Alexandra Rustrian

Home Library App .  My App is Home Library, is a platform where you can find many authors and their books, you can also change the font, color and size. You have the facility to search for an author, you even find an icon that opens a link to the author's biography. You can also save your books in favorites so you do not have to search them again. It is a really great application!

Narnia Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy are deported from London to the house of an eccentric professor during World War II. They find life in the house extremely dull, until Lucy discovers a wardrobe that leads to a magical world called Narnia, where animals can talk and all are ruled over by the wise and benevolent lion Aslan. The others don't believe her at first, but soon all of them go through the wardrobe and discover all is not well in Narnia. The land is being kept in a perpetual winter by the evil White Witch, Jadis, who turns anyone who doesn't obey her into stone. The children join Aslan and the animals loyal to him in an attempt to vanquish Jadis. Pride and Prejudice Pride and Prejudice is a humorous story of love and life among English gentility during the Georgian era. Mr Bennet is an English gentleman living in Hartfordshire with his overbearing wife. The Bennets 5 daughter

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     Emma   Jane Austen ·         Main Characters: Emma Woodhouse –  The protagonist of the novel.  She is handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition. Emma’s misplaced confidence in her abilities as a matchmaker and her prudish fear of love constitute the central focus of the novel, which traces Emma’s mistakes and growing self-understanding. Mr. George Knightley -  Emma’s brother-in-law and the Woodhouses’ trusted friend and advisor. Knightley is the only character who is openly critical of Emma, pointing out her flaws and foibles with frankness, out of genuine concern and care for her. Mr. Woodhouse -  Emma’s father, is nervous, frail, and prone to hypochondria, he is also known for his friendliness and his attachment to his daughter. He is very resistant to change. Harriet Smith -  A pretty but unremarkable seventeen-year-old woman of uncertain parentage, who lives at the local boarding school. Harriet becomes Emm

The Cask of Amontillado  by Edgar Allan Poe Biography: Edgar Allan Poe borned on January 19 of   1809,  was an American writer, poet, critic and editor best known for evocative short stories and poems that captured the imagination and interest of readers around the world. His imaginative storytelling and tales of mystery and horror gave birth to the modern detective story. Many of Poe’s works, including “The Tell-Tale Heart” and “The Fall of the House of Usher,” became literary classics. Some aspects of Poe’s life, like his literature, is shrouded in mystery, and the lines between fact and fiction have been blurred substantially since his death on   October 7 of 1849. Historical Background: Although Poe blamed Allan’s stinginess, his own gambling debts played a large role in his fiscal woes. A tendency to cast blame on others, without admitting his own faults, characterized Poe’s relationship with many people, most significantly Allan. Poe struggled with a

    GENERAL COMMENT: The day I got lost was a easly lecture, a form to enjoy the reading and improve the comprehension and the vocabulary. Is a lecture where we can understand everything and analyse the context without problem. In that story we can be reflect there because is about something that is happen in the real life.

The Necklace By: Guy de Maupassant. Biography: Guy de Maupassant Henri Rene Albert Guy de Maupassant, better known as Guy de Maupassant, who boned in France 5 August 1859, was a french writer, remembered as a master of the short story form, and he was a representative of the naturalist, his stories are charaqcterized by economy of style and efficient. he wrote some 300 short stories, six novels, three travel books and one volumen of verse. His first published story "Ball of Fall" in 1880, os often considered his masterpiece. Despiste his wealth and popularity, Maupassant never married, partly out of fear of being abandoned by loved one as he abandoned with death. Hia afection with syphilis contributed to his growing dementia, and he was intitutionalized after he tried to kill himself in 1891. He died two years later, on July 6, 1893. Historical Background: “The Necklace,” or “La Parure” in French, first appeared in the Parisian Newspaper Le Gau