουδές τους, στην εργασία τους ή στην επικοινωνία τους με ξένους την αγγλική γλώσσα, προχωρήσαμε στην σύνταξη του παρόντος δίγλωσσου λεξικού, που εκτός το μεγάλο αριθμό λημμάτων προσθέσαμε χιλιάδες παραδειγματικές φράσεις, το μέρος του λόγου κάθε λήμματος, καθώς και πλήθος ιδιωματικών φράσεων τόσο της αγγλικής όσο και της ελληνικής γλώσσας. Πιστεύουμε ότι πετύχαμε το στόχο μας, πάντως η κρίση του αποτελέσματος, η αξιολόγηση του έρ...

[...] Το παρόν λεξικό πέρα από το γενικό αγγλικό λεξιλόγιο, περιλαμβάνει και τους σπουδαιότερους και όχι μόνο, ειδικούς όρους των θεωρητικών και θετικών επιστημών. [...] (από τον πρόλογο του βιβλίου)